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Karoline Pöhn
Karoline Pöhn
Karoline Pöhn is a textile and mixed-media artist based in Linz, Austria. Her practice centers on found, discarded, and overlooked materials, which she treats as co-creators rather than passive matter. Working primarily with textiles and domestically connoted objects, she explores themes of memory, neglected potential, and the quiet forms of violence embedded in everyday life.
Through soft, approachable forms, friendly colors, and tactile surfaces, her work disarms viewers while addressing complex and often uncomfortable subjects. Beauty and material intimacy function as thresholds – inviting audiences to feel before they seek to understand.
Her process is grounded in an extensive preliminary practice she terms Pace-Works, through which the conceptual and embodied core of each work gradually emerges.
Exhibitions/Publications/ Grants/Prizes/Residencies (Selection)
January 26
Selected Artist for OÖ Gastatelier Villa Rabl , Bad Hall
27. November 25 - 16. January 26
The Space of Literature - a dialog exhibition
with Károly Klimó
Austrian Cultural Forum Budapest (HU)
3. Dezember 2025 -16. Januar 2026
Weave Wave: Material Agencies in Motion, Groupexhibition
Central Slovak Gallery & Galérie FX, Banská Bystrica (SK)
https://deepartspace.org/
5. -18. November 2025
Best OFF Kunstuniversität Linz (AT), Groupexhibition
SPLACE Linz
Sept.-Nov. 2025
OÖ.Air.Gov Residency Budapest (HU)
Artist Residency at Art Quarter Budapest supported by OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH & Austrian Cultural Forum Budapest
12. -28. Juni 2025
caught or free on the edge of now (Blame, the spirit!) (AT),
Groupexhibition SPLACE Linz
May 2025
Winner of the FORUM Stipendium 2025
read article here
3.-17.May 2025
Zyklen, Groupexhibition,
Gallery Monfregola, Basel (CH)
Oct.-Nov. 2024
Exhibition „Grenzen(LOS)“, Groupexhibition,
Verein MARK für kulturelle und soziale Arbeit, Salzburg (AT)
May/June 2024
Schlachthoffestival Traunsee (AT)
Work: Plans of others'
Jan 2024
Exhibition „Am Beckenboden“, Groupexhibition,
Kulturpool Gusental, Gallneukirchen (AT)
Oct. 2023 - Apr. 2024
Schlossmuseum Linz (AT)
„Der Oberösterreicher – ein Anzug neu gedacht“
Neudesign der Öberösterreichischen Männer-Tracht gemeinsam mit Gudrun Schwabegger
„The Upper Austrian - a new approach „Redesign of the Upper Austrian men‘s costume together with Gudrun Schwabegger
2022
Edison - der Preis
Sonderpreis für Digitalisierung
Projekt „Green Score“
Special prize for digitalization
Project „Green Score“
2020
Förderung des Bundesministeriums Kunst, Kultur,
öffentlicher Dienst und Sport (BMKKÖS)
Funding by the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture,
Civil Service and Sport (BMKKÖS)
Project „Green Score“
2020
Winner AFA Startstipendium /AFA Start grant
Projekt „Green Score“
2019
Textiles Zentrum Haslach (AT)
Groupexhibition Fashion&Technology
Project „Momentum“
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