Sarah Pschorn is a visual artist and experimental object maker based in Leipzig/Germany.
Sarah Pschorn is a visual artist and an experimental object maker based in Leipzig, Germany. Currently, her work is mostly focused on objects that refer to vessels and trophies, using and experimenting with traditional and contemporary techniques of production. Her ceramic sculptures bear witness to her interest in a wide variety of eras, styles and cultures, which she brings together in three-dimensional collages. Born in Dresden, former GDR, in 1989 – the year of the German Reunion – Sarah grew up surrounded by Baroque architecture, an inspiration that persistently defines her work. From early on – at the age of five – she discovered her passion for clay. Driven by the experimental nature of the practice, she never stopped working the malleable material through the years. After spending some time in Southern France, in 2009 she started studying at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle, focusing especially on ceramics, sculpture and photography. In 2012 She obtained a DAAD scholarship to study for one year at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, Israel. After she acquired her Diploma of Fine Arts in Halle, she moved to Leipzig and opened her first studio in 2016. Since then, Sarah Pschorn has participated in many international exhibitions showing her ceramic sculptures and installations in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland and the USA. She won several prizes and scholarships like the Grassi Preis (Leipzig, 2016), Perron Kunstpreis (Frankenthal/Pfalz, 2017), Leipzig Connects (Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, 2018), the Prix Fondation Bruckner (Parcours Céramique Carougeois in Switzerland, 2019) and the Open to Art Award (Officine Saffi gallery in Milano, 2019) that allowed her to work for one month in a ceramic studio in Sasama – a small village in the Japanese Alps. In 2020, Sarah Pschorn was awarded with the Gerhard-Marcks-Residency Prize, an Alumni scholarship from Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle and Fruehauf Foundation Berlin for a three months residency at the former house and studio of the artist Gerhard Marcks in Niehagen/Germany at the Baltic Sea. One result of the scholarship is the catalogue that you are holding in your hands right now.
Sarah was born in Dresden and grow up surrounded by the historical baroque architecture of the city. At the age of 5, she discovered her passion for working with clay. She studied fine art with a focus on ceramic, sculpture and photography at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle/Germany and Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem/Israel. 2016 she opened her own studio in Leipzig/Germany. In the last few years Sarah Pschorn has shown her work to an international audience in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, USA and Switzerland. Her work was regarded with several prizes and scholarships.
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SARAH PSCHORN
born 1989 in Dresden/former GDR
lives in works in Leipzig/Germany
since 2018 Lecturer at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle/Germany
since 2016 Studio in Leipzig/Germany
2015 Diploma, Fine Art, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle/Germany
2012-13 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem/Israel, departments: Photography and Fine Arts
2009-15 Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, Department: Art/Sculpture/Ceramics
AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS
2020
Gerhard-Marcks-Stipendium, Residence Scholarship Kuenstlerhaus Gerhard-Marcks, Ahrenshoop,
awarded by Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle and Frühauf GMHGrundstücksgemeinschaft GbR, Berlin, Halle (Saale)/Germany
2019
Prix Fondation Bruckner 2019, Parcours Céramique Carougeois, Carouge/Switzerland
Open To Art, Artist-in-Residence Award: Ceramic Art Festival Sasama/Japan, Officine Saffi,
Mailland/Italy
2018
Leipzig Connect, exhibition prize, Museum der Bildenden Kuenste Leipzig/Germany
honourable mention, Richard Bampi Prize for Ceramics 2018, Schloss Fuerstenberg/Germany
2017
Perron Young Art Award, Frankenthal(Pfalz)/Germany
2016
Grassi Prize, Carl and Anneliese Goerdeler Foundation, Grassimuseum Leipzig/Germany
Graduate Scholarship, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art Halle (Saale)/Germany
2015
TALENTE – Preis fuer Gestaltung, Handwerkskammer Muenchen/Germany
2012
One-year scholarship for further artistic education abroad, German Academic Exchange Service,
Bonn/Germany
WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS/MUSEUMS
Grassi Museum of Applied Art, Leipzig/Germany
Ceramic Museum Buergel/Germany
SOLOEXHIBITIONS
2019
Ach, Sentimental forever, le Salon Vert, Carouge/Geneva/Switzerland
Chasing Waterfalls, Fracas Gallery, Brussels/Belgium
My Hands Are My Eyes, She Bam Gallery, Spinnerei Leipzig/Germany
2018
First Contact, Museum der bildenden Kuenste Leipzig/Germany
Material Girl, Terra Rossa Galerie Leipzig/Germany
SELECTED TEXT/PUBLICATIONS
„Keramik wie Wolken: Erste Künstlerin zieht in Gerhard-Marcks-Haus in Ahrenshoop“, Timo Richter for Ostsee Zeitung (Print and Digital)
„Sarah Pschorn at Homo Faber Guide" by Michelangelo Fondation, 18.9.20 (digital)
„Keramikerin Sarah Pschorn ist erste Stipendiatin des Gerhard-Marcks-Stipendiums der BURG“ 27.01.20 (digital)
„Connect Leipzig #1“, catalogue, 2020, Museum der Bildenden Kuenste Leipzig/Germany (print)
„GEFÄSS / SKULPTUR 3 - Deutsche und internationale Keramik seit 1946“ Dr. Olaf Thormann for GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst Leipzig/Germany, 2018 ARNOLDSCHE Art Publishers (Print) Order here
„CONNECT LEIPZIG – Sarah Pschorn. First Contact“ Schnuppe von Gwinner for Craft2eu.net, 23.12.18 (Digital)
„Portrait Sarah Pschorn“, Sarah Pschorn for New Ceramics – The European Ceramics Magazine, 4/2018 (Print und Online)
"See Sarah Pschorn's Ceramic Art Running From Expectations" Justin Crowe for ceramicartistnow.com, 06.02.18 (Digital)
"Portrait: Barock trifft Popkultur: Die Leipziger Künstlerin Sarah Pschorn", Sophie Aschenbrenner for Leipziger Volkszeitung, 09.07.18 (Print and Digital)
„Culture Clash! Die Kaendler-Pschorn-Vase“, Schnuppe von Gwinner for www.blog.grassimuseum.de, 16.01.18 (Digital)
„Junges Porzellan“, Maria Schoiswohl for Parnass Magazin (Wien) 06/2018 (Print and Digital)
„7. Werkschau der Grassifreunde“ Schnuppe von Gwinner for schnuppevongwinner.de, 02/2017 (Digital)
„COPY&PASTE“, diploma catalogue Sarah Pschorn, 2016 (Print)
SELECTED GROUPEXHIBITIONS
2020
Anton Reijnders - Descartes Error III, Fracas Gallery/Atelier Jespers, Brussels/Belgium
Collectible, Fair, represented by Fracas Gallery, Brussels/Belgium
Honey Me, Artecetera, Tielrode/Belgium
Baltic Art Weekend, Fair, represented by Galerie Goldwerk, Kunsthalle Rostock/Germany
2019
Selected Artists, Ceramic Art Festival Sasama/Japan
CLAY... a lifetime commitment, Artecetera, Tielrode/Belgium
Architects at Play, CIVA Museum, Brussels/Belgium
Revelations, Fair, represented by Grassi for Friends, Paris/France
Open To Art, Officine Saffi, Milan/Italy
2018
Gefaess / Skulptur 3 - German and International Ceramics since 1946, GRASSI Museum of Applied
Art Leipzig/Germany
Frechener Keramikpreis 2018 - Finalist Exhibition, Keramion, Frechen/Germany
European Ceramic Context 2018 – Finalist Exhibition, Grønbechs Gård, Hasle/Denmark
Right here, Right now, Untergeschoss 14, Spinnerei Leipzig/Germany
Richard Bampi Prize 2018 – Finalist Exhibition, Schloss Fürstenberg/Germany
NOMAD, Fair, represented by Sarah Myerscough Gallery London, St. Moritz/Switzerland
2017
graduiert ~ praesentiert, Burg Galerie im Volkspark Halle(Saale)/Germany
HARD, Stephanie Kelly Galerie, Dresden/Germany
Burg Roadshow, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven/Netherlands
Design Miami, represented by Sarah Myerscough Gallery London, Miami/USA
Weiss, Kunstforum Solothurn, Solothurn/Switzerland
2016
Tendenser 2016 - Grand Old Ladies & New Kids on the Block, Galleri F 15, Moss/Norway
1. porcelain biennale / meissen, Albrechtsburg Meissen/Germany
Diplome der Burg, Kunststiftung Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale)/Germany
2015
Faenza Prize for Ceramics, international ceramics museum Faenza/Italy
3rd Ceramics Triennial Unicum, National Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana/Slovenia
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AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS
2020
Gerhard-Marcks-Stipendium, Residence Scholarship Kuenstlerhaus Gerhard-Marcks, Ahrenshoop,
awarded by Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle and Frühauf GMHGrundstücksgemeinschaft GbR, Berlin, Halle (Saale)/Germany
2019
Prix Fondation Bruckner 2019, Parcours Céramique Carougeois, Carouge/Switzerland
Open To Art, Artist-in-Residence Award: Ceramic Art Festival Sasama/Japan, Officine Saffi,
Mailland/Italy
2018
Leipzig Connect, exhibition prize, Museum der Bildenden Kuenste Leipzig/Germany
honourable mention, Richard Bampi Prize for Ceramics 2018, Schloss Fuerstenberg/Germany
2017
Perron Young Art Award, Frankenthal(Pfalz)/Germany
2016
Grassi Prize, Carl and Anneliese Goerdeler Foundation, Grassimuseum Leipzig/Germany
Graduate Scholarship, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art Halle (Saale)/Germany
2015
TALENTE – Preis fuer Gestaltung, Handwerkskammer Muenchen/Germany
2012
One-year scholarship for further artistic education abroad, German Academic Exchange Service,
Bonn/Germany
WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS/MUSEUMS
Grassi Museum of Applied Art, Leipzig/Germany
Ceramic Museum Buergel/Germany
SOLOEXHIBITIONS
2019
Ach, Sentimental forever, le Salon Vert, Carouge/Geneva/Switzerland
Chasing Waterfalls, Fracas Gallery, Brussels/Belgium
My Hands Are My Eyes, She Bam Gallery, Spinnerei Leipzig/Germany
2018
First Contact, Museum der bildenden Kuenste Leipzig/Germany
Material Girl, Terra Rossa Galerie Leipzig/Germany
SELECTED GROUPEXHIBITIONS
2020
Anton Reijnders - Descartes Error III, Fracas Gallery/Atelier Jespers, Brussels/Belgium
Collectible, Fair, represented by Fracas Gallery, Brussels/Belgium
Honey Me, Artecetera, Tielrode/Belgium
Baltic Art Weekend, Fair, represented by Galerie Goldwerk, Kunsthalle Rostock/Germany
2019
Selected Artists, Ceramic Art Festival Sasama/Japan
CLAY... a lifetime commitment, Artecetera, Tielrode/Belgium
Architects at Play, CIVA Museum, Brussels/Belgium
Revelations, Fair, represented by Grassi for Friends, Paris/France
Open To Art, Officine Saffi, Milan/Italy
2018
Gefaess / Skulptur 3 - German and International Ceramics since 1946, GRASSI Museum of Applied
Art Leipzig/Germany
Frechener Keramikpreis 2018 - Finalist Exhibition, Keramion, Frechen/Germany
European Ceramic Context 2018 – Finalist Exhibition, Grønbechs Gård, Hasle/Denmark
Right here, Right now, Untergeschoss 14, Spinnerei Leipzig/Germany
Richard Bampi Prize 2018 – Finalist Exhibition, Schloss Fürstenberg/Germany
NOMAD, Fair, represented by Sarah Myerscough Gallery London, St. Moritz/Switzerland
2017
graduiert ~ praesentiert, Burg Galerie im Volkspark Halle(Saale)/Germany
HARD, Stephanie Kelly Galerie, Dresden/Germany
Burg Roadshow, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven/Netherlands
Design Miami, represented by Sarah Myerscough Gallery London, Miami/USA
Weiss, Kunstforum Solothurn, Solothurn/Switzerland
2016
Tendenser 2016 - Grand Old Ladies & New Kids on the Block, Galleri F 15, Moss/Norway
1. porcelain biennale / meissen, Albrechtsburg Meissen/Germany
Diplome der Burg, Kunststiftung Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale)/Germany
2015
Faenza Prize for Ceramics, international ceramics museum Faenza/Italy
3rd Ceramics Triennial Unicum, National Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana/Slovenia
SELECTED TEXT/PUBLICATIONS
„Keramik wie Wolken: Erste Künstlerin zieht in Gerhard-Marcks-Haus in Ahrenshoop“, Timo Richter for Ostsee Zeitung (Print and Digital)
„Sarah Pschorn at Homo Faber Guide" by Michelangelo Fondation, 18.9.20 (digital)
„Keramikerin Sarah Pschorn ist erste Stipendiatin des Gerhard-Marcks-Stipendiums der BURG“ 27.01.20 (digital)
„Connect Leipzig #1“, catalogue, 2020, Museum der Bildenden Kuenste Leipzig/Germany (print)
„GEFÄSS / SKULPTUR 3 - Deutsche und internationale Keramik seit 1946“ Dr. Olaf Thormann for GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst Leipzig/Germany, 2018 ARNOLDSCHE Art Publishers (Print) Order here
„CONNECT LEIPZIG – Sarah Pschorn. First Contact“ Schnuppe von Gwinner for Craft2eu.net, 23.12.18 (Digital)
„Portrait Sarah Pschorn“, Sarah Pschorn for New Ceramics – The European Ceramics Magazine, 4/2018 (Print und Online)
"See Sarah Pschorn's Ceramic Art Running From Expectations" Justin Crowe for ceramicartistnow.com, 06.02.18 (Digital)
"Portrait: Barock trifft Popkultur: Die Leipziger Künstlerin Sarah Pschorn", Sophie Aschenbrenner for Leipziger Volkszeitung, 09.07.18 (Print and Digital)
„Culture Clash! Die Kaendler-Pschorn-Vase“, Schnuppe von Gwinner for www.blog.grassimuseum.de, 16.01.18 (Digital)
„Junges Porzellan“, Maria Schoiswohl for Parnass Magazin (Wien) 06/2018 (Print and Digital)
„7. Werkschau der Grassifreunde“ Schnuppe von Gwinner for schnuppevongwinner.de, 02/2017 (Digital)
„COPY&PASTE“, diploma catalogue Sarah Pschorn, 2016 (Print)