vita

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

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.

AWARDS / SCHOL­AR­SHIPS

2023
Monica Biserni Prize, Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza/Italy

2022
3 Months Scholarship, EKWC - European Ceramic Residency Center, Oisterwijk/Netherlands

2021
1 Year Scholarship, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn/Germany

2020
Gerhard-Marcks-Stipendium, Residence Scholarship Ahrenshoop, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art&Design Halle & Fruehauf Foundation, Berlin/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, Milan/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
Alumni Scholarship, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art&Design Halle/Germany

2015
TALENTE – Preis fuer Gestaltung, Handwerkskammer Muenchen/Germany

2012
One-year scholarship for further artistic education abroad, German Academic Exchange Service,
Bonn/Germany

WORKS IN PUBLIC COL­LEC­TIONS / MUSEUMS

Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, Dresden/Germany

Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen/Germany

Grassi Museum of Applied Art, Leipzig/Germany

Ceramic Museum Buergel/Germany

International Ceramic Conference Collection, Shizuoka/Japan

Eschenbach Porzellan Group, Triptis/Germany

and many private collections

SOLO / DUO
EX­HI­BI­TIONS

2023
Records of Gravity, Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen/Germany (Solo)
We Shall Sea, She Bam! Gallery Laetitia Gorsy, Leipzig/Germany (Solo)

2021
Assembled Stories - Sarah Pschorn and Brecht Vandenbroucke, Gallery 10a, Otegem/Belgium (Duo)

2020
Sarah Pschorn – Valeria Schneider, She Bam! Gallery Laetitia Gorsy, Leipzig/Germany (Duo)

2019
Ach Sentimental forever, le Salon Vert, Carouge­/Switzerland (Solo)
Chasing Waterfalls, Fracas Gallery, Brussels/Belgium (Solo)
My Hands Are My Eyes, She Bam Gallery, Spinnerei Leipzig/Germany (Solo)

2018
First Contact, Museum der bildenden Kuenste Leipzig/Germany (Solo)
Material Girl, Terra Rossa Galerie Leipzig/Germany (Solo)

SELECTED TEXTs / PUB­LI­CA­TIONS

Sarah Pschorn – Various Works 2020, Catalogue, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle/Germany, 2021 (Print)

Sarah Pschorn, Agave Magazin, 04/2021 (Digital)

Keramik wie Wolken: Erste Künstlerin zieht in Gerhard-Marcks-Haus in Ahrenshoop, Timo Richter for Ostsee Zeitung, 2020 (Print/Digital)

Sarah Pschorn at Homo Faber Guide by Michelangelo Fondation, 18.9.2020 (Digital)

Connect Leipzig #1, Catalogue, Museum der Bildenden Kuenste Leipzig/Germany, 2020 (Print)

GEFÄSS / SKULPTUR 3 - Deutsche und internationale Keramik seit 1946, Dr. Olaf Thormann for GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst Leipzig/Germany, ARNOLDSCHE Art Publishers, 2018 (Print)

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/Digital)

See Sarah Pschorn's Ceramic Art Running From Expectations, Justin Crowe for ceramicartistnow.com, 06.02.2018 (Digital)

Portrait: Barock trifft Popkultur: Die Leipziger Künstlerin Sarah Pschorn, Sophie Aschenbrenner for Leipziger Volkszeitung, 09.07.2018 (Print and Digital)

Culture Clash! Die Kaendler-Pschorn-Vase, Schnuppe von Gwinner for www.blog.grassimuseum.de, 16.01.2018 (Digital)

Junges Porzellan, Maria Schoiswohl for Parnass Magazin (Vienna/Austria) 06/2018 (Print/Digital)

COPY&PASTE, Diploma Catalogue Sarah Pschorn, 2016 (Print)

SELECTED GROUP­EX­HI­BI­TIONS

2021
Earth + Fire, Schloss Hollenegg, Hollenegg/Austria
Conjunctions, Kunstraum Ortloff, Leipzig/Germany

2020
Anton Reijnders - Descartes Error III, Fracas Gallery/Atelier Jespers, Brussels/Belgium
Collectible, Fair, represented by Fracas Gallery, Brussels/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
Open To Art, Officine Saffi, Milan/Italy

2018
Gefaess / Skulptur 3 - German and International Ceramics since 1946, GRASSI Museum of Applied
Art Leipzig/Germany
European Ceramic Context 2018 – Finalist Exhibition, Grønbechs Gård, Hasle/Denmark
Right here, Right now, Untergeschoss 14, Spinnerei Leipzig/Germany

2017
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

2015
Faenza Prize for Ceramics - Finalist Exhibition, international ceramics museum Faenza/Italy
3rd Ceramics Triennial Unicum, National Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana/Slovenia

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