On the occasion of Berlin Artweek Snow is delighted to present Cry Me A River, a duo show that brings together for the first time Camilla Mihkelsoo (FIN) and Sarah Pschorn (DE).

Vernissage: Wednesday, September 13, 6 - 9 PM

Afternoon Tea with the Artists: Friday, September 15, 3 - 5 PM

Like pop music carrying heavy topics, the play between lightness and heaviness is palpable in Cry Me A River. Sarah Pschorn and Camilla Mihkelsoo are curious about what we as humans are carrying with us. Tracing the blurring boundaries of contradicting experiences, their characters and vessels are carrying opposites and conflicting states of being, filled with simultaneous feelings of familiarity and strangeness.

Sarah Pschorn, represented globally by SheBam! Galerie Laetitia Gorsy, is showing her work for the first time at Snow. She is presenting her work in two groups; new sculptures from the series the “Paradise” and contemporary showpieces "plastic collages" made of clay, porcelain and found objects. The works were created between 2014 and until 2023 and provide insight into the development of Sarah Pschorn's ceramic sculptures and at the same time a preview of what is to come.

Camilla Mihkelsoo returns to Snow with new body of works. In her figurative oil paintings, she places the human being in the center, in the subtle ambivalence that is characteristic to her figures. Drawing inspiration from found imagery and films, she portrays people, humanity and related themes. In her recent works figures are displayed in monochrome spaces that seem like staged. The characters are looking past or straight at the viewer, waiting for something to happen, somewhere in-between presence and absence.

Curated by Susanne Johansson

Biographies

SARAH PSCHORN is a visual artist working with clay based in Leipzig, Germany. Born in Dresden in 1989, Sarah grew up surrounded by Baroque architecture, an inspiration that will always be important in the definition of her own work. In early years – at the age of 5 – she discovered her passion for clay. Driven by the experimental character of the practice, she never stopped working the malleable material through the years. In 2009, she started studying at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle focusing especially on sculpture and photography. She obtained a scholarship (from DAAD) at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, Israel (2012-2013). Her ceramic sculptures today witness the mixed culture she encountered there. 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 participates in many international exhibitions in Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Denmark, USA and Switzerland. Also, she won several prizes and scholarships like the Monica Biserni Prize at MIC Museum Faenza (2023), Perron Kunstpreis Frankenthal (2017), Leipzig Connects at MDBK Leipzig (2018) and the Open to Art Award at Officine Saffi in Milano (2019) that allow her to work for 1 Month at a ceramic residency center in the Japanese Alps. Recently she received a one year scholarship from the Stiftung Kunstfonds (2022) - the German government‘s art promotion programme. Currently, Pschorn‘s work focuses mainly on objects referring to vessels and trophies, experimenting with contemporary techniques of production and extracting her own language of form.

CAMILLA MIHKELSOO (b. 1978) is a Finnish visual artist who lives and works in Sicily, Italy. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, Finland, in 2020 and from the Free Art School in Helsinki in 2014. Mihkelsoo has held various solo and group exhibitions in Finland, for example, at Gallery Project Room, Galleria Ama, Galleria Huuto, Tm-galleria ja Galerie Anhava in Helsinki. Her first solo exhibition in Snow was in 2022. Mihkelsoo’s works are represented in such collections as Rovaniemi Art Museum/Wihuri Foundation's art collection, Saastamoinen Foundation's art collection, Hämeenlinna Art Museum and Finnish State Art Collection.