Sarah Kogan

Tom Rowland, Director Karsten Schubert:
‘Drawn in by her painting, and after a truly justified recommendation from Alison Wilding, I was a guest at the studio of Sarah Kogan. Her paintings have a subtle vibrancy and internal resonance, and we talked about growing up in Camden – which she did. There were tiny hints of a misspent youth, but those formative and rebellious experiences can make you steady and focused in adulthood. She told me about Changing the Landscape – her touring installation that came to life from a collection of illustrated letters and postcards made by her great uncle, a mapmaker at the Battle of the Somme. His written descriptions and drawings are used as a starting point for the work. Combining this with her own imagery and research, archival photography ultimately reveals the landscape with which her great uncle was last known’.

Sarah Kogan is a British artist and curator who works in the East End of London. Current projects include Emerald, exhibiting in the 2019 Venice Biennale at the Gervasuti Foundation with artist Martin Sexton; Miniscule, exhibiting at Venice Biennale 2019 curated by Vanya Balogh & touring to Cross Lane Projects, UK ; New Doggerland, curated by artist Jane Millar exhibiting in Thames-Side Studios Gallery London, 2020. From 2016 to 2018 Kogan’s multimedia First World War visual arts installation, Changing the Landscape, was supported by public funding from The National Lottery through Arts Council of England and exhibited in four international and national venues including: Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Cogliandrino (MACC), Italy, The National Archives UK; Atrium Gallery, LSE and Manchester Central Library, with a public engagement of over five million online and live visitors. In addition, in 2018 Kogan curated the multimedia exhibition, Space Shift for APT Gallery, London supported by art critic Richard Dyer. In 2017 she was selected by Alison Wilding for Creekside Open 2017 at the APT Gallery, London. Kogan has been a guest lecturer at Chelsea College of Arts, UAL, The Estorick Collection and on the groundbreaking Art of Psychia...