Louis Pohl Koseda explores the city, its people, and social behaviours through figurative compositions, delicate linework, and memory-infused cityscapes. Merging personal memory with imaginative speculation and social critique, his work constructs a vision of London as an imagined urban landscape. Spanning drawing, painting, and spatial interventions, his practice investigates perception, memory, and the structures that shape urban life.
Whether mapping panoramic city systems or rendering intimate glimpses of everyday street life, Koseda approaches the city not as an external observer but from within, filtering the urban environment through emotional nuance, cultural entanglement and embodied experience. Raised as a Hare Krishna in East London, his intercultural identity as an English man with a Hindu spiritual upbringing infuses his work with hybridity and multiplicity. His compositions often function like cosmologies: part map, part myth, navigating the interconnected forces of daily life.
Trained as an architect, Koseda spent a decade working at the intersection of spatial design and community engagement. His practice aligned with the rise of socially engaged art in the UK, contributing to grassroots initiatives around food security, urban commons and refugee support, including Sheffield’s City of Sanctuary, the National Food Service as well as the MacEwen Award winning Sheffield Foodhall project. He also took part in advocacy efforts to protect public space and urban cultural heritage including the Southbank Undercroft restoration project with Long Live Southbank as well as the assemble on the early-stage research of House of Anetta Project and the formation of AB__, a social architecture organisation.
In 2020, Koseda’s award-winning Foodhall project was featured as part of Studio Polpo’s contribution to the British Pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, The Garden of Privatised Delights. Studio Polpo, a Sheffield-based architecture collective, was one of six invited practices contributing to the exhibition, which explored public space, access and spatial justice. Koseda’s involvement reflected his wider commitment to socially engaged and collaborative approaches to art and architecture.
Koseda later refined his drawing practice through postgraduate study at the Royal Drawing School. In 2025, he held his debut solo exhibition at Christie’s in London.
Koseda lives and works in London.