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.
Koseda’s automatic drawing technique, at times reminiscent of Renaissance masters such as Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer and Giotto, is paired with a distinctly East London wit. The result is a visual language that is both playful and incisive, engaging critically with moral and social issues in contemporary British society.
Trained as an architect, 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.