BIO

Sascha Pohle’s multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, video, photography, and performance, exploring how objects and the traces we leave behind inscribe themselves into material culture. His serial works often take the form of typological collections—eclectic and diverse in nature—that evoke archaeological and anthropological associations. Drawing on extensive material experimentation, he creates assemblages that fluidly traverse media, such as photographs woven into bamboo sculptures or machine-knitted textiles, and surface impressions cast into glass forms. Film and art historical references feature prominently, as he interprets and reconfigures familiar visual motifs and narrative structures.
Pohle’s artistic vocabulary is informed by his lived experiences in various cultural contexts and geographies, as well as his family’s connection to Germany’s guest worker history. Themes of mobility, identity, and belonging are central to his work, surfacing in how the boundaries between public and private, self and other, memory and forgetting, reality and fiction are constantly negotiated. In this process, indexicality and context are fluidly shifted and transformed—emerging as open-ended forms.
Examples of this approach include works such as Ornaments of Property, in which obsolete DVD and CD drives are reassembled into architectural fragments and ornamental ruins—exhibited either as sculpture or as cinematic compositions in 16mm film. In Liquid Grounds, impressions of a wooden floor from Pohle’s former apartment are transposed into floating glass forms that hover like protozoa or planetary bodies in filmic space. His ongoing series Passage translates photographs of asphalt from places he has lived into machine-knitted textiles, forming imagined cartographies that fold and reshape within exhibition contexts. These elements function as sculptural gestures within a system that is never fixed, but always reconfigurable—suggesting a nomadic, process-based understanding of space and belonging.
Since 2017, Pohle has held a professorship in Expanded Photography at the School of Performing Arts and Media, College of Arts, Chung-Ang University in Seoul, South Korea. Though photography is not his primary medium, his teaching emphasizes conceptual and experimental strategies that treat photography as spatial, material, and sculptural.
Throughout his work, Pohle also often blurs the line between the everyday and the artistic. Objects that seem utilitarian—coffee filter holders, gemstone-like glass sculptures, or textiles that could be blankets, carpets, or scarves—flirt with the aesthetics of fashion and applied art, yet remain suspended in the realm of contemplation.
Sascha Pohle also initiates group exhibitions in collaboration with other artists such as Home Sequence and Workplace Sequence.
Sascha Pohle lives and works in Seoul and Düsseldorf.
His recent works were on display with solo shows including 'Fluid Ground', Alternative Arts Space LOOP, Seoul, KR,‚Passage’, Gregorzki Shows, Berlin, ‘Given Time, Black Sesame’, Institute for Provocation, Beijing, CN (2016); 2015 Home Sequence, Rongwrong, Amsterdam, NL; with group exhibitions such as WALK!, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, DE (2022), Festival Visiona Huesca, ES (2022), Macao Biennale ‚Advance and Retreat of Globalization, (2021), The 3rd Today’s Documents BRIC-á-brac The Jumble of Growth, Today Art Museum, Beijing, CN (2016), Plastic Myths, ACC Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, KR (2015/16), Globale: Global Control and Censorship, ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE (2015)



EDUCATION:
2002 Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Städelschule), Frankfurt am Main, DE,
2007 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
Since 2017, Assistant Professor for Fine Art Photography at College of Arts, Chung-Ang University, Korea

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Lothringer 13, München, DE, curated by Felix Ruhöfer
2012 Galerie Weingrüll, Karlsruhe, DE
2004 1822 Forum, Frankfurt am Main, DE
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023  Gao 稿 Politics of Painting, Kunstverein Hildesheim, DE, curated by Torsten Scheid
2021 Digital Signal, Eunam Museum, Gwangju, KR
2019 From Here to There, SeMa Storage, Seoul, KR
2018 Media Migration —The 2nd Diaoyu Fortress International New Media Art, Chongchin, CN
2018 Incounter, Hongcheon Bus Terminal, KR
2018 Glancing into the Sun, Hongcheon Museum, KR, curated by Pink Factory
2017 Friendly Patterns, Flo Maak/Sascha Pohle, Galerie Bernard Knaus, Frankfurt, DE
2016 History Code / Nanjing International Art Festival, CN. curated by Heidi Ballet
2015/16 Plastic Myths, ACC Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, KR, curated by Jiyoon Yang
2015 Globale: Global Control and Censorship, ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE, curated by Bernhard Serexhe and Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás
2015 National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow, RU, curated by Dasha Birukova
2014 Galerie Weingrüll, Karlsruhe, DE
2013 Transfer Korea/NRW, Kunst Museum Bonn, DE, curated by Stephan Berg and Volker Adolphs
2013 New Kids of the Block, Tanas, Berlin, DE, curated by Ayse Erkmen and René Block
2012 Generation Loss, Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila, PHL
2012 Signals: For Real, IFFR, 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam, NL
2011 Role Models - Role Playing, MdM Museum der Moderne Salzburg, AT
2010 ‚Convection’ Dafen International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Dafen Sub-Venue, Shenzhen Case Pavillion - 2010 Shanghai EXPO, Shenzhen, CN, curated by Teng Fei
2010 Taipeh International Art Center, Urban Nomad Video Art Section, TW 
2010 Villains & Heroes, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
2010 FELICITÀ, Kunsthaus Centre d'art Pasquart, Biel, CHE
2009 Videonale 12, Bonn, DE
2008 Beyond Paradise, SMBA – Stedeljik Museum Bureau Amsterdam, NL, curated by curated by Ayako Yoshimura and Delphine Bedel
2007 +Plus+, Vordemberge-Gidewart, Museum Wiesbaden und Nassauischer Kunstverein
2006 Ssamzie Space, Seoul, KR, '7th Open Studio' 
22Wallstr., Frankfurt am Main, DE, curated by Regina Barunke
2004 Zeithaus, Wolfsburg, DE
2004 realityreal, Galerie Gebrüder Lehmann, Dresden, DE,
2004 Situations construites, Espace d'arts contemporaines - Attitudes, Genève, CH

COLLECTIONS
ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medien 
Frederic de Goldschmidt Collection
Eye - Filmmuseum

AWARDS
2012 Principal Price, 58th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, DE 
2004 Vordemberge-Gildewart, CH
2003 Kulturstiftung Dresden der Dresdner Bank, ‚dynamo.eintracht‘, DE
FILMFESTIVALS:
2012/13 Rencontres Internationales Paris, Berlin
2012 BIEFF Bucharest International Experimetal Film Festival, RO 2012 58th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, DE
2011 Homeshop, Jue Festival Film Screning, Beijng, CN
2008 International Film Festival, 16th Curtas Vila do Conde, PT 2008 37th International Filmfestival Rotterdam, NL

RESIDENCIES
2016 Institut for Provocation, Beijing, CN
2015 ACC Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, KR
2013 Transfer Korea-NRW 2011 Incheon Art Platform, KR 
2011/12 Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, KR
2009 Meet Factory, Prag, CZ
2005 Ssamzie Space, Seoul, KR

PUBLICATIONS (Selection)
WALK!, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2022
PAST REALIZATIONS Essays on Contemporary European Art, John C. Welchmann, Sternberg Press, 2016
TRANSFER KOREA - NRW, (Katalog der Ausstellungen im Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Museum Hagen, Alternative Space Loop, Arko Art Center / Arts Council Korea, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea). 2013
Van Gogh on Demand, China and the ReadymadE, Winnie Won Yin Wong, The University of Chicago Press, 2014
THE SWIMMER, Forum 1822, 2003

TEACHING
Since 2017 - Photography Department at School of Performing Arts and Media, College of Arts, ChungAng University, Seoul, South Korea

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