Working between Germany and Korea, Sascha Pohle investigates how traces—material, temporal, and cultural—remain active in the present. His installations and assemblages echo archaeological and anthropological displays, operating as fictional archives in which found objects and local contexts are translated into new spatial narratives. Drawing from popular culture, film, and art history, Pohle reimagines narrative structures to challenge how we classify and interpret the world. He works across sculpture, video, photography, and performative installations, often through site-responsive collaborations with local communities.

Working between Germany and Korea, Sascha Pohle investigates how traces—material, temporal, and cultural—remain active in the present. His installations and assemblages echo archaeological and anthropological displays, operating as fictional archives in which found objects and local contexts are translated into new spatial narratives. Drawing from popular culture, film, and art history, Pohle reimagines narrative structures to challenge how we classify and interpret the world. He works across sculpture, video, photography, and performative installations, often through site-responsive collaborations with local communities.

Regardless of Nationality
A series of AI-generated images from prompts of the Diver of Paestum and a migrant artist rights report. Silver leaf overlays evoke ceramic repair traditions, suggesting mending cracks in narrowing notions of nationality and belonging.
2023
2023, laser print, silver leaf, silver leaf, 32 x 40 cm, clip frame
After The Gift
Bamboo objects woven after Blossfeldt’s plant photography (Urformen der Kunst, 1928; Wundergarten der Natur, 1932) are displayed in a classical museum style. Hybrid baskets translate microscopic plant forms into Chinese weaving techniques. The vessels invite speculation on cultural and technical transfers across borders.
2022
2016 - 2019, baskets (#11, woven bamboo, dimensions variable), artist book, 2 videos, performance
Notes For Migrating Plant, Objects And Humans
An extension of After the Gift, this piece charts baskets’ full genealogy in a book with graphic notations—detailing size, plant/artist names, sources, etc., and countries of origin/residence. This genealogy of baskets can be played as sound on a "labephone", adapting the form of extensive museum labels.
2022
2019, metal bars, letter decals, vibraphone mallets, various materials, artist book, b&w, 31,5 cm x 23,5 cm
Studio Index
Every artist who worked at the Rijksakademie since 1993, mapped by name, year, and studio on the building's floor plan. This archival grid reveals institutional architecture while inviting speculation on ambitions, selection processes, and collective oblivion. Acquired by the Rijksakademie for continuous updates.
2022
2012-ongoing, print on paper, mounted photograph, b&w
German Indian
Mixed-media installation on German "Hobbyism" or "Indianism" explores authorship, originality, exoticism, and authenticity through appropriation—redrawings, rephotographs, artifacts displayed as in an ethnographic museum.
2022
2010, video, objects of various materials, 35 mm slides, 16 mm film, drawings
Noire et Blanche
Korean models hold artist-carved wooden replicas after Man Ray's "Noire et Blanche" in varied poses—solarized, cropped, mask-as-perfume flacon. Techniques evoke commodity fetishism and binary oppositions within global beauty industry exchanges.
2022
2012, photographs, b/w, framed and mounted, various sizes wooden mask, painted
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