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.

SKINS
SKINS are fabric prints and weavings of abstract patterns derived from forensic SEM images of skin remains on Korean K-Pop group TVXQ’s stage costumes, inspired by the refrain “Under my Skin” from their 2008 song “Mirotic.”
2024
2024, digital prints, polyester, various sizes, woven fabric, cotton, 200 x 150 cm
The Song of Polysiren
An installation of black glass objects—shaped from Jeju styrofoam waste with coastal rock textures—displayed on light boxes remodeled from buoys. Looking inside the glass reveals jewelry-like or sea creature forms, transforming oceanic debris into luminous artifacts.
2024
2024, colored glass, styrofoam light box, variable dimensions, 4K video, 7 min, b&w, sound, German with English subtitles
I Packed My Bag
East German mesh shopping bags molded into ceramics and placed on styrofoam buoys form fossil-like sculptures exploring memory, consumption, and material afterlives of everyday objects.
2023
2023 - 2025, ceramic, knit bag, styrofoam, plaster, gesso, various sizes
Liquid Grounds 
Glass objects, formed from an old wooden floor from Amsterdam-North, preserve fossil-like traces of dwelling and offer a micro-perspective on shifting grounds with fluid substrates.
2022
2023, glass, dimensions variable, styrofoam light box
Passage
Mobile photos of urban asphalt from cities where I've lived and worked, machine-knitted into fabrics. Exhibited as folded 'walks' performed by flâneurs or draped on tables/floors, this fluid index oscillates between fashion cloth, archive, and map.
2022
2019 (ongoing), machine knitted fabrics, mixed material
Ornaments of Property
Sculptural fragments from collected DVD/CD drives as "bricks." Discarded devices become fossil-like artifacts in modern ruins—panning imaginary architectures blending ancient ornamentation. The modular sculpture can be rebuilt from provided examples, combined into site-responsive installation groups, or newly configured.
2022
2015/2018, CD/DVD computer drives, various dimensions
Crippled Symmetry
Emptied 16 mm film archive boxes from the Goethe Institute Amsterdam attic form ornamental arrangements. Inverse spaces of absent reels index cultural memory—misaligned ("crippled") with floor patterns, tiles, wallpaper, stucco, and windows of the 19th-century building. Framed as migrated motifs, they blur national heritage into complex decorative histories.
2022
2013, 81 35 mm slides, color
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