Sascha Pohle's artistic practice has been developing across media for several years. In his exhibitions, he plays with archaeological and anthropological evocations, in which handcrafted or machine-made things such as films, textiles, glass, or ceramics are executed as installations, collections, and performative presentations. His works, which oscillate between reality and fiction, are characterized by distances, ruptures, and overlaps that arise through progress, human movement, and cultural transfer. He often works in series that resemble a photographic approach, not as a medium, but with a conceptual methodology of for example capturing imprints as surface structures or patterns in personal and public environments as well as in and with found objects. Considered documents, they are reinterpreted, transformed, abstracted, and transferred to other materials to create new and fluid narratives that move between individual and social, familiar and alien, high and low, nature and culture, presence and absence, memory and oblivion, micro and macro.
He also initiates group exhibitions in collaboration with other artists.
He also initiates group exhibitions in collaboration with other artists.
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)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Galerie Weingrüll, Karlsruhe, DE
2004 1822 Forum, Frankfurt am Main, DE
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Gao 稿 Politics of Painting, Kunstverein Hildesheim, DE
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
2017 Friendly Patterns, Flo Maak/Sascha Pohle, Galerie Bernard Knaus, Frankfurt, DE
2016 History Code / Nanjing International Art Festival, CN
2015/16 Plastic Myths, ACC Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, KR
2015 National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow, RU
2014 Galerie Weingrüll, Karlsruhe, DE
2013 New Kids of the Block, Tanas, Berlin, DE
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
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
2007 +Plus+, Vordemberge-Gidewart, Museum Wiesbaden und Nassauischer Kunstverein
2006 Ssamzie Space, Seoul, KR, '7th Open Studio'
22Wallstr., Frankfurt am Main, DE
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
TEACHING
Since 2017 - Photography Department at School of Performing Arts and Media, College of Arts, ChungAng University, Seoul, South Korea