Sascha Pohflepp
Artist & researcher
Sascha Pohflepp is an artist and researcher based between Berlin and southern California where he teaches and studies at UC San Diego. Notable exhibitions include Talk To Me at MoMA New York, Hyperlinks at the Art Institute of Chicago, Micro Impact at the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam, Pre-History of the Image at STUK Kunstencentrum Leuven, Åzone Futures Market at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York and The House in the Sky at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn.
Scholarships and residencies include an EPSRC grant in 2011, residencies in the NSF-funded Synthetic Aesthetics project, at Art Center College Pasadena in 2010, an honorary residency at Eyebeam, New York City in 2014 and a fellowship at Rotterdam's Het Nieuwe Instituut. His essay on living machines forms part of the volume Synthetic Aesthetics, published on MIT Press in 2013. Since 2016 he has been part of the Center for Academic Research & Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA). Sascha's work has earned two Honorary Mentions from the VIDA Art and Artificial Life Awards and in June 2015 was shortlisted for the Berlin Art Prize.
