Sascha Alexa Martin Müller’s artistic works are multilayered; they include mechanical and sound installations, as well as involvement in music projects. Mechanical training and experience gained from previous activities had since 1991 enabled Sascha Müller to assist customers with technical implementations and help them to organise their exhibitions. In this context, several artistic and audiovisual projects were executed. From 2002, these activities encouraged Sascha Müller to construct interactive sound sculptures and kinetic objects.

This is what Sascha Müller says about these objects: “I create machines which react to people. What interests me here is the interaction of people and machines. It is not my intention to design machines or robots which are supposed to imitate people, but rather ones which develop a life of their own and have their own character which cannot be associated with human behaviour. To me they are a type of entertainer which I also like watching time and time again when others communicate with them.”

Sascha Müller lives and works in Basel and has been participating in national and international exhibitions since 2004.

It was at Basel, where he was born in 1953, that Pascal Bettex became fascinated, at the age of nearly ten, by an exhibition of the work of Jean Tinguely. Moreover, his grandfather and his father passed on to him their talent for creativity, so that, by the age of sixteen, he had already produced his first mobile.

A great admirer of the technical ingenuity of the early twentieth century, he is passionately fond of restoring old pieces of machinery. Since 1999, he has dedicated himself to kinetic art and specialises in the creation of highly imaginative mobiles based on objects he has fashioned into new forms.

Apart from his manual skill, he possesses a rich imagination and his great pleasure is to see the faces of onlookers, children and adults alike, light up as they take in his fun pieces.