Sarah Friend
Biography
SARAH FRIEND
lebt und arbeitet in/ lives and works in Berlin
AUSBILDUNG / EDUCATION
Ongoing Berlin Program for Artists
2016 Recurse Center, Manhatten, NY
2010 BFA: OCAD University, Toronto, ON
Major: Drawing and Painting
Minor: Digital Media Studies
EINZELAUSSTELLUNGEN / SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
"Lifeforms", Trinty Quare Video VITRINE, Toronto, Canada
2022
"Terraforming" Nagel Draxler Crypto Kiosk, Berlin, Germany
"Off: Endgame", Public Works Administration, New York, USA
2018
"Clickmine", The Brandscape, Toronto, Canada
GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNGEN / GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
"Cryptomania", Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen, Germany
"TIME. From Dürer to Bonvicin", Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
"Market Makers", JPG, Berlin, Germany
"MoMa Postcard", MoMa, Online
"Zeit", Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland
"Source", Feral File
"Notes from the Ether", Art Science Museum, Singapore
"Exploring the Decentralized Web", HeK, Basel, Switzerland
"Echos - 2023", Haus der Kunst, München, Germany
"Collective Worldbuilding - Kunst im Metaversum", HeK, Basel, Switzerland
"Worldbuilding", Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
"The Educational Web", Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
2022
"BPA// Exhibition 2022", KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Booth Galerie Nagel Draxler, Art Basel, Miami Beach, USA
"Continuous Shift", Kristianstands Konsthall, Sverige, Sweden
"DYOR (Do Your Own Research)", Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland
"Creation Stories", Gus Fisher Gallery, New Zealand
"Worldbuilding", Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
"TIME in CRYPTO related ART and NFT", Galerie Nagel Draxler @ Start Summit, St. Gallen, Switzerland
"NFTNETART – From Net Art to Art NFT", Panke Gallery & Office Impart, Berlin, Germany
"The Byzantine General's Problem", Distant Gallery and Aksioma, Online
"Proof of People", Fabric, London, UK
2021
"It's so easy", Offsite Project", Online
"Contingent Systems", Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, Canada
"Unfinished Camp", The Shed, New York, USA
"Unfinished Camp", HEK, Basel, Switzerland
"Panarchist's Dinner", Floating University, Berlin, Germany
"Salon Solaire", Suns.Works, Zurich, Switzerland
"Proof of Art, OÖKultur, Francisco Carolinum, Linz, Austria
"Breadcrumbs", Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne, Germany
"ClickMine", Peer to Peer, UK/HK, Online
2020
"S'Eclipser | Phases of Resilience", ALM|NT2, HTMLLES Festival, Montreal, Canada
"Extinction Litany", Afloat Assembly, Flensburg, Germany
"Crypto Manifold", Chronus Contemporary Art Centre, Shanghai, China
"Art of No Likes", Hervisions Residency, Arebyte Gallery, London, UK
"Perverse Affordances", Mutek.SF Nexus, Online
"Screensaver Watching You", Offsite Project, Online
2019
"Screensavers", Piksel Festival, Bergen, Norway
"Scafolds I can No Longer See", Interaccess, Toronto, Canada
"Remembering Network", Radical Networks, Manhattan, USA
"Crypto Grows on Trees", Devcon V, Osaka, Japan
"Seasons of Media Art", ZKM Center for Media Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
"Remembering Network", IPFS Camp, Barcelona, Spain
2018
"Perverse Affordances", Digital U, Art Gene, Barrow-In-Furness, UK
"Much Ado About Everything", Microwave Festival, Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong
"Perfect and Priceless", Kate Vass Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
"Anti", Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece
"Distributed Systems", Gray Area Festival, Grand Theater, San Francisco, USA
"SUB/HYPER/TEXT", Vactor Festival, Interaccess, Toronto, Canada
"ClickMine", Etherial Summit, Knockdown Center, NYC, USA
"ClickMine", MoneyLab, Somerset House, London, UK
2017
"Media Archaelogy: Excavations", Neon Festival, West Ward Works, Dundee, Scotland
Damage Camp, DMG, Toronto Media Arts Centre, Toronto, ON
"Captive Portal: Customs and Border Protection", Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016
"Protective Rituals for Posthumans", Radical Networks, Chemistry Creative, Broolyn, NY
"Routerpop", Athens Digital Art Festival, Athens, Greece
Bibliography
2023
"The Hackers We Trust", with Paul Seidler, Right Click Save
"Are Blockchains Alive?", with Aude Launay, Palm
2022
"Material Facts" by William Kherbek, Outland Art
"The Art Of Code", by Alex Estorick, Flash Art
"How Digital Lineages Change", by Orit Gat, Hyundai Artlab
"How Artists Are Increasingly Blurring The Lines Between Fine Art and Video Games", by Dorian Batycka, artnet
"DIS Takes the Wheel", by DIS, Zora Zine
"Sarah Friend: Endgame Theory", by Aude Launey", Spike Magazine, issue #70
"#19 Sarah Friend im Gespräch mit Lisa Zeitz", Weltkunst Podcast
"Wer hat Angst vor Inflation? Was unser Geld Wert ist", mit Katty Salié, ZDF Aspekte
"NFTs aren't just for Crypto Bros – Meet the artists resisting the Hype", by Rhea Myers, Artreview
"Mechanism Art I", by Cem F Dagdelen, mirror.xyz
2021
"Trust, Token, Tyranny", with Halle Frost, Weird Economies
Art and technology combine for new Minecraft residency at Mackenzie Art Gallery, by Connor O’Donovan, Global News
2020
Interviewed by Michael Haley and Carolyn Reckhow, Byzantine Dreams Podcast
Interviewed by Mat Dryhurst and Holly Herndon, Interdepence Podcast
Interviewed by John Mardlin and Jaye Harrill, Hashing it Out Podcast
When devices go bump in the night – a Review of Screensaver Watching You by Lara Chapman Running Dog
crypto_manifold, [Anti]materia
2019
Interviewed by Michael Shaw, The Conversation Art Podcast
Extracting Computerized Desires – a Review of Clickmine, by Tim Brouwer, Institute for Network Cultures
2018
Distributed Systems & Blockchain Exhibition Interview with Peter Hirshberg and Barry Threw, Gray Area Foundation
Report on Radical Networks in Berlin, by Inte Gloerich, Institute for Network Cultures
When Smart Contracts Aren’t So Smart, by Danny Bradbury, Sector
Interviewed by Rachel O'Dwyer Neural Magazine
How to Understand Blockchains With Scrabble, by Farnia Fekri, Motherboard Vice
WRITINGS BY SARAH FRIEND
2022
"Asset Logics", Texte zur Kunst Nr. 127
"From Minecraft to Metaverse", BlackFlash (upcoming)
"Beyond Follows", March International
"What the Community would like to see in a social recovery system", ethresear.ch
2019
Irrationalist Heresy, Technologically Fabricated Intimacy
2018
"I wanted the protocol to identify the community" An interview with Simon Denny, Spike Art Magazine
2017
The Year Blockchain Got Weird, Coindesk