Sarah Friend

Galerie Nagel Draxler, 2023 Booth 129, Art Cologne Photo: Simon Vogel

Sarah Friend „Click Mine Physical Token Edition“, 2018 Exhibition view „DYOR“, Kunsthalle Zürich, 2022 Photo: Julien Gremaud

Sarah Friend „Lifeforms“, 2022 Exhibition view „DYOR“, Kunsthalle Zürich, 2022 Photo: Julien Gremaud

Sarah Friend Exhibition view „Terraforming“ Nagel Draxler Crypto Kiosk, Berlin 2022 Photo: Simon Vogel

Sarah Friend „Proof of Stake“, 2022 Metal flooring, ethernet cables, printed plexiglas, cable ties 25 x 45 cm Photo: Simon Vogel

Sarah Friend „The percentage of the Ethereum network run on the hosted cloud, the percentage of the hosted cloud run on Amazon“, 2022 Cable housing, printed plexiglas, cable ties 30 x 20 cm Photo: Simon Vogel

Sarah Friend „Evolutionary Games and Spatial Chaos, Letters to Nature, 1992, Generative Website“, 2022 Implementation of an always-cooperative vs always-defect prisoner’s dilemma as described by Martin A Nowak and Robert M May in Letters to Nature

Sarah Friend „Defense Mechanism #1“, 2022 Air filter, plexiglas, stickers 66 x 84 cm Photo: Simon Vogel

Sarah Friend „Defense Mechanism #2“, 2022 Air filter, plexiglas, stickers 66 x 84 cm Photo: Simon Vogel

Sarah Friend „Threshold“, 2022 (detail) Mirror Plexiglas, Quote from Masanobu Fukuoa’s „One Straw Revolution“ 120 x 180 cm Photo: Simon Vogel

Sarah Friend „Shadow of the Future“, 2022 Airfilters, plexiglas 75 x 72 cm Photo: Simon Vogel

Sarah Friend „As Above so Below“, 2022 Video, 29:31 min Photo: Simon Vogel

Sarah Friend „White Flags“, 2022 Printed flags, flagpoles each flag 70 x 100 cm Photo: Simon Vogel

Sarah Friend „Eve and the Interface“, 2021 Video, 6′12″, color, sound

Sarah Friend „Eve and the Interface“, 2021 Video, 6′12″, color, sound Installation view, „WORLDBUILDING“ JSC, Düsseldorf 2022 Photo: Alwin Lay

Sarah Friend „Lifeform Display Surface #1 & #3 (Second Generation)“, 2022 Exhibition view Booth Galerie Nagel Draxler, Art Brussels, 2022 Photo: Ben Van den Berghe

Sarah Friend „Lifeform Display Surface #1“, (Second Generation), 2022 18 x 12 x 10 cm Photo: Ben Van den Berghe

Sarah Friend „Lifeform Display Surface #3 (Second Generation)“, 2022 15 x 15 x 10 cm Photo: Ben Van den Berghe

Sarah Friend „Lifeform Display Surface #3 (First Generation)“, 2022 Exhibiton view „TIME in CRYPTO related ART and NFT“ Galerie Nagel Draxler @ Square, St. Gallen 2022 Photo: Julia Maja Funke

Exhibition view „TIME in CRYPTO related ART and NFT“ Galerie Nagel Draxler @ Square, St. Gallen 2022 Photo: Julia Maja Funke

Sarah Friend „ClickMine Physical Token Edition“, 2018

Sarah Friend Exhibition view „NfTNeTArT“ Panke Gallery, Berlin 2022 Photo: Hannah Rumstedt

Sarah Friend „ClickMine“, 2018 Photo: Finlay Paterson

Sarah Friend „Clickmine“, 2018 Blockchain based clicker game

Sarah Friend Installation view „Off“ Contingent Systems, Calgary 2021 Photo: Chelsea Yang-Smith

Sarah Friend Installation view „Off“ Contingent Systems, Calgary 2021 Photo: Caroline Vasquez-Lazo

Sarah Friend: „Amazon Kindle Fire 1st Gen“, 2021 & „Apple iMac 21.5-inch (Late 2009 – Late 2012)“, 2021 Exhibition view „BREADCRUMBS: Art in the age of NTFism“ Curated by Kenny Schachter Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne 2021 Photo: Simon Vogel

Sarah Friend „Amazon Kindle Fire 1st Gen“ from the series „Off“, 2021 Screenprint and painting on acrylglass 81.5 x 57 cm Photo: Simon Vogel

Sarah Friend „Apple iMac 21.5-inch (Late 2009 – Late 2012)“ from the series „Off“, 2021 Screenprint and painting on acrylglass 57 x 81.5 cm Photo: Simon Vogel

Exhibition view „BREADCRUMBS: Art in the age of NTFism“ curated by Kenny Schachter Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne 2021 Photo: Simon Vogel

Sarah Friend „Lifeform Display Surface #1 (First Generation)“, 2021 18 x 12 x 10 cm

Sarah Friend „Lifeform Display Surface #2 (First Generation)“, 2021 18 x 12 x 10 cm

Sarah Friend „Lifeform Display Surface #3 (First Generation)“, 2021 15 x 15 x 10 cm

Sarah Friend „Lifeforms“, 2021 NFT-based entities on Polygon blockchain Overview

Biography

SARAH FRIEND

lebt und arbeitet in/ lives and works in Berlin

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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 (upcoming). "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