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EDUCATION

M.A. Social Sculpture, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, 2016

Thesis: Presence(s)

B.Sc. Psychology, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, 2013

Thesis: Aus der Übereinstimmung mit den Anderen heraustreten - Zum Umgang mit Scham in der Moderation
von egalitären politischen Gruppen

Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Byam Shaw School of Art, Central Saint Martins,

University of the the Arts, London, 2009

PROJECTS | EXHIBITIONS

2020 05.11.-05.12.: Neukölln Stories - group exhibition,
LiTE-HAUS Galerie + Projektraum, Nomadic Art, Berlin

18.09. - 17.10.: DA SIND WIR - PUBLIC WOMEN, installation| workshop | walk

in cooperation with Jana Beckmann (flex) and Janna Nikoleit (flex), LOCALIZE Festival 2020, Potsdam

16.08. (posponed): Oh, das stresst mich wahnsinnig!- performance 

with and by: Vera Jessen, Guy Marsan, VillArte-Festival, Villatalla, Italy (Dramaturgy)

23.07.-26.07.: Gebettet - installation in public space
Sarah Drain, Mariam Frick in cooperation with: Gemeinde Hausen im Wiesental, Kunstverein Schopfheim,

supported by: Gemeinde Hausen i. W., LBBW-Stiftung, Sparkasse Wiesental, VR-Bank Schopfheim-Maulburg

19.06.- 21.06.: Online participation 48 Stunden Neukölln in the framework of Neukölln Stories, LiTE-HAUS

Galerie + Projektraum, Nomadic Art, Berlin

2019 Oh, das stresst mich wahnsinnig! - performance  

with and by: Vera Jessen, Guy Marsan, Fleetstreet Theater Hamburg (Dramaturgy)

Lisilo-julikana | The Unknown - performance  

in the framework of the interdisciplinary residency East African Soul Train, TaSUBa Arts College, Bagamoyo,

Tanzania (co-artistic direction together with Adam Chienjo)

The Mirror - installation in public space
Jana Beckmann, Sarah Drain, Janna Nikoleit, Sophia Müller, Anja Cambria, Kilian Peters, Vasylysa

Shchogoleva, Zahi Asa, Gassan Ali, Liron Monitz, Alex Rosenfeld, 72 Hours Urban Action, Jena Lobeda

2018 Signals, Resonating Revolutions - exhibition
Artúr van Balen, Sarah Drain, Tomas Espinosa, Freya Schmidt as Tools for Action, Revolutionszentrum im

Podewil, in the framework of: 100 Years of Revolution – Berlin 1918/19, Kulturprojekte Berlin, Berlin

Signals, Resonating Revolutions - participatory performance for the opening of: 100 Jahre Revolution – Berlin

1918/19, Kulturprojekte Berlin
Artúr van Balen, Sarah Drain, Tomas Espinosa, Freya Schmidt als Tools for Action, im Auftrag von Kulturprojekte

Berlin, in collaboration with Tänzer ohne Grenzen e.V., Berlin

Home | Unknown - a dialogue - interactive experience / performance
in the framework of: The Compass // EAST : NORTH, Werkhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin (co-artistic direction

together with Adam Chienjo)

2017 Presence(s) - installation and participatory social sculpture process

Social Sculpture Research Platform, Konferenz, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford

Presence(s) - installation and participatory social sculpture process

Fringe Arts Bath, Bath

2016 Presence(s) - installation and participatory social sculpture process

inside[OUTSIDE] MA Interdisciplinary Arts Festival, Fusion Arts, Oxford

Chairs - participatory intervention

inside[OUTSIDE] MA Interdisciplinary Arts Festival, Fusion Arts, Oxford

Stick Apart - performance in public space

Maria Plotnikova, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (artistic advice, performance)

Stick Apart - performance in public space

Maria Plotnikova, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath (artistic advice, performance)

Stick Apart - performance in public space

Maria Plotnikova, OVADA Gallery, Oxford (artistic advice, performance)

2015 The Cupcake Escape - installation and conversation

Sona Dobajova, Sarah Drain, Contemporary Arts Research Conference, CARU, Oxford Brookes University

Doesn’t really Mattress - installation in public space

Jana Beckmann, Sarah Drain, Sigita Simona Paplauskaite, Martin Abbott, Sophia Müller, Shabby Shabby

Apartments, Raumlabor Berlin, Kammerspiele München, Munich

Risk the Shit Show - participatory event and video-installation as part of the thematic residency on artistic

collaboration

invited artists: Marco Berardi Nicole Cataldo-Davies, Hannes Hellstrom, Keith Lim, Katherine McBride, Kari

Robertson, Gelegenheiten, Berlin (concept, organisation, direction: Sarah Drain and Heather Purcell)

2014 Fictional State. Trilogie des Zusammenlebens Vol. 3. - performance-clubbing 

Direction: Franz von Strolchen, Fleetstreet Theater, Hamburg (directors assistant

Darkroom-Performance - participatory performance

Part*perform, Butendiek-Festival, Ateliergemeinschaft Fährstieg 6, Hamburg

2013 Cough for Coal - campaign against fossil fuels, inflatable lung sculpture, Atúr van Balen, Sarah Drain, Matthies

Stetter, Tools for Action, Berlin (co-design and construction of the sculpture)

2012 Darkroom-Performance - participatory performance
in the framework of: Part*perform, Gängeviertel, Hamburg

2010 El Martillo Project - inflatable sculpture

im Rahmen eines partizipativen Workshops, Electric Eclectic Collective (jetzt: Tools for Action), Galerie OKK,

Berlin (co-design and construction of the sculpture)

2009 In-Dividuality, foto- and videoinstallation
Graduation Exhibition, Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Byam Shaw School of Arts, London

GRANTS | COMPETITIONS | AWARD

2020 Project funding: Gemeinde Hausen im Wiesental

Project funding: LBBW-Stiftung

Research residency 'Aussteigen-auf-Zeit', Kloster Dornach 

Dornach, Switzerland

2019 72 Hours Urban Action, Competition, Jena

2017 MA Programs in Interdisciplinary Arts Practice Prize: Social Sculpture for Presence(s), Oxford Brookes

University, Oxford

2016 Residency, Fusion Arts, Oxford

2015 Project funding: Quartiersmanagement Neukölln

2015 Shabby Shabby Apartments, Competition, Raumlabor Berlin, Kammerspiele München

ARTISTIC DIRECTION

2019 EAST19. East African Soul Train - interdisciplinary residency
creative direction: Geraldine Hepp, production: Poppy Spowage, cooperation with: CDEA, TaSUBa Arts

College, BASATA, supported by: Burning Man, Techne, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Mwanza,

Bagamoyo, Tansania (co-artistic direction with Adam Chienjo)

2018 The Compass // EAST : NORTH - 2018 - thematic residency on Berlin’s colonial history

Werkhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin (artistic co-direction with Adam Chienjo)

2015 Risk the Shit Show - thematic residency on artistic, non-hierarchical collaboration,
invited artists : Marco Berardi Nicole Cataldo-Davies, Hannes Hellstrom, Keith Lim, Katherine McBride, Kari

Robertson, supported by: Quartiersmanagement Neukölln

Gelegenheiten, Berlin (concept, organisation, direction in collaboration with Heather Purcell)

TEACHING | ACADEMIC WORK

2017 Qualifikation as ‘Associate Lecturer’, Centre for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Oxford Brookes

University, Oxford

2016|17 Guest Lecturer, MA Social Sculpture, School of Arts, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford

Research Assistant, Social Sculpture Research Unit, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford

Internship Social Sculpture Research Unit bei Prof. Shelley Sacks, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford

WORKSHOPS

2015- Workshops for different groups (children, young adults, adults)

PUBLICATIONS

2020 Martina Becker, Sarah Drain, Jeremy Knowles, Marta Medvesek, Karl Ingar Røys, Pablo Santacana, Jun

Suzuki. (2020) "Artist Questions" Neukölln Stories. Zine 1. Ed. Nomadic Art and LiTE HAUS Gallery. Berlin:

nomadicArt Press. self-publishing.

Sarah Drain (2020) weil ich fand es reicht, nomadicRadio Session N13 8th December 2020 from 8:30pm-

9:00pm ColaboRadio, as part of Neukölln Stories, Artists: Sarah Drain, Marta Medvesek und Jun Suzuki
(https://www.nomadicart.org/NOMADIC-RADIO-1)

2012 Drain, Sarah (2012) How to make a Hammer. In: The El Martillo Project, Artúr van Balen, Jakub Simcik, Kristin

Gertz, Paul Pistorius, Wivenhoe, New York, Port Watson: Minor Compositions