EDUCATION
M.A. Social Sculpture, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, 2016
B.Sc. Psychology, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, 2013
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Byam Shaw School of Art, Central Saint Martins,
University of the the Arts, London, 2009
PROJECTS | PERFORMANCES | EXHIBITIONS
2020 / 05.11.-19.11.: Neukölln Stories - group exhibition,
LiTE-HAUS Galerie + Projektraum, Nomadic Art, Berlin
/ 16.08. (posponed to 2021): 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
/ Oh, das stresst mich wahnsinnig! - performance
with and by: Vera Jessen, Guy Marsan, Fleetstreet Theater Hamburg (Dramaturgy)
2019 / 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
Final Exhibition, Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Byam Shaw School of Arts, London
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)
2013 / Butendiek-Festival - interdisciplinary arts festival
Ateliergemeinschaft Fähre 6, Hamburg (idea, artistic co-direction, co-organisation, co-curation)
GRANTS
2020 / Project funding: Gemeinde Hausen im Wiesental
/ Project funding: LBBW-Stiftung
/ Research residency 'Aussteigen-auf-Zeit', Kloster Dornach
Dornach, Switzerland
2016 / Residency, Fusion Arts, Oxford
2015 / Project funding: Quartiersmanagement Neukölln
COMPETITIONS | AWARD
2019 / 72 Hours Urban Action, Competition, Jena
2017 / MA Programs in Interdisciplinary Arts Practice Prize: Social Sculpture for Presence(s), Oxford Brookes
University, Oxford
2015 / Shabby Shabby Apartments, Competition, Raumlabor Berlin, Kammerspiele München
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 | PRESENTATIONS
2020 / (partly postoned) Die Straßen im ‘Afrikanischen Viertel’ - book project with children (grade 6)
Tuna Arkun, Sarah Drain, MiK Jugendkunstschule, Berlin
2019 / Urban Myth - book project with children (grade 4),
MiK Jugendkunstschule, Berlin
/ EAST goes for a swim… - presentation of Eat African Soul Train,
Poppy Spowage, Sarah Drain, with a performance by Erik 1key, Das Archipel, Hamburg
2015 / Together in the Dark, workshop in the framework of: Risk the Shit Show, Gelegenheiten Berlin
2012 / The El Martillo Project - talk
together with Artúr Van Balen, Jakub Simcik in the framework of a workshop by the Laboratory of
Insurrectionary Imagination at Über-Lebenskunst Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
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.
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