Sarah Drain
// about
I’m a visual artist based in Berlin. My practice is focused on installations and participatory processes. I aim to create atmospheres of permeability that open up spaces of imagination.
My focus is on in-between-spaces and transitions, on the permeability of time, the presence of the past and its influence.
I am interested in the overlap between individual experiences and collective memory and forgetting.
Working collectively and in public space are intergal to my practice. I also work as a dramaturge.
Education:
2016 M.A. Social Sculpture, University of the Arts, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford
* MA Programs in Interdisciplinary Arts Practice Prize: Social Sculpture
2013 B.Sc. Psychology, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg
2009 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Byam Shaw School of Art, Central Saint Martins,
University of the the Arts, London
Exhibitions*:
2021 flüstern, silent sharing, INI project gallery, curatorial collobaritive, Prague
2020 Neukölln Stories, LiTE-HAUS Galerie + Projektraum, Nomadic Art, Berlin
2020 DA SIND WIR-PUBLIC WOMEN, cooperation: Jana Beckmann (flex), Janna Nikoleit (flex), LOCALIZE Festival, Potsdam
2020 Gebettet, Sarah Drain, Mariam Frick, cooperation: Kunstverein Schopfheim
2018 Signals, Resonating Revolutions, 100 Jahre Revolution – Berlin 1918/19, Tools for Action, Kulturprojekte Berlin
2017 Presence(s), Social Sculpture Research Platform, Conference, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford
Grants*:
2022 NEUSTART KULTUR Stipendium
2021 Fonds Soziokultur in the framework of NEUSTART KULTUR
2021 Atelierstipendium des Berliner Senats
2021 German-Czech Future Fund (Deutsch-Tschechische Zukunftsfonds (DTZF))
2020 Project funding: Gemeinde Hausen im Wiesental
2020 LBBW-Stiftung
Publications*:
2020 Neukölln Stories. Zine 1. Ed. Nomadic Art and LiTE HAUS Gallery. Berlin: nomadicArt Press. self-publishing
2012 How to make a Hammer. In: The El Martillo Project, Artúr van Balen, Jakub Simcik, Kristin Gertz, Paul Pistorius,
Minor Compositions
* selection