Kerim Safa

Pixels, Sounds

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Based in

The Netherlands

Born in

Turkey

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Selected Exhibitions

2024: 'Tamagotchi', Nguyen Wahed Gallery, New York, United States

2024: 'Kinomural', Wrocław, Poland 

2024: 'Floyd Bennett Field! Public Arts Festival (w/Peter Burr), New York, United States

2024: 'Spectra', Lume Studios, New York, United States

2024: 'VideoListening', Nagaoka Institute of Design, Nagaoka, Japan

2024: 'C3 Festival', Amsterdam, Netherlands

2024: 'Film My Design', Cairo, Egypt

2024: 'Neo Shibuya's 30 Seconds Museum', Miyashita Park, Tokyo, Japan

2024: 'Nur Festival', Kazan, Russia

2024: 'Ribela Festival', Sarria, Spain

2024: 'Nur Now', Kazan, Russia

2024: 'Omotesando Interactivité', Lapin et Halot, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

2024: 'Non-Fungible Conference', Lisbon, Portugal

2024: 'RGB MTL', Stranoplex, Montreal, Canada

2023: 'Hyperconnection', School of Digital Arts, Manchester, United Kingdom

2023: 'MET AMS Festival', Gashouder Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2023: 'New Society Book Launch', NFT Factory, Paris, France

2023: 'TEZ ART MTL', Stranoplex, Montreal, Canada

2023: 'NFT Show Europe', City Of Arts And Sciences, Valencia, Spain

2023: 'Éclairage Public #7', Le 109, Nice, France

2023: 'Refraction', Black Box, Denver, Colorado, United States

2023: 'Bideotikan', Bilbao, Spain

2022: 'Ancient Futures', Istanbul Archeology Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

2022: 'Bits&Beams'(w/Roel Weerdenburg), Grounded Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands

2022: 'NFT Show Europe', City Of Arts And Sciences, Valencia, Spain

2022: 'Demo Festival', Multiple Locations, Netherlands

2022: 'NFT.İST: ÖTE', CoBAC, Istanbul, Turkey

2022: 'Dream Launch', NFT Playground, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2021: 'Rotterdam Verlicht', AHOY, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2021: 'What Hot Sh!t', Galerie Greulich, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany

2021: 'Tunnelvision', Grounded Festival, Fort bij't Hemeltje, Utrecht, Netherlands

2020: 'HIJS Lights', Afrikaanderwijk, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2017: 'Melbourne International Animation Festival', Melbourne, Australia

2017: 'New Zealand International Film Festival', Auckland, New Zealand

2016: 'Punto y Raya Festival', ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany

2015: 'Ses Duvarı/Sound Wall', Karga, Istanbul, Turkey

2010: 'Rebodying'(w/Armando Menicacci), Santralistanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Talks

2023: 'Exploring the Roots of Screen-based Arts', City Of Arts And Sciences, Valencia, Spain

2022: 'Sustainable NFT', Sónar Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

2022: 'Artist Talk', NFT Playground, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2022: 'Q&A', NFT.İST: ÖTE, CoBAC, Istanbul, Turkey

Live Performances

2021: 'Andermaal'(w/Dirge Secil Kuran), Tivolivredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands

2021: 'Culture Shock', De Voorkamer, Utrecht, Netherlands

2019: 'Hyena Noise Festival', Villa K, The Hague, Netherlands

2010: 'Druskomanija', Menų spaustuvė, Vilnius, Lithuania

2010: 'ISCMS', Eminonu Pedestrian Bridge, Istanbul, Turkey

2010: 'IBULOrk - Laptop Orchestra', alt., Istanbul, Turkey

2010: 'IBULOrk - Laptop Orchestra', Tamirane, Istanbul, Turkey

Press

'Choose the Next Artist for MoMI', Museum of the Moving Image, New York, 2024 [Link]

'The Art of Doing Nothing', Conversation with Loïc Schwaller and Mimi Nguyen, Verse, 2024 [Link]

'New Society', New Society Media, Paris, 2023 [Link]

'Monolithic Machines: In Conversation with Kerim Safa', verse, 2023 [Link]

'Retro loops: Exploring the seamless pixel animations of digital artist Kerim Safa', STIR, 2022 [Link]

'Artist Q&A', The Tickle, 2022 [Link]

'Diyalog', Mercado, 2022 [Link]

'Q&A with “Digital Waste” Artist Kerim Safa', UC Berkeley CLTC, 2021 [Link]

'Interview', GatherArt, 2021 [Link]