Kerim Safa
Pixels, Sounds
Contact
Based in
The Netherlands
Born in
Turkey
Links
Selected Exhibitions
2024: 'Machines', Kinomural, Wrocław, Poland [Upcoming]
2024: 'RGB MTL', Montreal, Canada
2024: 'Spectra', Lume Studios, Manhattan, New York, US
2024: 'Omotesando Interactivité', Lapin et Halot, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
2024: 'Machines (w/Peter Burr)', Floyd Bennett Field! Public Arts Festival, New York, US
2024: 'C3 Festival', Amsterdam, Netherlands
2024: 'Ribela Festival', Sarria, Spain
2024: 'Neo Shibuya's 30 Seconds Museum', Miyashita Park, Tokyo, Japan
2024: 'Machines', NUR Festival, Kazan, Russia
2024: 'Tamagotchi', Non Fungible Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
2023: 'Hyperconnection', School of Digital Arts, Manchester, UK
2023: 'New Society Book Launch', NFT Factory, Paris, France
2023: 'Machines', Bideotikan, Bilbao, Spain
2023: 'MET AMS', Gashouder Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023: 'TEZ ART MTL', 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, US
2022: 'Ancient Futures', Istanbul Archeology Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
2022: 'Demo Festival', Multiple Locations, Netherlands
2022: 'Bits&Beams', Grounded Festival, Fort bij 't Hemeltje, Utrecht, Netherlands
2022: 'NFT Show Europe', City Of Arts And Sciences, Valencia, Spain
2022: 'NFT.İST: ÖTE', CoBAC, Istanbul, Turkey
2022: 'Dream Launch', NFT Playground, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2021: 'What Hot Sh!t', Galerie Greulich, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
2021: 'Rotterdam Verlicht', AHOY, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2021: 'Tunnelvision', Grounded Festival, Fort bij't Hemeltje, Utrecht, Netherlands
2020: 'HIJS Lights', Multiple Locations, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2015: 'Ses Duvarı', Karga, Istanbul, Turkey
2010: 'Rebodying', Santralistanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Screenings
2024: 'Film My Design', Cairo, Egypt [Upcoming]
2017: 'Melbourne International Animation Festival', Melbourne, Australia
2017: 'New Zealand International Film Festival', Auckland, New Zealand
2016: 'Punto y Raya Festival', ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Talks
2023: 'Exploring the Roots of Screen-based Arts', City Of Arts And Sciences, Valencia, Spain
2022: 'Sustainable NFT', Sónar Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
2022: 'Q&A', NFT Playground, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2022: 'Q&A', NFT.İST: ÖTE, CoBAC, Istanbul, Turkey
Live Performances
2021: 'Andermaal', Tivolivredenburg, 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: 'Laptop Orchestra', alt., Istanbul, Turkey
2010: 'Laptop Orchestra', Tamirane, Istanbul, Turkey
Press
'Choose the Next Artist for MoMI', Xer0x on Kerim Safa, Museum of the Moving Image, 2024
'The Art of Doing Nothing', Conversation with Loïc Schwaller and Mimi Nguyen, Verse, 2024
'New Society', New Society Media, Paris, 2023
'Monolithic Machines: In Conversation with Kerim Safa', Verse, 2023
'Retro loops: Exploring the seamless pixel animations of digital artist Kerim Safa', STIR, 2022
'Q&A with “Digital Waste” Artist Kerim Safa', UC Berkeley CLTC, 2021