Selected live sets
Berghain Berlin, CTM Berlin, Issue Project Room NYC, LAMPO Chicago/ Stony Island Arts Bank, London Contemporary Music Festival, Mutek Mexico, Mutek Montreal, Novas Frequencias Brazil, Trouw Amsterdam, Unsound Krakow, Unsound Tbilisi,
Selected performances, plays & films
Heatsick – performance, Hot Wheels London 2025
HOUSE – performance, bobshop Berlin 2023
Breadwoman, dance performance, Waking Life Portugal 2023
Catch My Grift – reading, Kunsthaus Glarus, 2023
THE ANTI-SOCIAL POODLE – film and installation, Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch Project Space, Berlin 2023
BACKSTAGE – Trauma Bar durational performance Berlin 2022
PIGS HEAD ON A STICK – Klosterruine Berlin Valentine’s Day 2022
URBAN RENEWAL – Klosterruine Berlin, Easter Sunday 2022
NEOLITERAL ( The Quest for Lyft Experience) – Perdu Theatre, Amsterdam 2022
VOMITORIA – bobshop Berlin, 2021
OUTSIDE – guerilla performance at Schinkelplatz marble seating bench, 2021
THE GROTESQUE – performance score, Zürich Moves! 2020
A YEAR WITHOUT SUMMER – film, 2020
Berlin Belongs to Us – Disappearing Berlin, Schinkel Pavillon 2019
The Riddle of the Imp on the Mezzanine – Reading International and ICA London, 2019
My Journey/ Saint Pancras – Art Night London, 2019
Performing America (Iconic America) by Elevator to Mezzanine, KW Institute of Art, Berlin 2018
HQ ( I Feel So Mezzaniney) by Steven Warwick & Carlos Maria Romero performed at Etopia residency Zaragoza Spain, London Contemporary Music Festival, and Grüner Salon, Volksbühne Berlin, 2018, Zürich Moves! 2019
The Public Image by Gerard Lavender, Directed by Steven Warwick, New Theater Berlin. 2015
NEONLIBERAL at Cafe Oto, 2015
HOLY WATER – performance reading and film, Steirischer Herbst Graz, 2015.
Selected exhibitions
Winter Shift – Klosterruine Berlin 2021-2022
The Grotesque – Aesthetik 01 Berlin 2019
NEUTRAL – Exile Galerie, Berlin 2016
Selected group exhibitions
Efpalinou 14, Hot Wheels Athens 2024
The Forage, Moabit Berlin outdoor exhibition 2021
Relax, it’s all online – Galerie Lars Friedrich, 2021
Steven Warwick is an artist, musician, writer and performer.
He constructs narratives and stages situations across different media such as performance, plays, films, composition, writing and sculptural / theatrical installations. Warwick’s work is focused on social dramaturgy and the tension between the cinematic, linguistic and affective fields of perception in the public and mediated spheres.
Warwick has exhibited work and performances at Reading International, Zürich Moves!, ICA London, Schinkel Pavilion Berlin, Steierischer Herbst Austria, Camden Art Centre, LOTO Marseille, Kunsthaus Glarus, KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, Klosterruine Berlin, Hot Wheels Athens/ London, Cleopatras NYC, LAMPO / Stony Island Arts Bank Chicago, bobshop Berlin and was artist in residence at Villa Aurora, Los Angeles 2015.
As a musician working under his own name and, previously, as ‘Heatsick’, he produces and performs, releasing recordings with the club/experimental label PAN, Soul Jazz, Rush Hour Distribution, and Cocktail d’Amore. He has played at Berghain, Berlin; London Contemporary Music Festival; Trouw, Amsterdam; Novas Frequencias Brazil; Foreign Affairs Festival Berlin; Issue Project Room, New York; and the Mutek and Unsound Festivals.
As an author, his work has been published through Primary Information (2017), Kunstverein München (2020), Floating Opera Press (2022), Kunsthaus Glarus (2023) and Hartwig Art Foundation/ Proxy (2025)
His writing and criticism has appeared in BOMB, Spike, Texte Zur Kunst, Edit, Urbanomic, Frieze, Artforum and Electronic Beats.
He has guest taught at UdK Berlin, Kunstakademie Vienna, CalArts, Central Saint Martins London, Berlin Art Institute.