Sabine Friesicke was born and grew up in Hamburg, Germany. She attended the Freie Kunstakademie in Hamburg, founded by Joseph Beuys, and the Hochschule für bildende Künste (HFBK), Hamburg, where she earned an MFA. In 1988, she moved to New York City. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including in New York, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Des Moines, IA, Spain, Berlin, and Vienna.
Her work is in the permanent public collections of the Brooklyn Museum, NY; the Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, MA; the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, MA; the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM; the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL; and the Kupferstichkabinett of the National Museum in Berlin, among others. Her recent exhibitions include: 4paper, Factory Künstlerhaus Wien; Light Waves at mtn space gallery, Lake Worth Beach, FL; Zeit-Sichten/time-views (with On Kawara and Hanne Darboven), Borssenanger Gallery, Chemnitz, Germany; and The Time, The Time, Studio Donata Wenders, Berlin. She has lived and worked in Berlin, Hamburg, and New York since 2016.