Samuel Perea-Díaz (he/they) is a cross-disciplinary artist, researcher, and spatial designer. His practice spans sound art, exhibition design, and curation. Having earned a degree in Architecture and an MA in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts, Samuel has worked for several architect offices and artist studios in Berlin and London.
Working across sound in sculpture and installation, his work contemplates and challenges forms and modes of listening. His artworks broach themes that include archives, data, and listening walks. Samuel's artistic research focuses primarily on sound and archival practices, constantly exploring how sonic activism and aural architecture can impact listening. He has created site-specific installations and sound-focused objects that deal with sonification, sound relocation, field recording, and Virtual Reality. Recent exhibitions include shows at DAAD (2024), Haus der Statistik (2024), Errant Bodies Studio (2023), Instinct (2023), GlogauAIR (2022), Tieranatomisches Theater (2022), 48H Neukölln (2021), SoundsAbout (2020-2022), CLB Gallery (2020), and the Akademie der Künste (2019).
Samuel's academic and artistic research is at the intersection of queer and sonic spatial practices. His academic research has evolved into various curatorial projects, which include shows such as 'An AIDS Walkthrough' (2023) at WeAreVillage, 'Ocaña. Der Engel, der in der Qual singt’ (2022) at the Schwules Museum in Berlin, and ‘Listening to Listening’ at Neukölln 48H (2021). He teaches seminars on curating and sound at the Humboldt University and the Berlin University of the Arts and is actively involved in conducting listening and sound mapping workshops.
CV
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Concrete Dreams of Sound | daadgalerie, Berlin, DE
2024
The Value of m2 | Co-Making Matters, Haus der Statistik, Berlin, DE
2023
Material Auralities | Errant Bodies Studio, Berlin, DE
2023
Instinct #12 - An AIDS Walkthrough | WeAreVillage, Berlin, DE
2023 – 2022
Sonic Interstices | GlogauAIR, Berlin, DE
2022
UdK Graduation Show | CHB, Berlin, DE
2022
+comdays, Queer Art Festival | The REED, Berlin, DE
2022
Transitory Sonic Bodies | Vorspiel / transmediale, SoundsAbout, Berlin, DE
2022 – 2021
Stretching Materialities | TAT - Tieranatomisches Theater, Berlin, DE
2021
Listening to Listening | TOP e.V, Neukölln 48 Stunden Festival, Berlin
2020
Navigating Berlin | CLB - Berlin, DE
2019
Kontakte´19 Biennial for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art | Akademie der Künste Berlin, DE
WORKSHOPS
2024
‘Form(ing)Matter(of)sound’ | Art workshop in collaboration with Jona Wolf, DAAD, Berlin, DE
2022
‘A Building Made of Sound’ | Art workshop in collaboration with Gascia Ouzounian and Mariana Carvalho, GlogauAIR, Berlin, DE
2022
‘Queer Sound Mapping’ | Art workshop in collaboration with Kazi Tahsin Agaz Apurbo, Schwules Museum Berlin, DE
2022
‘Willowalks. A Sound Exploration’ | Soundwalk for VR Worldings for Planetary Emergency, TAT, Berlin, DE
2021
‘Rhythmic Encounters’ | Soundwalk for Wild Frictions - The Politics and Poetics of Interruptions, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2019
‘Rhythmic Encounters’ | Soundwalk for FoWe, Critical Geography Conferences. Berlin, DE
2019
‘Rhythmic Encounters’ | Soundwalk for *C*A*R*E: International Urban Studies Conference. TU-Wien, Vienna, AT
ART RESIDENCIES
2024 – 2023
C3a, Residencias Artísticas Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba, SP
2022
GlogauAIR, Berlin Guest Residency, Berlin, DE
2021
Stretching Senses School, part of Matters of Activity - HU, Berlin, DE (October-December 2021)
ARTIST TALKS
2024
Escuela de Artes de San Telmo, Málaga, SP
2023
Martin-Gropius-Bau part of General Idea’s exhibition, Berlin, DE
2023
Berlin School of Design and Communication, DE
2023
TU Berlin part of Soundscape Projekt, DE
2022
Schwules Museum part of Queer Art and Activism, DE
2021
Andalusian Center For Contemporary Art part of A Secas. Artistas Andaluces de Ahora, Sevilla, SP
2020
Architecture [discussion] FUND, Vilnius, LT
GRANTS
2024-2023
Production Grant for Visual Artists | C3a - Junta de Andalucía, Córdoba, SP
2023
Research Grant for Visual Artists and Curators | Berlin Senat, DE
2022
Funding for Cultural Projects | Spanish Embassy in Berlin, DE
AWARDS
2024
Nominated, Humboldt Award for Excellence in Teaching 2023 | HU bologna.lab, DE
2022
Awared, Berlin Guest Resident Prize promoted by Memoria Artística Chema Alvargonzalez | GlogauAIR, DE
2021
Awarded, A Secas. Artistas Andaluces de Ahora | CAAC - Andalusian Center For Contemporary Art, SP
2019
Awarded, Beca de Investigación NY | ARQUIA & Real Academia de las Bellas Artes de San Fernando, SP
TEACHING
(2024)
Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin Summer University, DE
Seminar: ‘(Counter)mapping through the Ear. Listening Walks, Soundwalks and Audiowalks’
(2024)
Humboldt University (HU), Humboldt International Study Abroad, DE
Seminar: ‘Exhibition Making. Curatorial Practice and Research in Berlin’
2024 – 2023
Humboldt University (HU), Humboldt International Study Abroad, DE
Seminar: ‘Exhibitions and Exhibits. Perspectives on Curating’
2023 – 2021
Humboldt Humboldt University (HU), Berlin Perspectives, DE
Seminar: ‘Mapping Berlin, Geography of Sound’
2023
Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), Master Sound Studies and Sonic Arts, DE
Seminar: ‘Mapping the Sonic City’, co-teaching together with Gascia Ouzounian
2021 – 2019
Humboldt University (HU), Berlin, DE
Seminar: ‘Berlin Sonic. Auditory Collective Explorations’, co-teaching together with Banu Çiçek Tülü
PUBLICATIONS
2021
Article, Book: Rhythmic Encounters: A Sonic Manifesto. Architecture [discussion] FUND Vilnius,
Lithuania. ISBN 978-609-95641-1-1.
CURATORIAL WORK
(2025)
‘Viral Intimacies’, co-curated with M. Awadalla, T. Espinosa, E. Krämer, M. Schnepf, H. Shaich at ngbk, Berlin, DE
2023
‘Material Auralities’, co-curated with Eleni-Ira Panourgia at Errant Bodies Studio, Berlin, DE
2023
‘An AIDS Walkthrough’, co-curated with Eric Le Rouge at WeAreVillage, Berlin, DE
2022
‘Ocaña. Der Engel, der in der Qual Singt’, co-curated with Pepe Sánchez-Molero at Schwules Museum Berlin, DE
2021
‘Listening to Listening’, co-curated with Tuçe Erel at TOP e.V, Neukölln 48 Stunden, Berlin, DE
EDUCATION
2022 – 2018
Universität der Künste Berlin. Sound Studies and Sonic Arts. Master of Art, DE
2013 – 2006
Universidad de Sevilla, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura. Architecture, SP
CV
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Concrete Dreams of Sound | daadgalerie, Berlin, DE
2024
The Value of m2 | Co-Making Matters, Haus der Statistik, Berlin, DE
2023
Material Auralities | Errant Bodies Studio, Berlin, DE
2023
Instinct #12 - An AIDS Walkthrough | WeAreVillage, Berlin, DE
2023 – 2022
Sonic Interstices | GlogauAIR, Berlin, DE
2022
UdK Graduation Show | CHB, Berlin, DE
2022
+comdays, Queer Art Festival | The REED, Berlin, DE
2022
Transitory Sonic Bodies | Vorspiel / transmediale, SoundsAbout, Berlin, DE
2022 – 2021
Stretching Materialities | TAT - Tieranatomisches Theater, Berlin, DE
2021
Listening to Listening | TOP e.V, Neukölln 48 Stunden Festival, Berlin
2020
Navigating Berlin | CLB - Berlin, DE
2019
Kontakte´19 Biennial for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art | Akademie der Künste Berlin, DE
WORKSHOPS
2024
‘Form(ing)Matter(of)sound’ | Art workshop in collaboration with Jona Wolf, DAAD, Berlin, DE
2022
‘A Building Made of Sound’ | Art workshop in collaboration with Gascia Ouzounian and Mariana Carvalho, GlogauAIR, Berlin, DE
2022
‘Queer Sound Mapping’ | Art workshop in collaboration with Kazi Tahsin Agaz Apurbo, Schwules Museum Berlin, DE
2022
‘Willowalks. A Sound Exploration’ | Soundwalk for VR Worldings for Planetary Emergency, TAT, Berlin, DE
2021
‘Rhythmic Encounters’ | Soundwalk for Wild Frictions - The Politics and Poetics of Interruptions, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2019
‘Rhythmic Encounters’ | Soundwalk for FoWe, Critical Geography Conferences. Berlin, DE
2019
‘Rhythmic Encounters’ | Soundwalk for *C*A*R*E: International Urban Studies Conference. TU-Wien, Vienna, AT
ART RESIDENCIES
2024 – 2023
C3a, Residencias Artísticas Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba, SP
2022
GlogauAIR, Berlin Guest Residency, Berlin, DE
2021
Stretching Senses School, part of Matters of Activity - HU, Berlin, DE (October-December 2021)
ARTIST TALKS
2024
Escuela de Artes de San Telmo, Málaga, SP
2023
Martin-Gropius-Bau part of General Idea’s exhibition, Berlin, DE
2023
Berlin School of Design and Communication, DE
2023
TU Berlin part of Soundscape Projekt, DE
2022
Schwules Museum part of Queer Art and Activism, DE
2021
Andalusian Center For Contemporary Art part of A Secas. Artistas Andaluces de Ahora, Sevilla, SP
2020
Architecture [discussion] FUND, Vilnius, LT
GRANTS
2024-2023
Production Grant for Visual Artists | C3a - Junta de Andalucía, Córdoba, SP
2023
Research Grant for Visual Artists and Curators | Berlin Senat, DE
2022
Funding for Cultural Projects | Spanish Embassy in Berlin, DE
AWARDS
2024
Nominated, Humboldt Award for Excellence in Teaching 2023 | HU bologna.lab, DE
2022
Awared, Berlin Guest Resident Prize promoted by Memoria Artística Chema Alvargonzalez | GlogauAIR, DE
2021
Awarded, A Secas. Artistas Andaluces de Ahora | CAAC - Andalusian Center For Contemporary Art, SP
2019
Awarded, Beca de Investigación NY | ARQUIA & Real Academia de las Bellas Artes de San Fernando, SP
TEACHING
(2024)
Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin Summer University, DE
Seminar: ‘(Counter)mapping through the Ear. Listening Walks, Soundwalks and Audiowalks’
(2024)
Humboldt University (HU), Humboldt International Study Abroad, DE
Seminar: ‘Exhibition Making. Curatorial Practice and Research in Berlin’
2024 – 2023
Humboldt University (HU), Humboldt International Study Abroad, DE
Seminar: ‘Exhibitions and Exhibits. Perspectives on Curating’
2023 – 2021
Humboldt Humboldt University (HU), Berlin Perspectives, DE
Seminar: ‘Mapping Berlin, Geography of Sound’
2023
Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), Master Sound Studies and Sonic Arts, DE
Seminar: ‘Mapping the Sonic City’, co-teaching together with Gascia Ouzounian
2021 – 2019
Humboldt University (HU), Berlin, DE Seminar: ‘Berlin Sonic. Auditory Collective Explorations’, co-teaching together with Banu Çiçek Tülü
PUBLICATIONS
2021
Article, Book: Rhythmic Encounters: A Sonic Manifesto. Architecture [discussion] FUND Vilnius,
Lithuania. ISBN 978-609-95641-1-1.
CURATORIAL WORK
(2025)
‘Viral Intimacies’, co-curated with M. Awadalla, T. Espinosa, E. Krämer, M. Schnepf, H. Shaich at ngbk, Berlin, DE
2023
‘Material Auralities’, co-curated with Eleni-Ira Panourgia at Errant Bodies Studio, Berlin, DE
2023
‘An AIDS Walkthrough’, co-curated with Eric Le Rouge at WeAreVillage, Berlin, DE
2022
‘Ocaña. Der Engel, der in der Qual Singt’, co-curated with Pepe Sánchez-Molero at Schwules Museum Berlin, DE
2021
‘Listening to Listening’, co-curated with Tuçe Erel at TOP e.V, Neukölln 48 Stunden, Berlin, DE
EDUCATION
2022 – 2018
Universität der Künste Berlin. Sound Studies and Sonic Arts. Master of Art, DE
2013 – 2006
Universidad de Sevilla, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura. Architecture, SP
´