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Samuel Perea-Díaz is an artist, academic researcher, lecturer, and spatial designer. His practice spans architecture, curation, and sound art. With a background in Architecture and an MA in Sound Studies, Samuel has worked for more than a decade on interior design, museum scenography, and exhibition design.
His artwork investigates auditory perception, archival practices, and acoustic architecture, producing audiovisual works that use sonification, sound relocation, and field recording. Samuel has created listening walks, recording workshops, and site-specific installations in several cultural institutions, such as C3A (2024) and Bethanien (2022). He has participated in several group shows such at daadgalerie (2024), Berghain Halle (2024), Haus der Statistik (2024), WeAreVillage (2024-2023), Errant Bodies (2023), TA T (2021-2022), 48Hours Neukölln (2021), and CLB (2019). Samuel has also participated in festivals such as the Electroacoustic Music Festival of Sound Art Kontakte'19 (2019) and the biennial of Sound Art Dystopia (2024). His curatorial work includes projects such as 'Viral Intimacies' (2025) at nGbK, 'An AIDS Walkthrough' (2023) at WeAreVillage, and 'Ocaña' (2022) at the Schwules Museum.
His academic research centers on counter-mapping the sonic city and investigates the impact of HIV/AIDS on sound-focused art. Samuel has worked as a lecturer at Humboldt University of Berlin (2019-2025) and Berlin University of the Arts (2023), teaching seminars and workshops on sound mapping and curating. Samuel is currently a research fellow and Ph.D. candidate in Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), where he is pursuing practice-based artistic research by listening to archives of HIV/AIDS.
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Instinct #17 - Red reminds me of solitude | WeAreVillage, Berlin, DE
____ Open Studios | C3A - Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Cordoba, SP
____ Dystopia, Sound Art Biennial | FRONT-VIEW, Berlin, DE
____ Tom of Finland Festival | Berghain Halle, Berlin, DE (+)
____ Concrete Dreams of Sound | daadgalerie, Berlin, DE
____ The Price of m2 | Co-Making Matters, Haus der Statistik, Berlin, DE
2023 Material Auralities | Errant Bodies Studio, Berlin, DE
____ Instinct #12 - An AIDS Walkthrough | WeAreVillage, Berlin, DE
____ – 2022 Sonic Interstices | GlogauAIR Project Space, Berlin, DE
2022 UdK Graduation Show | CHB, Berlin, DE
____ +comdays, Queer Art Festival | The REED, Berlin, DE
____ 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, DE
____ Untitled (Topoanalysis) | SoundsAbout, Zwitschermaschine, Berlin, DE
2020 Navigating Berlin | CLB, Berlin, DE
2019 Kontakte´19 Biennial for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art | Akademie der Künste Berlin, DE
WORKSHOPS
2024 Encuentros Sonoros con la Arquitectura, Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba, SP
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
____ Queer Sound Mapping | Art workshop in collaboration with Kazi Tahsin Agaz Apurbo, Schwules Museum Berlin, DE
____ Willowalks. A Sound Exploration | Soundwalk for VR Worldings for Planetary Emergency, TAT, Berlin
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 C3a, Residencias Artísticas Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba, SP
2022 GlogauAIR, Berlin Guest Residency, Berlin, DE (October-December 2022)
____ Near Community, online (June-July 2022)
____ O Espaço do Tempo, part of ‘Slippery Surfaces’ by analu, Montemor-o-Novo, PT (February 2022)
2021 Stretching Senses School, part of Matters of Activity - HU, Berlin, DE (October-December 2021)
ARTIST TALKS
2024 WeAreVillage, Berlin, DE
____ Escuela de Artes de San Telmo, Málaga, SP
2023 Martin-Gropius-Bau part of General Idea’s exhibition, Berlin, DE
____ Berlin School of Design and Communication, DE
____ TU Berlin part of Soundscape Projekt, DE
2022 Schwules Museum part of Queer Art and Activism, Berlin, DE
2021 Andalusian Center For Contemporary Art part of A Secas, Sevilla, SP
2020 Architecture [discussion] FUND, Vilnius, LT
PERFORMANCE
2024 daadgalerie with Nicole L’Huieller, Berlin, DE
GRANTS
2024 La Caixa doctoral INPhINIT fellowship, SP
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 Shortlisted 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
CURATORIAL WORK
2023 Material Auralities, co-curated with Eleni-Ira Panourgia at Errant Bodies Studio, Berlin, DE
____ 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
TEACHING
2024 Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), Summer School.
Seminar: (Counter-)mapping through the Ear. Listening Walks, Soundwalks and Audio Walks.
2024 – 2023 Humboldt University (HU), Humboldt International Study Abroad. Three editions/semesters.
Seminar: Exhibition-Making. Perspectives on Curating.
2023 – 2021 Humboldt Humboldt University (HU), Berlin Perspectives. Five editions/semesters.
Seminar: Mapping Berlin, Geography of Sound.
2023 Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), Master Sound Studies and Sonic Arts
Seminar: Mapping the Sonic City, co-teaching together with Gascia Ouzounian.
2021 – 2019 Humboldt University (HU), Berlin Perspectives. Five editions/semesters.
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.
2021 Project publication, Magazine: “PASCAL”, UdK. Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin. Page 44.
PRESS
2024/11 “Diversidad, objetos íntimos cotidianos y escucha estética entre las residencias del C3A” / Eldiario.es / Álvaro Vega