(he/they) 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. He has participated in several group shows such at C3A (2024), 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.
Samuel´s 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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CURATORIAL WORK
2025 Viral Intimacies, co-curated with M. Awadalla, P. 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
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Viral Intimacies | nGbK, Berlin, DE
2025 Sweetmeet Shindook Berlin/Dhaka | Schwules Museum, Berlin, DE
2024 Instinct #17 - RED reminds me of solitude | WeAreVillage, Berlin, DE
2024 Open Studios | C3A - Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Cordoba, SP
2024 Dystopia, Sound Art Biennial | FRONT-VIEW, Berlin, DE
2024 Tom of Finland Festival | Berghain Halle, Berlin, DE (+)
2024 Concrete Dreams of Sound | daadgalerie, Berlin, DE (+)
2024 The Price 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 Project Space, 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, DE
2021 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
ART WORKSHOPS
2024 Encuentros Sonoros con la Arquitectura | Art workshop, 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
2022 Queer Sound Mapping | Art workshop in collaboration with Kazi Tahsin Agaz Apurbo, Schwules Museum Berlin, DE
2021 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)
2022 Near Community, online (June-July 2022)
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
2025 On-curating, Berlin, DE
2025 daadgalerie + SONCITIES part of Energies, Berlin, DE
2024 WeAreVillage, Berlin, DE
2024 daadgalerie + SONCITIES part of Concrete Dreams of Sound, Berlin, SP
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, Berlin, DE
2021 Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art, CAAC, A Secas, Sevilla, SP
2020 Architecture [discussion] FUND, Vilnius, LT
AWARDS
2024 Shortlisted, Humboldt Award for Excellence in Teaching 2023 | HU Bologna.lab, DE
2022 Berlin Guest Resident Prize promoted by Memoria Artística Chema Alvargonzalez | GlogauAIR, DE
2021 A Secas. Artistas Andaluces de Ahora | CAAC - Andalusian Center For Contemporary Art, SP
2019 Beca de Investigación NY | ARQUIA & Real Academia de las Bellas Artes de San Fernando, SP
GRANTS
2025 PICE 2025, mobility grant for visual arts, Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), SP
2025 Erasmus+, mobility grant for research visit Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DE
2025 Erasmus+, mobility grant for research visit at NTNU (Trondheim, Norway), NO
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
ACADEMIC CONTRIBUTIONS
2025 Sound in Museums · 17 - 19th October 2025, Mafra, PT >>
2025 Intervenciones y Acciones en el Entorno · Máster Universitario de Inestigación en Arte y Creacción · 9th October 2025, Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, SP
2025 Viral Atmospheres: Maneuvering the affective geographies of pandemics and health · 21 - 28th September 2025, Berlin, DE >>
2025 Sonic Sensibilities and Sound Cities · 16 - 24th of June 2025, Blended Intensive Program. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, NO
2025 Arts, Visual Culture and HIV/AIDS: Local, Regional and Transnational Perspectives · 12 & 14th of June 2025 · Department of History, York University, UK
2025 16th International Conference on Artistic Research · 7, 8 & 9th of May 2025 · University of Porto, PT
ACADEMIC RESEARCH
2024-ongoing
Research Fellow: Departamento de Pintura y Conservación-Restauración. Facultad de Bellas Artes. Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
2023-ongoing
Research Collaborator: SONCITIES. University of Oxoford.
TEACHING
2025
Seminar: Artistic Responses to HIV/AIDS. Curating Exhibitions in Berlin.
One semester. Humboldt University of Berlin (HU), Berlin Perspectives.
*With the support of the Zentralinstitut der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, with the funds “Teaching and Learning with Society”.
2024
Seminar: (Counter-)mapping through the Ear. Listening Walks, Soundwalks, and Audio Walks.
Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), Summer School.
2024 – 2023
Seminar: Exhibition-Making. Perspectives on Curating.
Three semesters. Humboldt University of Berlin (HU), Humboldt International Study Abroad.
2023 – 2021
Seminar: Mapping Berlin, Geography of Sound.
Five semesters. Humboldt University of Berlin (HU), Berlin Perspectives.
2023
Seminar: Mapping the Sonic City, co-teaching together with Gascia Ouzounian.
Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), Master Sound Studies and Sonic Arts
2021 – 2019
Seminar: Berlin Sonic. Auditory Collective Explorations, co-teaching together with Banu Çiçek Tülü.Five semesters. Humboldt University of Berlin (HU), Berlin Perspectives.
PUBLICATIONS
2025 Awadalla, M., Espinosa, P., Krämer, E., Perea-Díaz, S., Schaich, H., & Schnepf, M. (Eds.). (2025). Viral Intimacies [Exhibition catalogue]. neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK). ISBN 978-3-949969-05-8.
2021 Tülu, B. & Perea-Díaz, S. (2021). Rhythmic Encounters: A Sonic Manifesto. Architecture [discussion] FUND Vilnius, Lithuania. ISBN 978-609-95641-1-1. Edited by Sudarė Tautvydas Urbelis & Dovydas Laurinaitis.
FEATURES & APPERANCES
2024 Booklet, exhibition: “Concrete Dreams of Sound”, daadgalerie + SONCITIES. Page 10+37.
2021 Magazine: “PASCAL”, UdK. Berlin University of the Arts. Page 44.
PRESS
2025/10
“Fragmente, Gegennarrative, flüchtge Spuren” / magazin.hiv / Axel Schock
2024/11
“Diversidad, objetos íntimos cotidianos y escucha estética entre las residencias del C3A” / Eldiario.es / Álvaro Vega