(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    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 (Berlin), SP

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    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

2024/11   
“Diversidad, objetos íntimos cotidianos y escucha estética entre las residencias del C3A” / Eldiario.es / Álvaro Vega