Linnea Semmerling (Panel)
she/her
Thu May 28 | Contact
About the speaker
Linnea Semmerling moves at the intersection of sound, technology, and the architectures that house them. As both researcher and curator, she traces the ways in which sonic artworks are exhibited, distributed, and preserved, always attentive to the frictions and possibilities that arise when sensory experience meets institutional protocol. Her work lingers on questions of access – who gets to listen, and how – while mapping the shifting terrain of audiovisual collections. Semmerling’s projects, from exhibitions in Düsseldorf and Rotterdam to her writing on the display of sounding art, invite us to consider not just what we hear, but the conditions that make hearing possible. She is the author of Listening on Display: Exhibiting Sounding Artworks 1960 to the Present (Bloomsbury, 2026) and has curated and edited numerous exhibitions and publications, including projects with Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, TENT Rotterdam, and ZKM Karlsruhe.
