About
Moritz Fehr is a Berlin-based sonic artist, experimental filmmaker, and researcher. He creates works exploring memory, place, the environment, and audiovisual perception, often incorporating spatial sound and dimensional imaging. His pieces manifest as site-specific installations, films, listening situations, audiovisual compositions, and environments.
His projects have been presented internationally at institutions and festivals, including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston), Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten (Marl), Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art (Las Vegas), Youkobo Art Space (Tokyo), Kunstsaele (Berlin), Beyond 3D Festival at ZKM (Karlsruhe), Museum for Asian Art/Ethnological Museum (Berlin), Tieranatomisches Theater (Berlin), German Mining Museum (Bochum), European Media Arts Festival (Osnabrück), Arko Art Center (Seoul), Kunstverein Hildesheim, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum (Dresden), Goethe-Institut (Paris, Dublin), and Kunstmuseum Basel.
Long-term or permanent installations can be visited at the Mahn-und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück (Memorial Museum Ravensbrück), the Museum of Jurassic Technology (Los Angeles), the Jerusalem Panorama (Altötting) and the Listening Space of the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin.
Moritz Fehr studied Media Art and Design at Bauhaus-University Weimar, Inter Media Art at Tokyo National University of the Arts (東京藝術大学), Japan and holds a Ph.D. from Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany.
Fehr was awarded scholarships by the Bauhaus Research School Weimar, the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), Stiftung Kunstfonds, and the Senate of Berlin, among others.
He occasionally holds lectures and teaches workshops or seminars. Institutions include The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Copenhagen (Denmark), FH Joanneum Graz (Austria), Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Germany), Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (Germany), The Academy of Fine Arts Munich (Germany) and Städelschule Frankfurt a.M. (Germany).
