Skip to main page content

Linnea Semmerling

she, her

Assistant Professor in Sound Studies and Sound Art
Leiden University
Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Sound Studies Center

Linnea Semmerling is Assistant Professor in Sound Studies and Sound Art at Leiden University’s Sound Studies Center and Director of the Düsseldorf IMAI – Inter Media Art Institute. Her first monograph “Listening on Display: Exhibiting Sounding Artworks 1960 to the Present” is forthcoming with Bloomsbury. She has previously co-edited “Conrad Schnitzler: Sometimes it gets out of hand and turns into music” (Kunsthalle Düsseldorf / Walther König, 2023), “Fringe of the Fringe: Queering Punk Media Culture” (Hatje Cantz, 2023), and “Sound Art: Sound as a Medium of Art” (ZKM / MIT Press, 2019). Her curatorial and research interests concern socially engaged artistic practices and the relationships between technologies, institutions, and the senses.