Moritz Fehr is an artist, researcher and composer currently living and working in Berlin. Following a conceptual, research-based approach, he explores constellations of objectivity and emotion, technology and nature, as well as psychological and perceptual aspects of hearing and seeing. He realizes works with spatial sound and dimensional images, which he often presents as site-specific installations, compositions, video installations, interventions or virtual and non-virtual environments.
An abandoned gold- and copper mine, the stolen painting The Concert by Vermeer, the Veterinary Anatomy Theatre in Berlin and the creation of spatial sound compositions for large-scale panoramic paintings have been, among others, subjects of his work.
His projects have been presented internationally, for example at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston), Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten (Marl), Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art (Las Vegas), Youkobo Art Space (Tokyo), The Museum of Jurassic Technology (Los Angeles), Kunstsaele (Berlin), Beyond 3D Festival ZKM (Karlsruhe), Ethnological Museum (Berlin), After the Butcher Gallery (Berlin), Tieranatomisches Theater (Berlin), European Media Arts Festival (Osnabrück), Universalmuseum Joanneum (Graz), Arko Art Center (Seoul), Kunstverein Hildesheim, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum (Dresden), Goethe-Institut (Paris and Dublin) and Kunstmuseum Basel.
Recent installations are Ewigkeitsgeräusche (Forever Sounds), a site-specific, immersive Sound Sculpture for the entrance hall of the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (German Mining Museum in Bochum) that is complemented by an Augmented Reality-Sculpture, on view outside the museum; and Dimensional Progressions, a dimensional sound installation created for the exhibition project A Veiled Gazelle - Intimations of the Infinite and the Eternal by the Museum of Jurassic Technology (Los Angeles).
Other projects that were realized as long-term or permanent installations, can be visited at the Jerusalem Panorama (Altoetting), Velaslavasay Panorama (Los Angeles), Mahn‑und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück (Memorial Museum Ravensbrück) or at the Listening Space of the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin.
Occasionally, he holds lectures, teaches workshops and presents his research and work at conferences; institutions include The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Copenhagen, FH Joanneum Graz, HSLU School of Design Lucerne, The Academy of Fine Arts Munich, The Glucksman in Cork and Städelschule Frankfurt a.M., among others.
Moritz Fehr studied Media Art and Design at Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany and Inter Media Art at the Tokyo National University of the Arts (東京藝術大学) in Japan. Also at Bauhaus-University Weimar, he completed a Ph.D. in Fine Arts. He was awarded scholarships a.o. by the State of Thuringia (graduate scholarship), the Bauhaus Research School Weimar, the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and Stiftung Kunstfonds Neustart Kultur.
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On Plant Stress (SPF 50) and Foreshore Act (Landscape Study)
Essay / Catalogue, in: The Glenkeen Variations
Edited by Christiane Riedel, Ben Livne Weitzman / Crespo Foundation
Distanz Verlag, Berlin, 2024
Composing Data Acquisition (A song of sadness)
Essay, in: Gugak Nuri Magazine, a magazine on Korean Traditional Music.
Published by the National Gugak Center Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2022
Sound Environments for Panoramic Paintings
Essay, in: More than Meets the Eye – The Magic of the Panorama
It includes essays by 29 authors who take a look at the panorama phenomenon from different angles and perspectives –
all of them united by the fascination with the magic of the art form which offers more than meets the eye.
A publication of the International Panorama Council edited by Gabriele Koller.
Published by Büro Wilhelm Verlag, Amberg, 2019
On Colosseum, in: Kunst & Kohle - The Battle of Coal
Exhibition catalogue, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl
Wienand Verlag Köln, 2018
Sound of the River Mur
Interview, in: The Mur. A cultural history
Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen (Hrsg., Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Exhibition Catalogue, 2015
Undersound
Exhibition catalogue, Published on the occasion of Moritz Fehr’s solo exhibition at the Hildesheimer Kunstverein
Essays by Kathrin Meyer, Clemens Krümmel and Florian Sprenger
Published by Kunstverein Hildesheim and Argobooks, Berlin, 2015; ISBN-13 978-3-942700-63-4
Pissarro Sounds: Wenn Gemälde erklingen
eMagazin FHNW Nordwestschweiz, 2022
Sound Unheard – An Exhibition at the Goethe-Institut Paris
Review: Auditive Perspektiven, kunsttexte.de, Nr. 1, 2020
Participants: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Nina Canell, Moritz Fehr, Terry Fox, Rolf Julius, Christina Kubisch, Natascha Sadr Haghighian & Nicholas Bussmann, Mario de Vega and Miki Yui.
The exhibition was curated by Daniele Balit, Katharina Scriba and Anne Zeitz.
The exhibition took place at the Goethe-Institut Paris/France from 13 September to 27 October 2019 and was co-produced by the Gaîté Lyrique and realized in cooperation with the German Center for Art History in Paris.
In The Company of Artists
Texts and essays by Claire Barliant, Pieranna Cavalchini, Audrey Hsia, Casey Riley and Tiffany York
On the residence program of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Published by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2019
Colosseum: The Barrick Museum's 'Preservation' mounts a stunning visual defense against loss
Dawn-Michelle Baude in: Las Vegas Weekly, October 2017
Undertone: Sound art at the Gardner: Seeing with your ears
Cate McQuaid in: Boston Globe, March 2017
Undertone: Thoughts on Listen Hear at the Gardner
DJ Hatfield, March 2017
Undertone: At Boston’s Gardner Museum, It’s Time to “Listen Hear”
Michael Levin in: The Huffington Post, March 2017