Moritz Neumüller

Neumüller was born in Linz, Austria. He holds a master's degree in Art History and a PhD degree in Information Management and has worked for several international art institutions, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, PHotoEspaña in Madrid and LOOP in Barcelona. Neumüller is Curatorial Advisor for PhotoIreland in Dublin, and was Director of the Department of Photography at the Istituto di Design (IED), in Madrid from 2010-19. He is currently Chief Curator of the PhotobookWeek Aarhus (Denmark) and founding director of ArteConTacto, a project to make art and culture accessible to all. For his work in the project ARCHES, he was nominated as a European Key Innovator. He also co-founded the online database Museum For All, together with the Design for All Foundation and Tothomweb. As a curator, Moritz is interested in contemporary work made by photographers and media artists from around the world, especially documentary, social and conceptual work. His publications include El otro lado del alma (2005), Bernd & Hilla Becher Speak with Moritz Neumüller (2005), All Inclusive. New Spanish Photography (2007), To Have & To Lose by Mireia Sallarès (2008), Martin Parr's Best Books of the Decade (2011) and the catalogue for the Daegu Biennale in Korea (2014). Neumüller is a regular contributor to European Photography Magazine and on the editorial board of the encyclopaedia project The European History of Photography. He is a member of the curatorial associations Oracle and IKT, and runs an online resource for visual artists, called The Curator Ship, since 2010. Neumüller has conducted curatorial projects on and with Bernd and Hilla Becher, Ricardo Cases, Masao Yamamoto, Edmund Clark, Cristina de Middel, Martin Parr, Stephen Gill, Chris Jordan, Dinu Li, Gabriel Orozco, Mireia Sallarès, Oliver Sieber & Katja Stuke, Alejandro Castellote, Horacio Fernández, and Rosina Cazali. Recent projects include a Routledge Companion on Photography and Visual Culture, and the exhibition Photobook Phenomenon for the CCCB center in Barcelona.

Moritz Neumüller is recorded with the occupation exhibition curator. Recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded as exhibition curator, photographer, writer, university teacher and film director.