From 20 April to 10 May 2026, Michael Akstaller will be at ICST for his Moving Loudspeaker residency.
Michael Akstaller (*1992) works in scientific, artistic, and curatorial practice at the intersection of fluid dynamics research, acoustic research, and the relationships between sound and space, movement, and performance. His artistic and curatorial work is often interdisciplinary and collaborative in nature and has been presented, among other venues, at Silent Green, Berlin (2023), the Lenbachhaus, Munich (2022, 2021), the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2022, 2021), the 6th Ural Industrial Biennale, Yekaterinburg (2021), and at HKW Berlin (2021).
In 2024, he represented the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and in 2025 the Turkish Pavilion. Akstaller has worked at scientific institutions such as the Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute in Karlsruhe, the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, and the Federal Institute of Hydrology in Koblenz. He currently teaches Sound Practice Research at the Folkwang University of the Arts. Through his interdisciplinary and collective collaborations with artists and scientists from a wide range of fields, he has co-curated festivals at the Künstlerhaus Nürnberg and at HKW Berlin. He lives and works in Nuremberg. Visit Michael Akstallers website for further information.