Moritz Neumüller


Moritz Neumüller is a curator, educator and writer in the field of photography and new media.

Life and work

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 Director of the Department of Photography at the Istituto di Design, in Madrid.
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, Bernd & Hilla Becher Speak with Moritz Neumüller, All Inclusive. New Spanish Photography, To Have & To Lose by Mireia Sallarès, Martin Parr's Best Books of the Decade and the catalogue for the Daegu Biennale in Korea.
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, Yamamoto Masao, 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.
His current projects include the Photobook Week Aarhus, a Routledge Companion on Photography and Visual Culture, and the exhibition Photobook Phenomenon for the CCCB center in Barcelona.

Publications