Joshua Weitzel

The work of artist-curator Joshua Weitzel (*1989 in Kassel) is rooted in a social understanding of art and encompasses Improvisation, electro-acoustic and experimental composition, installation art, jazz, inter-media projects, curating and art mediation. Besides being a member the group Takatsuki Trio Quartett and the sound art collective Tan Bone he has collaborated with over 200 artists, mainly from the field of experimental music. He has taken part in exhibitions and performances worldwide, including Dystopia Sound Art Biennale Berlin, documenta fifteen, Opening Festival Trier, Dialogues Festival Edinburgh, LichtWege Kassel and Tage Neuer Musik in Weimar. His work is further documented in eleven CD-Releases and three works for radio.

From 2020-2022 he was artistic research associate for Sound Art and Sound Research at the group ARS art-research-sound at the University of Mainz. In 2026, he completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh with the Thesis ‘Between Event and Exhibit: documenta as a Site of Sound Art 1955-1992’.