Morten Søndergaard announced as head curator of MOMENTUM 13
Galleri F 15 proudly announces Morten Søndergaard as the head curator for the 2025 edition. This marks the first biennale under the new Director of Galleri F 15 and MOMENTUM, Lise Pennington.
Pennington shares her excitement:
“We have long aspired to connect our audiences with the world of sound art. We are therefore thrilled to announce that Morten Søndergaard, an expert in the field, will be curating the next MOMENTUM biennale, together with an advisory group encompassing a diverse range of expertise. We can’t wait to welcome visitors, and share both deep insights and immersive experiences in the realm of sound art.”
A Sonic Biennale
Scheduled for the summer of 2025, MOMENTUM 13 will be a unique sonic biennale. It will focus on the (ultra)local, highlighting the human and non-human inhabitants of the city, forest, fjords, and cultural landscape of Jeløy and Moss. Participating artists will draw inspiration from these local environments.
Morten Søndergaard explains:
“MOMENTUM 13 will resonate across five zones of sonic encounters that pick up the hidden and quiet, silent, and invisible; the excluded and disappeared places, processes, and objects. Through participatory listening, visitors will be offered opportunities to reflect on sound as a means of social, historical, personal, cultural, and natural construction of meaning.”
About MOMENTUM
Established in 1998, the MOMENTUM biennale is organized by Galleri F 15 in Moss, Norway. For over two decades, it has supported compelling curatorial visions and explored exhibition formats from both Nordic and international perspectives.
About the Curator
Morten Søndergaard, an internationally acclaimed sound art curator and professor at Aalborg University, Denmark, will lead MOMENTUM 13. Søndergaard has extensive experience in curating sound art, having worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark (1998–2008), and curated numerous exhibitions globally, including at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany; Kiasma in Helsinki, Finland; Rupertinum in Salzburg and Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria; FILE in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Eyebeam in New York, USA; Utzon Center in Aalborg, Aarhus Kunsthal, and Struer City of Sound, Denmark. He co-founded several significant conference series and has published extensively on the intersection of media, technology, and sound.
Event Dates
MOMENTUM 13 will take place from June 14 to October 12, 2025.
Join us in Moss for a profound exploration of sound, culture, and nature.
