About

Nele Möller is a Brussels-based working primarily in sound, performance and writing. Her research-based practice focuses on acoustic ecologies, environmental histories, and intersubjective relations with humans and more-than-humans. Currently, she is working towards a PhD in the Arts at KU Leuven and LUCA School of Arts Brussels. Her research project ‘The Forest Echoes Back‘ is embedded in the artistic research cluster ‘deep histories fragile memories‘ and oscillates around the Thuringian Forest in Germany, which is severely impacted by monoculture plantings, climate change and an adherent bark-beetle outbreak, and explores how to retrace and react to these ongoing changes using field recording, live-audio-streaming, listening, and mimicry as the central methodologies. Since 2023, she has been producing ‘Listening Fields’ at the free radio station Radio Panik in Brussels. Besides that, she performs under the pseudonym Kimberly Clark and has released recordings on Futura Resistenza and RDS Rec.

CV

Since Oct. 2021 PhD researcher in the Arts at KU Leuven/LUCA School of Arts Brussels, Research Project: The Forest Echoes Back – Receiving and Transmitting Forest Conversations Through an Ecology of Listening / Part of the research cluster deep histories fragile memories

Selected Activities

(G) Group exhibtion/project (S) Solo exhibition/project (P) Performance (R) Radio (T) Talk Workshop

2025
A Forest Lament – Le Semaine du Son (P, T)
Talk at Kunstlicht Journal Launch – Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (T)
Field Recording Workshop ERG Brussels (T, W)
Phonic Somnia – QO2 Brussels (P, R, T)
Second Sundays – QO2 Brussels (T)
Talk at Oscillation Festival, Brussels (T)
Absorbed Terrain, Fade Radio Australia (R, T)
Dawn Calling Workshop, Oscillation Festival (T, W)
Whispering Winds at Donau, Porto (P)
Forest Transmissions, Zabriskie Berlin (P, R, T)
Spruce Listening, CELL Luxembourg (G)
Talk at Enact Festival, LUCA Brussels (R, T)
Listening Other-Wise, La Loge Brussels (S, P, R, T)

2024
H(a)unted Listening Live Reading, In the Field 2 conference, CRiSAP London (T, P)
A Forest Lament, Botanical Garden Gent (P)
Research Presentation at In the Making – Ecology and (Sounding) Art, West/The Hague (T, P)
Listening Workshop Bloemenwijbos (T, W)
Lecture at Non-linear Narratives KABK The Hague (T, W)

2023
How to talk with birds, trees, hares, deer, barkbeetles, wind and stones, MHKA Antwerp (T, P)
A Forest Lament, AIL Vienna (P)
H(a)unted Listening + research presentation, AESR Lab Kick Off, AIL Vienna (T,P)
Forest Stream and performance at Het Concreet Radio Festival (R, P)
Research Presentation, Sound Arguments/Orpheus Institute Gent (T, P)
(Un)recording the Field, Time to Listen/Akademie der Künste Berlin (T)
Listening to Trees, Recyclart Brussels (T, P)
H(a)unted Listening (radio essay), broadcast at Radiophrenia Festival and Resonance Radio London (R)

2022
The Forest Echoes Back – Project Presentation, CTM Festival Berlin (T)
Breathing Barks, Blurred Edges Festival Hamburg, CAS-CO Leuven (P)
Research Presentation, Listening Academy London (T)
Listening Walk Finding At-tunement, Middelheim Museum Antwerp (P, T)
Organisation of Rooted Encounters symposium, LUCA School of Arts/Middelheim Museum Antwerp

2021
Muzak Forzato, Tonfunktion Festival Frankfurt (R)
Phantom Frequencies, The International Institute for Research on Radio and Magic, Berlin, w. Felix Kubin (R)
Silent Silvester, Papiripar Radio Festival Hamburg (R)

2020
Behind Glas, Graduationshow, HFBK Hamburg (G)
Second Sight, Westwerk, Hamburg (G, R)
Leaves, Parks, Hamburg (P)

2019
Images, Tropes and Narratives, Väre, Helsinki/Finland (G)
Construction Side, Alepo, Helsinki/Finland (G)
Apurit Performace, Jyväskylä, Oulu, Tampere/Finland (P)
Kleptomania, B.a.d. Foundation, Rotterdam/Netherlands (G)
Wir sind zurück, Hinterconti, Hamburg/Germany (G, R)
20/20, Westwerk, Hamburg/Germany (G, R)

2018
The Sky is the Limit II, Come Over Chez Malik‘s, Hamburg (S, P, T)
Treatment Instructions, Eigenheim Gallery Berlin/Weimar (G)
The Sky is the Limit I + II, Studio 45, Hamburg (S, P, T)
DIN-EN 14644-1, HFBK (G, P)
Track_12, moments of change, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof (G, P)
Trauma Team #3, Golden Pudel Club Hamburg (S)
Medusa, die sterbliche Gorgonin: Oder, der Schwarm der Nesselzellen, Papiripar Festival, Hamburg (G, P)
Nominees, Kunsthaus Hamburg (P)
Prova d‘Amore, Come over Chez Maliks, Hamburg (G, P)

Other projects
Since 2023: producing the bi-monthly radio show Listening Fields at Radio Panik Brussels
2019 – 2021 hosting a bi-weekly radio show at Radio Sicnal, Hamburg
2018 – 2023 part of Curatorial Team of Hinterconti, Hamburg/Germany
Touring and releasing music under the pseudonym Kimberly Clark

Releases
What will grow out of our desire, Self release
Apurit on RDS Rec
Leaves on RDS Rec
First of May on Futura Resistenza
Sie hören: Stimmen on Bloody Hands Ltd.

Education
Master of Fine Arts, HFBK (Hochschule für Bildende Künste) Hamburg, 2020
Master‘s Programme ViCCA (Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art), Aalto Univerty Helsinki, 2019
Bachelor of Fine Arts HFBK (Hochschule für Bildende Künste) Hamburg, 2018
Architecture studies Bauhaus University Weimar

Grants/Residencies
QO2 Residency April 2025, Brussels
Phd Fellowship from LUCA School of Arts Brussels/KU Leuven, 2021-2025
Kultur hält zusammen, Dorit & Alexander Otto-Stiftung, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung, 2020/21
Residency at B.a.d. Foundation Rotterdam/Netherlands, 2019
Projektförderung Freundeskreis, 2018
Deutschlandstipendium, 2016/2017
Residence grant Creative Centre Stödvafjördur Iceland, 2016
3 M scholarship Eigenheim Gallery Weimar, 2012