Aura Satz

Aura Satz (b. 1974, Barcelona) is a London-based artist based who works with film, sound, performance and sculpture. Her works are made in conversation, using dialogue as both method and subject matter.

‘Preemptive Listening’ (2024), her documentary feature on sirens and emergency listening, premiered at MoMA’s Doc Fortnight, the UK premiere was at Tate Modern, and the European premiere was at CPH Dox in Copenhagen, where it won the NEW:VISION award. The film installation version is currently on view as part of the exhibition “état bruit” at Konschthal Esch, Luxembourg.

She has performed, exhibited and screened her work internationally, including Tate Modern, BFI Southbank, Hayward Gallery, Sydney Biennale, NTT InterCommunication Center Tokyo, High Line Art NY, the Rotterdam Film Festival, MoMA NY, Sharjah Art Foundation, Kadist San Francisco, Onassis Stegi, Sonic Acts, and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre. She has presented solo exhibitions at the Wellcome Collection; the Hayward Gallery project space (London); George Eastman Museum (NY); Dallas Contemporary; ARTIUM, Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo; Museu de la Música (Barcelona); Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo); and Auditorium Parco della Musica (Rome). She teaches at the Royal College of Art, London.