Chelsea Leventhal (*Berkshire County, USA) is an interdisciplinary sound and installation artist based in Berlin, Germany. Her pieces engage the reanimation and articulation of space, perception of auditory archetypes, and creation of sonic allegories, primarily taking the form of site-responsive sound installations and multichannel sound works featuring sculptural components, visual elements, or video. The domestic soundscape, psychogeographical exploration of urban spaces, and the human-nature relationship are recurring themes in her work.

She has received commissions from organizations such as Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes in Paris, id11 in Delft, Kultur Mitte and the Bezirksamt Neukölln in Berlin, I-Park Foundation in the USA, and the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik. In 2023, her permanent memorial to the composer Siegfried Translateur was commissioned and installed in Berlin Schöneberg. Her works have been shown in Berlin at Maerzmusik, On-site Festival, the Akademie der Künste, and galleries such as Galerie Mazzoli, drj Projects, Galerie im Saalbau, Galerie Weißer Elefant, and Hošek Contemporary. She has exhibited at Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten in Marl, the Dystopia Sound Art Biennale in Istanbul, Hellerau European Centre for the Arts, Art-in-Transit Bangalore, and other diverse locations.

Her research and projects have been realized with support from programs such as Culture Moves Europe, Braunschweig Projects, the Berlin Senate’s “Arbeitsstipendium,” and with travel funding from the Goethe Institut. She has participated in numerous residencies, including at ZKM in Karlsruhe, the Goethe Institut’s bangaloREsidency, Titanik Galleria in Turku, the Interfaces Residency in Nicosia, and Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop.

Since 2019, she has been on the guest faculty at the Master’s program Sound Studies and Sonic Arts at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), where she teaches seminars on the domestic soundscape, documenting sonic art, and site-responsive practice, offers project supervision, and organizes student exhibitions. 

As of Autumn 2026, Chelsea Leventhal is a PhD candidate at the newly formed doctoral program in artistic research (sound and intermedia) at Gustav Mahler Privatuniversität in Klagenfurt. Her research project is entitled “The Sound House - Confronting the self, tracing the liminal: Investigating the auditory construction of home through sound installation.“ She holds previous degrees from the UdK in Berlin (MA Sound Studies, 2016), the Franz Liszt School of Music in Weimar (Graduate degree in electroacoustic composition, 2011).