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Lisa Long (b. California, lives between Dubai and Germany) is a contemporary arts curator with an expertise in exhibiting and collecting time-based art (film, video, performance, sound, digital media, food, and olfactory practices). From 2018 to 2025 Long served as Artistic Director and Curator of the Julia Stoschek Foundation - one of the biggest private collections of time-based art worldwide - where she oversaw exhibitions, new commissions, acquisitions, and discursive formats across both locations. She now works indepently with artists and foundations, focusing on strategy, artistic programming, and institutional relationships.
Long has curated over 50+ exhibitions, performances, screenings, talks, and symposia since 2012. Solo exhibitions featured Sophia Al-Maria, Meriem Bennani, A.K. Burns, Stephanie Comilang & Simon Speiser, Rindon Johnson, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Ulysses Jenkins, Tarek Lakhrissi, Theodolous Polyviou, WangShui, and Young-jun Tak, among others. Recent large-scale group exhibitions include A Fire in My Belly (2021); at dawn (2022) Unbound: Performance as Rupture (2023); and After Images (2024). Prominent performances presented commissions and works by caner teker, Labour (Farahnaz Hatam & Colin Hacklander), (LA)HORDE, Matana Roberts, Marina Rosenfeld or Colin Self. Long has been the co-host of two podcasts, “Unreliable Narrator” and “Unbound,” and is the editor of Lynn Hershman Leeson: A History of Her Own (Mousse Publishing).
She was curator-in-residence at Loop Barcelona and Matadero Madrid, and has taught Curatorial Studies at Folkwang University in Essen. She has written catalog essays and articles for institutions such as KW - Institute for Contemporary Art, mumok, Phileas - The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art, or the V&A museum, and magazines such as CURA or Harper’s Bazaar. Long has an M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and a B.A. in Art History and Musicology from the University of Cologne.