Lisa Long


(b. California, lives in Berlin) is a curator specializing in contemporary and time-based art. Her curatorial approach is artist driven, and seeks to expand how we perceive and understand the world by amplifying transdisciplinary practices from around the globe who engage in various forms of storytelling.

Long currently serves as the Artistic Director of the Julia Stoschek Foundation, where she has curated the program since 2019.


Projects / Exhibitions / Talks / Texts 

(selected) 

Ongoing


Companion Studies, Co-Founder & Editor
a platform for explorations of curatorial practice

2024


LOOP Matadero Curatorial Residency 2024
Resident in Barcelona (May) / Madrid (June)

Lynn Hershman Leeson: Are Our Eyes Targets? 
Solo Exhibition (opens April 10th)
Julia Stoschek Foundation Düsseldorf

Double Feature: Tarek Lakrissi
Solo presentation
Julia Stoschek Foundation Berlin & Düsseldorf

2023


Artists’ Films Backstage – Who is behind?
A conversation with Rafael Ortega 
LOOP Barcelona 

Mika Rottenberg & Mahyad Tousi, Remote (2022)
Screening and talk, Julia Stoschek Foundation Berlin 

Tête-à-Tête 
a converstation with Jackie Grassmann for Berlin Art Week
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Unbound: Performance as Rupture 
with Panteha Abareshi, Eleanor Antin, Salim Bayri, Nao Bustamante, Matt Calderwood, Peter Campus, Patty Chang, Julien Creuzet, Vaginal Davis, Ufuoma Essi, VALIE EXPORT, Cao Guimarães, Shuruq Harb, Sanja Iveković, Ulysses Jenkins, Joan Jonas, Stanya Kahn, Tarek Lakhrissi, Klara Lidén, mandla & Graham Clayton-Chance, Lutz Mommartz, Senga Nengudi, Mame-Diarra Niang, Lydia Ourahmane, Christelle Oyiri, P. Staff, Manfred Pernice, Sondra Perry, Howardena Pindell, Pope.L, Pipilotti Rist, Katharina Sieverding, Akeem Smith, Gwenn Thomas
Julia Stoschek Foundation Berlin 

Double Feature: Young-jun Tak 
Solo presentation 
Julia Stoschek Foundation Berlin & Düsseldorf 

Who’s afraid of video art
Short interview with Apollo Magagzine

BPA / Berlin Program for Artists
Guest mentor 

(LA)HORDE 
Solo exhibition, Julia Stoschek Foundation Berlin 

Videonale Prize by Fluentum 2023
Jury member

Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation
Coordintating curator
Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin  
exhibiton catalog (PDF)

Stanya Kahn & Lisa Long in Conversation
Artist Talk, International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023

2022


Martine Syms, The African Desparate,
Screening, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin 

Eventide by Fa’ Pawaka & LABOUR 
performance and concert co-curated with REIF 
Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin

“Rindon Johnson,” in Cura. #38 - The Generational Issue

“Ear to Ear to Ear to Ear,” in Jesse Stecklow. Terminal, edited by Marianne Dobner and  mumok - museum für moderne kunst. Vienna: mumok, 2022. 
Catalog essay 

“Artist, Producer, Performer: Unsettlung the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor and Representation in Art,” in Sophie Thun: First Monograph, edited by Phileas. Berlin: Distanz Verlag, 2022.
Catalog essay

Tropical Anthology, A Singing Dinner
a performance dinner by Caique Tizzi
Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin 

Pina, Why is the Sky Blue? 
a solo exhibition by Stephanie Comilang & Simon Speiser
Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin 
exhibition catalog (PDF)

at dawn 
with Heike Baranowsky, Rosa Barba, Carol Bove, A.K. Burns & A.L. Steiner, Cassandra Press, DIS, Barbara Hammer, Jeppe Hein, Nancy Holt & Robert Smithson, Joan Jonas, Mary Lucier, Anthony McCall, Precious Okoyomon, Nam June Paik, Jacolby Satterwhite, Cauleen Smith, Wolfgang Tillmans
Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin
exhibition catalog (PDF)

Steve Reinke & James Richards: When We Were Monsters
a screening and artist talk with James Richards
Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin

2021


KIRKPINAR
a performance by caner teker
Julia Stoschek Foundation & Atonal at Kraftwerk, Berlin

Unreliable Narrator
Julia Stoschek Foundation Podcast co-hosted with Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung
featuring interviews with Sophia Al-Maria, Marion Scemama, Marianna Simmnet, P. Staff, caner teker, and poetry readings by Jesse Darling

“Disidentification Will Be Necessary”

Interview with Ursula Porkorny for PW Magazine

PUT A SOCK IN IT!
 
with Zuzanna Czebatul, Jesse Darling, Reba Maybury, Ebecho Muslimova, Liesl Raff, and Melanie Jame Wolf
Curated_By at Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna

Daylight in Your Eyes Podcast for Next Museum
Speaker (in German) 

A Fire in My Belly
with Sophia Al-Maria, Peggy Ahwesh, Monica Bonvicini, Bernadette Corporation, Paul Chan, Thomas Demand, Maria Anna Dewes, Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach, Marcel Dzama, Trisha Donnelly, Tracey Emin, Brock Enright, Cyprien Gaillard, Barbara Hammer, Leila Hekmat, Anne Imhof, Arthur Jafa, Rindon Johnson, Zoe Leonard, Klara Lidén, Adam McEwen, Ana Mendieta, Asier Mendizabal, Colin Montgomery, Nandipha Mntambo, Adrian Piper, Laure Prouvost, Rob Pruitt, Robin Rhode, Bunny Rogers, Marianna Simnett, Jack Smith, P. Staff, caner teker, Kandis Williams, David Wojnarowicz
Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin
exhibition catalog (PDF)


2019 - 2020


A Screen within a Screen within a Screen: Moving Images Surfing the Online Seas
Speaker, Loop Barcelona

horizontal vertigo
at Julia Stoschek Collection 
Berlin / Düsseldorf 

with solo exhibitions by
Sophia Al-Maria, Bitch Omega
Meriem Bennani, Party on the CAPS 
WangShui, WangShui
A.K. Burns, Negative Space
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Ongoing Experiements with Strangeness
Rindon Johnson, Circumscribe

with screenings by
Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė
Morehshin Allahyari
Martine Syms
Trinh T. Minh-ha
Anna Zett (download Interview in German) 
Sky Hopinka
Chelsea Knight
Arjuna Neumann & Denise Ferreira da Silva
Eduardo Williams

and performance by
Colin Self, Subtext 

horizontal vertigo: An Interview with Lisa Long
Berlin Art Link

Quotenlos glücklich? Zur heutigen Situation der Künstlerinnen in der Medienkunst
Speaker: Videonale, Bonn

2018 


Arne Schmitt: Basalt. Ursprung Gebrauch Überhöhung

Exhibition review in Camera Austria
Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld

Artist Talk with Pola Sieverding and Katharina Sieverding
BÄM! Talks, Solution Space, Cologne.

Exhibition text for Sophie Thun - Double Release 
Gallery Sophie Tappeiner, Wien

Curatorial Assistant (2017/18) 
Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz
Projects included: trigon 67/17 - ambiente nuovo / post environment; Ute Müller; Ingo Abeska; The Remains of Cinema

2017


aCCeSsions
, Transmissions

Marina Rosenfeld: After Notation
Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

My Red, Red Blood, Marina Rosenfeld with Greg Fox and Eli Keszler (performance)
Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Stranger Loops – Rutgers in New York (Rutgers MFA degree exhibition)
Foley Gallery, New York.

2016


Twenty-Threesome (Bard College MFA degree exhibition)
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

2015


Breathtakingly Professional and Eager to Entertain feat. Andrea Fraser, Britta Thie, Nathan For You
108 Residency, Germantown, New York.

All Things Scene
with John Baldessari, Patty Chang, Pieter Laurens Mol, Carolee Schneeman
CCS Bard Galleries, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

2012 - 2014


Simultanhalle - Raum für Zeitgenössische Kunst
Cologne



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