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 amplify transdisciplinary practices that engage in forms of critical inquiry and storytelling. She is the founder of Companion Culture, a curatorial agency that offers cultural programming, production, and consultancy.
From 2018 to 2025 Long served as Artistic Director and Curator of the Julia Stoschek Foundation, where she organized solo exhibitions with Sophia Al-Maria, Meriem Bennani, A.K. Burns, Stephanie Comilang & Simon Speiser, Rindon Johnson, Lynn Hershman Leeson, (LA)HORDE, and WangShui, among others, as well as numerous performances, screenings, and talks. Large-scale group exhibitions include A Fire in My Belly (2021); at dawn (2022) Unbound: Performance as Rupture (2023); and After Images (2024). She is also the editor of the first ever reader on the works of Lynn Hershman Leeson with texts from the past fifty years (upcoming June 2025).
Long has been a 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 mumok, Phileas, 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.
Contact: lisapauwenlong(a)gmail.com
Projects / Exhibitions / Talks / Texts
(selected)Ongoing
Companion Culture
Founder & Director
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2025
Dora Budor, Inner Vampire
13 May - 28 June
in collaboration with Projektbüro DFI e.V. and presented by Companion Culture
Curator
“Curatorial Roundtable with Lisa Long”
February 26, 9:00 a.m. EST
School of Visual Arts, New York
Speaker
2024
“Exhibition as Sensual Montage”
in Images that Move Us Forward. Commissioning, Producing, Exhibiting and Collecting Artists’ Cinema
Loop Symposium curated by Filippa Ramos
Speaker
Text for Simon Speiser
BPA // Exhibition 2024
KW Institut for Contemporary Art
Artissima Walkie Talkies
with Mohammed Almusibli & Leonardo Bigazzi
Speaker
From Seeing to Multisensory Experience
A conversation with Theresa Baumgartner, Norbert Pape & Simon Speiser & Chaveli Sifre
Julia Stoschek Foundation Berlin
After Images
with Jo Baer, Rosa Barba, Theresa Baumgartner, Paul Chan, Trisha Donnelly, Laurel Halo, Lotus L. Kang, LABOUR (Farahnaz Hatam & Colin Hacklander), Ghislaine Leung, David Medalla, Carsten Nicolai, Norbert Pape & Simon Speiser, Giovanna Repetto, Chaveli Sifre, Jesse Stecklow, Anicka Yi
Julia Stoschek Foundation Berlin (PDF)
Curator
Double Feature: Theodoulos Polyviou
Solo presentation
Julia Stoschek Foundation Berlin / Düsseldorf
Co-Curator with Line Ajan
Ant Farm and T.R. Uthco: The Eternal Frame
Julia Stoschek Foundation Berlin
Curator
LOOP Matadero Curatorial Residency 2024
in Barcelona (May) / Madrid (June)
Curator-in-Residence
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Are Our Eyes Targets?
Solo Exhibition
9 April 2024 - 6 April 2025
Julia Stoschek Foundation Düsseldorf
Curator
Double Feature: Tarek Lakrissi
Solo presentation
Julia Stoschek Foundation Berlin & Düsseldorf
Co-Curator with Line Ajan
2023
Artists’ Films Backstage – Who is behind?
in 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
Curator
Double Feature: Young-jun Tak
Solo presentation
Julia Stoschek Foundation Berlin & Düsseldorf
Co-Curator with Line Ajan
“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
Curator
Videonale Prize by Fluentum 2023
Jury member
Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation
Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin
exhibiton catalog (PDF)
Coordintating curator
Stanya Kahn & Lisa Long in Conversation
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023
2022
Martine Syms, The African Desparate,
Screening and talk, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin
Eventide by Fa’ Pawaka & LABOUR
Performance and concert
Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin
Co-curated with REIF
“Rindon Johnson,” in Cura. #38 - The Generational Issue
Artist Profile
“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
Curator
Pina, Why is the Sky Blue?
a solo exhibition by Stephanie Comilang & Simon Speiser
Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin
exhibition catalog (PDF)
Curator
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)
Curator
Steve Reinke & James Richards: When We Were Monsters
a screening and artist talk with James Richards
Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin
Curator
2021
KIRKPINAR
a performance by caner teker
Julia Stoschek Foundation & Atonal at Kraftwerk, Berlin
Curator
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
Host, Editor
“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
Curator
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 (PD
Curator
2019 - 2020
A Screen within a Screen within a Screen: Moving Images Surfing the Online Seas
Loop Barcelona
Speaker
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
Curator
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
Curator
and performance by
Colin Self, Subtext
Curator
horizontal vertigo: An Interview with Lisa Long
Berlin Art Link
Quotenlos glücklich? Zur heutigen Situation der Künstlerinnen in der Medienkunst
Videonale, Bonn
Speaker
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
Online Journal
Commissioning Editor
Marina Rosenfeld: After Notation
Solo exhibition
Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Curator
My Red, Red Blood,
a performance by Marina Rosenfeld with Greg Fox and Eli Keszler
Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Curator
Stranger Loops – Rutgers in New York
Rutgers MFA degree exhibition
Foley Gallery, New York
Curator
2016
Twenty-Threesome
Bard College MFA degree exhibition
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Curator
2015
Breathtakingly Professional and Eager to Entertain feat. Andrea Fraser, Britta Thie, Nathan For You
108 Residency, Germantown, New York.
Co-Curator
All Things Scene
with John Baldessari, Patty Chang, Pieter Laurens Mol, Carolee Schneeman
CCS Bard Galleries, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Co-Curator
2012 - 2014
Simultanhalle - Raum für Zeitgenössische Kunst
Cologne
Co-Curator