The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
In this presentation, Lisa Long will speak about her curatorial approach to time-based art, emphasizing the interplay between exhibition dramaturgy, affect, and the political and ethical dimensions of contemporary image production. Drawing on three key projects from her tenure as curator at the Julia Stoschek Foundation, Long will introduce her concept of "exhibition as sensual montage,” a curatorial adaptation of Sergei Eisenstein’s cinematic theory of montage.
Since 2019, Lisa Long has served as Curator and Artistic Director of the Julia Stoschek Foundation in Berlin, one of the world’s most significant collections of time-based art, where she curates large-scale exhibitions, performances, and public programs. Long’s artist-driven curatorial approach amplifies transdisciplinary practices from around the globe, engaging with forms of critical inquiry and storytelling. Her recent group exhibitions include Unbound: Performance as Rupture (2023), examining how the body disrupts the status quo through the camera; and After Images (2024), a recalibration of sight and contemporary image culture; at dawn (2022), envisioning formal and collective utopias; and A Fire in My Belly (2021), exploring artists' negotiations with violence. She has also presented the first solo exhibitions in Germany of numerous artists, including Sophia Al-Maria, Meriem Bennani, Stephanie Comilang & Simon Speiser, Ulysses Jenkins, Rindon Johnson, (LA)HORDE, WangShui, and Young-Jun Tak. In addition, Long is the founder of Companion Studies, a digital journal exploring expanded curatorial practices and has taught curatorial studies at Folkwang University in Essen, Germany.