Lou von der Heyde is a curator whose work centers on collaborative, cross-disciplinary practice. She is a curatorial fellow at the Julia Stoschek Foundation and co-organises HEROINE, an artist-run space in Frankfurt, and pip, a project space in Munich. She co-founded DELPHI_space in Freiburg.

Lou is currently writing her master’s thesis in Curatorial Studies at Städelschule, Frankfurt. She previously studied Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Liberal Arts and Sciences in Freiburg and Paris, and held a research fellowship at the German Forum for Art History (DFK Paris).

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James O. curator

with Nina Porter, Guy Ronen, Ludvig Wilén

at McKinsey & Company, Frankfurt am Main
open 22 November 2025 → 17 May 2026 by appointment.
text [read here]


Surfaces as Communicative
Einrichtung
co-curator

with Jakob Forster, Daniel Giles, Giulietta Ockenfuß, Marta Riniker-Radich, Philipp Schwalb

at pip, Munich 
open from 1 November → 2 December 2025 daily until 7 pm.
finissage 2 December 2025 from 5 pm →
M.A.Läb #33 × AdBK München 
“Matrix” with Merve Kiliçer

support Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt Münchenphotography Julian Arayapong
Donna Leggera co-curator

with Helga Franke, Aline Sofie Rainer, Sara Rossi

at HÉROINE, Frankfurt am Main
open 10 October → 9 November 2025. Open every Saturday, 3–5 pm, and every Sunday, 3–6 pm, for the duration of the exhibition. Also open by appointment. 

support Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt
graphic design
Lisa Nürnberger
Flatten the Curve curator
 
with Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Arhun Aksakal, Ale Bachlechner & Elsa Artmann, Ed Atkins, Kader Attia, Lydia Belevich, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Alisa Berger, Erdal Bilici, Johanna Billing, Dara Birnbaum, Hannah Black, Lennart Brede, Chris Burden, Enya Burger, Matt Calderwood, Peter Campus, Patty Chang, Louisa Clement, Jen DeNike, Cheryl Donegan, Trisha Donnelly, Tracey Emin, VALIE EXPORT, Cao Fei, Vera Fernández, Dara Friedman, Simon Fujiwara, Leo Gabin, Cyprien Gaillard, Keta Gavasheli, Finnja Giesberts, Marc Goldbach, Cao Guimarães, Linda Hu Hafeneger, Barbara Hammer, Mathilde ter Heijne, Philipp Hermeling, HÉROINE, Arthur Jafa, Christian Jankowski, Ulysses Jenkins, RindonJohnson, Reynold Reynolds & Patrick Jolley, Jesper Just, Ho Bin Kim, Suheun Kim, Mayuko Kudo, Lukas Langguth, Mark Leckey, Klara Lidén, Pai Litzenberger, Kristin Lucas, Harkeerat Mangat, Christian Marclay, Zauri Matikashvili, Tomi Katz & Nonoka Matsuo, Gordon Matta-Clark, Alex McQuilkin, Ana Mendieta, Ren Mihatsch, Laurel Nakadate, Neringa Naujokaite, Bruce Nauman, Giulietta Ockenfuß, Hannah Perry, Laure Prouvost, James Richards, Pipilotti Rist, Rachel Rose, Martha Rosler, Mika Rottenberg, Jacolby Satterwhite, Evamaria Schaller, Christoph Schlingensief, Maximilian Schneider, Cauleen Smith, Nancy Holt & Robert Smithson, P. Staff, Sturtevant, Britta Thie, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rosemarie Trockel, Sevina (Sevasti) Tzanou, Steina Vasulka, Jani Vrangaki, Peter Maria Volkhardt & Max Wigger, Hannah Wilke, Chloe Wise, David Wojnarowicz, NaiYun Yang, Bruce & Norman Yonemoto

programme [read here]

at Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf 
video marathon 20 September → 21 September 2025

support Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kunststiftung NRW, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf
graphic design CTMS
photo credits juri löchte
Flatten the Curve curator

OPEN CALL
INFO SHEET FOR APPLICANTS
GENERAL INFORMATION 

at Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf 
video marathon 20 September → 21 September 2025
featuring 90 short, single-channel video works

support Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kunststiftung NRW, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf
ALL IS WELL co-producer

with
Kyle Keese, Leander Leutzendorff

at Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Munich
performance 10 May → 11 May 2025
A 24-hour durational film performance during the festival Various Others 
support ARRI Filmverleih, Various Others, Bezirksausschuss 3 - Landeshauptstadt München

What’s Poppin?! interviewee

with
Sarah Johanna Theurer, Franziska Linhardt, Gloria Hasnay
by exhibitionary, treat.agency 
online 6 May 2025 [youtube] [instagram] [spotify]

we should never say that we drifted far moderator

with
Benjamin Tiberius Adler, Daniel Hörner

at Marburger Kunstverein
artist talk 8 May 2025, 6 pm

photo credits Frank Hörner

Shifting curator

with
Eli Coplan, Courtesy, Tarren Johnson & Joel Cocks, Klein, Lila-Zoé Krauß, Christelle Oyiri, PRICE, Emma Rosenzweig, Wael Shawky
readings by Olga Hohmann, Jan Koslowski, James Massiah, Emma Rosenzweig
text [read here]

at Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
open 24 April → 30 April 2025 every day and by appointment.
support Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kunststiftung NRW, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, Kunst- und Kulturstiftung der Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf, Institut Français press i. a. Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Rheinische Post 

graphic design CTMS
photo credits Alexandra Malinka & Kai Werner Schmidt

special thanks to Kunstsammlung NRW & a.SQUIRE, London

Come Closer co-curator

with
Andreas Sahl Andersen, Emil Eckert, Gwiyeon Han, Kathrin Hanga, Hannah Heiermann, Yixuan Hu, Tao Iver, Prima Mathawabhan, Ana Matos, Buket Özalevli, Ariel Shefi, Neda Tabrizi, Esther Vörösmarty, Gyuri Yang, Wenfei Zhao

at Exhibit Studio, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien

open 11 April → 25 May 2025 open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm, closed on Mondays and public holidays.

graphic design Achim Reichert
photo credits Sarah Tasha Hauber