Lou von der Heyde is a curator whose practice focuses on collaborative and cross-disciplinary formats, with a particular interest in time-based media, performative contexts, and the social conditions of exhibition-making. She was a Curatorial Fellow at the Julia Stoschek Foundation, where she developed The Time That Remains, a multi-part project bringing time-based media art into public spaces in Düsseldorf. Lou co-organises HEROINE, an artist-run space in Frankfurt, and pip, a project space in Munich, and is co-founder of DELPHI_space in Freiburg. She studied Curatorial Studies at Städelschule/Goethe University Frankfurt, Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and Liberal Arts and Sciences in Freiburg and Paris. In 2025, she held a research fellowship at the German Forum for Art History, Paris.

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Live set programming

with Jan Vorisek

for Various Others Munich
part of VO’26 Special: Vectors

at BLITZ, Munich
Thursday, 21 May 2026, 6–8 pm

Tower 1 and Tower 2 curator

with Anna-Sophie Berger

for Various Others Munich
part of VO’26 Special: Vectors
at Forum der Zukunft, Deutsches Museum, Munich
open 15 → 24 May 2026
guided tour with Anna-Sophie Berger → Friday, 15 May 2026, 3 pm

photo credits CHOREO

†Kunst† co-curator

with Frankfurter Hauptschule

open 15 May → 17 May 2026, from 12 to 7 pm
part of VO’26

at Studio D40, Daiserstraße 40, Munich

press Deutschlandfunk [listen here] | artmagazine [read here] | MUCBOOK [read here] | KUNSTFORUM [read here] | Süddeutsche Zeitung [read here] | Les Nouveaux Riches [read here]

Long Live Television curator, editor

with Julia Stoschek Foundation
book launch 21 April 2026, 7 pm
at Salon des Amateurs, Düsseldorf

performances by Roland Sonnabend & Blue Sugar Boundaries
support Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kunststiftung NRW, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf

graphic design CMTS
photo credits Anna Henn

Wer spricht nach wem curator

with Carla Luisa Reuter

at HÉROINE, Frankfurt am Main 
open from 4 April → 3 May 2026. Open every Saturday, 3–5 pm, and every Sunday, 3–6 pm, for the duration of the exhibition. Also open by appointment.

text by Calum Lockey [read here]

support Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt
graphic design Lisa Nürnberger
photo credits Mariia Andreeva

IN SCHICHTEN curator

with Patricia L. Boyd, Philipp Farra, Franciis Frings, Mania Godarzani Bakhtiari, Graham Hamilton, Marietta Mavrokordatou, Rafał Skoczek

at DELPHI_space, Freiburg im Breisgau 
opening 27 March 2026, 6 pm
open from 28 March → 17 May 2026

text [DE] [EN]

press Badische Zeitung (Dietrich Roeschmann)

graphic design CMTS
photo credits Dario Kieffer

Clarice – Gerdl – Cushman – Kendall co-curator

at HÉROINE, Frankfurt am Main
open from 21 February → 22 March 2026. Open every Saturday, 3–5 pm, and every Sunday, 3–6 pm, for the duration of the exhibition. Also open by appointment.

texts by Miriam Dreysse, Elke Krasny, Isabell Lorey, Daniela Stöppel [read here]

press
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung |
Frankfurt Rundschau | 
Frankfurter Neue Presse

support Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt
graphic design Lisa Nürnberger
photo credits Giulietta Ockenfuß, Lisa Nürnberger, and Béatrice Steimer

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 Münchenphoto credits 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
photo credits Felix Pötzsch

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