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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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