About

MMag. Dr. Lisa Stuckey [ˈstʌki] (she/her) is a cultural theorist and art critic based in Vienna. Her work revolves around contemporary visual cultures, investigative and forensic art practices, media aesthetics, and critical legal studies.

Currently, she is a research fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study inherit. heritage in transformation based at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin [DE].

Lisa Stuckey’s postdoc-research has led to fellowships at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies at the University of Lucerne [CH] and the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (ZI) in Munich [DE], amongst others. She held lecturer posts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the University of Arts Linz, and Webster Vienna Private University [AT].

Lisa Stuckey studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna [AT] and pursued her doctorate as junior fellow of the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) with a research appointment at Goldsmiths, University of London [GB]. Her monograph Forensische Verfahren in den zeitgenössischen Künsten: Forensic Architecture und andere Fallanalysen (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2022) is based on her doctoral thesis, for which she received the Austrian State Prize “Award of Excellence 2021”.

Lisa Stuckey
Photo © Manuel Carreón López

RESEARCH IN CONTEMPORARY ARTS, MEDIA AND CULTURAL STUDIES

PRIZES
2021: Award of Excellence [doctoral thesis], Austrian State Prize, Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research
2020: Prize for Scientific Work [doctoral thesis], Academy of Fine Arts Vienna  
2020: Appreciation Prize [fine arts master], Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

UNIVERSITY LECTURER
2023–2024: Arts and Cultural Studies, Applied Human Rights (interim Senior Lecturer), University of Applied Arts Vienna
2021–2023: Cultural Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna
2020–2023: Art and Cultural Scientific Methodologies, University of Arts Linz 
2020–2021: Current Art, Webster Vienna Private University
2020: Contemporary Art, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn [EE] 
2017–: Guest lecturer, see Public Speaking

FURTHER EMPLOYMENT
2023–2024: Senior Scientist, Project Transform, Zentrum Fokus Forschung, University of Applied Arts Vienna

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS AS POSTDOC
2024: Fellowship, Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study inherit. Heritage in Transformation, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research) [DE]
2023: IFK_Akademie Die große Transformation, International Research Center for Cultural Studies
2022: Scholarship Early Post-Doc Applications, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2022: Visiting Fellowship, Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies (lucernaiuris), University of Lucerne [CH]
2022: Juliane and Franz Roh Fellowship in Modern and Contemporary Art, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (ZI), Munich [DE]
2021–2022: Post-DocTrack-Program, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
⇒ Postdoctoral research associate at the Institute of Art Sciences, University of Applied Arts Vienna
2020–2021: Mentoring-Program Art, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS AS PRAEDOC
2020: Literar Mechana Dissertation Completion Grant
2019–2020: Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2018–2020: IFK Junior Fellowship, International Research Center for Cultural Studies / Abroad with research stays at
⇒ House of World Cultures (HKW), Berlin [DE]
⇒ Department of Visual Cultures / Goldsmiths, University of London [GB]
⇒ DFG Reaearch Training Group Configurations of Film, Goethe University Frankfurt [DE]
2018: Emanuel und Sophie Fohn Grant
2017: IFK_Akademie Wiederkehr der Gefühle?, International Research Center for Cultural Studies

OTHER GRANTS
2016: Travel Grant New York [US], Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2012–2013: Erasmus Scholarship, Austrian Agency for International Cooperation (OeAD)
⇒ Exchange at the Royal Institute of Art Stockholm [SE]
2012: International Summer Academy Salzburg

MEMBERSHIPS
2022–: AICA | International Association of Art Critics
2021–: GfM | Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft
2019–: DGÄ | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ästhetik
2022–2024: AAC | Austrian Association of Curators (founding member)
2019–2020: Associate member, DFG Research Training Group Configurations of Film, Goethe University Frankfurt
2018–: Literar Mechana

UNIVERSITY DEGREES
2020: Dr. phil. [equivalent to PhD], Art and Cultural Studies
⇒ Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, passed with distinction
⇒ Doctoral thesis LAW ON TRIAL: Art and Jurisdiction in Investigations of Forensic Architecture and in Exemplary Contemporary Art
⇒ Fist Appraiser & Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sabeth Buchmann
⇒ Second Appraiser: Prof. Dr. Beatrice von Bismarck [Institute for Theory, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig]

2020: Mag. [equivalent to MFA], Art and Digital Media
⇒ Institute for Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, passed with distinction
⇒ Artistic-research Master’s project Fama Facing Trial: Words as Currency
⇒ Supervisor: Prof. Constanze Ruhm

2015: Mag. [equivalent to MA], History and Theory of Art
⇒ Institute for Education in the Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, passed with distinction
⇒ Scientific Master’s thesis RITUAL DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE: In Works of Marina Abramović, Andrea Fraser, Gilad Ratman
⇒ Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth von Samsonow

See: PUBLICATIONS
See: LECTURES, CONFERENCES
See: ARTISTIC & CURATORIAL RESEARCH PROJECTS
See: TEXTS ON LISA STUCKEY