About

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

Currently, she is senior scientist in the project Transform at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Angewandte) [AT]. During the summer term 2024, 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

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