FOUNDER

Lisa Lee Benjamin, PhD, is a curator, artist-researcher, forager, and former landscape designer. Her practice creates and cares for conditions through which relations become perceptible and can change what takes form. 

She conducts postdoctoral research at the Urner Institut Kulturen der Alpen, where she initiated and leads Relationscape Lab. Her work moves across art, curating and situated research, taking form through residencies, exhibitions, publications, walks, workshops, and collaborative inquiry. 

Before founding Amöbe, Lisa Lee worked internationally in landscape design, green infrastructure, sustainable agriculture, and cultural development. She is the founder and of three independent art spaces in Switzerland: Kulturfolger in Zürich, Amöbe Artspace in Vals, and Amöbe Botanik in Baden.