Kieran Long

Kieran Long is the director of Amos Rex, a private art museum in Helsinki, Finland. He has been a curator, writer, museum director and teacher in the fields of art, architecture, and design for over 25 years. He began his career as a critic and journalist on newspapers and magazines, including the Architectural Review, Icon magazine and the Evening Standard. In 2012 he curated the Venice Biennale of architecture (under artistic director David Chipperfield), and after that was appointed Keeper of the department of design, architecture and digital at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. There he led new initiatives in collecting and exhibitions in the fields of architecture, design, digital culture and videogames, future studies and more. In 2017 he became director of ArkDes, the national museum of architecture and design in Stockholm, Sweden, initiating a complete renovation of the museum that opened in 2024. He was commissioner of the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice biennale in 2023. In 2024, he was appointed director of Amos Rex, a private art museum, opened in 2018, that has established itself as one of the most ambitious and successful new museums in the Nordic region.