Regine Ehleiter

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Mirtha Dermisache: To Be Read

Jun. 7–Aug. 11, 2024
Exhibition | A collaborative project by the Cluster of Excellence “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perpsective” of the Freie Universität Berlin, A—Z Space for Experimental Graphic Design, oxfordberlin and the Legado Mirtha Dermisache.

Curatorial Projects

Ausstellen in Publikationen

Zum Wandel des Öffentlichwerdens von Kunst in den 1960er Jahren (zugl. Dissertation, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, 2022), München: Edition Metzel, 2024.

Publications

Reading Artists’ Books: Problems for Computer

The fourth edition of the series Reading Artists’ Books presented publications from the 1960s to the present that have critically reflected on computational thinking—that is, ways of thinking shaped by computer-based and algorithmic processes—or that have relied on computer technologies in their making.

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Exhibition Ecologies: Art, Institutions, and the Politics of Ecological Crisis

Edited by Regine Ehleiter and Friederike Schäfer. Forthcoming with De Gruyter in July 2026. Developed out of the working group Exhibition Ecologies, this edited volume examines how exhibitions are shaped by ecological questions, institutional structures, and political frameworks.

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Reading Artists’ Books: Asemic Writing

How is asemic – that is illegible – writing to be read, or is this a contradiction in terms? This event was part of the exhibition “Mirtha Dermisache: To Be Read” (2024) and the third in a collaborative series entitled “Reading Artists’ Books“.

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Reading Mirtha Dermisache

con·stel·la·tions 02, 132 Seiten. English. 17 x 22,5. ISBN: 978-3-86485-333-3. Hamburg: Textem, 2025.

 

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Writing as Artistic Practice (2022–2024)

The research project which I pursued as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin’s Cluster of Excellence ‘Temporal Communities’ investigated the literary writing practices of contemporary artists.

Research Teaching Talks

HaFI 020 Erika Runge: Reflections Upon Saying Farewell to Documentary Literature

ed. by Regine Ehleiter, Clio Nicastro, titre provisoire (Cathleen Schuster / Marcel Dickhage), HaFI 020, Berlin: Harun Farocki Institut, 2023.

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Erika Runge und das systemsprengende Potenzial des Glücksanspruchs

Screenings and Talks

Research Teaching Talks

Erika Runge und das systemsprengende Potenzial des Glücksanspruchs

Oct. 29, 2023, 11 –18 Uhr
Freie Universität Berlin | EXC 2020 “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective” (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 15, 14195 Berlin)

Curatorial Projects

The Art & Project Bulletins As a Site of Exhibition, Experimentation and ‘International’ Exchange

in: Art & Project: A History, exh. cat. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, 30 Sep 2023–25 Feb 2024, Rotterdam: nai publishers, 2023, pp. 180-193.

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LCB-Editionen 1968-89 – eine Re-Lektüre

Jun. 15–Oct. 31, 2023
Literarisches Colloquium Berlin

Opening: Thursday, June 15, 2023, 6 pm

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News

6 March 2026

Join us for the conference “Digital Curating: Ethics of Access and Sustainability” (University of Münster, 4–6 March 2026). On 6 March, I will present my paper “Infrastructures of Digital Curating: Power, Platforms, and the Politics of Access,” which explores how digital infrastructures shape curatorial practice and conditions of access. The presentation will also address greenmuseum.org, an online museum for environmental art founded in 2001, as an early example at the intersection of digital curating and ecology.

19 Feb. 2026

I am pleased to participate in this year’s College Art Association conference in Chicago, where I will present on early artists’ publications produced by Verlag der Gebrüder König in the late 1960s that engaged with computer technology (panel details: “Rethinking the Artists’ Book in the Digital Age: AI, Authorship, and Authenticity,” 9:00 a.m. CST, Salon C-2, Hilton Chicago).

11 Dec. 2025

Save the date: Reading Artists’ Books: Problems for Computer will take place on Thursday, 11 December 2025, from 1:30 to 5:00 at Witten/Herdecke University and via Zoom (registration). The event presents publications that critically reflect on computational thinking since the 1960s and revisits early artistic and theoretical engagements with computer technologies in light of current debates on artificial intelligence.

24 October 2025

Coming up: I will present a paper titled “Curating Planetarity: Tidal Poetics, Global Infrastructures” at the conference Planetary Waters – A Challenge Between Abstraction and Empathy, taking place 22–24 October 2025 at the German Maritime Museum / Leibniz Institute for Maritime History (DSM) in Bremerhaven.

14 June 2025

We’ll be launching Reading Mirtha Dermisache (Textem, 2025) at Miss Read during Conceptual Poetics Day (1.30 p.m., Safi Faye stage, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin): more info. Open access PDF available here.

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