Dr. Regine Ehleiter is a Berlin-based curator and art historian with a research focus on transnational exhibition history, artists’ publications, conceptualism and ecology. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change at the University of Muenster. Prior to that, she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Cluster of Excellence Temporal Communities. Doing Literature in a Global Perspective of the Freie University Berlin and held teaching positions at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig) and at the Universität Hildesheim.
Regine studied Cultural Studies, Art History and Journalism in Leipzig and London. In 2006, she co-founded the non-profit space D21 Kunstraum. After completing her M.A. in 2011, she joined the curatorial team of Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. Here, she organized several solo exhibitions and, together with Johan Holten, a major group exhibition on wall works (Auf Zeit, 2013). Following that, she worked for the 6th f/stop Festival for Contemporary Photography in Leipzig. Regine was awarded a Curatorial Fellowship of the state of Rhineland Palatinate in 2017 and a travel grant for curatorial research by the Goethe Institut in 2024 . Together with Tabea Nixdorff, she runs the curatorial event series, Reading Artists’ Books, initiated in memory of the Chicago-based librarian, artist and author Doro Boehme. Most recently, Regine organized the first exhibition in Germany by the late Argentinian conceptual artist Mirtha Dermisache (Mirtha Dermisache: To Be Read, 7 June to 11 August 2024, Berlin).
Regine completed a PhD on publications as sites of exhibition in the 1960s under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Beatrice von Bismarck. Her book, Ausstellen in Publikationen, published by Edition Metzel in 2024, is based on extensive archival research conducted at MoMA in New York and the Archives of American Art in Washington, D.C., supported by a doctoral grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). She further pursued her research as a guest researcher at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles from March to May 2016 and as a Predoctoral Visiting Scholar at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London in 2018/2019. Currently, she is developing a postdoctoral project exploring the concept of ‘planetarity’ in contemporary art discourse. She is also one of the founding members of the Exhibition Ecologies Working Group and preparing an anthology at the intersection of exhibition studies and in environmental humanities, together with Friederike Schäfer.
Regine has taught on B.A. and M.A. level at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (WS 2021/22, SS 2022), at Burg Giebichenstein in Halle (WS 2020), at the University of Hildesheim (WS 2019/2020, SS 2020), in the Curatorial Studies program at Goethe Universität/Städelschule Frankfurt (WS 2017/18), and in the Cultural Studies department at the University of Leipzig (WS 2014/15). She regularly contributes to art magazines and exhibition catalogues.
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