Dr Regine Ehleiter is a Berlin-based art historian and curator specialising in exhibition history, artists’ publishing, and the intersections of art and ecology. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair for Digital Arts and Cultural Mediation of Witten/Herdecke University. In 2024/25, she was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change at Münster University. 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 (2022-24) and held teaching positions at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig) and at the Universität Hildesheim.
After studying Cultural Studies, Art History and Journalism in Leipzig and London, she joined the curatorial team at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, where she organised several solo exhibitions and, in collaboration with Johan Holten, co-curated a major group exhibition on wall works (Auf Zeit, 2013). Following that, she served as Head of Publications for the 6th f/stop Festival for Contemporary Photography in Leipzig. For 2016/2017, she received a Curatorial Fellowship from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and in 2024 a travel grant for curatorial research from the Goethe-Institut. Together with Tabea Nixdorff, she co-leads the curatorial event series, Reading Artists’ Books, initiated in memory of the Chicago-based librarian, artist, and author Doro Boehme. Most recently, she curated the first exhibition of the late Argentinian conceptual artist Mirtha Dermisache, titled Mirtha Dermisache: To Be Read (7 June – 11 August 2024, Berlin).
Regine Ehleiter earned her PhD on publications as sites of exhibition in the 1960s at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig under the supervision of Beatrice von Bismarck. Her monograph Ausstellen in Publikationen (Edition Metzel, 2024) draws on extensive archival research conducted at MoMA Archives in New York and the Archives of American Art in Washington, D.C., and was supported by a doctoral grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). She further advanced her research as a guest scholar 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. In her second book project she focuses on the concept of ‘planetarity’ in contemporary art and curatorial discourse. In addition, she is also one of the founding members of the Exhibition Ecologies Working Group and preparing an anthology on the intersections of exhibition studies and ecology (De Gruyter 2026, together with Friederike Schäfer).
Her teaching engagements span both Bachelor’s and Masters’s level at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (WS 2021/22, SS 2022), Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle (WS 2020), the University of Hildesheim (WS 2019/2020, SS 2020), the Curatorial Studies program at Goethe Universität/Städelschule Frankfurt am Main (WS 2017/18), and the Cultural Studies department at the University of Leipzig (WS 2014/15). Apart from her academic publications, she regularly contributes to art magazines and exhibition catalogues.
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