Dr Regine Ehleiter is a Berlin-based art historian and curator specialising in exhibition history, artists’ publishing, digital cultures, and the intersections of art and ecology. She works as a research associate at the Chair for Digital Arts and Culture Communication at 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 at Freie University Berlin (2022-24) and held teaching positions at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig and at the University of Hildesheim.
After studying Cultural Studies, Art History, and Journalism in Leipzig and London, Regine Ehleiter completed a 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 the Museum of Modern Art 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 Predoctoral Visiting Scholar at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London (2018/19). She is a member of the Exhibition Ecologies working group and a co-editor of the anthology Exhibition Ecologies: Art, Institutions, and the Politics of Ecological Crisis (forthcoming with De Gruyter in July 2026). Her current book project focuses on the concept of ‘planetarity’ in contemporary art and curatorial discourse.
Alongside her academic work, Regine Ehleiter has developed a sustained curatorial practice. In 2011, she joined the curatorial team at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, where she organised several solo exhibitions and co-curated the group exhibition Auf Zeit (2013, with Johan Holten). She subsequently served as Head of Publications for the 6th f/stop Festival for Contemporary Photography in Leipzig. In 2016/17, 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. In 2024, she curated Mirtha Dermisache: To Be Read (A–Z Berlin, 7 June–11 August 2024), the first solo exhibition in Germany dedicated to the late Argentine conceptual artist’s use of asemic writing, which also gave rise to the publication Reading Mirtha Dermisache (Textem Verlag, Hamburg, 2025).
Her teaching engagements at Bachelor’s and Master’s levels have included courses at Witten/Herdecke University, the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, the University of Hildesheim, the Curatorial Studies programme at Goethe-Universität/Städelschule Frankfurt am Main, and the Department of Cultural Studies at Leipzig University. She has presented her work internationally, with invited lectures in, among other places, Norway and Chile, underscoring the transnational orientation of her research and teaching.
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