News

Oct. 1, 2024

I am pleased to announce that I have joined the Centre for Advanced Study Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change at Münster University as a senior fellow. While it seemed that the promise of participation and accessibility, so central to all 1960s conceptual projects, had finally come true in the new networked cultures of the World Wide Web, there is an irony in the current inaccessibility of many early net art projects: websites of virtual exhibitions have been shut down, and virtual works stored on CD-ROMs rely on outdated and now inaccessible software. Upcoming fellow lecture on Monday, 2 December 2024, from 7:30 to 9:00 pm (Lecture Hall 102, Philosophikum, Domplatz 23, 48143 Münster).

Aug. 22, 2024

Thanks to a travel grant for curatorial research by the Goethe Institut for my project “Reading Artists’ Books”, I am headed to New York and Chicago this fall for six weeks. I will study both Doro Boehme’s (1957-2020) private collection of artists’ books and the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she worked as a curator and librarian for many years.

July 12, 2024

Naranja Publicaciones from Santiago invited me to participate in their “Visual Questionnaire” – a project which presents, through images, some of the aspects that make up a person or collective in relation to artists’ publications.

July 3, 2024

Einladung zum Screening Warum ist Frau B. glücklich? (BRD 1968) von Erika Runge. Einführung und Moderation: Regine Ehleiter, im Anschluss Podiumsdiskussion mit Britta Caspers und Katharina Król. Die Veranstaltung findet am Mittwoch, 3. Juli 2024, 18–20 Uhr, im Foyer des Museum unter Tage in Bochum statt.

June 21, 2024

“How to Become a Fossil. Prähistorie und Planetarität in der zeitgenössischen Kunst”, gemeinsamer Vortrag mit Daniel Falb, beim interdisziplinären Workshop “Postmoderne Prähistorie” am Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald.

June 6, 2024

Please join us for the opening of “Mirtha Dermisache: To Be Read“, the first solo exhibition by the Argentinian conceptual artist Mirtha Dermisache (1940–2012) in Germany, a collaborative project between the Cluster of Excellence ‘Temporal Communities’ of the Freie Universität Berlin, A–Z, oxfordberlin and the Legado Mirtha Dermisache.

May 17, 2024

My book is out! It’s a transnational study on exhibitions of the 1960s which were presented in the form of publications. Published with Edition Metzel, 2024, 320 pages, 17 x 22 cm, 92 illustrations, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-88960-240-4.

Mar. 20, 2024

Please join us in Leipzig for an artist talk with Robin Waart on ‘Library Projects’ as part of his upcoming solo exhibition at IDEAL art space.

Jan. 22, 2024

Plenumsvortrag zum “Ausstellen in Publikationen” auf Einladung des Gradiertenkollegs “Kleine Formen” der Humbold Universität Berlin.

Aug. 9, 2023

Please join us in Düsseldorf, I’ll present a number of conceptual publications of the 1960s, accompanied by a small one-night book exhibition. The event is part of the photobook talks series ANT!FOTO, organized by BoehmKobayashi (Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber). Starts 6 pm at the Central Library (Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 1).

June 15, 2023

Grand opening of the festival “Assemblage Berlin. 60 Years of Intermediality in Literature” at the Literary Colloquium Berlin that I co-curated. Speeches start at 6 pm, followed by a reception on the beautiful Wannsee terrace, music, talks and performances until late: https://www.temporal-communities.de/assemblage

Jan. 16, 2023

Next Monday in Dresden I will give a talk on “The ‘Portable Gallery’: Transformations in Exhibition Practice in the 1960s” in Prof. Angela Matyssek’s lecture series on “Exhibiting”. Starts at 3.30 pm at the Dresden University of Fine Arts, Güntzstrasse 34, lecture hall 222. All welcome.

Nov. 22, 2022

I will be giving a lecture in Weimar on Julia Born’s project “Title of the Show” (2009) and its links to Conceptual exhibitions of the 1960s, as part of the series “Bauhaus Masters Lectures“, organized by the Department for Visual Communication. 7 pm, Hauptcampus, Van-de-Velde-Bau, R. HP05.

Sep. 5, 2022

Join us this Sunday at KV Leipzig for the launch of Antye Günther’s new artist publication THE BEHEADING OF THE FRUIT FLY (How will I know if you are truly a sentient being?), published with fw:books, Amsterdam. We will start at 6 pm with a listening session, followed by a conversation.

July 12, 2022

The second event in the series Reading Artists’ Books, that I co-initiated with Tabea Nixdorff, will focus on experimental and literary texts by contemporary artists. Readers include: David Maroto, Ciarán Walsh, Claudia de la Torre, Sonya Schönberger, Michael Riedel, Cathleen Schuster & Marcel Dickhage, and Carsten Tabel. Join us on site or online from 3-6 p.m.: https://hgb-leipzig.webex.com/meet/ehleiter

June 17, 2022

I will be giving a talk in Halle on ‘Wall and Page: Spaces of Display’ at the art school Burg Giebichenstein as part of the symposium ‘Von hier aus… noch zu bestimmen‘ (see panel on ‘Spaces’/’Räume’), organized by the Communication Design Department. Please register here.

March 20, 2022

Please join us on Sunday, March 20, 2022, from 5 to 8 pm (CET), for “Reading Artists’ Books: Remembering Doro“, a public Zoom event in commemoration and celebration of the librarian, educator, writer and photographer Doro Boehme (1957–2020). Co-organized with Tabea Nixdorff.

Oct. 10, 2021

Happy to announce that I joined the theory faculty at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig where I will be replacing Jun.-Prof. Dr. Katrin Köppert for one academic year.

Jun. 1, 2021

New issue of Texte zur Kunst is out! Including my review of Seth Siegelaub. ‘Better Read Than Dead’, Writings and Interviews 1964–2013. Read full text here (in German).

Mar. 11, 2021

Please join us for the launch of Catalog / Artists’ Books / Printed Matter / 1976–2020 / $48.66 with Berlin-based artist Samuel Bich in conversation with Executive Director of Printed Matter, Inc. Max Schumann and art historian Regine Ehleiter. A recording is now available on Printed Matter’s Youtube channel.

Nov. 21, 2020

In January, I’ll be teaching a workshop on “Fiktive Institutionen” (fictitious institutions) at Burg Giebichenstein in Halle. Guests including Marion Kliesch, Falk Messerschmidt and Stefan Riebel. More info here.

July 28, 2020

For the new issue of Anti!foto magazine, I talked to Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber (BoehmKobayashi) about book collecting, dematerialization, and my curatorial research for the exhibition “Re: Groups”. Magazine launch at Tina Miyake (Ackerstr. 29, Düsseldorf) on July 28, from 6–10 pm.

May 31, 2020

DasKunstbuch.at has published a number of short texts on artists’ books written by students in my seminar on “Practices of Publishing in Contemporary Art” at the University of Hildesheim. For more info, see here.

Oct. 10, 2019

One-night exhibition in Berlin: I will present selected works from the (magazine) exhibition “Re: Groups” at Kunstquartier Bethanien, starting from 7 pm. “Re: Groups” was published in the “Forum” section of Camera Austria No. 147 (Fall 2019).

Oct. 4-6, 2019

Join us at the Vienna Art Book Fair: I curated the exhibition “Re: Groups”, based on instructions by Lucy R. Lippard, with works by David Horvitz, Natalie Czech, Laida Lertxundi, Triin Tamm, Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber, Alwin Lay, Philipp Grünewald, Maria Anwander, Alina Schmuch, Anika Liberatore, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan.

Aug. 15, 2019

Just out: a new publication on Günther Förg, including my essay on his artist’s books  (“Im Umkreis der Bücher. Günther Förgs Künstlerbücher als Produkt der Bibliothek”/ “In the Domain of Books: Günther Förg’s Artist’s Books as a Product of His Library”, in: Günther Förg. Werke in der Sammlung Friedrichs, Berlin: Holzwarth, 2019, pp. 186-197).

June 20, 2019

I recently reviewed Michalis Pichler’s book Publishing Manifestos. An International Anthology from Artists and Writers (The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA/London; Miss Read, Berlin 2019) for issue 146 of Camera Austria magazine.

Nov. 15, 2018

I am giving a paper at a conference on “Curatorial Practices of Comparing | Kuratorische Praktiken des Vergleichens” in Bielefeld, organized by Britta Hochkirchen. Full list of speakers and more details here (pdf).

Oct. 30, 2018

Pleased to participate in this three-day conference in Ulm that will focus on exhibition design in the years 1950 to 1970. I will present on aspects of participation and display in Christian Chruxin’s ‘portable galleries’ (1963-66). Click here for program (pdf).

Mar. 2, 2018

Catalogue launch in conjunction with the opening of Exhibiting the Exhibition at Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. See here for excerpts of my essay “The Catalogue as Exhibition. Suggestions for an Expanded Understanding of Display”.

Feb. 7, 2018

Guest lecture at Camberwell College of Arts on invitation of the MA Visual Art: Books Arts course. Video documentation is available here.

July 13, 2017

IAWIS/AIERTI Conference in Lausanne (July 10–14, 2017). Chairing the panel Printed Matter: Conceptualism and Dissemination. The speakers are Katharine J. Wright, Antje Krause-Wahl, Sajda van der Leeuw, and Barbara Reisinger.

Feb. 12, 2017

Exhibition opening of Was sich abzeichnet | What’s Unfolding at the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck. Participating artists including: William Engelen, Danja Erni, Anne Gathmann, Dagmara Genda, Christian Pilz, David Semper, and Ralf Ziervogel.

Nov. 25, 2016

I am giving a paper at the AAH New Voices Conference: Art Outside of the Gallery on Seth Siegelaub and the catalogue-as-exhibition.

Oct. 29, 2016

Artist Talk at Kunstverein Leipzig in conjunction with Alwin Lay’s exhibition Der entscheidende Augenblick musste verschoben werden.