Dorothee Richter

Dorothee Richter is profressor in contemporary curating at the University of Reading, UK and she is Head of the Postgraduate Program in Curating at the School of Art and Design Zurich (ZHdK). She also initiated the Webjournal OnCurating.org.

Currently she is working on a video archive on curatorial practice together with Ronald Kolb. In 2013 she published a film on Fluxus: Flux Us Now, Fluxus explored with a camera in 11 chapters, which is shown in major museums and art academies. From 1999 to the end of 2003, Richter was artistic director of the Künstlerhaus Bremen.
Between 2003 and 2008 the Curating Degree Zero Archive (initiated together with Barnaby Drabble) toured to 18 international art institutions and art academies.

Since 1998, Richter has held lecturing posts at the University of Bremen, the Merzakademie Stuttgart, the École des Beaux Arts in Geneva, and the Universität Lüneburg. In 2005/2006 member of the research group “Ausstellungsdisplays” at the ICS, Zurich.

She curatored numerous projects, symposia and exhibitions.

Artist’s grant in Bremen, curatorial work in Bremen with a thematic-political project series and in a location squatted by artists in the harbour, the “Lichthaus”. curated a series of projects based on a feminist approach in Bremen, called “female coalities.”; organized the curators’ symposium “Curating Degree Zero” in 1998. This was followed in 1999 by a symposium on feminist positions in contemporary art for the ‘Stipendienstätte die Höge’: “Dialoge und Debatten”, while at the same time an archive on the theme of feminist practice was presented in Künstlerhaus Bremen.