Regine Ehleiter

Research specialisations

• Transnational exhibition history
• Global Conceptualism
• Theory and practice of artistic publishing
• Entanglements of literature and art
• Discourses of planetarity and ecology

Publications:

https://orcid.org/0009-0003-3786-5761

March 2025 - today
Research assistant at the Chair of Digital Arts and Cultural Mediation of the WittenLab. Zukunftslabor Studium fundamentale

October 2024 - February 2025
Senior Fellow, Collective Research Group "Access to Cultural Goods in the Digital Transformation", University of Münster

September 2022 - August 2024
Research Associate, Professional-Track PostDoc, Freie Universität Berlin, Cluster of Excellence "Temporal Communities. Doing Literature in a Global Perspective"

October 2021 - July 2022
Research assistant, substitute junior professorship, Institute for Theory, Leipzig University of Visual Arts

February 2022
Doctoral studies for Dr phil., degree: summa cum laude, topic: "Praxisformen des Ausstellens in Publikationen. Zum Wandel des Öffentlichwerdens von Kunst in den 1960er-Jahren", Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, first supervisor: Prof. Dr Beatrice von Bismarck, second supervisor: Prof. Dr Ursula Frohne. Submission: 16.12.2020, doctoral examination: 21.1.2022.

February 2021 - September 2021
Hessische Kulturstiftung, Wiesbaden, project employment

August 2019 - October 2020 
Research assistant (50%), Foundation University of Hildesheim, Institute of Fine Arts and Art Studies

October 2018 - July 2019
Visiting scholar (Predoctoral Visiting Scholar), Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Supervisor: Prof. Dr Sarah Wilson

June 2016 - September 2018 
Curatorial work (freelance) for Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Stiftung Rheinland-Pfalz für Kultur, among others

March 2016 - May 2016
Research stay (Guest Scholar), Getty Research Institute (GRI), Los Angeles

September 2015 - February 2016
Doctoral student scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for archival research at MoMA, New York, and Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.

April 2015 - May 2015
Research stay at the Rijksbureau voor kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), The Hague, funded by the Leonardo da Vinci Mobility Programme of the European Union

January 2014 - June 2014 
Head of Publications, 6th Festival for Contemporary Photography f/stop Leipzig

November 2011 - December 2013
Research trainee period, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden

September 2007 - June 2008 
Visiting student (DAAD German Academic Exchange Service), University of East London

March 2006 - April 2011 
Honorary position, founding member and board member of D21 Kunstraum Leipzig

October 2004 - September 2011

Master's degree in cultural studies, art history and journalism, University of Leipzig

Scholarships and Fellowships

• Scholarship (Senior Fellowship), Research Group "Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change", University of Münster (1 Oct/2024-28 Feb/2025)
• Travel grant for curatorial research from the Goethe-Institut for a research stay in Chicago (1 Sep - 30 Sep 2024)
• Guest residency at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, funded by the EXC Temporal Communities of the Freie Universität Berlin (1.4.-30.4.2024)
• Curatorial scholarship at Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, funded by the Rhineland-Palatinate Foundation for Culture (1 June 2016-31 May 2017)
• Doctoral student scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for archival research at MoMA, New York, and Archives of American Art, Washington D.C. (1 September 2015-31 May 2016)
• DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Free Mover Scholarship, visiting studies in London (1 Sept. 2007-30 June 2008)

Memberships

Study Centre for Artists' Publications (since 2024)

Edizione Multicolore e. V. (since 2021) 
IKT Curators of Contemporary Art (since 2017) 
Association of German Art Historians (since 2014) 
D21 Kunstraum Leipzig (since 2006)

Also: Founding member of the working group "Exhibition Ecologies" (since 2024)