Dorothee Richter
After graduating Richter got a one years artist grant by the city of Bremen in 1991, then she curated a space at a social center, Galerie im Turm, and in the following years she worked as part a curatorial group, curating at an occupyied former shipyard administration building, called Lichthaus.
Since 1998, Richter has held lecturing posts at the University of Bremen, the Merzakademie Stuttgart, the École des Beaux Arts in Geneva, and the University of Lüneburg alongside the travelling Exhibition/Archive “Curating Degree Zero Archive”. CDZA travelled to 18 different institutions, mainly in Europe, 2003-2008. From 1999 to the end of 2003, Richter was artistic director of the Künstlerhaus Bremen, where she curated a discursive programme based on feminist issues, urban situations, power relation issues, neo-colonial issues and institutional critique. In 2005 she founded the Postgraduate Programme in Curating, CAS/MAS at the ZHdK. Some of her curatorial projects: Fluxus Festival, Cabaret Voltaire 2008, New Social Sculptures at Kunstmuseum Thun, (2012) Speculative Curating, Performative Interventions, Migros Museum, Zürich (2016/17),
2012 she founded together with Susanne Clausen the PhD in Practice in Curating programme as a collaboration between the University of Reading and the ZHdK, in both institutions she helds a professorship.
In September 2013, she was appointed as mentor for POOL, (Collection of Hoffmann and Ringier) Zurich. In 2014, the Cultural Department of the city of Zurich appointed her as the curator/ programmer of Gasthaus zum Baeren / Museum Baerengasse, where she ran a programme together with young curators under the title “Curate Your Context”. She is also directing in cooperation with others the OnCurating project space. See http://oncurating-space.org/. She is the editor in chief of www.OnCurating.org since 2008, an online and print magazine on curatorial practice and theory. with a book section. Her own PhD dealt with Fluxus, “Fluxus: Art – Synonymous with Life? Myths about Authorship, Production, Gender and Community”. In 2013, she released a film together with Ronald Kolb: Flux Us Now! Fluxus explored with a camera, which was screened for the first time at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart in April 2013, see www.fluxusnow.net . She also initiated the workshop series “Curating on the Move”, which a traveling format, and connects to art institutions and biennales, bringing an international network into a lively exchange with local situations.
The partners for these experimental formats were the Taipeh Biennale, the Bucharest Biennale, Migros Museum fuer Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Tai Kwun Museum HongKong, Camp, notes on education as part of the documenta fifteen.