Symposia

2^nd–6^th Nov 2021
Curating on Shaky Grounds: Curating in Times of Crisis and Conflict, KunstWerke Berlin 

International Curatorial Workshop – Curating on the Move Artis & OnCurating & PhD in Practice in Curating; Zurich University of the Arts, University of ReadingOrganized by Ronald Kolb, Elena Levi, Dorothee Richter, Rotem Ruff, Maayan Sheleff, Hillit Zwick

With Johan Hartle, Avi Feldman, Isabelle Graw, Maayan Sheleff / Boaz Levin, Schwabinggrad Ballett, Oliver Marchart, Nora Sternfeld, Dor Guez, Paz Guevara, Yael Bartana, Dani Gal, Philip Horst, Alona Rodeh, Gilly Karjevski

25^th–27^th Jun 2021
Situated Knowledges—Art and Curating on the Move – online

With Lucy Steeds with John Tain, Michael Asbury and Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Bo Choy & Chloe Ting, Gesyada Siregar & Angga Wijaya, Antonio Cataldo, Karmen Franinovic, Roman Kirschner), Nadim Abbas, Rose Li, Edward Sanderson, Lang Tu, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Ron Yakir & Li Xiaoqiao & Rose Li, Basia Sliwinska & Caroline Stevenson, Janet Fong, Choi Yan Chi, May Fung, and Lo Yin Shan, Dorothee Richter, Ronald Kolb, Katalin Erdődi, Angela Dimitrakaki, Yuk Hui, Debe Sham, Georgia Kennedy, Noit Banai, Dani Gal, Maayan Sheleff, Ruth Pati, Be van Vark, Alison Green, Lee Weinberg

27^th–28^th Jun 2020
Online Symposium in conjunction with the Bucharest Biennale: Contemporary Art Biennials – Our Hegemonic Machines in States of Emergency

Nora Sternfeld (Documenta Professor), Farid Rakun (Ruangrupa, Documenta fifteen), Roma Jam Session art Kollektiv, Beat Wyss (Art Historian), Mirjam Varadinis (Kunsthaus Zürich, Manifesta Palermo), Oliver Marchart (political theorist), Ekaterina Degot (Steirischer Herbst), Shwetal Patel (The Kochi — Muziris Biennale), Yung Ma (11th Seoul Mediacity Biennale), Vasyl Cherepanyn (Head of the Visual Culture Research Center / Kyiv Biennial), Iona Leca (Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art), Farah Wardani (Jakarta Biennale), Patrick Flores (Singapore Biennale 2019), Răzvan Ion (Spinnwerk Vienna & Bucharest Biennale), Martin Guinard (Taipei Biennale)

16^th Nov 2019
Symposium: Curate Your Context: Methods on and of Curating

Farid Rakun, member of ruangrupa (artistic director of documenta 15) and presentations by PhD students Sascia Bailer, Katerina Valdivia Bruch, Antonio Cataldo, Hadas Kedar, Ronald Kolb, Lalita Radavić, and Maayan Sheleff Feedback by Prof. Dr. Jérôme Glicenstein Organized and moderated by Prof. Dr. Dorothee Richter

Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA), Paris

12^th Apr 2019
Symposium: The Revolution of Digital Languages or When Cyber Turns into Sound of Poetry—A Symposium on Post-Cyber-Feminisms

Organized by Heike Munder, Dorothee Richter Mary Maggic (via Skype), Heike Munder, Julianne Pierce (VNS Matrix), Dorothee Richter, Isabel de Sena, Cornelia Sollfrank, Yvonne Volkart, Joanna Walsh et al.

Migros Museum fuer Gegenwartskunst, Zürich

1^st–2^nd Dec 2018
Symposium: Movements in Feminism / Feminisms in Movement: Urgencies, Emergencies, Promises

Organized by Elke Krasny, Luisa Ziaja, Lara Perry, Dorothee Richter

Belvedere 21, Wien

15^th Jun 2018
Affidamento – Creating Feminist Solidarity in Art and Curating

With contributions  by Heike Munder, Dorothee Richter, Helena Reckitt,  Yvonne Apiyo Brändle-Amolo, Lina Džuverović, Elke Krasny

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst 

May–Jun 2018
(Anti) Master Classes

With Alfredo Jaar, Raqs Media Collective, Bernard Stiegler

15^th Jun 2018
Revisiting Black Mountain: Cross-discinplinary Experiments and Their Potential For Democratization (in Times of Post-Democracy)

Curated by Dorothee Richter, assistant Max Heinrich, with contributions by Hartmut Wickert, Raqs Media Collective, Cornelia Sollfrank, Swetlana Heger, Lisette Smits, Dorothee Richter, Alfredo Jaar, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Bernard Stiegler, Gerald Raunig, Nina Bandi, Hongjohn Lin, Sabine Harbeke, Daniel Späti, Steven Henry Madoff, Heinrich Lüber, Annemarie Bucher, Susanne Kennedy, Brandon Farnsworth, Johanna Bruckner

1^st Dec 2017
Symposium Unsettling Feminist Curating

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and feminist Curators United in collaboration with Vienna Library Curated by Elke Krasny, Barbara Mahlknecht, Lara Perry, Dorothee Richter

With lectures, discussions, and performances by:Mare Tralla, Marissa Lobo, Alkisti Efthymiou, Tal Dekel, Imayna Caceres, Verena Melgarejo Weinandt

Academy of  Fine Arts Vienna

20^th–21^st Jun 2017
De-Colonizing Art Institutions

With Sabih Ahmed (Asia Art Archive), Jeebesh Bagchi (Raqs Media Collective), Binna Choi (Casco), Eyal Danon (Holon Digital Art Archive), Catherine David (Centre Pompidou), Kadiatou Diallo (SPARCK), Khwezi Gule (Soweto Museums Johannesburg), Rohit Jain (ISEK, Uni Zürich), Shwetal A. Patel (Kochi-Muziris Biennale), Dorothee Richter (Postgraduate Programme in Curating, ZHdK), Peter Weibel, (ZKM, Centre for Art and Media)

Kunstmuseum Basel

8^th Sep 2016
Panel: Work, Migration, Memes, Personal Geopolitics with Maurizio Lazzarato, Rohit Jain, Johan Hartle, Petja Dimitrova, Esther Eppstein, Züricher Hochschule der Künste

6^th-7^th May 2016
CURATING in Feminist Thought

Concept Dorothee Richter, Elke Krasny, Lara Perry with the Feminist Curators United

Speakers:Amelia Jones, Maura Reilly, Helena Reckitt, Sigrid Schade, Dorothee Richter, Lara Perry, Elke Krasny, Hilary Robinson, Stella Rollig, Lina Džuverović  and Irene Revell,  Laura Castagnini, Susanne Clausen, Nkule Mabaso, Michaela Melian. Videoprogramme: Martina Mullaney, Szuper Gallery, Plan C, Liv Wynter, Louise Fitzgerald, PUNK IS DADA

20^th–21^st Mar 2015
Curating Everything (Curating as Symptom)

Concept Dorothee Richter, Dorothee Richter, Katharina Moraweck, Sebastian Baden, Sergio Edelsztein, Elke Krasny, Felix Ensslin, Marsha Meskimmon, Frederikke Hansen, Fatima Hellberg, Axel Wieder, Ursula Biemann, Inke Arns, Ellen Blumenstein

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich

9^th Jan 2015
Transcurating Center-Periphery-Perspectives

Organised by Sebastian Baden and Dorothee Richter Inputs:Beat Wyss, Sebastian Baden, Gabor Ebli – Music by Malmzeit

Cooperation Postgraduate Programme in Curating ZHdK and Hochschule fuer Gestaltung, Karlsruhe im Gasthaus zum Baeren / Museum Baerengasse Zurich

15^th Nov 2014
Curating: Glittering Myth, Social Symptom, Revolutionary Force?A Conference on Curatorial Knowledge Production

Concept: Dorothee Richter The Research Platform for Curatorial and Cross-disciplinary Cultural Studies, Practice-Based Doctoral Programme. University of Reading,  Fine Art Department of Art in cooperation with the Postgraduate Programme in Curating, ICS, ZHdK TeilnehmerInnen: Felix Ensslin, Elke Krasny, Avi Feldmann, Allan Siegel, Szuper Gallery, Julia Moritz, Michal Birchall, Fredi Fischli und Niels Olsen, Nana & Friends.

Zurich University of the Arts, ZHdK

9^th Nov 2013
Third, forth and fith space. Curatorial practices in new public and social (digital) spaces

Concept Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Dorothee Richter, a cooperation of the Manifesta Journal and www.on-curating.org and with IFCAR; institute for Contemporary Art Research, ZHdK. With Marie-Luise Angerer, Oliver Marchart, Sepake Angiama, Michael Birchall, Virginie Bobin, Florian Dombois, Marc Herbst, Roberto Jacoby, Jepchumba, Dominique Lämmli, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Kristina Lee Podesva, Dorothee Richter, Alun Rowlands, Sigrid Schade, Christoph Schenker, Michael Schwab, Silvia Simoncelli, Ashok Sukumaran, Caleb Waldorf, Aaajiao (XU Wenkai).

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich Funded by Institut francais

4^th May 2013
Who is afraid of the public?

Concept Elke Krasny, Dorothee Richter, Silvia Simoncelli

With Simon Sheihk, Marie Luise Angerer, Aria Spinelli, Sergio Edelsztein and shortfilmprogramme by John Canciani (Winterthur Shortfilm Festival)

ICA London

26^th–27^th Mar 2010
Institution as Medium. Curating as Institutional Critique

Symposium organized in conjunction with the Fridericianum (Rein Wolfs) in Kassel. Participants: Axel John Wieder, Rein Wolfs, Dorothee Richter, Stella Rollig, Helmut Draxler, Maria Lind, San Keller, Carina Plath, Oliver Marchart, Giovanni Carmine, Stih & Schnock, Sören Grammel.

Alumni international curating programs: Hyunjoo Byeon, Lisa Boström, Övül Durmusoglu, Alhena Katsof, Natalie Hope O’Donnell, Alessandra Sandrolini, Andrea Roca, Adnan Yildiz. Moderators: Maja Ciric, Isin Onol.

Lecturers on Curating programs: Marysia Lewandowska, Renée Padt, Lisa Le Feuvre, Sissel Lillebostad, Olga Fernández López, Yael Eylat Van Essen.

12^th–14^th Mar 2010
Gemeinschaft – vielleicht (Community – perhaps)

Symposium for the Institut für Theorie,( Institute for Critial Theory, ZHdK) Concept devised together with Elke Bipppus and Jörg Huber; philosophical approaches to the idea of community.

Public lecture with Jean Luc Nancy in the migros museum, Zürich.

Participants in the non-public sessions: Marie-Luise Angerer, Thomas Bedorf, Elke Bippus, Sabeth Buchmann, Joern Etzold, Lars Gertenbach, Jeanne van heeswijk, Tom Holert, Janes Kastner, Markus Klammer, Jean-Luc Nancy, Stefan Neuner, Isabell Lorey, Oliver Marchart, Marie-Eve Morin, Roberto Nigro, Michaela Ott, Gerald Raunig, Dorothee Richter, Klaus Schönberger, Ruth Sonderegger, Hito Steyerl, Philipp Stoellger, Michael Zinganel.

25^th Apr 2009
Transfer Zone – Vorläufiges Leben, vorläufige Gemeinschaften (Temporary life, temporary communities)

Discussion with Sabeth Buchmann, Dorothee Richter, Michael Zinganel

Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich

28^th Nov 2008
Transfer Zone – Vorläufiges Leben, vorläufige Gemeinschaften (Temporary life, temporary communities)

Colloquium organized by the Institut für Theorie (Institute for Theory) of ZHdK

With Jeanne van Heeswijk, Michael Zinganel, Oliver Marchart, Katrin Busch, Klaus Schönberger, concept: Jörg Huber, Elke Bippus, Dorothee Richter

2^nd May 2008
Institution als Medium. Zur kritischen Architektur von Institutionen
(Institution as Medium. Towards a critical architecture of institutions)

With Jacob Fabricius (Malmö Konsthall), Nikolaus Hirsch (Frankfurt am Main), Joanna Mytkowska (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Instytut Awangardy), Wolf Schmelter and Simone Schardt (Kinoapparatom, Zurich)

Concept: Dorothee Richter, Axel Wieder

28^th–30^th Jun 2007
Re-Visionen des Displays, – Ausstellungsszenarien, ihre Lektüren und ihr Publikum (Re-Visions of Displays, – Exhibition scenarios, their readings and their publics)

Concept: Jennifer John, Dorothee Richter, Sigrid Schade

Symposium with Irit Rogoff, Beatrice von Bismarck, Axel John Wieder, Roswitha Muttenthaler, Stefan Römer, Emily Pethick, artlab, Annette Schindler, Anna Schober, Marius Babias, with the co-operation of the Institute for Cultural Studies, Postgraduate Program in Curating, and migros museum, Zurich

16^th–18^th Jun 2005
Concept for the symposium Was ist eine Ausstellung? (What is an exhibition?) for Offenes Kulturhaus Linz, in collaboration with the research project “Ausstellungsdisplays” (Exhibition displays) carried out at HGK Zürich, ICS

OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria

26^th–28^th Feb 2004
Public Art Policies, Symposium zu Kunst, Kunstpolitik und Öffentlichkeit (Symposium on art, arts policy and the public sphere)

Organized by European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, chaired by Dorothee Richter, Stella Rollig

Vienna

23^rd Aug 2003

Symposium zur kuratorischen Praxis
(Symposium on curatorial practice)

Concept: Dorothee Richter

With Stella Rollig, Helmut Draxler, Frederikke Hansen, Barnaby Drabble and Dorothee Richter, chaired jointly with Barnaby Drabble

Künstlerhaus Bremen, Germany

12^th–13^th October 2002
Die Visualität der Theorie vs. Die Theorie des Visuellen
(The visuality of theory vs. the theory of the visual)

Concept Möntmann, Richter

Künstlerhaus Bremen, Germany

26^th Oct, 17^th Nov 2001, 19^th Oct 2002
Im (Be)Griff des Bildes (In the Quintessential Hold of Images)

Concept Sigrid Adorf, Kathrin Heinz, Dorothee Richter

Künstlerhaus Bremen, Germany

Oct 1999
Dialoge und Debatten – feministische Positionen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst (Dialogues and debates – feminist positions in contemporary art)

Högenhausen, Germany

Jun 1998
Curating Degree Zero – an international symposium for curators (German / English)

Concept: Dorothee Richter, Barnaby Drabble

GAK Bremen, Germany