Dorothee Richter: Feminist Perspectives On Curating
Talks on Curatorial Practice
16 OCTOBER 2026 / 17:00
Which power structures influence curatorial practice? What constitutes a feminist curatorial project? In her lecture, Prof Dr Dorothee Richter will examine curating as a gender-specific form of knowledge production, challenging the deeply entrenched hierarchies within curatorial discourse. In the subsequent discussion with Luisa Ziaja, moderated by Isabelle Lindermann, these questions will be explored in greater depth with reference to the exhibition Sue Williams WHAT NOW.
Dorothee Richter is Professor in Contemporary Curating at the University of Reading, UK, where she also directs the PhD in Practice in Curating programme. She previously served as head of the Postgraduate Programme in Curating (CAS/MAS) at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Switzerland. Richter has worked extensively as a curator: she initiated the Curating Degree Zero Archive and was a curator at Künstlerhaus Bremen, where she curated various symposia on feminist issues in contemporary arts, as well as an archive on feminist practices entitled Materialien/Materials. Together with Ronald Kolb, Richter directed a film on Fluxus: Flux Us Now, Fluxus Explored with a Camera. Her most recent project was Into the Rhythm: From Score to Contact Zone, a collaborative exhibition at the ARKO Art Center, Seoul, in 2024. This project was co-curated by OnCurating (Dorothee Richter, Ronald Kolb) and ARKO (curator Haena Noh, producer Haebin Lee). Richter is Executive Editor and Editor-inChief of OnCurating.org, and recently founded the OnCurating Academy Berlin.
Free admission.
All talks in English.
All times CET/CEST.
On-site participation without registration. Application for online participation: curating.org