Dorothee Richter is head of the PhD in Practice in Curating, a cooperation between the University of Reading and Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), professor of contemporary curating at the University of Reading, and professor and head of MAS in Curating, ZHdK. She is editor-in-chief of on-curating.org and involved in the OnCurating Project Space, Zurich. She is an expert in Fluxus, a filmmaker, and a curator at Künstlerhaus Bremen and Museum Bärengasse, Zurich.

She has organized or co-organized many symposia including “Curating – as institutional critique?,” with Rein Wolfs, Documenta-Halle, Kassel, 2010; “Who is afraid of the public,” with Elke Krasny, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2013; “Third, Fourth, and Fifth Spaces — Curatorial practices in new public and social (digital) spaces,” with Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, 2013; “Decolonizing Art Institutions,” with Ronald Kolb, Kunstmuseum Basel, 2017; “Curating in Feminist Thought,” with Elke Krasny and Lara Perry, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, 2016; “Curating: Glittering Myth, Social Symptom, Revolutionary Force? A Conference on Curatorial Knowledge Production”, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, 2014; “Work, Migration, Memes, Personal Geopolitics”, ZHdK, 2016; “Revisiting Black Mountain: Cross-discinplinary Experiments and Their Potential For Democratization (in Times of Post-Democracy)”, ZHdK, 2019; and “Curating on Shakey Grounds — Curating in Times of Crisis and Conflict,” with Ronald Kolb and Maayan Sheleff, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2021.