Exhibition Ecologies : Entanglements of Art, Institutions, and Politics in the Environmental Crisis

Exhibition Ecologies approaches exhibitions as ecological media, shaped by infrastructures, economies, and relations of power. Bringing together art-historical essays and curatorial reflections, this volume explores how exhibitions respond to the climate crisis while showing how ecological narratives intersect with colonial legacies, extractivism, and the rhetorics of legitimation. Case studies - from museum collection displays to contemporary biennials - probe the ecological framing of exhibitions, opening debates on sustainability, decolonial justice, and institutional responsibility. Linking exhibition studies with environmental humanities, this book highlights both the risks of co-option and the transformative potential of exhibitions.

With contributions by Hannah Beck-Mannagetta, Indira Béraud, Linn Burchert, Mateo Chacón Pino, Lena Fließbach, Stefanie Hessler, Elisabeth Heyne, Michael Klipphahn-Karge, Juliana Robles de la Pava, Anna Sophie Springer, Julia Tovote, Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro

• Situates exhibitions within transdisciplinary ecological discourse
• Links exhibition studies and environmental humanities to reveal the material, social, and political entanglements of exhibition-making

Regine Ehleiter is a Berlin-based art historian, writer, and curator with a focus on contemporary art and exhibition history. She studied cultural studies, art history, and journalism in Leipzig and London and received her PhD from the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. She currently works as a research associate at the Chair for Digital Arts and Cultural Communication at Witten/Herdecke University. Previously, she was a Senior Fellow at the University of Münster, a postdoctoral researcher at the Cluster of Excellence "Temporal Communities" at Freie Universität Berlin, and held teaching positions at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig and the University of Hildesheim. She has lectured widely across Europe and internationally, most recently in Chile.

Friederike Schäfer is an art historian and currently a postdoctoral researcher at the EXC Temporal Communities at Freie Universität Berlin, where she is working on her project "Earth(ly) Matters. How Exhibition Spaces Capture Natural Environments."She studied art history and North American Studies in Berlin and Seattle, and holds a doctorate from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Schäfer has held various teaching positions, including at Bard College Berlin and the COOP Design Research program (Bauhaus Dessau/Anhalt University), as well as being an academic associate at HfG Karlsruhe. Her research has been supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art, CAA, and Fulbright, among others, and she has been a research fellow at UC Berkeley and at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice. She has also worked on international exhibitions, and is the co-founder of the working group Exhibition Ecologies.

Regine Ehleiter, Kunsthistorikerin, Kuratorin und Autorin mit Fokus auf zeitgenössische Kunst und Ausstellungsgeschichte. Sie studierte Kulturwissenschaften, Kunstgeschichte und Journalistik und wurde an der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig promoviert. Als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Digitale Künste und Kulturvermittlung der Universität Witten/Herdecke arbeitet sie an einem Habilitationsprojekt zum Konzept der Planetarität in der zeitgenössischen Kunst. Zuvor war sie Postdoktorandin im Exzellenzcluster „Temporal Communities" der Freien Universität Berlin und wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Universität Hildesheim sowie der HGB Leipzig. Längere Forschungsaufenthalte in England und Nordamerika; zuletzt führten sie Vorträge und Recherchen nach Argentinien und Chile.

Friederike Schäfer, Kunsthistorikern und Postdoktorandin. Aktuell arbeitet sie am Exzellenzcluster „Temporal Communities" an der Freien Universität Berlin an einem Projekt zu „Earth(ly) Matters. How Exhibition Spaces Capture Natural Environments". Sie hat Kunstgeschichte und Nordamerikastudien in Berlin und Seattle studiert und wurde an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin promoviert. Schäfer hat u.a. am Bard College Berlin und dem COOP Design Research Programm (Bauhaus Dessau/Hochschule Anhalt) gelehrt, und war wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der HfG Karlsruhe. Ihre Forschung wurde u.a. von der Terra Foundation for American Art, CAA, und Fulbright unterstützt; sie war Research Fellow an der UC Berkeley und der Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venedig. Des Weiteren hat sie an verschiedenen internationalen Ausstellungen mitgearbeitet und ist Mitbegründerin der Arbeitsgruppe Exhibition Ecologies.