2018- Artistic Director of HELLERAU – European Centre of the Arts

2003 Master of Fine Arts Photography (University of Florida, USA) Postgraduate Independent Study Program (Whitney Museum, NYC) Freelance Curator and Lecturer (photo basel etc.)

2010 - 2012 and 2018 Managing Editor at Foam Magazine 2013 - 2023 PhD Leiden University, (»The Photographic Surface between Substances and Spaces«) as part of the Science4Arts-research project on Photographs & Preservation with the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam since May 2023 Artistic Co-Director DER GREIF

2006 Ph. D., Humboldt University Berlin (»Art History as a Photographic Practice«) 2015 - 2018 visiting and substitute professorships at University of Stuttgart, HU Berlin and LMU Munich since April 2019 Professorship for Art History with a focus on modern and contemporary art at Dresden University of Fine Arts

2018-2023 Master Classes at VII Photo Agency, f3 - Freiraum für Fotografie, Ostkreuzschule Berlin 2023-2024 Picture Editor of the PORTRAITS catalogues, with Helena Melikov

Ute Mahler (*1949, Berka/Wipper), Photographer, Curator, Lecturer 1969–1974 Studied photography at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig 1990 Founding member of OSTKREUZ 2000–2015 Professor of Photography at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Since 2005 Lecturer at the Ostkreuz School of Photography, Berlin