Sensing Peat Former Project Coordinator and Research Associate at the Michael Succow Foundation, Greifswald Mire Centre (2023-2024)

Ulrike Gerhardt is an art and cultural scientist and curator who researches on endangered ecosystems, intergenerational memory transmission, and unsettling materialities after 1989/1991 from an alter-global, horizontal and feminist perspective. Until spring 2024, she worked as a project coordinator for Sensing Peat at the Michael Succow Foundation / Greifswald Mire Centre, initiating multiple international collaborations, workshops and exchange formats with different ecological communities of theory and practice. Currently she is researching virtual reality art at the Institute for Art and Visual Culture at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. In 2024, her dissertation on Easternfuturist memory practices within post-socialist video art will be published (Berlin: De Gruyter). Together with art scholar Julia Wolf, she also works on an upcoming issue on Troubled Matter for the INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries publication platform.