Anneliese Ostertag, curator

Anneliese Ostertag is a Berlin-based writer, curator and dramaturge, working across performance, visual arts, and net culture. Her background includes studies in philosophy and cultural anthropology, as well as an MA in performance and choreography (Giessen), and curatorial studies (Städelschule Frankfurt).

She is a founding member and co-director of Zentrum für Netzkunst (since 2019) and the project space /rosa (since 2022), both dedicated to exhibiting and researching digital art. Anneliese curated shows at Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Mousonturm Frankfurt, index–The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, FFT Düsseldorf, panke.gallery, Haus der Statistik, and internationale tanzmesse NRW, and co-founded haptic affinities, a study group on touch and intimacy in the arts. Her work explores structures of collaboration, drawing on queer-feminist practices and cultures of non-conformity, while often extending into writing and hybrid publishing.

She is co-editor of three books: Akribie und Obsession (2025, Spector Books), From Net, City, World to Cloud, Market, Sea (2024, Distanz), and en plein air (2019, Spector Books). Her writing appeared in The Journal of Curatorial Studies, Positionen – Texte zur aktuellen Musik, kunstlicht, Forum Wissenschaft, and in In the Sense of Material Reality: Film and Society after Siegfried Kracauer. She taught at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Theater Dortmund, and medienwerk.nrw. Website