Louisa Elderton

Louisa Elderton is the Managing Editor for ICI Berlin Press, where she helps to plan the programme and ensures the quality of publications, oversees production schedules, liaises with authors, editors, copy-editors, translators, copyright holders and production staff, coordinates distribution, and promotes the visibility of the publishing house, among other responsibilities.

She also works as an independent art critic, writer and editor. She contributes regularly to publications like Frieze and Flash Art, and has written for many more including The New York Times, Artforum, Texte zur Kunst, Mousse, Art Basel, Artnet News and Art Review, among others, as well as writing essays for gallery and museum catalogues.

With significant experience of working for cultural institutions, from 2019–22 she was the Curatorial Editor at Gropius Bau, writing exhibition texts and making books with Yayoi Kusama, Otobong Nkanga, Lee Mingwei, Thea Djordjadze, Dayanita Singh, and more, as well as editing their Online Journal. She was Chief Editor of Side Magazine for Bergen Assembly 2022. Prior to this, for the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, she was Managing Editor of three books, co-published by Hatje Cantz: Leonilson, BLESS and Poetics of Encryption.

From 2016–21, she was Project Editor of Phaidon’s ‘Vitamin’ series and Content Editor of Great Women Artists. From 2011–16, she was a Curator & Artist Liaison at Blain|Southern, making exhibitions and books with Wim Wenders, Lawrence Weiner, Francesco Clemente, and Yinka Shonibare MBE, among others.

As a teacher, she has delivered seminars and created courses on art writing and editing for Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Art and Berlin Art Institute. She has a first-class honours Bachelor’s degree in ‘English Literature & Art History’, and a Master’s degree in ‘Curating the Art Museum’ from The Courtauld Institute of Art, as part of which she worked in the Research department at Tate writing about works in the collection facing obsolescence. She is originally from London, and has lived in Berlin since 2015.

www.louisaelderton.com