Dominic Eichler is an author, art writer, editor, curator, consultant and musician.

After studying English Literature and Law at Monash University and then practising law for some years, he relocated to Berlin and devoted himself entirely to writing, contemporary art, and music. Since 1997, he has regularly contributed feature articles, editorials, essays and reviews to leading international art publications. Between 2007 and 2011 he was a contributing editor of frieze magazine. Over the last twenty-five years, he has also written numerous celebrated catalogue essays for leading international art museums and institutions including: The Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, Kunstmuseum Basel, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Kunsthalle Baben Baden, and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and many many others. Artists he has written about include: Danh Vo, Isa Genzken, Wolfgang Tillmans, Wojciech Fangor, and Collier Schorr. His most recent review is of the work of sculptor Jack O’Brien for Artforum magazine (May 2025) and a substack feature on the work of Mark Emblem (2026). More recently he has written at length on the artists Kai Althoff, Karen Kilimnik, Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Sam Falls, Hans Josephsohn, Anton Corbijn, Sunah Choi, Thilo Heinzmann and Haegue Yang, amongst many many others.

In 2005, has was awarded the German AdKV prize for art criticism.

SInce the 2000s, he also curated exhibitions such as ‘The Door Slamming Festival’ at MD72 (2007) which no celebrated in the major anthology ‘MD72—Door Slamming Festival’ (edited Alexander Schröder with Marianna von Palombini and Dominic Eichler, Walther und Franz König Verlag, 2025). In June 2023, he curated the group exhibition ‘Biographicality’ at Efremidis, Berlin, and in February 2025 a solo exhibition of the work of painter Aistė Stancikaitė Echoes for the Kunstverein Dresden.

Alongside, his much-loved underground indie-pop band Dominique released five albums and one EP: ‘Speak To Me’ (2002), ‘The Same You’ (2004), ‘More Love Now’ (2008), ‘The Basis of all Life’ (2018), and ‘Camping in the Wilderness’ (2025).

In 2008, he co-founded (with Michel Ziegler) the Berlin independent art space Silberkuppe. Silberkuppe had a local grassroots program and also curated exhibitions in four major institutional shows including one at the Hayward Gallery, London. These early years of the space were documented in the catalogue ‘Under One Umbrella’ (2010, Kunsthall Bergen/Sternberg Press). The space then grew into an internationally successful niche, commercial gallery which focused on radical and newly rediscovered artistic positions and operated to critical acclaim until mid-2017. Among the many artists Silberkuppe worked with were Tobias Kaspar, Anne Speier, Fred Lonidier, Anna Ostoya, Michaela Eichwald, Heinz Peter Knes, Shahryar Nashat, Thomas Locher, Phel Steinmetz, Gerry Bibby, Janette Laverrière, Adam Linder, Margaret Harrison, Laura Lamiel, Leidy Churchman, and Win McCarthy.

In 2009, he published the poetry book ‘Written All Over Us’ (Sternberg Press), and participated in the Serpentine Gallery’s ‘Poetry Marathon’. In 2016, he co-edited (with Brigitte Oetker) the reader Jahresring 61: PS (Sternberg Press).

He is also currently working on a volume of collected art writings ‘Changing the Subject (2000-2025)’, and the manuscript of his debut historical novel set on the island of Capri ‘The Serpentine Path’.