Dominic Eichler is an author, art writer, curator, 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, and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and many many others. Artists he has written about include: Danh Vo, Isa Genzken, Wolfgang Tillmans (‘Abstract Pictures’, Hatje Cantz, 2011), Wojciech Fangor, Collier Schorr and many others. In 2005, has was awarded the German AdKV prize for art criticism.

In the 2000s, he also curated exhibitions such as ‘The Door Slamming Festival’ at MD72 (2007) which will soon be the part of the major anthology ‘MD72—Door Slamming Festival’ (edited Alexander Schröder with Marianna von Palombini and Dominic Eichler). Alongside, his much-loved underground indie-pop band Dominique released four albums: ‘Speak To Me’ (2002), ‘The Same You’ (2004), ‘More Love Now’ (2008) and ‘The Basis of all Life’ (2018). The band recently properly reunited and will release a fifth studio album ‘Camping in the Wilderness’ in Autumn 2025. In 2009, he published the poetry book ‘Written All Over Us’ (Sternberg Press), and participated in the Serpentine Gallery’s ‘Poetry Marathon’.

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 2016, he co-edited (with Brigitte Oetker) the reader Jahresring 61: PS (Sternberg Press). 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 others. In June 2023, he curated the group exhibition ‘Biographicality’ at Efremidis, Berlin. He now acts as a freelance advisor and art consultant to artists and collectors alike. He is also currently working on a volume of collected art writings ‘Changing the Subject (2000-2025)’, and the manuscript of his debut historical LGBTQIA* novel set on the island of Capri ‘The Serpentine Path’. His most recent review is of the work of sculptor Jack O’Brien for Artforum magazine (May 2025).