Dominic Eichler is an author, art writer, editor, curator, art 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 in 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 international art museums and institutions including: The Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, Kunstmuseum Basel, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Kunsthalle Baden Baden, and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt among many others.

Artists he has written about include Danh Vo, Isa Genzken, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Collier Schorr. Recent reviews include a consideration of the work of sculptor Jack O’Brien for Artforum magazine (May 2025) and Peter Hujar and Liz Deschenes (e-flux criticism), as well as substack features on the work of Mark Emblem (2026) and Grant Falardeau (2026). In the last few years he has also written on the work of artists Kai Althoff, Karen Kilimnik, Wojciech Fangor, Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Sam Falls, Hans Josephsohn, Anton Corbijn, Sunah Choi, Thilo Heinzmann and Haegue Yang, amongst many many others. In April 2026, a major new interview with artist Antony Gormley was published in PLUS magazine, New York. He recently wrote an extended essay on the painting and drawing of Torsten Slama for a forthcoming book.

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 is now celebrated in the major new anthology ‘MD72—Door Slamming Festival’ (edited Alexander Schröder with Marianna von Palombini and Dominic Eichler, Walther und Franz König Verlag, 2025). The anthology was longlisted for Germany’s Beautiful Book Prize. In June 2023, he curated the group exhibition ‘Biographicality’ at gallery Efremidis, Berlin, and in February 2026, 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) as well as the dance remix EP ‘Dancing in the Wilderness’ (2026).

In 2008, he co-founded the Berlin independent art space Silberkuppe with Michel Ziegler. Silberkuppe had a celebrated local and international program and audience. They also curated exhibitions in four major experimental institutional group 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 evolved into an internationally successful, niche, commercial gallery that focused on European debuts, as well as radical and newly rediscovered artistic positions across generations. Silberkuppe mounted around 60 exhibitions and participated in more than a dozen international art fairs including in London, New York and Basel and operated to critical broad acclaim until mid-August 2017. Silberkuppe successfully placed numerous works in museum collections internationally. 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).

Currently he is working on a thematic volume of his selected art writings ‘Changing the Subject (2000-2025)’, meanwhile the manuscript of his debut historical literary novel set on the island of Capri ‘The Serpentine Path’ is currently under submission, he also has plans for a second novel, and is concurrently working the sixth album ‘Lost and Found ‘ with Dominique the band.