Ulrike Gerhardt is a postdoctoral fellow conducting research and teaching at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg and the artistic (co-)director of D’EST. As a visual culture studies scholar and curator, she has been researching cultural memory concerning the reverberations of the post-socialist transformation. For her PhD at Leuphana University Lueneburg, she analyzed the ways in which video works by queer-feminist artists and collectives of the “generation transformation” visually deal with the experiences of Perestroika, migration, ecosystems of damage, and indexical landscapes after 1989 / 1991 (De Gruyter Brill, 2024). Her current research focuses on the aesthetic aftercare of former industrial landscapes in the (post-)socialist Anthropocene, the history of non-conformist art education in the GDR and inclusive, historically reflective and postdigital cultural education.