Jule Hillgärtner is director of Kunstverein Braunschweig. She studied theater-, film- and media sciences at Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main.
After her master’s thesis on war photography in January 2005 she received the DFG-postgraduate-fellowship and completed her doctoral thesis on photography and video in embedded journalism in July 2009 (“Krieg darstellen” (representing war) 2013, Kadmos, Berlin). As a freelance curator, writer and lecturer she worked at MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Städelschule Frankfurt, F/Stop Photography Festival Leipzig, Frankfurter Kunstverein, hfg Offenbach, Akademie der Künste Berlin. Recently she was invited as a lecturer for “Constructing Reality”, a photo workshop of the Goethe Institute at UAE.