Mareike Dittmer engages in tentacular thinking to foster sustainable practices and imaginative writings in transdisciplinary alliances. She is assistant director of the Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation Berlin, co-chair of the Futurological Congress (with Julieta Aranda), senior publishing consultant at e-flux, and most currently she is conducting a study for the art engagement of the community of St. Moritz in Engadin. Since 2019 she is teaching at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in the BA Fine Arts program.

Since finishing her graduate studies at Universität der Künste, Berlin in 1998, Mareike has conceived and published an array of programmes, built multifaceted capacities for strategic approaches and led collaborations for publications and organisations, namely as director of public engagement of TBA21–Academy and TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary (2020-2024), as director of Art Stations Foundation CH (2018-2020) and chair of Disputaziuns Susch (2017-2019), and as associate publisher of frieze magazine (until 2017) and co-publisher of frieze d/e magazine (2011 – 2015). She is the editor, among others, of Anda Rottenberg ‘from Poland with Love’ (Muzeum Susch / Scheidegger & Spiess, 2019) and since 2011 she is part of the editorial team of the interview magazine Mono.Kultur.