Teresa Hantke studied Art History, Business Administration and History of Religion in her Bachelor's degree at the University of Vienna. She completed her Master's degree at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where she wrote her Master's thesis in 2020 on Robert Smithson's early print work. During her studies, she worked in the curatorial office of KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin and was an intern in galleries such as Eigen+Art Berlin, Sprüth Magers and Marian Goodman Gallery in Paris. For the past four years, she has been writing about contemporary art for magazines such as gallerytalk.net or Monopol.