She is a frequent contributor to Frieze magazine, and her writing has featured in exhibition catalogues and publications such as The White Review, Art Monthly, Art Quarterly, World of Interiors, Mousse, Garage, Elephant, The Quietus, Art Review, Flash Art International and on BBC Radio 4.
Her book ‘Co-Art: Artists on Creative Collaboration’, published by Phaidon, explores the phenomenon of collaboration in the visual arts and its potential in society at large.
De Wachter currently teaches at Central Saint Martins and London College of Communication, and has taught at the Royal College of Art, Royal Academy Schools, Goldsmiths College, Brighton University, Newcastle University among other places.
In 2013-15 she was Curator of Public Collection Development at the Contemporary Art Society, where she was responsible for CAS’s acquisitions scheme for museums across the UK. Prior to that, she worked at various arts organisations in London, including the Barbican Art Gallery and the British Museum.
On February 9 2019 Ellen De Wachter held talk in respons to her book: Co-Art: Artists on Creative Collaboration (2017) in the Workspace as part of the Prospects & Concepts exhibition at Art Rotterdam.