Talk

MA Curatorial Practice presents Clémentine Deliss, associate curator at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, to speak on contingency, ultra temporary exhibitions and reinterpreting collections.

Dr. Clémentine Deliss is global humanities professor of history of art at the University of Cambridge, guest professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt and associate curator at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, where she directs the Metabolic Museum-University and is preparing the September 2023 exhibition, “Skin in the Game.” Her practice crosses the borders of contemporary art, critical anthropology, curatorial experimentation and publishing. Between 2010 and 2015, she directed the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, instituting a new lab for post-ethnographic research and the remediation of contentious collections. She is a fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study in Berlin and has taught art theory and curatorial practice at the Ecole nationale supérieur Paris-Cergy, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design and Hamburg University of the Arts. She is a faculty member at large for the MA Curatorial Practice program at SVA, and guest mentor of the Berlin Program for Artists. Her book The Metabolic Museum was published by Hatje Cantz in 2020 in co-production with KW, subsequently published in a Russian-language edition (Garage Museum, 2021), and is coming out in a Spanish translation in late 2022. Forthcoming essays include “Enigmatic Debris” (L’Internationale online), “The Practice of Academic Iconoclasm in the Metabolic Museum-University” (ZhdK), and texts on Bjarne Melgaard, Luke Willis Thompson, Kader Attia and Atta Kwami.