© Christian WernerDr. Clémentine Deliss works at the border zones of contemporary art, curatorial practice, and critical anthropology. She is associate curator at KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin and Global Humanities Honorary Professor for Art History at University of Cambridge und. She directs the "Metabolic Museum-University".
From 2010-2015 she was director of the Museum of World Cultures in Frankfurt am Main, where she set up a transdisciplinary laboratory for overhauling the collections in a post-ethnographic context, collaborating with a large number of artists such as Peggy Buth, Otobong Nkanga, Luke Willis Thompson, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Antje Majewski, Thomas Bayrle, and El Hadji Sy. Her selected exhibitions include "Portable Homelands: From Field to Factory" for "Hello World: Revising a Collection," National Galerie at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2018); and for the Museum of World Cultures: "Object Atlas - Fieldwork in the Museum" (2011); "Trading Style" (2013), "Foreign Exchange (or the stories you wouldn't tell a stranger)" (2014); and "El Hadji Sy - Painting, Politics, Performance" (2015). Earlier exhibitions were "Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa," Whitechapel Gallery (1995) and "Lotte oder die Verwandlung des Objekts," Steirischer Herbst (1990). Between 1996 and 2007 she produced the traveling, independent artists’ and writers’ organ "Metronome," which was twice part of the documenta (1997, dX and 2007, d12).
Dr. Deliss was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin and taught curatorial practice, artistic research, and theory at the University of Fine Arts (HfBK) (Hamburg), the University of Arts and Design (HfG) Karlsruhe, the Ecole nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris Cergy (ENSAPC), and the Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule. Her book The Metabolic Museum was published by Hatje Cantz in co-production with the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin in August 2020. Her next book, Skin in the Game: Conversations on Risk and Contention, will appear with Hatje Cantz/KW in December 2023.