CLÉMENTINE DELISS

Speaker, 2025
Photo by Christian Werner.

Dr. Clémentine Deliss works across the borders of contemporary art, curatorial practice, and publishing. She is Curator at Large at KANAL-Centre Pompidou in Brussels, where she is curating the Metabolic Museum-University with secondary collections from Belgian museums. She is KANAL-Guest Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and holds an honorary Global Humanities Professorship in History of Art from the University of Cambridge. Between 2020-23, she was Associate Curator at KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin. Her exhibition at KW, Skin in the Game, included seminal prototypes by artists Ruth Buchanan, Otobong Nkanga, Collier Schorr, Rosemarie Trockel, Joëlle Tuerlinckx and Andrea Zittel. Between 2010–2015, she was Director of the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt/Main, where she instituted a new trans-disciplinary lab to remediate collections within a post-ethnographic paradigm, working with a wide range of artists and writers including Otobong Nkanga, Luke Willis Thompson, Thomas Bayrle, Tom McCarthy, and El Hadji Sy. Her book The Metabolic Museum (2020) published by Hatje Cantz, came out in Russian translation in 2021 (Garage Museum), and in Spanish in March 2023 (Caniche Editorial, Madrid). Her recent book Skin in the Game. Conversations on Risk and Contention was published in December 2023 by Hatje Cantz/KW. She lives in Berlin.

Discover Clémentine's work here.