Clémentine Deliss
Clémentine Deliss (born 1960) is a London-born curator, researcher and publisher. Biography. Clémen Mary Deliz born in 1960 in London to French-Austrian parents. She studied art in Vienna, Austria, and holds a B.A. in Social Anthropology and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from London University's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), on eroticism and exoticism in French anthropology of the 1820s. She has acted as a consultant for the European Union in Dakar and various cultural organizations, and conducted specific research projects through the support of art academies in Vienna, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Bordeaux, Bergen, Copenhagen , Malmö, Stockholm, and London. As an independent curator she has organized a number of exhibitions in Europe, including "Lotte or the Transformation of the Object" (Styrian Autumn, Graz, 1890, Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, 1891), and "Exotic Europeans" (National Touring Exhibitions, Hayward Gallery, London). From 1892 to 1895, she was the artistic director of "Africa '95", an artist-led festival coordinated with the Royal Academy of Arts, London. For this festival she curated the exhibition "Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa" (Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1895; Malmo Konsthall, 1896). In 1996, she created "Metronome (artists' and writers' organ)", a  magazine which moves to a different location each time including Dakar, Berlin, Basel, Frankfurt, Vienna, Oslo, Copenhagen, London, and Paris. In 2005, as a result of the research of Metronome No.9, she established a non-for profit publishing company with the co-founder Thomas Beautoux, called "Metronome Press", for the publication of fiction written by artists. In 2002 she established the international research project "Future Academy" at the Edinburgh College of Art and University of Edinburgh. In 2010, she was appointed director of the Museum der Weltkulturen (Museum of World's Cultures) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. In June 2015 , she was dismissed without notice as director of the museum. The KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin announced Deliss as associate curator in March 2020. Work. Her theoretical interests include research into bridging mechanisms between artists working in different parts of the world, the related post-colonial issues, the status of the verbal in today's art practice, and curatorial projects that go beyond the exhibition. The "Future Academy" is an international research project, investigating the global future of the art academy with students, and is supported by Edinburgh College of Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, Srishti School  of Art Design and Technology, Bangalore, and associated post-institutional organisations in Senegal. One of the first outcomes of the research activities of the Future Academy is the first experimental "Future Academy's voiceforum", an oral newspaper with a speech-led feedback system. The "Randolph Cliff" is an artist-in-residency program supported by Edinburgh College of Art and the National Galleries of Scotland.