Clémentine Deliss was born in 1960 in London. She is a curator, researcher and publisher.
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Clémentine Marie Deliss is born in 1960 in London from French-Austrian parents. She studies art in Vienna and she holds a B.A. in Social Anthropology and a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the SOAS in London on eroticism and exoticism in French anthropology of the 1920s[1].
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.
She works as an independent curator and her 1990's early exhibitions include Lotte or the Transformation of the Object (Styrian Autumn, Graz 1990, Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, 1991), and Exotic Europeans (National Touring Exhibitions, Hayward Gallery, London). From 1992 to 1995 she was the artistic director of Africa’95, an artist-led festival coordinated with the Royal Academy of Arts, London[2]. For this festival she curated Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa (Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1995; Malmo Konsthall, 1996).
In 1996 she creates "Metronome (artists' and writers' organ)", a magazine which moves each time to a different location including Dakar, Berlin, Basel, Frankfurt, Vienna, Oslo, Copenhagen, London, and Paris. In 2005, as a result of the research of Metronome No.9, she has established with the co-founder Thomas Beautoux a non-for profit publishing company, called Metronome Press, for the publication of fiction written by artists[3].
In 2002 she initiates the Future Academy, in 2007 she establishes and directs the Randolph Cliff. In 2010 she is appointed director of the Museum der Weltkulturen (Museum of the World's Cultures) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.[4]
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[5].
The Future Academy is an international research, investigating the global future of the art academy with students, and with the support of Edinburgh College of Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore, and associated post-institutional organisations in Senegal. As part of the Future Academy research, there is the first experimental Future Academy's voiceforum[6], that is 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.
