Clémentine Deliss is a curator, publisher and cultural historian. She studied art practice and semantic anthropology in Vienna, Paris, and London and holds a PhD from SOAS, University of London. Between 2010–2015, she directed the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, instituting a new research lab to remediate collections within a post-ethnological context. Exhibitions she curated at the Weltkulturen Museum include “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). From 2002–2009, she ran the transdisciplinary collective Future Academy with student research cells in London, Edinburgh, Dakar, Mumbai, Bangalore, Melbourne, and Tokyo. Between 1996-2007, she published the itinerant and independent artists’ and writers’ organ, “Metronome” and “Metronome Press”, which was twice part of documenta (1997, dX and 2007, d12). She has held guest professorships at the Städelschule Frankfurt, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo, and was Reader at the Edinburgh College of Art between 2003-2009. She has acted as an expert consultant for the European Union and is a member of the Scientific Council of the Musée du quai Branly in Paris. In 2017-18, she curated four international roundtables on “Transitioning Museums” in South East Asia for the Goethe-Institut. The Dilijan Arts Observatory 2016, a fieldwork gathering of artists, historians, and scientists in a former electronics factory in Armenia, recently featured in “Portable Homelands. From field to factory”, which she curated for “Hello World. Revising a Collection”, National Galerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (April-August 2018). In 2017-2018 she was Visiting Professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts Paris-Cergy and has an International Chair at the Laboratoire d’Excellence des Arts et Médiations Humaines, Université, Paris 8 and Centre Georges Pompidou. She is currently Interim Professor of Curatorial Theory and Dramaturgical Practice at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, and Faculty at Large for the MA in Curatorial Practice, SVA, School of Visual Arts, New York. She lives in Berlin.