Clementine Deliss

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Clémentine Deliss (* 1960 in London ) is an Austro-French curator and museum director.

Life

Clémentine Deliss has a French mother and an Austrian father. From 1977 to 1988 she studied ethnology and contemporary art in Vienna, Paris and London. In her dissertation, which she submitted to the University of London in 1988 , she dealt with the establishment of the ethnological Musée de l'Homme in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century.

After completing her doctorate, she worked as a freelance employee, curator and director of festivals, international exhibitions and research projects on topics relating to the communication of ethnology and art. From 1992 to 1995 she was artistic director of the “africa95” project for the Royal Academy of Arts , London.

From 2003 to 2010 she headed the “Future Academy” project in Edinburgh in cooperation with the Edinburgh College of Art , the National Gallery of Scotland and the University of Edinburgh , which examines the future organization of museum collections at the interface between ethnology and art should be.

Her publication series “Metronome” was published in various locations and also presented at documenta 10 and documenta 12 .

From September 1998 until the end of 1999 she worked as a guest lecturer at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main . In 2010 she took over the management of the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt . The contract of employment, which was agreed until 2018, was terminated without notice in May 2015 by Frankfurt's head of culture, Felix Semmelroth . In March 2016, the labor court in Frankfurt am Main determined that the extraordinary termination was incorrect, and the parties agreed in a settlement on a high severance payment for Deliss.

Deliss is researching as a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (as of 2016).

Writings / exhibitions (selection)

  • Entre-Pologiste. The ethnographic museum as a field of experimentation , in: Hermann Parzinger, Stefan Aue, Günter Stock (eds.): Artifacts: Knowledge is art - Art is knowledge: reflections and practices of scientific-artistic encounters . Bielefeld: transcript, 2014, pp. 435-450.
  • Foreign Exchange (or the stories you wouldn't tell a stranger) . Edited by Clémentine Deliss and Yvette Mutumba. Frankfurt am Main. diaphanes, 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Hierholzer: Frankfurt dismisses museum director without notice , in: FAZ , June 9, 2015
  2. ↑ Michael Hierholzer: Weltkulturen-Museum Frankfurt: "Extras on the stage of the museum director" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 18, 2016, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed June 20, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Deliss, Clementine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-French curator and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH London