Announcing our Goethe-Institut Visiting Practitioner: Clémentine Deliss

We are pleased to announce Clémentine Deliss as the Goethe-Institut New Zealand and Artspace Aotearoa Visiting Practitioner for 2026.

Clémentine will arrive in August spending time in Tāmaki Makaurau hosted at Artspace Aotearoa and travel to Te Whanganui-a-Tara, hosted by the Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery as part of the symposium, AGENCY: A curatorial intensive in three questions How do I learn? How do I act? How do I imagine? Join Clémentine for her public lecture How do I act: Modus Operandi as part of AGENCY.

Clémentine Deliss works across the borders of contemporary art, curatorial practice, and publishing. She studied art practice in Vienna, and later social anthropology in Vienna, Paris, and London, and received her Ph.D. from the School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London. As an artist-curator, her practice is characterized by an early concern for international artist-led dialogues, team constellations in curating, and new approaches to museology.

She is currently Curator at Large at KANAL-Centre Pompidou. Since 2024, she has been KANAL-Guest Professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, and since 2021, Global Humanities Professor in History of Art, at the University of Cambridge. 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-ethnological paradigm, working with a wide range of artists, lawyers, and writers.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 book “Skin in the Game. Conversations on Risk and Contention” was published in December 2023 by Hatje Cantz/KW to accompany the exhibition at KW. Since 1996, she has produced the independent artists’ and writer’s organ “Metronome”, twice officially invited to documenta, first in 1997 (dx) and then in 2007 (d12). She lives in Berlin and has joint German and British nationality.

This kaupapa is made possible through the Goethe-Institut New Zealand and Artspace Aotearoa Visiting Practitioners Programme.