Spotkanie w języku angielskim 

In her illustrated lecture, Clémentine Deliss will introduce her work on the “Metabolic Museum-University”, a curatorial model she has developed since 2015 in Kyiv, Ljubljana, Berlin and Brussels. With the Metabolic Museum-University, artefacts from dormant collections become prototypes for the future, open to transversal interpretations and new meanings created by the public. The museum moves from its original etymology – mausoleum or crypt – to a generative, experiential structure for understanding the world. Visitors to the museum are by extension students, scholars, and researchers whatever their level of literacy, age, economic standing or cultural origins. Deliss will present her current research on “traps” in museums in Brussels, connecting this to new fieldwork recently undertaken in museum collections in Warsaw.  

Clémentine Deliss’s visit and lecture mark the beginning of her collaboration with Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, which will unfold over the next two years as a research-based artistic project and a publication. 

Clémentine Deliss works across the borders of contemporary art, curatorial practice, and publishing. She is Curator at Large at KANAL-Centre Pompidou in Brussels, and Guest Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. Between 2020-23, she was Associate Curator at KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin. Her exhibition, “Skin in the Game”, included seminal prototypes by artists Ruth Buchanan, Otobong Nkanga, Collier Schorr, Rosemarie Trockel, Joëlle Tuerlinckx and Andrea Zittel. 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. Since 1997, she has published an itinerant artists’ and writers’ organ called “Metronome”, which has been twice offically invited to Documenta X and Documenta12.