Clementine Butler-Gallie works in the field of curation, arts education, and artistic research with a focus on constructing future spaces for and learning from past stories of cultural exchange and encounter.
A past research project Distant Divides focused on bringing together artistic actions and stories that document experiences of exchange between two previously divided countries, Lebanon and Germany. Currently, she is researching walking as a potential curatorial space, with a focus on collective action on sites of division. In 2023, she initiated the project ReRouting, a model for a walking residency and exhibition space on the move. ReRouting is part of the curatorial team for the project Dissident Paths: Walking together as a Method, which will be a 2-year programme at nGbK Berlin in 2025/26.
Other current work projects include editor at JAWS Journal published by Intellect Books, curator of Riad Alena Artist Residency’s (RAAR) 2024 programme in Marrakesh, and co-organiser of the curatorial network Continued Conversations… that brings together curators from different continents and contexts.
She has curated and participated in projects, residencies, symposiums at spaces such as American University of Beirut Gallery (2024); 1.54 Art Fair, Marrakesh (2024), Künstlerhof Frohnau, Berlin (2024/23); Sodas 2123, Vilnius (2023); Taswir Projects, Berlin (2023/22); HALLE 14 Center for Contemporary Arts, Leipzig (2022); Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2022); Arts Cabinet, London (2021-23) Ashkal Alwan Home Workspace Online Program, Beirut (2020); Feldfünf, Berlin (2020); Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait (2019); and Mansion, Beirut (2019), among others.
Contact: cbutlergallie@gmail.com