Clementine Butler Gallie is a Berlin-based artistic researcher and curatorial practioner. She understands curatorial work and exhibition-making to be a means to bring diverse groups and positions into dialogue, with her projects often centering community and socially sensitive practices that use artistic outputs to enhance cultural and educational exchange and encounter.
Currently, she is researching the potential of walking and moving with others as a curatorial space, with a focus on trespassing as a practice and collective actions on sites of division. Since 2023, she initiated the project ReRouting that acts as a host to the in-motion research, including the organisation of walking residencies, workshops, and artistic actions. ReRouting is part of the curatorial team, alongside members of Cruising Curators, for the project Dissident Paths: Walking together as a Method at neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK), Berlin across 2025/26. Her previous research project Distant Divides focuses on bringing together artistic actions and stories that document experiences of exchange between two countries, Lebanon and Germany, that share pasts of being divided into East and West. This project was presented as a group exhibition in 2022 at HALLE 14 - Center for Contemporary Art in Leipzig as well as via a newspaper publication and various other public presentations.
She is currently on the editorial board for JAWS Journal published by Intellect Books and co-organises the curatorial network Continued Conversations… that brings together curators from different continents and contexts. She holds an MA from the Institute of Art in Context, Universität der Künste, Berlin, and a diploma in Art History from Glasgow University and Christie’s Education, London.
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