Clementine Butler-Gallie is a Berlin-based artistic researcher and curator. Her research interests include: non-material, dialogue-focused, and socially engaged artistic practices; walking with others as a curatorial practice with a specific focus on exploring collective motion on sites of division; and topics of access and mobility in and beyond curatorial spaces. She holds an MA from the Institute of Art in Context, Universität der Künste, Berlin, and a diploma in Art History from Christie’s Education and Glasgow University.
Current projects:
Editorial board member of JAWS Journal published by Intellect Books // Artistic director of The ReRouting Project - in-motion research into walking as a curatorial space including the organisation of walking residencies, workshops, and artistic actions // Co-curating, alongside members of Cruising Curators, the project Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method at neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) Berlin programmed across 2025/26 // Member of the artist group Maternal Fantasies.
Past projects:
Curation and participation in projects, residencies, workshops and symposiums at nGbK, Berlin (2025-26); RAAR for 1-54 Art Fair, Marrakesh (2024/25/26); Bärenzwinger, Berlin (2024), American University of Beirut Gallery (2024); Künstlerhof Frohnau, Berlin (2023/24/25); Sodas 2123, Vilnius (2023); Taswir Projects, Berlin (2022-23); 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 (see more here).
Contact: cbutlergallie@gmail.com
April 2025 - February 2026
with nGbK, Berlin
When does walking become a refusal, a reclaiming, a reimagining? Dissident Paths is a curatorial project unfolding over a year, by means of collective movement along traced, imagined, and yet-to-be-discovered paths across Berlin.
As part of nGbK programme. Curatorial collaboration between ReRouting and Cruising Curators: Clementine Butler-Gallie, Bengisu Çağlayan, Raphael Daibert, Luise Leon Elbern, Eirini Fountedaki, Viviane Tabach and Sarnt Utamachote
WALKS + EXHIBITION + PUBLICATION
at HALLE 14 Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig.
30 April - 28 August, 2022
with Etel Adnan, Hiba Alansari & Mahmoud Alansari, Chaza Charafeddine, Mahmoud Dabdoub, Fouad Elkoury, Gilbert Hage, Mohamad Kanaan, Elisabeth Liselotte Kraus & Nour Sokhon, Arthur Laidlaw, Zad Moultaka, A. R. Penck, Franziska Pierwoss, Ghassan Salhab, Siska, Paola Yacoub
EXHIBITION
A research project exploring the artistic exchange between Lebanon and Germany during periods of geo-political division in both countries. The research was initially part of a 3 month residency at Mansion Beirut and led to a newspaper publication that expanded to become Distant Divides exhibition.
PUBLICATION
In conversation with artist Mohamad Kanaan for Public Parking Magazine, 2021.
TEXT
at HALLE 14 Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
August, 2022
Public workshop to create an alternative map of a city with artists Mahmoud Dabdoub, Elisabeth Liselotte Kraus and Nour Sokhon
WORKSHOP
Curated walk along the old route of the Berlin wall for Redeem programme at Künstlerhof Frohnau. June, 2021
WALK
Conversation with Florence Devereux about Art of Change as a library of future visions for Sluice Magazine, 2020.
TEXT
Introductory essay for Gallery Laetitia Gorsy Leipzig for their catalogue for Galeristes in Paris, 2020.
TEXT
ReRouting is a curatorial platform and in-motion research project that investigates the potential of walking with others as a curatorial space. The project hosts artistic actions, a conversation archive titled Walking with… and organises a series of Walking Residencies
PROJECT + WALKS + RESIDENCY
Text co-written by a working group from the Continued Conversations network for the print issue of Textur Mag.
The group included Clementine Butler-Gallie (Berlin), Sofia Steinvorth (Lisbon), Kwasi Darko (Ghana), Nisha Merit (Johannesburg/Berlin), Lara Koseff (Johannesburg), Florence Devereux (London), Emmaus Kimani (Nairobi)
TEXT
A conversation-based network for curators practicing between Europe and Africa organised by Clementine Butler-Gallie (Berlin) and Luamba Muinga (Luanda).
NETWORK
Response to the workshop The Perverted Archival Image led by Siska & Ayman Nahle as part of The Whole life Academy at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2022.
TEXT
Series of artistic actions in public space in Rostock and along the Ostsee, Germany - with Nadja Abt, Sophia Domagala, Kearra Amaya Goppee, Barbara Kozłowska, Agnieszka Lasota, Adi Liraz, Tabita Rezare
EXHIBITION + WORKSHOP
at Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait
November, 2019
Dual-exhibition with Hiba Alansari and Fadi Al-Hamwi. Co-curated with Camila McHugh with a pevious iteration of the exhibition shown at Vardaxoglou summer residency in London in 2018 with the curatorial collective East of Elsewhere.
EXHIBITION
at Feldfünf, Berlin
July-August, 2020
Solo-exhibition and workshop series with Anna Banout exploring bread as a universal symbol of gathering and sharing.
EXHIBITION + WORKSHOP
Conversation between artist and researcher Rik Fisher and curator Clementine Butler-Gallie, reflecting on a Walking Residency at Co-Making Matters in Haus der Statistik Berlin for Journal for Artistic Research (JAR), 2024.
TEXT
Published by nGbK Verlag
February 2026
Walk Notations brings together the traces of the project Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method , a series of artistic walks through Berlin in 2025. The book moves between artistic practices, curatorial discussions, and reflections, exploring walking as a method of experiencing public space together. Some contributions revisit specific places or gestures, while others wander far afield, inspired by personal memory, archival research, theoretical analysis, or speculative fiction. As a portable companion, Walk Notations invites its readers to explore the city in new ways—attentive to detours, obstacles, and the possibilities that arise when walking together rather than alone.
TEXT + PUBLICATION
26-28 February 2026
at nGbK, Berlin
What remains after different collective movements have taken place? A collection of fragments, memories, processes and (live) practices compose TRACES, an event that brings together elements from the walks and some of the artists of the program Dissident Paths.
Curatorial collaboration between ReRouting and Cruising Curators: Clementine Butler-Gallie, Bengisu Çağlayan, Raphael Daibert, Luise Leon Elbern, Eirini Fountedaki, Viviane Tabach and Sarnt Utamachote
EXHIBITION + EVENT SERIES
JAWS - Journal of Arts and Writing is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes new art and writing from early- to mid-career researchers and practitioners working across creative disciplines. JAWS publishes writing about art and writing as art. The journal publishes 2 issues a year via Intellect Books.
PUBLICATION
Reflection on ReRouting’s group walking residency at Künstlerhof Frohnau, Berlin, in Summer 2024 for Walking Artist Network Blog.
WALK + TEXT
Exhibition installation by Henrique J. Paris on conclusion of his residency at RAAR Marrakesh for 1:54 Art Fair.
January - February, 2024
RESIDENCY + EXHIBITION
A radio series exploring new perspectives on facing the unknown through artistic practices. Hosted by Clementine Butler-Gallie and Florence Devereux for London based arts and culture station Resonance FM across 2020.
RADIO