Lisa Deml is a guest curator of ArtConnect's Artists to Watch ‘22

Initially trained as a journalist, Lisa Deml subsequently worked for public cultural institutions and non-profit organisations internationally, including Gropius Bau, Berlin, Haus der Kunst, Munich, and Ashkal Alwan, Beirut. Prior to her doctoral research, she recently coordinated the multi-year project 'Afro-Sonic Mapping' as well as assisted in the exhibitions and accompanying publications 'Love and Ethnology' and 'The Most Dangerous Game' at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin.

Her texts have been featured in exhibition catalogues and journals, including Third Text, PARSE, and Critical Arts. As part of her Midlands4Cities funded doctoral research project, she investigates initiatives in visual literacy and education to counteract neocolonial patterns of recognition and representation, particularly in the context of new media practices in the Middle East and North Africa.

Recently, Lisa Deml has contributed to an anthology of interviews with the artist Rabih Mroué, marking his receipt of the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research and published to coincide with his major solo exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Mroué’s acclaimed body of work is situated at the intersection of personal and political imaginaries and addresses contested memory of historical events and concepts of authorship. Through scripted conversations, confessions, reports, and questions, this publication takes up different artistic strategies of Mroué to interrogate our ways of seeing and speaking.

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