Lisa Deml

Lisa Deml is a curator and writer based in Berlin and London. Initially trained as a journalist, she subsequently worked for public institutions and non-profit organisations internationally, including Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, Haus der Kunst, Munich, and Ashkal Alwan, Beirut. Her texts have been featured in exhibition catalogues and journals, including Rabih Mroué: Interviews (ed. Nadim Samman, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin: 2022) and Love and Ethnology: The Colonial Dialectic of Sensibility (after Hubert Fichte) (eds. Diedrich Diederichsen, Anselm Franke, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin: 2019), as well as in Third Text and Critical Arts. Her current Midlands4Cities funded research project at Birmingham City University investigates the aesthetics of citizen journalist media production and its appropriation in artistic, curatorial, and historiographical practices.