Ameli Klein

Ameli M. Klein is a curator, writer, and researcher. Her work moves across exhibition-making, critical writing, and discursive programming, with a sustained focus on how cultural institutions produce, legitimize, and transmit ideology — interrogating the persistence of Enlightenment methodologies in contemporary curatorial practice and the mechanisms through which cultural narratives are constructed and contested. Klein has curated exhibitions and discursive programming at venues including e-flux New York, V-A-C Zattere Venice, Interference Archive New York, and Drugo More Rijeka, among others. She has held visiting lecturer positions at the IZK Institute for Contemporary Art at TU Graz and the Roaming Academy of the Dutch Art Institute, and has served as a visiting critic at the Design Department of the Royal College of Art, London.

Klein currently serves as director of Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, the Rhineland-based contemporary art institution dedicated to experimental exhibition-making and critical public programming. There, she recently concluded the five-part exhibition cycle Genius Loci: Notes on Places (2025), grounded in the writings of Vernon Lee and featuring works by Ruth Beraha, Maeve Brennan, Zuzanna Czebatul, Kevin Jerome Everson, Hélène Fauquet, Andrea Geyer, Itamar Gov, Gabriella Hirst, Gideon Horváth, Sophie Jung, Aziza Kadyri, Kalos&Klio, Marcos Kueh, Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, Germain Marguillard, Omar Mismar, Brittany Nelson, Elena Njoabuzia Onwochei-Garcia, Panos Profitis, Paola Siri Renard, Ilê Sartuzi, and others.