Director, the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Clive Kellner attended the first Johannesburg Biennale Trainee Curator Programme in South Africa and received further specialised training at De Appel in Amsterdam (1995-1996). He was appointed projects co-ordinator of the Africus Institute for Contemporary Art (AICA), Johannesburg (1996); assistant curator to both the South African national representation at the Sao Paulo Bienal (1996) and to the artistic director, Okwui Enwezor, of the Johannesburg Biennale (1997/98) and its monumental accompanying catalogue entitled Trade Routes: History and Geography. Work by 400 artists from 63 nations was displayed on this exhibition. He was also co-ordinator of the Rockefeller Foundation project: Ubuntu 2000 (1999); co-founder and director of a non-profit organisation, Camouflage in Parkwood, Johannesburg (1999-2001) that included a gallery, residency programme and an art journal; curator of a solo exhibition of Nigerian/UK artist Yinka Shonibare; and co-ordinator of the National Arts Council and British Council project: Connecting Flights (2000). Kellner has presented papers at various international conferences: Mostra Africana de Arte Contemporea, Museum for Modern Art, Sao Paulo; (Trans) Africa, Palais d'Egmont, Brussels; Towards Transit, Zurich; Five Continents and One City, Mexico City; the Havana Bienal, Cuba; Post apartheid contemporary art at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, Italy. He has also written for a variety of publications including Flash Art. International exhibitions of contemporary South African and African art that Kellner has curated include: Vice Verses, Austria (1999); Foto Biennale (2000), Rotterdam; Five Continent and One City, Mexico (2000);Atmosphere Metropolitane: Johannesburg Johannesburg, Milan in Italy (2000); and Videobrasil (2000), São Paulo. He is on the Advisory Boards of the School of the Arts, Tshwane University, and the School of Fine Arts, University of Johannesburg, and has adjudicated a number of awards and competitions: Vita Art Awards; Seychelles Biennale; Brett Kebble Art Awards 2005; and Alexandria Biennale, Egypt (2005).