Ameli Klein recently relocated to Vienna, working as a freelance curator for a.topos Venice while holding the position of Consulting Curator at Castello di Potentino in Tuscany. Previously to this position she has finished a fellowship at Cornell University in the Department of Art History. Her research at Cornell examined the ongoing impact of the manifestations of the Enlightenment on the collecting, display and research practice of western museums. Focusing her research on the deconstruction of the belief that the appreciation of art shapes the moral and ethical character of the viewer and the resulting problematics of the appropriation of art to propagandize and promote political, religious or cultural ideologies. Building on this theoretical framework her curatorial practice is strongly informed by contemporary artists that grapple with the concepts of east and west, the global south and euro-centrality. Ameli completed her BA in Art History and American Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, where she received a fellowship of the Art History Department at Dartmouth College, NH. Subsequently pursuing graduate work at the Freie University, Berlin and the University of Vienna. Parallel to her academic occupation she has worked as the Directors Assistant to the Dartmouth Program in Rome for Prof. Nick Camerlenghi, and has been involved in the curatorial departments of the Hood Museum of Art, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. Ameli has worked for the German Pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia during the last three years, as a Project Assistant, Catalog Researcher and Pavilion Manager.