Lotte Arndt. Photo: Samir Ramdani Lotte Arndt
Lotte Arndt is assistant professor at the research center for Cultural and Social History of Art (HiCSA) at the University Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her research focuses on toxic collections, extractivism and the antinomies of conservation in so-called ethnographic and natural history museums.
She is the co-founder of the online journal Troubles dans les collections, and co-curated recently Unextractable (Kunsthalle Mainz, 2023/2024) and Branching Streams. Sketches of Kinship (Ifan-Museum Dakar, 2024). Among her last publications is: Spreading the “scientific approach”: The chemical turn in conservation from the Musée d’ethnographie du Trocadéro to colonial museums in the French Empire (with A.Théveniaud), Museums & Social Issues.
