Lotte Arndt. Photo by 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.
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