Disrupting the Establishment: Artistic Interventions in Natural History and Ethnographic Museums

lundi 02 février 2026
à 09:30
Winter School
Amphithéâtre

Lotte Arndt (Paris) is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Research in Cultural and Social History of Art (HiCSA) at the University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne. Between 2021 and 2025, she is working on the international research project ‘Reconnecting Objects. Epistemic Plurality and Transformative Practices in and beyond Museums’, as part of Bénédicte Savoy’s team at the Technical University of Berlin. In this context, she is conducting research on toxic collections, extractivism, and the contradictions of conservation in so-called ethnographic and natural history museums. More broadly, she supports the work of artists who question the postcolonial present and the contradictions of modernity from a transnational perspective. Between 2014 and 2021, she taught at the École supérieure d’art et design Valence Grenoble. She is co-founder and editor of the online journal Troubles dans les collections.

As part of the Winter School 2026, curated by architects Vanessa Pointet, and Thibaut Pierron co-founders of the Sub agency who have chosen ‘The Arts of the Environment’ as their theme.