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ARCHIVO EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME
Bergit Arends
The Courtauld, United Kingdom
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Dr Bergit Arends is a curator of contemporary art, museum professional, and academic with research interests in the intersections of research-based artistic practices, material culture, and environmental history within European and global contexts. Bergit’s monograph Photography, Ecology and Historical Change in the Anthropocene: Activating Archives (2024) is part of the Routledge series Photography, Place, Environment. Her doctoral research resulted among other in the award-winning publication Chrystel Lebas. Field Studies (2018). Bergit has curated many contemporary art projects for the natural history museums in London and Berlin. Bergit was British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Bristol and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, where she is now a Teaching Fellow. She is Curatorial Research Fellow in the UK Research and Innovation Network Plus ‘Shifting Global Polarities: Russia, China and Eurasia in Transition’. Bergit is also a Research Associate in the multinational CoastARTS programme, working together with artists to retrieve, to mobilise, and to shape new forms of environmental knowledge in relation to the dynamics of coastal zones.
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