Contact
  • Email: benedicte.savoy@tu-berlin.de
  • Mobile: +49 (0)30 314 5014
  • Address: Technische Universität Berlin, Institut Für Kunstwissenschaft und Historische Urbanistik, Straße des 17. Juni 150/52, Sekr. A 56, 10623 Berlin

Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Savoy

is an art historian and a PI (Principal Investigator) in the project, and lives in Berlin, where she researches the history of the translocation of artworks and the restitution of African cultural artifacts from museum collections.

Bénédicte Savoy is Chair of Modern Art History at the Technische Universität Berlin. From 2016 to 2021, she was Professor of the Cultural History of Artistic Heritage in Europe, 18th – 20th Century, at the Collège de France in Paris. In 2018, together with the Senegalese scholar Felwine Sarr, she was commissioned by French President Emmanuel Macron to write a report on “The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage.” She has received numerous awards for her research and academic teaching, including the 2016 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). She is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the German Academy of Language and Literature, and a wide range of academic advisory boards and councils.

Publications

Bénédicte Savoy, Afrikas Kampf um seine Kunst: Geschichte einer postkolonialen Niederlage (Munich: C. H. Beck, 2021).

Bénédicte Savoy, Museen: Eine Kindheitserinnerung und die Folgen (Cologne: Greven Verlag. 2019).

Bénédicte Savoy, Die Provenienz der Kultur: Von der Trauer des Verlusts zum universalen Menschheitserbe (Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2018).

Bénédicte Savoy und Felwine Sarr, Rapport sur la restitution du patrimoine culturel africain: Vers une nouvelle éthique relationnelle (Paris: Seuil/Philippe Rey, 2018). http://restitutionreport2018.c...

Bénedicte Savoy, Kunstraub: Napoleons Konfiszierungen in Deutschland und die europäischen Folgen (Vienna: Böhlau, 2010).

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