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Bénédicte Savoy heads the Department of Modern Art History at the TU Berlin, holds an international professorship at the Collège de France in Paris, and has been involved in provenance research for years. She is a member of both the funding committee "Nazi-confiscated art" and the funding committee "Colonial Contexts" of the German Lost Art Foundation.
In 2018, the Paris-born researcher was commissioned by French President Emmanuel Macron to investigate, together with Senegalese scholar Prof. Felwine Sarr, the paths that art and cultural treasures from former European colonies have taken to French museums. The result was the widely acclaimed "Report on the Restitution of African Cultural Property," which recommends the return of most objects if they are reclaimed.
Most recently, Savoy published her book "Africa's Struggle for Its Art – History of a Postcolonial Defeat " (Verlag C. H. Beck). In it, she describes how African countries have been struggling for more than 50 years to return their treasures from European museums. The focus is on the question of which actors, structures and ideologies ensured that the project of an orderly, fair return of cultural property has failed so far.
