I’m Louise Thurin.

Based in Paris, France.

Louise Thurin is an independent author, curator, and researcher specializing in the visual cultures of the Black Worlds. Since 2021, she coordinates research programmes and academic projects for Centre Pompidou’s unit AWARE : Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions, focusing on enhancing the visibility of Caribbean, African, Black, and Indigenous women artists through knowledge production. Her expertise led her to serve as a consultant for UNESCO's Routes of Enslaved Peoples programme in 2024.

Louise Thurin began her art history education in a CPGE humanities track (Lycée International de Paris – Honoré de Balzac: Hypokhâgne in Geopolitics and Khâgne in History and Geography; 2016–2018) before attending the École du Louvre (Specialty XIXth- and early XXth-century French art; 2018–2020). She completed her Master’s degree (MBA) in Global Art Business (Marché international de l’art) at ICART Paris - Ecole du management de la culture in 2022.

Believing in lifelong learning, Louise Thurin continues to expand her expertise through certified online courses (MOOCs) in heritage, cultural management, and diplomacy — including Archaeology and Heritage of Africa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Cultural Diplomacy (European University Institute), La Philanthropie: Comprendre et Agir (ESSEC Business School), Arts and Heritage Management (Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi), Heritage under Threat (Universiteit Leiden), Antiquities Trafficking and Art Crime (University of Glasgow), and Evaluation for Arts, Culture, and Heritage: Principles and Practice (University of Leeds).

“My mother arrived as a child in Metropolitan France from its insular Caribbean territory of Martinique. My father was raised in rural France from a family who had partly recently emigrated from Poland. I am known for my every-day, personal and professional involvement in Africans’ and People of African descent’s access to their Cultural rights. I do believe that everything historic, artistic or, to speak more broadly, “cultural” from the African continent and its diasporic communities is of global great interest and that access to their knowledge is a fundamental right to everyone, who- and wherever they may be.”