Bergit Arends

Bergit Arends is interested in how the sciences and the arts intertwine to form cultural knowledge. She has been Curator of Contemporary Art at the Natural History Museum in London since September 2005. Curated exhibitions include Lucy + Jorge Orta Amazonia- Mark Dion: Systema Metropolis (2007) and in 2006 The Ship: The Art of Climate Change in partnership with Cape Farewell. She co-ordinated the Wellcome Trust’s sci-art programme between 1999 to 2004. Bergit graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1997.