Louisa Potthast (b. Germany, based in Chicago) is an independent curator and facilitator working with museums and art spaces to create accessible and engaging art experiences.

In her research and curatorial practice, she focuses on material cultural practices, visual culture, and socially engaged art.

She is co-director of KIOSK, an independent art space in Chicago that works with artists and curators to create a platform for self-taught practices, vernacular art, and regional traditions.

As an accessibility consultant for the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Louisa works across departments to advance accessibility initiatives, including web accessibility, inclusive programming, and compliance with ADA guidelines. Projects include creating online exhibitions and archival projects, such as the Frida Kahlo archive in NMWA’s collection.

In 2021, she co-founded Logly, a museum software that helps institutions create digital exhibition guides and archives. She has worked on projects with the Grassroots Art Center in Lucas, Kansas, and the Art Center of the Bluegrass in Danville, Kentucky.

Other experience includes working with Museum Folkwang, where she authored and translated texts for exhibition guides, including The Assembled Human (2019–2020) and Uncannily Real: Italian Painting of the 1920s (2018–2019), and working as an editor at TASCHEN.

Recent publications include an introductory text for Nos vemos en el cosmos. Ein Tagebuch über die Kunst des gemeinsamen Webens by Sofía Magdits Espinoza (2026, Scridelio Verlag, forthcoming) and Living with Mies by Arina Dähnick, for which she served as editor and translator (2024, forthcoming).

Louisa holds an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Rochester, an M.A. in American Studies from the University of Cologne, and a B.A. in Art History and English Studies from the University of Cologne.