An Paenhuysen

Credit: An Paenhuysen with Sahnehut (whipped cream hat) by Daniel Chluba

An Paenhuysen is a curator, art critic, writer and educator based in Berlin. Her curatorial career started at Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin, in 2009, curating exhibitions of Paul Pfeiffer, Land Art and Valeska Gert. As an independent curator she has worked internationally in various venues, such as at the Shanghai Duolun Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade Art Weekend, Reykjavik’s city library, and worldwide sheI accompanies the travelling exhibition Rosemarie Trockel of Ifa (Institute of Foreign Affairs). From 2019 to 2022, I was the director of the Berlin art space The House of The Deadly Doris.

An wrote her PhD on the cultural criticism of the Belgian artistic avant-garde at the University of Leuven, Belgium, and continued as a post-doc fellow at UC Berkeley, Columbia University in New York and Humboldt-University in Berlin. She  has published her writing in Spike Magazine, Contemporary And, Sotheby's, Berlin Art Link, etc. In 2020 she founded the publishing project AAAAA PPPPP Publishing for short format art writing.

An wrote her PhD about the cultural criticism of the Belgian artistic avant-garde and has published her writing in Spike Magazine, Contemporary And, Sotheby's, Berlin Art Link, etc. In 2020 she founded the publishing project AAAAA PPPPP Publishing for short format art writing.

Current art and/or research interest:

In her research, writing, and curatorial work An has a special focus on the small and the light-humoured, such as anecdotes, flash stories, instant theory, espresso talks, and eventualities.  

Overarching praxis statement:

An is a creative cultural historian. In her researching, writing and curating she is particularly interested in how art, similar to language, is a form of communication, and how in each communication there are plenty of transitions, transformations, confrontations. 

More about the artist:
www.anpaenhuysen.net