I'm a creative cultural historian. My interests in researching, writing and curating are focused on what is often overlooked or ignored as unimportant and trivial like, for example, the critical potential of the short and the light-humoured, literature’s hand luggage (anecdotes, minutes, ...) or that what happens in-between (during the pause) or on the side (there is a beautiful word for it in German:Nebensächlichkeiten).
I wrote my 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. I was a fellow of the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles and the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung, Berlin.
My 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 I have worked internationally in various venues, such as at the Shanghai Duolun Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade Art Weekend, Reykjavik’s city library, and worldwide I accompany 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. Since 2024, I am the director of The Boxing Gallery in Milan, a space for happenings under the auspices of the Fondazione Arthur Cravan.
Contact: paenhuysenan@gmail.com
Follow: @anpaenhuysen
Photo by Filippo Romano at The Boxing Gallery, Milan
I wrote my 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. I was a fellow of the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles and the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung, Berlin.
My 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 I have worked internationally in various venues, such as at the Shanghai Duolun Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade Art Weekend, Reykjavik’s city library, and worldwide I accompany 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. Since 2024, I am the director of The Boxing Gallery in Milan, a space for happenings under the auspices of the Fondazione Arthur Cravan.
Contact: paenhuysenan@gmail.com
Follow: @anpaenhuysen
Photo by Filippo Romano at The Boxing Gallery, Milan