writing — anpaenhuysen

I love things, which are short and light: eventualities, instant theory, Zwischenakte, espresso talks, in-between-moments, dimunitivi italiani, and finger exercises. In writing, I’m especially fond of picture haikus: a combination of an image and some words, but also of vignettes, taking minutes, and flash stories. Lately, I have been interested in creating DIY-poems.

I (Almost) Met Andy Warhol

I (Almost) Met Andy Warhol. Life and Other Conversations is published by dai in 2025 and presented at la bonheur, Berlin and The Rooftop Gallery, Padua. The book follows A, who made his way into the art world by bartending at the Shoreditch Electricity Showroom in London in the 1990s. From there, we follow A to the golden years of Dubai in the early 2000s, a visit to New York City in 2009 to interview the Factory collaborators of Andy Warhol, and a nostalgic Berlin of the 2010s.The novel is a blend of short stories, interviews, a detective story, and even a quiz.

Things with Teeth

Things with Teeth. The Critic as Detective is a short pamphlet with flash stories of my travels in the art world. Art is not only to look at, it also makes you look and listen away to what is happening around it. The booklet was published in 2024 by AAAAA PPPPP Publishing and launched in Seoul with the team of the Sungkok Museum. Since then it has been travelling along, in my pocket, wherever I go.

DIY-Planet-Poem

Rehfeldt Mail Art Archive, Chertluedde Galerie, Berlin
I responded to an open call that gave Ruth Rehfeldt’s Divided World Poem as a prompt.

DIY-POEM

A Do-It-Yourself Poem can be written every day anew, depending on your mood, the weather, the circumstances. Besides making various arrangements with the elements, you can also place it on a background and let it interact.

DIY-M.B.-Poem

On the occasion of Marcel Broodthaers’ 100th birthday on 28 January 2024, I made a limited series of a Do It Yourself M.B.-Poem. It was beautifully installed in the display of the Walther König Bookstore in Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin, in the good company of Dieter Roth and Andy Warhol.

Filliousophy & Try a Twombly

two booklets written in collaboration with Milos Zahradka Maiorana. Filliousophy is a multi-book with a limited edition of a poster and a DIY-poem, exploring a filliousophical methodogy. Try a Twombly was based on our workshop at the Door Factory in Rome, which was an exercise in writing away from what writing is supposed to look like. Both are published as a limited artist edition by Multimondo Press, silkscreen cover, Rome, 2024

Les Petits Déjeuners Littéraires

a series of zines available as literary breakfast at Cafe Monsieur Ibrahim, Kreuzberg: Improvements to the Italian Language, and Colour Poems in 2023 and a Coffee Talk, early 2024, followed by Food Stories with my very own patronage of the cookie Mont Blanc. Summer 2024: a Holiday Poem, and for August / September: Schedules. 2025: Listosophy - a philosophy of lists.

Place of Weatherings + Villa Nr. 55

two booklets documenting an archive residency in 2 parts: Villa Nr. 55 is accompanied by a multiple of bookstands in paper-maché, that can also be seen as an embrace or as the garden walls of the villa.