Creative Art Criticism and Writing
Duration: July 11 – August 8, 2024
Fee: 189€
Max Seats: 32
Enroll Before: July 8, 2024
Live Sessions: 2 hours per week
In this course, we delve into experimental and hybrid forms of art writing. On a macro-level we will investigate how art criticism can open up to a bigger realm that goes beyond a particular artwork or exhibition, providing insight into ongoing tendencies and movements in contemporary culture. How do critics put the inger on the pulse of their times? On a micro-level, we will also look for ways to expand art criticism’s narrative into the poetic and the fictional. What happens when non-fiction and fiction meet in art criticism?
This is a very hands-on course, filled with in-class exercises, active engagement and assignments. The general aim of this course is to develop a better sense of your own personal interests, voice and style. We will experiment with the writing of art criticism not just to find new creative forms but for what it can contribute to the art world in a deeper way.
About An Paenhuysen
An Paenhuysen is an independent curator, writer and art critic based in Berlin. From 2019 to 2022 she was the director of ‘The House of The Deadly Doris’, where she organised events to activate its 1980s punk archive. Recently, An curated ‘Hotel Belgrade’, the main venue for Belgrade Art Week 2021 and ‘Sign and Arts. Deaf Culture / Hearing Culture’ at Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art. 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.