ABOUT

Annelies Kamen is an interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin. Working across installation, sculpture, print, writing, and video, she use methodologies of joke-making and storytelling to explore the (sometimes shaky) frameworks that govern how socio-political order is constructed. Her works often begin by identifying historical or autobiographical events that sit at the boundary between the farcical and the brutal, and, through research and fabulation, weave together seemingly small stories to compose improbable but revelatory narratives.

Kamen received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2011 and a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014. Her work has been exhibited internationally at, among others, TACA, Palma de Mallorca, the Biennial of Humor and Satire in Art in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago and fffriedrich in Frankfurt am Main. She was a 2018 fellow of the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenproject, Berlin and a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam from 2021-2023.

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