Annelies Kamen is an artist originally from the United States, now based in Berlin, Germany. Her works—spanning installation, writing, print and video—often begin from historical or autobiographical stories that sit at the boundary between the farcical and the brutal, and incorporate research into pop- and mass-culture to explore the social and political frameworks that govern how we determine what is true, false or constructed. She works with joke-making and absurdist storytelling, understanding the essential functioning of a joke as that of a revelatory trick: something admittedly false, gimmicky or artificial that nevertheless reveals a leak, a flaw, a true crack in an existing conceptual schema.
Kamen holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited internationally at, among others, TACA, Palma de Mallorca, the Biennial of Humor and Satire in Art, Gabrovo, Bulgaria, the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago. She was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, from 2021–2023.
Website: annelieskamen.com
video installation House Show, exhibited at Billytown in The Hague – photo by Bart Lunenburg