Thoelen
About
Annelies Thoelen (BE, 1986) is coordinator of the Expertise Centre for Design at Design Museum Gent. She obtained a master’s degree in Art Science from KULeuven in 2008 and a PhD from UHasselt in 2015. Annelies started her career in 2013 at Design Flanders, where she was responsible for European design projects, acted as curator of ‘Konijn met Pruimen’ (2015) and collaborated on the selection and catalogue of the 8th Triennial for Design in Ghent (2016). There, she was editor of design magazine Kwintessens, published the handbook ‘Public Service Design’ (2015) and served on some Flemish art subsidy assessment committees. From 2018 to 2023, she was curator at Z33, Huis voor Actuele Kunst, Design en Architectuur in Hasselt, where she organised exhibitions such as ‘Fitting in’ (2022) and ‘Healing Water’ (2023) and was responsible for projects on Flemish design policy.
Annelies currently serves as international design advisor on the assessment committee of the Stimuleringsfonds voor Creatieve Industrie in Rotterdam and is a member of the editorial board of the Tijdschrift voor Interieurgeschiedenis en Design in Ghent. She has also been teaching design history and design actuality at various design courses within LUCA School of Arts since 2015. As an independent critic, Annelies has published in this is tomorrow Contemporary Art Magazine, HART/Glean, Kwintessens, DAMN magazine and New Ceramics. She also chairs Platform 0090 and is a board member of organisations such as FlandersDC, deBuren and KMSKA.
Published on
14 February 2025