Writer, artist, phd in art history, Anne Penders is an interdisciplinary artist working with text, images, sounds, archives, and calling it “writing”. Her work constantly tries to question position (both theoretical and territorial) in a troubled world. After concentrating on a certain idea of China (2001-2014), she focused her research around Greece (2012-2021…). In 2017, an encounter with a biologist in Athens led to a long term ongoing project called “peripou” (2017- …), born out of a research on memory and bees, it nows digs into (mis)understanding between art and science.
Currently based in and around Brussels, she regularly collaborates with other artists, notably Katie Porter with whom she created the duo MUD.
She has published books (essays, novels, poetry, artists books, some of which have been translasted), made numerous shorts films and sound creations (fiction, experimental documentaries and installations). She has also taught in diverse art schools, and still does when invited.