Annchen Bronkowski

Annchen Bronkowski is an art and visual culture historian with a PhD in art historical studies from the University of Cape Town. She also holds a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from Stellenbosch University and an Honours degree in Curatorship from the University of Cape Town. Following her studies in South Africa, she completed a Master’s in Museum studies at the University College London and a Master’s in Art History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her doctoral research presents the first thorough history of the South African national pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Her research interests revolve around the issues of collective identities and the politics of their representation – the institutions of public art, the structures of their functions, thesocio-politics of their construction, and the dialogues about their meanings. Her expertise covers especially identity politics as they are complicated at large-scale national or international art and culture events. She has been awarded numerous grants and awards by institutions like the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, and the Arts in Society Research Network.