ANNELIES NUY BIO

Born in the Netherlands.
Lives and works between Amsterdam, Italy and Bogotá.

Annelies Nuy is an artist, curator and concept developer whose practice connects art, fashion and technology with questions of public access, cultural memory and the circulation of knowledge.

Since the late 1990s, Nuy has explored how technological change can open up existing systems within fashion and culture. During this period, she developed digital fashion platforms, networked models and new forms of distribution at a time when the internet had barely entered the infrastructure of the fashion industry.

This engagement with technology as a means rather than a subject in itself continues in her current work. The focus has shifted from commercial and industrial systems towards cultural access: how art, knowledge and history can circulate again within the public realm.

In Conversation Pieces, the accessory takes on the function of an interface. Through its unique ID and QR code, the physical object connects to cultural heritage that has disappeared from public view, to the provenance of the work and to the historical context from which it has become detached.

With Beyond the Freeport, this connection extends into an immersive environment, where dispersed works, provenance and historical context are brought together to recover the larger historical narrative.

Nuy’s practice consistently moves between physical objects and new infrastructures for cultural access.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026 Post-Colonial Gold — A Counter-Archive
2025 The 10 Most Polluting Artworks — Greta Thunberg Vision, Anasaea Immersive Platform
2024 100 Women in Art You Need to Know — Artivisme Féminin, immersive exhibition
2023 Rewriting History — Black Women in Renaissance Costumes, immersive exhibition
2023 Queer Fantasies — Queer Men in Military Aesthetics, immersive exhibition
2023 Abstract Wall for Future Environments, Acqui Terme, IT

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Perfectly Imperfect — Flaws, Blemishes and Defects, Gewerbemuseum, Winterthur, CH
2021 Quiet Queer, Salon Smit & Soetekoew, Vrijpaleis, Amsterdam, NL
1997 Life Values Anno 1997, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
1997 Open Air Performance — wearable intervention, Valkhof Museum, Nijmegen, NL
1996 Anti-Fashion Statement — critique on gender and dress codes, Galerie Intermezzo, NL
1993 Sonsbeek — collaboration with Ruud van de Wind, Arnhem, NL

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2023–2025 Immersive exhibition series, Anasaea Platform — art history, gender, post-colonial narratives and public accessibility
2014–2024 Independent curatorial programme, Vrijpaleis, Amsterdam, NL

ADVISORY / COMMISSIONS / INITIATIVES

2001 Initiator of Fashion Uncut, BNO Amsterdam — platform for emerging designers, in collaboration with Walter van Beirendonck
2000 Member of advisory council for Prince Willem-Alexander — development of a vision on the role of ICT in society, in collaboration with the McLuhan Institute, Toronto, and Derrick de Kerckhove
2000 Development of Fashion Community platform for the Design Institute Netherlands
1999 Founder of Triple F — one of the first Dutch online fashion platforms combining content, community and sales

PROJECTS / CULTURAL EVENTS

2001 Launch event Triple F, BNO Amsterdam — Chemistry, Amsterdam
1999–2001 Development of an interactive designer network based on connected intelligence systems
1999 Concept development, Brussels Cyber Theater

PRESENTATIONS / LECTURES

2024 Lecture, Fashion & Technology Bootcamp — immersive fashion-tech programme, STUDYXR, Barcelona, ES
2001 Presentation on sustainable design, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, FR
1999 Lecture, Fashion and the Future, ArtEZ, NL
1999 Presentation on digital fashion platforms, Vormgevingsinstituut, Amsterdam, NL
1999 Think tank sessions on digital culture and network thinking with Derrick de Kerckhove, McLuhan Institute Toronto, Futuroscope Technology Park, Poitiers, FR
1999 Professional development programme for forward-thinking practitioners, Anton Dreesmann Institute, Amsterdam, NL
1997 Invited presentation, Fashion and the Future — textile innovation for medical wear, Cologne Trade Fair, Cologne, DE
1997 Invited installation and presentation, Rijnstate Hospital opening — rethinking nursing attire, Arnhem, NL

ACADEMIC / EDUCATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS

2023 Workshops on sustainability and art — Kintsugi as a framework for repair and emotional recovery, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
2023 Guest lectures on resilience and visible scars through Kintsugi, Delft University of Technology, NL
2000–2003 Coordinator and educational contributor, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague — early digital pattern development with Lectra
2000 Educational involvement, ArtEZ Arnhem — shortening the fashion chain through digital platforms
2000 Graduation committee member, ArtEZ Enschede — evaluation of future-oriented fashion practices

SPECIAL PERFORMANCES

2010 Digital performance, Shanghai World Expo (Mattmo), Shanghai, CN — non-linear visual storytelling through video
2010 Digital performance with Marcel van der Vlugt, Moscow, RU — continuation of the Shanghai project

FASHION PRESENTATIONS — INVITED

2009 Independent Women, Boudoir Fair, Berlin, DE — collaboration with Mayouri Sengchanh, exchange with ESMOD Paris
2007 Public Award, Ultra Show, Paris, FR
2006 Independent Women, Ultra Show, Paris, FR — alter egos, role-play and identity transformation
2005 Glasgow Fashion Week, Glasgow, UK
2004 London Fashion Week, London, UK
2000 Amsterdam Fashion Week, Amsterdam, NL

INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS / COLLABORATIONS

2009–2019 Projects in concept development, artistic direction and advisory work realised across Amsterdam, London, Paris, Berlin, Glasgow, Barcelona, Mallorca, Miami, Saint Barthélemy, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Bangkok, Manila, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait City and Moscow.

Collaborations included global brands such as Diageo (World Class), Perrier-Jouët, Rémy Cointreau, Pernod Ricard, The Balvenie, Chivas Regal, Monkey 47, Drambuie, Disaronno, Copperhead, Red Bull, Ketel One, Diplomático, Bols and Heineken.

PUBLICATIONS / PRESS

International press coverage includes Vogue, Elle, Le Figaro, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), Textile Wirtschaft and La Vie en Rose, alongside features in FashionUnited, The Daily Record, CARP and multiple articles in Het Parool.

EDUCATION

1993–1998 ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem, NL — Fashion & Technology, cum laude, including art history
Post-1998 Independent research in art history, with a focus on women artists from 1500 to the present

AWARDS / GRANTS

2025 Acknowledged for pioneering work in fashion and technology, STUDYXR, Barcelona, ES
2007 Public Award and Mention for Most Innovative Design, Ultra Show, Paris, FR
1997 Electronic Highway Innovation Award, NL
1997 Dutch Government Grant — Cultural Entrepreneurship Incentive Scheme, NL