Anna Geukens

Anna Geukens is preparing an application as PhD researcher. She wants to research culture (policy) in an international context. The working title is: ‘The (meaning and the) role of culture in geopolitics and international relations’, case studies Japan, South Korea.

Some of you, know her, others don’t …

In 2021 she was involved in a research trajectory with CCQO and M HKA. The aim was to concretise the concept ‘constituent museum’ to a specific museum taking account of its context.

Anna worked at different culture policy levels, provincial, Flemish Community (culture cabinet, administration) and at the European Commission (DG EAC), studying and advising on culture policy development with a focus on visual arts and design, (eu)regional and European cooperation, finance opportunities, mobility of artists & culture professionals, international relations, … .

She participated in different kinds of working groups and managed culture projects in visual arts, design and heritage. For some time she was preparing the foundation of the Provincial Centre of Visual Arts and (ad interim) leading it. She is interested in multidisciplinary approaches, her personal driver is lifelong learning.