Pauline Terreehorst is a film theorist. From that background she writes about everything that passes by in the city. She was, among other things, a lecturer in film theory at Radboud University Nijmegen, director of AMFI, Amsterdam Fashion Institute, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, director of the Utrecht Centraal Museum and, until her retirement, director of Natlab, a film theater in Eindhoven. She was also a fashion journalist for de Volkskrant from 1985-2000. As early as 1994, she wrote about the potentially major social consequences of working from home due to the new digital possibilitiesThe Farm Model. In the academic year 2000-2001 she was press fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge UK.

 

Between 2005 and 2008 she initiated exhibitions about the relationship between art and science for the Centraal Museum,Genesis, about 'vernacular photography'  with Erik Kessels (Loving your pictures), an overview of the International Situationists, Hans op de Beeck Extensions and Script, about fashion and interior. Under her leadership, the Dick Bruna House (later Nijntje/Miffy Museum) opened.

 

Pauline Terreehorst wrote a number of books about film, photography, fashion, new media and urban culture. She published with Prometheus in November 2020. The secret of the Gucci suitcase. How the nobility disappeared from Central Europe. This fall (2024) the English translation will be published by Hurst, London.