Anne Marijn Voorhorst (1992, NL) is a poet and writer of prose and art criticism. Alongside this, she makes drawings and works as DJ V von Willendorf. Since 2022, she is part of the editorial team of the Dutch online literary magazine DIG.
Her debut collection of poetry will be published by PoëzieCentrum (Ghent, BE) on 28 October 2026.
She writes about desire, intimacy and power structures, and has a fascination for gothic and body horror. Spatial structures such as shopping malls and caves are at the core of her poetic practice.
She regularly collaborates with visual artists, including Natasja Mabesoone, Minne Kersten, Dan Walwin and Charlott Weise. In her dj project Verse Merges, she intuitively explores the intersection of poetry and music.
In 2021, she was a writer-in-residence in Paris (by deBuren & the Biermans-Lapôtre Foundation). In 2023, she received a grant through the Dutch Foundation for Literature’s ‘Impulse scheme for starting literary creators’.
Her poetry was published in Dutch and Flemish literary magazines such as De Gids, De Revisor, nY, Kluger Hans, Deus Ex Machina, Samplekanon, DIG and in several artist publications. Reviews, interviews and articles on contemporary art and theatre were published by Metropolis M, Tubelight and Oerol Festival.
She performed her poetry and stories at stages in the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
As V von Willendorf, she dj’d at Radio Hinter, Skatecafe, SEXYLAND World, Lesbival, Van de Radar Festival, W139, Arti et Amicitiae (Amsterdam), Roodkapje (Rotterdam), In De Ruimte and Viernulvier (Ghent).
Poetry één en twéé | published in the magazine of CC De Adelberg, with artworks by Natasja Mabesoone, Jill Vandorpe & Nienke Baeckelandt | accompanying the group show What Are Words Worth? | 2024
Poetry the dreams have arrived and Presence and I | published in *ghosts don’t like new things, accompanying Minne Kersten’s solo show at Atelier Néerlandais (Paris, FR) | artworks by Minne Kersten and texts by Maria Barnas, Won Jin Choi, Georgia Renee-Worms | concept by Minne Kersten, graphic design by Rudy Guedj | 2023
Prose Some ruin | fictive exhibition text published in the hand-out accompanying Dan Walwin’s solo Relief | PLATO Ostrava (CZ) | graphic design by Virginie Gauthier | 2023
Poetry and visuals Transplantaties | published by DIG as part of the Cringe dossier | 2023
Poetry Westfield Forum & Aan de rand van het plein is een revolutie in skincare uitgebroken| published by Samplekanon | 2022
Prose Tot uw dienst / At Your Service / A votre service | published by De Lage Landen, The Low Countries and Les Plat Pays | translated by Laura Vroomen and Noëlle Michel | 2021
Correspondence Ver weg van veel with Miek Zwamborn | published by Metropolis M | 2019
Prose Overlooking | as part of the artist publication House of Stories | with texts by Carina Erdmann, Sarah Arnolds, Maurits de Bruijn, Revka Bijl, Caren Beilin, David Bernstein, Nicolina Eklund, Alexandra Karpilovski, Olga Terre, Daniel Vorthuys, Garrett Nelso | concept by Carina Erdmann | 2017
Poetry ?! | as part of Charlott Weise’s exhibition Take Me Away / Leva-me para longe | A Maior, Viseu (PT) | concept by Bruno Zhu | 2017
Prose and art criticism | >6 accounts and reviews of work by artists-in-residence at Kunsthuis SYB | Müge Yilmaz, Toon Fibbe and Laura Wiedijk, Miek Zwamborn and Yeb Wiersma, Edward Clydesdale Thomson, Sjoerd Westbroek and Frans-Willem Korsten | 2015-2017
🧑💻 Anne Marijn Voorhorst
✉️ voorhorst.am@gmail.com
🌀@annemarijnvoorhorst & LinkedIn
📕 Read 2 poems in English in the artist publication *ghosts don’t like new things
➡️ Further activities:
- (Guest) teacher | Image & Language, Gerrit Rietveld Academie
- Art critic (7+ yrs experience | Metropolis M, Tubelight, Oerol Festival)
- Grant officer (3 years experience | Stroom Den Haag, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Culture Moves Europe-European Commission/Goethe Institut)
- Fundraiser (6+ yrs experience | Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, individual artists)
- Communications officer (5+ yrs experience | Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Kunsthuis SYB)
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