PROF ANDREW HENNLICH
BA Art History and Political Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (USA); MA Art History, University of North Carolina (UNC) (USA); PhD Art History and Visual Studies, University of Manchester, Manchester (UK).
Prof Hennlich is Associate Professor of Art History in the Gwen Frostic School of Art at Western Michigan University. His research examines artists working in contexts of political transition including Germany, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Prof Hennlich’s most recent publications include ‘“Inhospitable it Would Be”: Rivers of Unbelonging in Willie Doherty’s Secretion’ Holocaust Studies (2024), and ‘Out of the Blue and into the Black: Mobility and Sculptural Opacity in the Work of Flaka Haliti and Serge Alain Nitegeka’ Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (2021).
In 2016, Hennlich curated a touring exhibition, After the Thrill is Gone: Fashion, Politics and Culture in Contemporary South African Art, which opened at the Richmond Centre of Visual Art at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (USA). After the Thrill is Gone travelled to College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio (USA) and subsequently to The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), San Francisco, California (USA) in 2018.
Hennlich writes widely on contemporary art, including chapters in Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa (WITS University Press, 2019); Film, History Public Memory (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015); Making Futures (Plymouth College of Art, 2014); and German Colonialism Revisited: African, Asian and Oceanic Experiences (University of Michigan Press, 2013). His current research includes two book projects: (un)Fixing the Eye: William Kentridge, Envisioning Postapartheid South Africa, and a second provisionally titled Creaturely Habitats: Flaka Haliti, Kosovo and the Politics of Utopia. He also serves as the President of the WMU-AAUP/AFT Local 6763, Western’s board-appointed faculty union.
Prof Andrew Hennlich joined VIAD in 2018.
