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Writer, Editor, Curator and Producer

LE COOL
As editor-in-chief of the LE COOL magazine and city
guide, Miss van Gaalen commissions a new
Amsterdam artist each week to design a cover that
represents his or her view of the city.

For a small selection of the works submitted click
here: LE COOL

GUM
GUM - Saatchi & Saatchi's latest brainchild - has
launched CULT-GEIST: a global intelligence network.
GUM matches brands & talent to create
entertainment-based properties targeted towards
reaching urban youth.

Miss Van Gaalen has worked on a number of projects
with GUM, one of them being 4C: an
exhibition/conference, which aims to create an
experience where culture, content, communication
and commerce converge. GUM website

DUTCH MASTERS
Dutch Masters – Street Art & Urban Painting is the first ever museum
exhibition on this subject to be held in th Netherlands. Hosted in the GEM in  
The Hague, the exhibition features work by artists that have two things in
common: they make and exhibit their work both in the street and in art
galleries and they've helped shaped modern visual and youth culture.

Curators: Anneloes van Gaalen, Peter van Rhoon and Hugo Mulder.

For more information on the exhibit, the accompanying catalogue or a small
impression of the works on display, click here: DUTCH MASTERS: Street
Art & Urban Painting

CODE & RELOAD MAGAZINE
As curator of the art pages in magazines like CODE and Reload, Miss van
Gaalen has been able to bring the work of people like JR, Adam Neate, Mr.
Ministeck, Antistrot, Martyn F. Overweel, Dalek, D*Face and other (street)
artists to a wider audience.

The first CODE gallery was exhibited at the Amsterdam Carhartt store and
the Resfest Festival in Rotterdam.

For photos of both events, click here: CODE & RELOAD MAGAZINE

"I work in a variety of fields - (online) media, newspapers, magazines,
galleries, museums, television - but in all these different fields I get to
work with amazing young artists. That's where my passion lies."
                                                                                        Anneloes van Gaalen

FACE 2 FACE: JR
JR owns the biggest art gallery in the world: he exhibits freely in the streets
of the world, catching the attention of people who are not necessarily
museum visitors. In what will be his first exhibition in The Netherlands, JR
and guest curator Miss van Gaalen will be showing his work, intriguing
portraits in very large formats, inside and outside Foam Photography
Museum, as well as in the streets of the city of Amsterdam.

For more info click here: JR at Foam

PICABIA
While working on VPRO's latest magazine on art and visual culture,
PICABIA, Miss van Gaalen got to make items on some of the world's most
renowned street artists like Adam Neate and the French street
photographer JR, as well as on Beautiful Losers, the world's largest
travelling exhibition on contemporary art and street culture.

Other artists featured in the show were Joep van Lieshout, Madeleine
Berkhemer and music video director Chris Milk.  

For more information on the show and clips of the items made click here:
PICABIA