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 possibilities het Boerderijmodel (The 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, an overview of the International Situationists, and Script, about

fashion and interior. Under her leadership, the Dick Bruna House (later Miffy Museum  opened.

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Pauline Terreehorst wrote a number of books about film, photography, fashion,

new media and urban culture. She published with Prometheus in November 2020. Het geheim van de Gucci-koffer. In the fall of 2024 the English translation Secrets of a Suitcase was published by Hurst, London.