Coco Bannenberg

Art historian. I have worked at TEFAF since 2015, and in Museum Relations since 2020. In Amsterdam I give tailored museum tours, in English and Dutch.

I studied art history, art criticism and conservation at Utrecht University and Ancient Studies at the University of Amsterdam. During an internship at the RKD, the Netherlands Institute for Art History, I researched eighteenth-century Dutch sculpture.

At TEFAF, the international fine art and antiques fair, I wrote about art for a global audience and was responsible for social media. Since 2020 I have worked there in Museum Relations. From 2017 to 2020 I was also Director of Social Media at PAN Amsterdam.

In all those roles I wrote and spoke about art for people who do not work with it every day. In my tours I do the same in the museum, with the works in front of us.

I organise my museum tours independently, under my own name.

Provenance

My background, recorded the way the provenance of a work of art is.

2020 – presentTEFAFMuseum Relations
2015 – 2020TEFAFGlobal Art Content & Social Media Manager, Global Marketing & Communication, (online) art editor
2017 – 2020PAN AmsterdamDirector of Social Media
2014RKDInternship: research into eighteenth-century Dutch sculpture
2012 – 2016University of AmsterdamMA Ancient Studies
2009 – 2015Utrecht UniversityBA and MA Art History, art criticism and conservation

Coco Bannenberg looks up in a historic stairwell with a tall window and chandeliers — Stairwell with stucco ceiling and chandeliers.

How a tour goes

A small selection: I choose a limited number of works that suit your group, and we take time at each one.
Background in plain language: I explain who made the work, for whom and why, without jargon.
Room for questions: What catches your eye helps decide where we stop.