The works of Münster-based artist Anne Kückelhaus have a nar­ra­ti­ve qua­li­ty. At first glan­ce, they appear to be natu­ra­li­stic depic­tions of ani­mals. A clo­ser look at her works reve­als, howe­ver, that what is depic­ted can­not be mere­ly ani­mal sto­ries; rather, they tell of humans and their coexis­tence with ani­mals. In her ‘bit­ters­weet-shim­mer’ pro­ject, the artist exami­nes the diver­se con­nec­tions bet­ween dogs and humans and wea­ves them into her dra­wings, instal­la­ti­ons and sculp­tu­ral com­po­si­ti­ons. However, she is not inte­res­ted in the direct­ness of the nar­ra­ti­ve in the sen­se of an illus­tra­ti­on, but rather in the unsett­ling com­ple­xi­ty of a work of art that evo­kes the fami­li­ar and the known.