© Anna Nunes 2025
About
Artistic practice between heritage and imagination
Anna Nunes (Portugal, 1993) is a Dutch-Portuguese artist based in The Hague, with a background in ecology. Working at the crossroads of heritage and imagination, she develops work rooted in collective memory and material storytelling.
With a strong focus on cultural traditions, her work explores how community-based knowledge — often passed on through gestures, crafts, and oral histories — can be reactivated as tools for connection, resistance, and more equitable social narratives.
She works closely with communities to co-create artistic processes that honour both collective memory and the lived realities of diasporic and postcolonial identities.
Collaboration, materiality, and cultural continuity
Her artistic work emerges from shared workshops, dialogue, and the exploration of local and organic matter charged with cultural and historical meaning.
Her practice is grounded in long-term collaborations with communities in Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé, Cape Verde and their diasporas, where she investigates how colonial histories have shaped — and often disrupted — intergenerational knowledge, gender roles, and cultural continuity.
Bridging artistic research and community engagement, her work opens space for new forms of remembering, reconnecting, and imagining shared futures.
