© Anna Nunes 2025
About
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 artistic processes rooted in collective memory and material storytelling.
With a strong focus on cultural traditions, her work explores how embodied knowledge — often passed on through tradition, craft and oral narratives — can be reconnected and carried forward as forms of relation, resistance, and more equitable ways of living together.
In close collaboration with communities, she co-creates artistic trajectories that honour both shared memory and the lived realities of diasporic and postcolonial identities.
Collaboration, materiality, and cultural continuity
Her artistic practice emerges from long-term collaborations, participatory methods and dialogue, grounded in local materials that carry historical and cultural depth.
She works with communities in Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé, Cape Verde and their diasporas, tracing how colonial histories have disrupted intergenerational knowledge, gender roles and cultural continuity. Bridging artistic research and community-based engagement, her work opens space for new forms of remembering, reconnecting and imagining shared futures — through clay, gesture, storytelling and collaborative creation.
Clay, memory and reconnection
Her current focus lies in À Volta do Barro, an international project dedicated to reconnecting female ceramic traditions in postcolonial contexts — traditions interrupted by colonial processes. Through residencies in Cape Verde and Europe, the project unfolds as a collective archive of reconnection, where female heritage lines, local materials and shared memory intertwine in artistic acts of continuity and renewal.
