Anna Nunes van den Hoven
Born in Portugal (1993), based in the Hague, The Netherlands
Education
2016-2018 – MSc Biology, Behavior & Adaptation, Spiritual Forests, Wageningen University (NL)
2012-2016 – BSc Forest & Nature Conservation, Ecology, Wageningen University (NL)
Professional Development
2024 – Sculpture course with artist Ingrid Rekers, The Hague (NL)
2023–Present — Member, The Hague Artists, STROOM Den Haag (NL)
2022 – Member of This Work Club, This Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)
2021–2023 – Writing coaching by Yoeke Nagel, supported by Foundation Voordekunst (NL)
2022 – Masterclass Writing About Art by Marijan Cousijn, Museum Schiedam (NL)
Exhibitions
2025 – Aflorar | Terra e Memória, Instituto Camões (PT)
2024 – ART The Hague, Gallery OpenArtExchange (NL)
2024 – X Biennial of São Tomé and Príncipe (STP)
2024 – Limburg Biennale, Marres (NL)
2023 – ART The Hague, Gallery OpenArtExchange (NL)
2023 – SKIN, CBK Zuidoost (NL)
2023 – TIES, Gallery OpenArtExchange (NL)
2023 – Art in the Park, INNOCOM (BE)
2022 – In Memory, Dutch Portrait Prize, Loods 6 (NL)
2022 – Museum Night The Hague, Amare (NL)
2021 – Taking you there…, Gallery Warnars & Warnars (NL)
2021 – ART The Hague, Foundation Uit Het Gareel (NL)
2021 – Faraway Places, The Grey Space in the Middle (NL)
2020 – Stadshuis Wageningen (NL)
2019 – Museum Night The Hague (Jubilee Edition) (NL)
2019 – Impulse, Wageningen University & Research (NL)
Lectures/ Presentations / Workshops
2025 – Workshop EcoBody Gatherings, Life on Earth: Art & Ecofeminism, West Den Haag (NL)
2022 – Talk Alternative Realities, Museum Night, Amare (NL)
2020 – Lecture Wild Being, De Lievelinge (NL)
2019 – Talk The Line1 Parade, De Broodfabriek (NL)
2019 – Workshop Recapture of Paradise, Museum Night The Hague (NL)
Collections
Works held in private and public collections in the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, and the United States. Including CBK Zuidoost (NL) and CIMART BV (BE)
International Projects / Residencies
2025 – À Volta do Barro, the Netherlands (residency & workshops)
Partners: ceramicist Alcides Morais (Rabil, Cape Verde), Verhalenhuis Belvédère, Melanie Soares, Louisa Soares Lima, Jorge Lizardo (stichting Bruggenbouwers), Stichting MIJ, Wijkcentrum Post West Rotterdam, Gerstaecker BV, Municipality of Boa Vista and the Ministério da Cultura e das Indústrias Criativas (Cape Verde)
2025 – À Volta do Barro, Rabil, Cape Verde (residency)
Partners: Ceramic community of Rabil, Municipality of Boa Vista, CAC – Centro de Artes e Cultura Sal Rei, Ricardo Barbosa Vicente (curator)
2024 – À Volta do Barro, Lisbon, Portugal (residency, workshops)
Partners: ceramicist Isabel Sanches, FabLab Lisboa, Municipality of Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Cabo Verde – Lisboa, artist/prof. Virgínia Fróis (ethno-ceramics), Ricardo Barbosa Vicente (curator)
2023–2024 – O Mundo Imaginário, São Tomé (resideny)
Partners: Community of Santana, X Biennale of São Tomé and Príncipe, SOMA – organization against gender inequality
2023–Current — The Coloniality of Gender, São Tomé (residency, research, ongoing project)
Partners: Communities of Santana, Ribeira Afonso, Malanza, and Porto Alegre
2020–2022 – MeeMakers
Co-founder of this collective focused on artistic participation
Supported by: Stichting Voordekunst, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Platform ACCT, Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW)
2017–2021 – Sacred Forests, Boé, Guinea-Bissau (residency, research project)
Artistic-collective-scientific project, awarded by Wageningen University & Research for the collaboration with the inhabitants of the Boé
Partners: villagers of Belí, Capebonde & Uncire (Boé region), Government of Guinea-Bissau, Wageningen University, Chimbo Foundation
2015 — Human-Wildlife Conflict, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa (residency, research project)
Partners: Wageningen University & Research
2011 — Trees in the Lamont Forest, New Jersey & New York (residency, research project)
Partners: Columbia University, Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics
Awards and Grants
2024 – Project Grant, Internationale Samenwerking, Fund Culturparticipatie (NL)
2023 – Project Grant, Verkennen, Fund Cultuurparticipatie (NL)
2018 – Willem Barentsz Award, Wageningen University (NL)
