Anna Nunes 

Anna Nunes is a visual artist born in Portugal (1993) and currently based in The Hague, the Netherlands. Her practice explores the intersections of heritage, ecology, and embodied memory through participatory installations and rituals. She engages with ancestral knowledge systems and collaborates with communities across Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé, Cape Verde, and their diasporas, interweaving narratives of land, memory, and healing.

Education

• 2017 – MSc Biology, Animal Behavior & Adaptation, Wageningen University

• 2012 – BSc Forest & Nature Conservation, Ecology, Wageningen University

Professional Development

• 2022 – Member of This Work Club, This Art Foundation, Amsterdam

• 2022 – Writing coaching by Yoeke Nagel, supported by Foundation Voordekunst

• 2022 – Masterclass Cultural Networking by Nienke van der Wal, Museum Schiedam

• 2022 – Masterclass Writing About Art by Marijan Cousijn, Museum Schiedam

Exhibitions

Selected

• 2025 – Aflorar | Terra e Memória, Instituto Camões, Lisbon

• 2024 – ART The Hague, OpenArtExchange, The Hague

• 2024 – X Biennial of São Tomé and Príncipe

• 2024 – Limburg Biennale, Marres, Maastricht

• 2023 – ART The Hague, OpenArtExchange, The Hague

• 2023 – SKIN, CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam

• 2023 – TIES, OpenArtExchange, Schiedam

• 2023 – Art in the Park (Jubilee Edition), INNOCOM, Beerzel, Belgium

• 2022 – In Memory – Dutch Portrait Prize, Loods 6, Amsterdam

• 2022 – Alternative Realities, Museum Night, Amare, The Hague

• 2022 – Setting for Reset, Uit Het Gareel, The Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague

• 2021 – Taking you there…, Warnars & Warnars Art Dealers, Haarlem

• 2021 – ART The Hague, Uit Het Gareel, The Hague

• 2021 – Faraway Places, Uit Het Gareel, The Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague

• 2019 – Museum Night (Jubilee Edition), The Hague

Lectures/ Presentations / Workshops

• 2025 – Tracing Clay, Tracing Care, EcoBody Gatherings, part of Life on Earth: Art & Ecofeminism, West Den Haag

• 2024 – Workshop: À Volta do Barro, ceramic traditions, Lisbon

• 2022 – Talk: Alternative Realities, Museum Night, Amare, The Hague

• 2020 – Lecture: Wild Being, De Lievelinge, Vuren

• 2019 – Talk: The Line1 Parade, De Broodfabriek, Rijswijk

• 2019 – Talk: Recapture of Paradise, Museum Night, The Hague

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, Rabil, Boavista, Cape Verde
  Research into female-led ceramic traditions
  Supported by: Municipality of Sal Rei, CAC – Centro de Artes e Cultura
  In collaboration with: Ricardo Barbosa Vicente

• 2024 – À Volta do Barro, FabLab Lisbon
  Research into clay and ceramic practices in Trás de Monte, Cape Verde
  Supported by: Lisbon City Council
  In collaboration with: Ricardo Barbosa Vicente, Prof. Virginia Fróis

• 2024 – Residency SOMA, São Tomé
  Artistic residency exploring the colonial legacy in the lives of women
  Supported by: SOMA – Organization for gender equality

• 2023 – Research trip, São Tomé
  Preliminary research into gender inequality as a colonial legacy

• 2020–2022 – MeeMakers, participatory art collective
  Co-founder of an initiative focused on artistic participation
  Supported by: Foundation Voordekunst, Prince Bernhard Culture Fund, Platform ACCT, Ministry of Education, Culture and Science

• 2017–2018 – Sacred Forests, Boé, Guinea-Bissau
  Collaborative project with Fulani communities for the protection of sacred forests
  Supported by: Wageningen University, Chimbo Foundation, Government of Guinea-Bissau

Awards and Grants

• 2024 – Project Grant, International Cooperation, Fund for Cultural Participation (NL)

• 2023 – Research Grant, Exploration, Fund for Cultural Participation (NL)

• 2018 – Willem Barentsz Award, Wageningen University
  For her research on sacred forests and collaboration with Fulani communities in Guinea-Bissau