We regard colonial heritage not as static objects but as living beings that embody stories and meaning.
Beyond Walls initiates and curates projects that bring together research, storytelling, and artistic practice, working independently and in collaboration with communities, cultural institutions, and academic partners. Our work includes research, exhibitions, documentaries, artistic interventions, and advisory roles, grounded in the belief that the combination of research, storytelling and art can create both intellectual and emotional engagement with colonial legacies and heritage.
We work toward long-term collaborations and structural change within and beyond institutional frameworks. Agency, locality, and co-creation are central to our approach, inspired by Taiye Selasi and the critical work on unlearning imperialism by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay.
Through transnational partnerships and international knowledge exchange, we deepen our understanding beyond our own contexts and actively contribute to global conversations on decolonization and transformative change.
Key to our work method is the combination of research, storytelling and art.
Our work
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WANUA: INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAM: In collaboration with Makassar International Writers Festival
PUBLIC PROGRAMS & EDUCATION COLONIAL AND SLAVERY PAST TILBURG
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAM AT THE OCTOBER SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL AUTONOMY, ISLAND VIS, CROATIA
WORKSESSIONS AND GUEST LECTURES AT: Open University and Nederlands Film Festival (NFF).
SOUNDS FAMILIAR: Long-term research and art residency at the Sound & Vision Archives
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RESEARCH SLAVERY PAST OF EINDHOVEN Beyond Walls is invited by the city of Eindhoven to conduct an inventory research of the Slavery past of Eindhoven
READ OUR COLONIAL INHERITANCE #2: The second edition poetry and film series with artists Zaïre Krieger, Dalilla Hermans, Chris Keulemans, Julia & Robinson Jouwe.
WORKSESSIONS AND GUEST LECTURES AT: ISBN+ Book and Art store, Budapest, Hungary, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Open Universiteit en Rotterdamse Academie van Bouwkunst,
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RESEARCH SLAVERY PAST OF EINDHOVEN Beyond Walls is invited by the city of Eindhoven to conduct an inventory research of the Slavery past of Eindhoven
PUBLIC RESEARCH BASED INTERVENTION: OOSTCAST straatnamen Amsterdam Oost (The Black Archives, Gemeente Amsterdam, Buro Braak) Public History Project
ARTISTIC INTERVENTION/ONLINE FILMS: Dichter bij Onze koloniale erfenis (Tropenmuseum) 2022/2023
RESEARCH: Zeeman op de uitkijk (Gemeente Amsterdam) Research on the history and afterlives of the WOII Monument Zeeman op de Uitkijk
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ARTISTIC INTERVENTION/ONLINE FILMS: Dichter bij Onze koloniale erfenis (Tropenmuseum)
EXHIBITION/ONLINE FILMS: Afterlives of Revolusi (Rijksmuseum)
PUBLIC/ONLINE PROGRAM: Revolusi Indonesia-Freedom and Resistance (Rode Hoed)
DOCUMENTARY: Antara Dua Bulan (Erasmushuis Jakarta, Ecko Dance company, SPRING Utrecht)
RESEARCH RESIDENCY: Felix Meritis’ Slavery history and colonial roots of (Felix Meritis)
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