Khadija Bellahcen was born in Morrocco (1984) and grew up in Amsterdam where she studied Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, her main focus being Urban and Cultural Sociology.

Writing her Bachelor’s thesis on graffiti as part of urban culture though on the fringe of both society and artworld, she has been interested in public space and the appropriation of public space by various (social) groups and institutions and the friction that arises from it.

Currently she is involved in several cultural projects. She is working on creating a public cultural space out of a former private parking lot in one of the more rundown neighborhoods of Amsterdam, and she is working on bringing dance out of its institutionalized form and back to the streets.