Challenging Walls (CW) is an art-peace project that shares the vision of bringing together the diverse communities of people living within the parameters of physical and mental walls in Israel and Palestine. Using the language of visual images as a vehicle for peace and understanding, CW wishes to articulate stories of people who live their lives as man, woman, child, par¬ents, brothers, sisters, grandparents, neighbours, friends within and beyond the confines of the concrete wall dividing their regions.

Conceived by Berlin-based Walkscreen: Ruthe Zuntz and Michael Reitz together with Anat Moshe-Ostrower, a generation of artists who have had the experience of growing up and living in an environment of wall divided societies, this project is a genuine plea for peaceful and mutual co-existence. The project embraces four regions with history of walls and segregation: Germany, Cyprus, Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine.

CW envisions the creation of an all access zone between the concrete cement separating both the geographical spaces and people in the process of documenting the daily rituals, practices and ways of life. Empowered by a firm belief in art as a universal language that can touch and appeal to people's hearts and minds, CW would like to share and offer to the greater audiences, multiple and parallel realities by providing a view to oneself and that of the other.

Through the combination of artistic and academic approaches, CW hopes to momentarily unmask to so-called enemy on the other side as the neighbour beyond the heights.
CW wishes to push and show the positive side of life and approach the issue in an alternative way of communicating to people.