In 2003 she was chosen by the curator Rein Wolfs to exhibit at the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice biennale, along with Meschac Gaba, Carlos Amorales, Alicia Framis, and Erik van Lieshout.[3] In 2005 she created a temporary artwork at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in Amsterdam, entitled Face Your World, which allowed young people to re-imagine and design their surrounding neighborhood.[4] In 2008 she participated in the Seventh Shanghai Biennale, which was themed "Translocalmotion".[5] In 2010 she was commissioned to create a project for the Liverpool Biennial, which was entitled 2Up 2Down.[6] For this project, van Heeswijk worked with local Liverpool residents to repurpose derelict housing.[7] Van Heeswijk's examination of capital, labor, power, and social injustice through the lens of urban space reflects the way theories of feminist urbanism look at how self-organization, participation, collective ownership, and new forms of sociability create new urban realities[8].