Silences
of Metal and Skin
Doruntina
Kastrati
Doruntina Kastrati is a visual artist based in Prishtina, Kosovo. Her artistic practice spans across sculpture, installation, and moving image. In 2014, she was awarded the Young Visual Artist Award from the National Gallery of Kosovo, and she won the Hajde x 6 Award from the Hajde Foundation in 2017. She was a resident at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York in 2015, a resident at Art House in Shkodër in 2018, and at Initiators in Athens in 2018. Her work was recently shown at Eugster Belgrade, A picture of pistachios destroying the railroad tracks to cut off the path of delights (2023); Ring The Bells My Land at Manifesta 14, Prishtina (2022); Temel at Hessel Museum, New York, (2022); Life without buildings at ETH Zurich, (2022); Here (Air Carries Poison But Yet We Breathe) at ChertLüdde, Berlin (2021), What if a Journey, Autostrada Biennale, Prizren (2021); Bigger than Myself – Heroic Voices from ex Yugoslavia, MAXXI Museum, Rome (2021); Not Fully Human, Not Human at All at Kadist Foundation, Paris, and Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg (2021-2022); Tirana Patience, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana (2020); Public Heroes and Secrets, The National Museum of Kosovo (2020), among others.
Erëmirë Krasniqi is an art writer, curator and researcher based in Prishtina, Kosovo. Erëmirë received her M.A. from Dartmouth College, and B.A. from Bard College Berlin. As an independent curator, she has led and curated projects for the National Gallery of Kosovo, National Gallery of Arts in Albania, 39th EVA International, Limerick, Ireland, and Manifesta 14, Kosovo. Her curatorial and research practice engages with archives, oral history and critical fabulation to account and redress absences in historical record. Her research interests range from histories of socialist modernist art to grassroot expressions that challenge dominant historical narratives. Since 2017, she is the executive director of Oral History Kosovo, a digital resource which engages new forms of cultural production, supporting and advocating the essential work of media archives.
Hana Halilaj is a curator and researcher. She has curated exhibitions including Grey Eminence (2023), Violeta Xhaferi: Revisions (2023) at the National Gallery of Kosovo, Space for Memories Unmade (2022) at Galeria Qafa, Clubbing Insistence: After a Party (2022) at Doza Gallery and Toplocentrala, Informator (2022) at the Hessel Museum of Art, Alije Vokshi: I Decided to Draw Bigger Hands (2021) at Chert Lüdde, and Public Heros and Secrets (2020) at The National Museum of Kosovo. Halilaj previously held curatorial positions at Kunsthalle Portikus and Storefront for Art and Architecture, and contributed research to the C-MAP program at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). During the 2022-2023 academic year, she was Assistant Curator at CuratorLab at Konstfack University of Arts in Stockholm. Currently, Halilaj is the Curator at the National Gallery of Kosovo. She received her M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies, at Bard College.
