Archiving transition refers to dedicated projects, which have been swallowed up by the dynamics of the prolonged transition in our country, making it impossible for us to stop and deepen in these common cultural stories. Going back and stopping at these stories means digging into the stratifications of our cultural history. Researchers, scholars, artists and theorists are invited to be involved in a process that analyzes, documents and archives.
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Fitore Isufi Shukriu – Koja
Co-curator of the exhibition Artists of dhe Day After Tomorrow – Recording Transition(2002-2024) Fitore Isufi Shukriu I KOJA (1982) is a visual artist and lecturer. Her work and research explore the relationship between artists’ engagement and power structures in climates of transition. Her work and research have been presented and exhibited in local and international…
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Miran Mohar
Co-curator of the exhibition Artists of the Day After Tomorrow – Recording Transition (2002-2024) Miran Mohar (born 1958 in Novo Mesto, Slovenia) is an artist, graphic and stage designer based in Ljubljana.He is a member (together with Dušan Mandić, Andrej Savski, Roman Uranjek+ and Borut Vogelnik) of the artist group IRWIN and co-founder of the…
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Public Lecture: What is the art system?
Miran Mohar 21/06/2025/ 18:00h / Galeria 17 What is and what constitutes the art system of contemporary art? How does this system work and what are the differences between Eastern Europe and the Western world? How should artists work and communicate within the art system? What have you have always wanted to know about the art…
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Pre-opening guided tour
Artists of the Day After Tomorrow – Recording Transition (2002–2024) 20/06/2025 – 18:00 We invite you to join us on the Pre-opening guided tours with the curators Miran Mohar and Fitore Isufi Shukriu and discover how the Artists of Tomorrow Award helped shape Kosovo’s contemporary art scene over two decades — connecting local artists with…
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Artists of the Day After Tomorrow – Recording Transition (2002-2024)
20/06/2025 – 05/09/2025 Curated by Miran Mohar and Fitore Isufi Shukriu This exhibition summarises the Artists of Tomorrow Award from 2002 to the present. Rather than focusing on the awarded artworks or artists, it focuses on the influence of this award on the development of the art system in Kosovo. Certainly, this award, in addition…
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We have another 12 hours – Performances
06/07/2024 17:00 Palace of Youth, Shopping Arcade … HAVEIT (established 2011 in Prishtina, based in Prishtina) Mission: A Reenactment, 2024 Back in 2004, the members of Charlie’s Angels, Kosovo’s pioneering female contemporary art collective, pedalled their way to nowhere for 12 hours at the Palace of Youth and Sports. Riding on stationary racing bikes, with…
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We have another 12 hours – Artists Concepts
Bujar Bacaj (born 1980 in Peja, lives in Prishtina) Stop and go, 2004 Bujar Bacaj’s contribution to I kemi 12 orë consisted of a set of pedestrian lights, mounted at the entrance to the shopping arcade at the Palace of Youth and Sports, and a large black-and-white-striped mat, laid out in front of the lights…
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We have another 12 hours
Curator Catherine Nichols Date / 05.07.2024 Time / 19:00 Location / Galeria 17 Prishtina 2004. Several years had passed since the end of the Kosovo War. Yet independence, much longed and fought for, seemed a long time coming. There was a growing sense of frustration in the air. People were tired of waiting for statehood,…
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Everything has been done
06/07/20237pmProject Space 17 A curator’s talk on re-invention, re-construction, re-exhibiting, re-building, re-interpretation, re-enacting, re-phrasing and re-creating of exhibitions. Thibaut de Ruyter will unfold the background of his project “Back to the Gorges of Balkan” and discuss the legacy of historical exhibitions. —After this almost serious talk, from 9pm Thibaut will play some serious tunes at…
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Merita Harxhi – Koci
Multi-artist Merita Harxhi Koci has experimented very successfully in several fields of visual art, applied art, and in haute couture. As a painting master, she has had numerous exhibitions in Madrid, Moscow, Mumbai, Puno, Museum Quartier – Vienna, Porec, Piran, Kassel – Germany, Buenos Aires and Ferrara, Zaketa, Thessaloniki and Tirana. Winner of the prestigious…
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Jakup Ferri
Jakup Ferri (1981) Prishtina – Kosovo, based in Prishtina and Amsterdam. He studied at Prishtina Art Academy and Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. In 2006 he received the prestigious award Kunstpreis Europas Zukunft (The Future of Europe), Museum of Contemporary Art (GfZK) Leipzig. In 2008 he received the Buning Brongers Award in Amsterdam and in 2003 the…
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Driton Hajredini
Driton Hajredini (1970) is a Kosovar artist who works across painting, video art, installation, photography and film. Born and raised in Prishtina, Hajredini studied at art academies in both Kosovo and Germany and now lives between the two countries. His work has been exhibited across the world, from solo exhibitions to film festivals. In 2003,…
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Dren Maliqi
Dren Maliqi was born, lives and works in Prishtina. He has studied arts and sociology for some time, a process that is still ongoing. He is artist and an independent cultural worker he is constantly engaged in various cultural projects in Kosovo. His main goal is to develop a sustainable cultural environment around him and…
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Thibaut de Ruyter
Thibaut de Ruyter is a French-German architect, curator and critic. He lives and works in Berlin since 2001.As a trained architect, he conceives exhibitions on conceptual, technical and spatial level, delivering not only the content but also the design of his projects. His interests are based on new media and their archaeology, the relationship between…
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Back to the Gorges of Balkan
Curated by: Thibaut de RuyterArtists: Dren Maliqi, Driton Hajredini, Jakup Ferri, Merita Harxhi-Koci Did the art scene from Kosovo radically change during the last twenty years? Are artists producing again and again the same kind of artworks? Does their art evolve with the political situation that surrounds them or the places where they exhibit? Those…
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Panel discussion: PËRTEJ – Archiving Transition
The exhibition “PËRTEJ” was organized 25 years ago as a joint project of Dodona Gallery and the Center for Cultural Decontamination from Belgrade. A historical collaboration for the time and circumstances. This is because the organization of the exhibition in Belgrade in the circumstances of that time, when Kosovo was practically before the outbreak of…
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Reception / PËRTEJ – Archiving Transition
Open for public: 23.07-30.10.2022 Reception: 24.07.2022/ 18:00h We are delighted to invite you all to our next exhibition taking place at Galeria 17 and Grand Hotel. On Sunday, July 24 we are gathering at Project Space 17 to celebrate the opening of our third exhibition, which is part of Manifesta 14 program.Archiving transition, is one…
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PËRTEJ – Archiving Transition
22/07/2022 – 30/10/2022 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘩𝘶𝘴𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯,𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘙𝘢𝘪𝘯,𝘈𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘯𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯’𝘥𝘈𝘴 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘔𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘥𝘶𝘨 𝘶𝘱 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯. Trying to imagine the opening day of the Përtej exhibition in Belgrade in a year such as 1997, we will be able…