Queer ecology

10/10/2025 – 27/11/2025 Luiza Thaqi Lena Violetta Leitner In a dynamic network, where natural and social elements intertwine through co-creation, mediation, and collective survival, a hybrid and inevitable reality emerges for safeguarding ecological and social equilibrium. Within this configuration, conceptions of agency grounded exclusively in the human are surpassed, opening new pathways for posthuman perspectives…

29.09-04.010.2025 Luiza Thaqi, Lena Violetta Leitner As part of the exhibition “In the Making IV”, artists Luiza Thaqi and Lena Violetta Leitner continue the Open Studio days at Galeria 17. Through this format, the public has the opportunity to closely follow how the two artists develop their creative practices, bringing the artistic process into the…

22-27.09.2025 Luiza Thaqi, Lena Violetta Leitner As part of the exhibition “In the Making IV”, artists Luiza Thaqi and Lena Violetta Leitner continue the Open Studio days at Galeria 17.Through this format, the public has the opportunity to closely follow how the two artists develop their creative practices, bringing the artistic process into the gallery…

Week I / 15-20.09.2025 Luiza Thaqi, Lena Violetta Leitner As part of the exhibition “In the Making IV”, artists Luiza Thaqi and Lena Violetta Leitner begin today the Open Studio days at Galeria 17.Through this format, the public has the opportunity to closely follow how the two artists develop their creative practices, bringing the artistic…

Luiza Thaqi is an emerging visual artist who lives and works in Kosovo. Her practice includes painting, installation, and sculpture, through which she explores themes related to society, its structures, gender, urbanization, and the built environment. Her work focuses on the interaction between these phenomena and environmental issues, advocating for a collaborative and non-hierarchical approach…

Lena Violetta Leitner invents, intervenes, and cooperates. She studied Digital Arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT), where she founded the Integration Center for Migrated Plants (2017). Since then, she has been exploring the connections between nature, politics and society. Her research-based works move between fact and fiction, seriousness and speculation – often…

15.09-06.10.2025 Lena Violetta Leitner, Luiza Thaqi Trying to expand the boundaries of communication between artists and different creators, Galeria 17 is transformed depending on the needs of the artists and the community. In this case Lena Violetta Leitner and Luiza Thaqi are invited to use the gallery space as a work space. The gallery transforms…

Dion Zeqiri and Nina Kuttler 09.10.2024/ 18:00h Galeria 17 Join us the day after the opening of “In the Making III” for an insightful artist talk and guided tour by Dion Zeqiri and Nina Kuttler, whose works explore the deep entanglement between humans and nature in our capitalist world. Zeqiri will delve into his exploration…

This work invites viewers to experience a journey into the unseen, unacknowledged worlds that live within and around us—the microworlds of bacteria. Though they are essential to life, these microorganisms often exist in the shadows of our awareness, obscured by societal fears and the limitations of our senses. How can we connect with what we…

No sun — no moon!No morn — no noonNo dawn — no dusk — no proper time of day.No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,No comfortable feel in any member —No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! —November!(Thomas Hood, 1799-1845) The London smog described in this poem…

 Dion Zeqiri and Nina Kuttler 08/10/2024 – 22/11/2024 The participating artists, Nina Kuttler and Dion Zeqiri, have been invited to contribute to various environmental and social issues through an open, educational, and awareness-raising working process. The gallery, open to the public for nearly a month, has served as a working studio, a space for communication…

18.09-04.10.2024Dion Zeqiri / Nina Kuttler Trying to expand the boundaries of communication between artists and different creators, Galeria 17 is transformed depending on the needs of the artists and the community. In this case, Dion Zeqiri and Nina Kuttler are invited to use the gallery space as a work space. The gallery transforms into a…

14.11.202318:00hProject Space 17 On October 17, the exhibition “In the making II” of the artist Dardan Zhegrova was opened. One of the industries, which Queer Ecology – In the Making II refers to this time, is that of textiles – as one of the most polluting industries on the planet. Galeria 17, transformed into a…

Artist: Dardan Zhegrova 17.10.2023 – 01.12.2023 Opening: 17.10.2023, 19:00h “Art made by the people and for the people as a joy for the maker and the user,” (…)  William Morris It is very interesting after a century and a half to return to the “Arts and Crafts” reform movement and see how relevant it is…

Date: September 30 Time: 13:00 – 16:00 Venue: Rezidenca 17 Shtatëmbëdhjetë in collaboration with the Fondacioni Jeshil brings Disco Soup to Rezidenca 17. Disco Soup is a festive, gastronomic and solidarity event that brings different people together in the public space to educate and raise awareness on the impacts of food waste. This activity is…

Dardan Zhegrova ‘s works are object – and performance oriented. His works are most often based on poems that stand always at the beginning of the conception of a new work. His texts deal with partially fictional and actually experienced events, which are mostly described from the first-person perspective. Often a (imaginary) counterpart who is…

Artist: Dardan Zhegrova Dates: 26.09.2023 – 16.10.2023 Trying to expand the boundaries of communication between artists and different creators, Galeria 17 is transformed depending on the needs of the artists and the community. In this case, Dardan Zhegrova is invited to use the gallery space as a work space. The gallery transforms into a space…

We are thrilled to announce that this year Shtatëmbëdhjetë is collaborating with < rotor > Centre for Contemporary Art for the upcoming exhibition at Galeria 17, exploring the Queer Ecology theme. < rotor >’s programme starts from visual arts and focuses on artistic works that explicitly deal with the social, political, ecological and economic questions…

You are holding in your hand the summary of six meetings called “Sitting around a consequence”. The meetings precede the opening of the exhibition “In the Making”, which was organized by Shtatëmbëdhjetë at Galeria 17. The installation that was created by DYVO, which is based on the joint work of six meetings, was presented side…

Yll Xhaferi and DYVÓ in a conversation will share details about their works presented at the In the Making exhibition. Yll, with his work Groundless brings a surreal multimedia infiltration in real time, invites us to reflect on the tangible and intangible threats of this century, all without exception. While Sitting on a consequence DYVÓ’s…

Genc ElezajEdona Vatoci Elise Eka An improvisational performance by four musicians from different fields and then the involvement of the participating public in a jam session. The performance includes analog and digital synthesizers, various audio-generative software and various types of sound effects. The most innovative and attractive performance instrument will be PLAYTRONICA, which enables the…

Single-channel video installationDuration: 15min 53sec Driton Selmani, as part of the In the making exhibition program, will bring a unique performance in collaboration with Tristan Halilaj, who will give a site-specific performance on the trumpet.The work is based on the human position and burden in the unknown future, as well as our surprising predictions about…

On Sunday, 18th of December 2022, Shtatëmbëdhjetë organizes a creative day for children. A visit to Gallery 17 and the exhibition In the making by the artist Yll Xhaferi and the DYVO collective, will offer opportunities for your little ones to understand more about the environment, ecology, art, through the games we will organize.Coloring, experiencing…

By opening up to stories related to the destructive environmental system, we understand that the ethics of today’s man is burdened by the dominant attitude towards nature and the natural world. The destruction of the environment is somehow legitimizing this colonial (in)human domination and we are already facing many forms of extinction and extinction. Does…

By documenting the entire length of the Drin River, the Project Drini aims to raise awareness of water pollution in Kosovo. Throughout 2022, documentary photographer Ferdi Limani will travel on foot and by canoe to photograph the most important and most polluted parts of the 122-kilometer long river that stretches across two states. Note: This…

Fjollë Caka We build our cities, and then they build/shape us. But who are “we” and how are we represented in space? “Whose” is the city and “who” makes it; who is represented and who is not? How do socio-cultural worldviews and prejudices affect us in the making of cities and in the relationship with…

Groundlesss Yll Xhaferi The seasons move, but I’m stuck in the frost and I have forgotten the time, which means that I have forgotten movements of earth in relation to the sun. I had forgotten how a totally different temperature and its thickness to the air bring a pallet of colors along with melting of…

Miina Kaartinen is a cultural studies researcher and social worker interested in eco-social and community-based thinking, doing and developing. Currently Miina works as the executive director of Mustarinda. The Mustarinda Association (founded 2010) is a group of artists and researchers, whose goal is to promote the ecological reconstruction of society, the diversity of cultures and…

Within his presentation, Anton Lederer, co-founder of < rotor >, will talk about projects and experiences of the past 2 to 3 years, some of them taking place outdoor in the neighbourhood, some others being realized in the premises of the art centre. In this frame, works of the following artists will be presented: Daniela…

The lecture will rise the issue of possible frameworks of queer ecology, purposed by the pathbreaking work of Catriona Sandilands, Greta Gaard. In this hybrid exercise we will start with the basics, hegemonic ways of naturalizing sexual differences, the old nature/culture debate, biological essentialism, ecofeminism (that accidently grounded itself on binary difference), and different assemblages…

Participating artist on In the making exhibition Yll Xhaferi (1988, RKS) is a Kosovo-born interdisciplinary visual artist who works largely across painting and digital media. Xhaferi considers the use of different artistic mediums a direct result of global influences. He incorporates different symbols and metaphors in his visual artwork, playing with collective and personal memory.…

Participating collective on In the making exhibition Sitting around a consequence On a shared common, even though unjustly, we are doomed to share consequences. “Who or what is responsible?” It’s a question that comes up again and again, as the world confronts the reality of climate change and the sixth mass extinction. The “Sitting on…

Margret Grebowicz (born 1973) is a Polish philosopher, author, and former jazz vocalist. She is a continental philosopher specializing in environmental imagination, wilderness, animals, and public lands. In 1994, she earned a bachelor’s degree in German literature, philosophy, and art history from University of Texas at Austin. While completing her undergraduate degree, Grebowicz worked in…

10/11/2022 – 30/11/2022 “I am not a posthumanist; I am who I become with companion species, who and which make a mess out of categories in the making of kin and kind. Queer messmates in mortal play, indeed”. -Donna Haraway By opening up to stories related to the destructive environmental system, we understand that the…