Scanning the region

Mila Panić is a Bosnian-born artist and stand-up comedian. Her artist’s practice ranges from personal documentation to poetic visual and discursive elements through which she creates a cycle that interprets the various inheritances of migration. She is the co-founder of the collective and association Fully Funded Residencies.eV. Her most recent exhibitions were in eastcontemporary Gallery…

Blerta Hashani (born in 1997) is an artist from Mirash, Kosovo. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prishtina in 2019. Her artistic practice encompasses painting, drawing, and photography, exploring concepts of mysticism and symbolism. With sensitivity to light, color, material, harmony, and compositional simplicity in space, she reflects on routine and the…

Jošt Franko (b. 1993, Ljubljana) is a visual artist and photographer researching migrations, forced displacement, worker’s rights, counter narratives, and communal deliberations of precarious lives. Using photography, text, fieldwork, elements of social practice, and collaborations as a form of engagement with social issues, his artistic practice focuses on the many lost, unspoken, or unheard narratives…

Tevž Logar (1979) works as an independent curator, editor and author. He has curated or co- curated a number of group and solo exhibitions and collaborated with institutions, galleries, collections and publishers, such as: Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Łódź; Moderna galerija, Ljubljana; The Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Kunsthalle Praha; TBA21, Vienna; The…

Curator: Tevž LogarArtists: Jošt Franko, Blerta Hashani, Mila Panić 22/01/2025 – 21/03/2025 Opening: 22/01/2025, 19:00hAddress: St.Henrik Bariç, no.10, Prishtinë, 10000, Republic of Kosovo The exhibition Perceive, Record, Imagine tries to reflects the aims of Scanning the Region, an exhibition series conceived by Shtatëmbëdhjetë (17), which focuses on examining and preserving the multifaceted histories and identities…

Artists: Elia Kalogianni – Greece, Sofia Dimova – Bulgaria, Valdrin Thaqi – KosovoCurator: Ana Frangovska, PhD 24.01.2023, 18:00h The aim of this art talk is to familiarize the local audience with some of the selected regional artists for the newest iteration of the project Scanning the Region, entitled “Visibility Horizon”: Elia Kalogianni from Greece, Sofia…

Elia Kalogianni (GR,1995) is a visual artist and filmmaker, born and raised in Athens (Greece). Since 2014, she lives and works in the Netherlands. Her body of work combines (experimental) films, video installations, moving-image essays and photographs, exploring the interchangeable qualities between reality and imagination. Kalogianni’s narratives, selections of archival and other materials, representations of…

Born in 1994 in Skënderaj, Kosovo, Valdrin Thaqi graduated from the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Pristina in 2019. He lives and works between Berlin and Pristina. Thaqi’s artistic practice includes painting and installation. His work is a reflection of profound philosophical inquiries, exploring the intricacies inherent in the processes, states, and…

Sofia Dimova (1996) is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Varna, Bulgaria. She graduated from Minerva Academy (Groningen, The Netherlands) with a degree in Fine Arts in 2019. In her practice, Sofia combines different materials and techniques that help her to create an interconnection between personal, fundamental and socio-political issues that seek content and message beyond…

Kristina Janjić is a visual artist from Serbia. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Arts in Belgrade, obtaining a bachelor’s degree in 2017. In the 2016/2017 school year, she obtained a scholarship from French government and participated in one semester exchange program at the National Academy of Fine Arts…

Gjorgji Despodov (1996) is a multidisciplinary artist born in Prilep, North Macedonia and currently based in the Netherlands where he is pursuing a master’s degree in Non Linear Narrative program at the Royal Academy of Art in Hague. He works with virtual and augmented reality concepts, and the use of different digital media: video, 3D…

Ana Frangovska is an art historian and a curator. Born 1978 in Skopje. Graduated Art History and Archaeology in 2001 at the University “St. Cyril and Methodius”, Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje, Institute of Art History and Archaeology. Earned her MA at the same Faculty in 2017.  She is a Doctor of sciences in Contemporary…

23/01/2024 – 22/03/2024 Curator: Ana Frangovska Artists: Elia Kalogianni, Gjorgji Despodov, Kristina Janjić, Sofia Dimova, Valdrin Thaqi “During a period characterized by dishonesty, speaking the truth is an act that challenges and disrupts the established order.” “Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell. Post-truth politics…

Join us for a night of art and experiential session as we bid farewell to the exhibition, PËRPARA. This closing event is a celebration of the creativity and diversity that has defined the exhibition, with Ilir Bajri as creative mediator. Also as an opportunity to engage with the artworks of Viola Rrecaj, Laureta Hajrullahu, Stephanaie…

Shtatëmbëdhjetë continues organizing the Family Visits at Galeria 17. This Sunday, within the PËRPARA exhibition, we invite you to a creative day dedicated to children and parents or guardians.PËRPARA is an exhibition that focuses on sound, and parents/guardians together with children will have the opportunity to experience the exhibited works through a listening session. Also…

Lecture and Q&A with Cathy Lane and Angus Carlyle The lecture with explore the ambivalent relation between sound, history and memory and explore how field recordings, soundscapes and composition can facilitate memorialization processes. Cathy Lane’s presentation will focus on selected sound works, all made for or informed by specific geographical locations, which she has composed…

In this workshop we will explore together the possibilities of audio recording as a format of capturing memories and get familiar with (mobile) recording on your mobile phone and audio recorders, do common listening and also look at the possibilities of Audacity (https://www.audacityteam.org/) an open-source digital audio editing software.The workshop will be facilitated by Alexander…

PËRPARA, is used to describe something that in a spatial sense is in front of us while in temporal sense the same word is used to describe something that happened in the past – therefore behind us!PËRPARA, marks the second exhibition within Scanning the region theme, with idea and concept of Ilir Bajri. Scanning the…

February 8, 2023 18:00h The performance is the continuation of the work The Forgotten with which Viola is presented in the exhibition Përpara. It will show in more detail the sounds and the environment created by the piano called ‘Una Corda’. The performance will include pieces that reflect her taste and artistic creation, and improvisation…

Participating artists in PËRPARA exhibition Dren Suldashi (1993), is passionate about music and technology. He has been involved in music since the age of 8, where he attended various guitar courses and finished the primary music school in Pristina. In the following years, Dreni completed the faculty of audio engineering and music production in Skopje,…

Jukebox is a creative mediator’s intervention to the exhibition in collaboration with Armend Xhaferi, Arian Randobrava and Art Lokaj. Armend Xhaferi is a jazz musician, composer, and producer. He completed his Master’s degree in 2006 at the Kunsuniversität Graz, Austria. He is also passionate and hard- working composer, proficient in composing, orchestrating, and arranging music…

Participating artist in PËRPARA exhibition Viola Rrecaj (2003) is a young pianist who started her musical journey at the age of 9 as a pianist at the elementary music school “Prenk Jakova” in Pristina. During the 8-year period while studying piano, she simultaneously participated in many concerts, festivals and various activities. In 2019, she continued…

Participating artist in PËRPARA exhibition Laureta Hajrullahu— born in 1997, in Presevo, Serbia — is a Pristina-based multimedia artist. Her artistic work explores privacy, gender, intimacy, digital ecosystems, video games and impossible futures. Through her digital media work, she presents diverse, critically informed views on ‘reality’. She does this by continuously deconstructing and re-evaluating the…

Participating artist in PËRPARA exhibition Stephanie Rizaj (1989) is a visual artist who splits her time between Brussels and Vienna. Ranging from performative sculptures to site-specific installations and videos, her practice focuses on the socio-political construction of identities by exploring familial stories on the impact of migration in the context of feminism and reflecting on…

Creative mediator of Përpara exhibition Ilir Bajri is a composer and a pianist born in 1969 Peja. He finished studies at Academy of Arts in the University of Pristina in the Music Arts Department. Mostly known for his Jazz compositions he also worked and experimented with different genres such as Pop, Classical and Contemporary Classical…

24/01 – 24/03/2023 There is an interesting ambiguity in Albanian culture which affects the way in which the physical and temporal reality is perceived and interpreted. Namely, the same word “përpara” (in english – “forward”) is used to describe something that in the spatial sense is in front of us while in temporal sense the…

In order to get acquainted with the work of the curator and the participating artists, Galeria 17 organizes series of talks as a way for expanding artistic contexts and practices. In the framework of Make me coffee make me a sandwich exhibition through talks also we the curator Natalija Vujošević, and artists such as Azize…

Exhibition/ dinner and music/ dancing ritual Over the first weeks of Make me coffee make me a sandwich, we have been collecting stories, poetry and myths from our friends, colleagues and lovers, with the aim of building a dance mix for a common ritual of inscribing new memories into the streets and spirit of Pristina.…

/ 𝘦𝘹𝘩𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 / 𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺 / 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 / By opening up the corporal and spiritual possibilities for alternate views in the spheres of personal, temporal, virtual and imaginary, the artists transfigure historically oppressive experiences and the conditions shaping experience, into an energetics of empowerment, agency that brings kinetic force into being. They import this…

/ 𝘦𝘹𝘩𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 / 𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺 / 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 / As an old legend would have it, in an abandoned auto repair shop, the spirit of a woman from the ever-present mechanic’s wall calendar, came to life. The neighbours would say that deep in the night you could hear the spirit’s body dancing, the air filled…