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 into a space that is as intimate as it is open, as personal as it is public, as experimental as it is creative, as researching as it is exhibiting. Participating artists will contribute to various environmental and social issues, through an open working, educational and awareness raising process. In addition to sharing their professional and personal experiences with each other, they will also cultivate empathy for the environment and social justice with the community. Theorists, artists, ecologists, environmental and cultural activists will join this initiative to contribute to different perspectives on environment, which pave the way to examine issues of social, cultural and environmental importance from a queer perspective. The gallery, open to the public, will serve as a lecture class, a working studio, a space for communication and reflection, a host for guest lectures, an experimentation laboratory, where as a result the participating artists will jointly build an exhibition, which also will mark the next exhibition under the theme of Queer Ecology.
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This exhibition is supported by the Kosovar Civil Society Foundation (KCSF) program ‘EJA Kosovo’, co-financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and Sweden. Ministria e Kulturës, Rinisë dhe Sportit, SMART Balkans, Austrian Embassy Prishtina.