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 the relations between body, labour, and architecture.
Having trained as an architect, designer, and artist, Stephanie Rizaj holds several degrees from different institutions including the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam (NL), and the University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT). Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in various exhibitions and festivals, including Manifesta 13 Marseille (FR), Loop Barcelona, (ES), Stedelijk Museum (NL), Diagonale (AT) or Dokufest (XK). Amongst other prizes, she has been awarded the Theodor Körner Prize (AT) and is a winner of the Startpoint Prize (EU). This is the first time her work is shown in an exhibition context in Kosovo.
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This exhibition is supported by Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports and Municipality of Prishtina.This activity is also supported also by Kosovar Civil Society Foundation (KCSF) program ‘EJA Kosovo’, co-financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Sweden, and Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.In cooperation with forumZFD Kosovo in the context of the project Landscapes of Repair this exhibition is supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).