Dec 6, 2025 – Feb 22, 2026
Panels and Artist Talks
Moderation: EDONA ADEMI and CATHRIN MAYER
Sat, Dec 6, 2025, 1pm
Panel I: Passing through
With DJELLZA AZEMI, ANJESA DELLOVA, DARDAN ZHEGROVA
Borders shape bodies, movements, and perceptions. They create threshold spaces, sites of waiting, separation, and touch. In regions such as Kosovo and Albania, where past and future are continuously negotiated from both outside and within, this ambivalence becomes particularly palpable. In uncertain political times, in this ongoing state of transition, safe and vulnerable spaces emerge, embodying
both distance and proximity, vulnerability and resilience. The works in this exhibition open affective threshold spaces, where borders between object, body, and image become fragile, mutable states, negotiating the relationships between space, audience, and experience. In sculptures, objects, performative interventions, and cinematic environments, thresholds become visible and new forms of in-between are revealed. In the panel Passing Through, we explore these liminal conditions together with the artists. How do movement, stillness, and transition translate into contemporary practice? The panel provides a space for dialogue and reflection on identity, memory, geography, bodily presence, materiality, and the tensions between closeness and distance, vulnerability and resilience.
Panel II: Regarding the pain of self-haunted bodies, collective memories
With ABI SHEHU, ANJESA DELLOVA, BLERTA HAZIRAJ, LEART RAMA
Pain permeates bodies, spaces, and communities. It is not only felt individually but operates as collective knowledge, carrying historical experiences and shaping identity, especially in communities marginalized or materially underprivileged within the nation-state. Here, pain becomes a strategy of remembrance, a way to transmit history and make the unsayable tangible. In this panel, we explore how artists transform biographical and collective experiences: How can pain, grief, and traces of history be translated into materials, gestures, and spatial arrangements? What kinds of spaces emerge in which the spectral, precarious, and unfinished become visible, without reducing the experience to a simplified marker of identity?
Free of charge, plus admission
In English