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Jonida Gashi (born in 1984 in Fier) is an Albanian cultural theorist and senior researcher at the Centre for Art Studies at the Academy of Sciences of Albania. [1]
She completed her MRes and PhD in Humanities and Cultural Studies at the London Consortium, University of London. [2] Gashi is editor-in-chief of the journal Art Studies, published annually by the Academy of Albanological Studies. [3]
As one of the directors of the DebatikCenter of Contemporary Art, [4] Gashi led the open-letter campaign against the demolition of Albanian National Theatre, [5] leading to publications in Albanian, [6] French, [7] Italian, [8] and English, [9] gathering hundreds of signatures. She has linked the artwashing tactics of the Edi Rama government in Albania directly to the eventual destruction of the theater. [10]
Edi Rama is an Albanian politician and painter who has been serving as the 33rd and incumbent prime minister of Albania since 2013 and chairman of the Socialist Party of Albania since 2005. He was Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports from 1998 to 2000. First elected mayor of Tirana in 2000, he was reelected in 2003 and 2007.
The Socialist Party of Albania is a social-democratic political party in Albania. It has been described as centre-left. It was founded on 13 June 1991. The PS is an associate of the Party of European Socialists and a member of the Socialist International, and holds pro-European views.
Albin Kurti is a Kosovar Albanian politician who has been serving as Prime Minister of Kosovo since 2021, having previously held the office from February to June 2020.
The National Theatre of Albania was the main theatre in Tirana, Albania. In March 2020, the National Theatre of Albania was selected by Europa Nostra among the 7 most endangered monuments in Europe, as an exceptional example of modern Italian architecture from the 1930s and one of the most prominent cultural centers in Albania, facing impending threat of demolition. On 17 May 2020, the National Theatre building was demolished.
The University of Arts, formerly known as the Academy of Arts, is a public university and the main institution that offers higher education of arts in Albania.
Derviçan is a settlement in the former Dropull i Poshtëm municipality, Gjirokastër County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Dropull. It is within the larger Dropull region. The village is inhabited solely by Greeks.
The Albanian local elections of 2011 took place on 8 May 2011 in Albania. Electors were asked to elect their municipality's mayor, municipal council members, municipal unit mayor, and municipal unit members. The elections were administrated by the Central Election Commission of Albania. Only 9 of the 384 winning candidates were women.
Kristaq Rama was an Albanian sculptor, art educator and a member of the Communist Party in Albania under Enver Hoxha's rule. He had close ties to Hoxha's communist regime. He was the father of current Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama.
Erion Veliaj is an Albanian, politician, who is currently serving as the Mayor of Tirana. Stemming from a civil society activism organization as the leader of MJAFT!, Veliaj joined the ranks of the Socialist Party of Albania in 2011, when he was appointed Secretary for Youth and Immigration.
Arena Kombëtare is an all-seater, multi-purpose football stadium located in the capital city of Tirana which was built on the ground of the former Qemal Stafa Stadium. The stadium has a seating capacity of 22,500 constituting the largest stadium in Albania.
Jonida Maliqi is an Albanian singer and media personality.
"Ktheju tokës" is a song by Albanian singer Jonida Maliqi. It was released as a single on 8 March 2019 by Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH) and Universal. The song was composed and written by Eriona Rushiti, and produced by Enis Mullaj. It is musically an authentic and rhythmic Albanian-language folk-electronic ballad backed by traditional Albanian instruments. Lyrically, the song addresses the theme of migration, particularly to that of the Albanian people during the Kosovo War in the late 20th century.
For two years, artists and activists in Tirana, Albania, demonstrated to protect the historic National Theatre building from being demolished.
Events from the year 2020 in Albania.
Armando Lulaj is an artist, playwright, filmmaker, and film producer, living and working in Tirana, Albania. His work “constantly negotiates the borders between economical power, fictional democracy and social disparity in a global context.” Lulaj is the founder of DebatikCenter of Contemporary Art. Lulaj has been called “one of the most prominent Albanian artists of his generation.” Since 2022, Lulaj is a member of the art collective Manifesto.
The Zeta Center for Contemporary Art, founded in 2007 by Valentina Koça, is an Albanian non-profit exhibition space.
DebatikCenter of Contemporary Art is a contemporary art center and independent film production center based in Tirana, Albania. D.C.C.A defines itself as "nexus of academics, activists, architects, artists, imaginary and real collectives, critics, curators, journalists, translators, etc., that seek to shine a light on these practices but also offer the necessary tools to imagine alternative futures and strategies of resistance to the status quo."
Pleurad Xhafa is an artist, documentary filmmaker, and activist currently based in Tirana. Xhafa develops projects that examine the effects produced by neoliberal political experiments. His research and critical work result from a post-conceptual practice that operates on a documentary basis to subsequently report—visually and politically—on the culture of our time. Xhafa is one of the founders of DebatikCenter of Contemporary Art and is a member of art collective Manifesto.
Manifesto is an art collective and intellectual movement composed of artists, filmmakers, curators, writers, art theorists, historians, architects, and publishers, from various countries, engaged in Albanian contemporary art. In collaboration with the DebatikCenter of Contemporary Art and ZETA Center for Contemporary Art, the Manifesto art collective has developed a series of projects, Manifesto Hijacking (2022), Manifesto Desertion (2023), and Manifesto Great Wave (2024), which offer a deconstruction of the Albanian art scene and the way it is enmeshed with the power of the Albanian oligarchy.
Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei is a Dutch publisher, translator, curator, journalist, and philologist. He received an MA in general linguistics from Leiden University, an MMus from the ArtScience department at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, a PhD from the division Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought at the European Graduate School, and a PhD from the Centre for Modern Thought at the University of Aberdeen. Van Gerven Oei is currently director/CFO of open access press punctum books and director/CEO of open metadata platform Thoth Open Metadata.
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