FINALISTS of the Secondary Archive OPEN CALL for female artists from Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia

Thank you for participating in the Secondary Archive Open Call for female artists from Albania, Kosovo, Serbia and V4 countries. We received over 250 submissions!

Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation (Poland) and the partners are pleased to present the selection of finalists made by the jury for the Secondary Archive female artists born after December 31, 1987.

Selected finalists are invited to write an artist’s statement in cooperation with the project curators.

The result of this work will be published on the Archive’s website. Additionally, the jury will award one artist from each country (Albania, Kosovo and Serbia) whose vision and art practice will be encouraged with a cash grant of 500 euros. Due to the fact that it is an additional edition of an ongoing project which has started in 2021, the jury will award one artist from V4 countries. The final decision on the grant awards will be announced by October 30, 2022.

Below are the finalists from Albania, Kosovo, Serbia and V4 countries invited to participate in the archive. We will contact each of the finalists in person in the nearest days. Congratulations! 

Albania

Lori Lako

Elsamina Musiq

Marina Sula

Abi Shehu

Gerta Xhaferaj

Kosovo:

Laureta Hajrullahu

Agrina Vllasaliu

Barbara Prenka

Serbia:

Sanja Anđelković

Marianna Feher Nikolić

Aleksandra Saša Jeremić

Jelena Mijić

Sunčica Pasuljević Kandić

Anastasija Pavić

Anja Tončić

Adrienn Ujhazi

V4 countries:

Eliška Konečná (CZ)

Stonytellers (CZ)

Lili Agg (HU)

Zsuzsanna Simon (HU)

Michalina Bigaj (PL)

Justyna Górowska (PL)

Alicja Wysocka (PL)

Paula Malinowska (SK)

An international jury consisting of representatives:

Adela Demetja is a curator and the director of Tirana Art Lab – Center for Contemporary Art, an independent art institution. In the SA project, she represents Albania.

Renea Begolli is a visual artist, camera operator, editor and archivist at Oral History Initiative, a digital resource which engages new forms of cultural production, supporting and advocating the essential work of media archives. In the SA project, she represents Kosovo.

Dejan Vasić is an art critic, the associate curator and adviser for the visual arts program at the Center for Cultural Decontamination. In the SA project, he represents Serbia.

Daniela Šiandorová is a Secondary Archive coordinator for MeetFactory. In the SA project, she represents the Czech Republic.

Róna Kopeczky is an art historian and curator based in Budapest, artistic director of acb Gallery and co-founder of Easttopics, a platform dedicated to Eastern European art life. In the SA project, she represents Hungary.

Bogna Stefańska is a researcher and curator of a public programme on climate catastrophe at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. In the SA project, she represents Poland.

Lucia Kvočáková is an art historian and curator based in Prague, co-founder of BJÖRNSONOVA – a collective linking the artistic activities and projects focused on cooperation, originating from Slovakia, the country she represents in the context of the SA project.

Partners involved in the project: Tirana Art Lab (Albania), Ambasada Kultury (Belarus/Lithuania/Germany), MeetFactory (Czech Republic), Easttopics (Hungary), Oral History Initiative (Kosovo), Center for Cultural Decontamination (Serbia), björnsonova (Slovakia), Artsvit Gallery (Ukraine).