Doruntina Kastrati (b. 1991, Prishtina) is an artist working mainly across sculpture, installation and moving image. Through her practice, Doruntina researches and focuses on the body and its relationship to biopolitical power. Specifically, she directs one’s attention to social and political issues of labor in the global context. In 2014, she was awarded the Young Visual Artist Award from the National Gallery of Kosovo, and she won the Hajde x 6 Award from the Hajde Foundation in 2017. She was a resident at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York in 2015, a resident at Art House in Shkodër in 2018 and at Initiators in Athens in 2018. Her work was recently shown at Manifesta 14, Pristina (2022); Life without buildings at ETH Zurich, curated by Adam Szymczyk with Elena Bally (2022), Autostrada Biennale, curated by Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu and Joanna Warsza, Prizren (2021); “Bigger than Myself – Heroic Voices from ex Yugoslavia”, MAXXI Museum, Rome (2021); “Not Fully Human, Not Human at All” at Kadist Foundation, Paris (2021); “Tirana Patience”, National Gallery of Arts in Tirana (2020); “Public Heroes and Secrets”, curated by Hana Halilaj, The National Museum of Kosovo (2020), among others. She is representing the Kosovo Pavilion with her new sculptural and audio installation titled “The Echoing Silences of Metal and Skin”, for which she earned the Special Mention as National Participation to the 60th Venice Biennale.
Doruntina Kastrati (b. 1991, Prishtina) is an artist working mainly across sculpture, installation and moving image. Through her practice, Doruntina researches and focuses on the body and its relationship to biopolitical power. Specifically, she directs one’s attention to social and political issues of labor in the global context. In 2014, she was awarded the Young Visual Artist Award from the National Gallery of Kosovo, and she won the Hajde x 6 Award from the Hajde Foundation in 2017. She was a resident at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York in 2015, a resident at Art House in Shkodër in 2018 and at Initiators in Athens in 2018. Her work was recently shown at Manifesta 14, Pristina (2022); Life without buildings at ETH Zurich, curated by Adam Szymczyk with Elena Bally (2022), Autostrada Biennale, curated by Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu and Joanna Warsza, Prizren (2021); “Bigger than Myself – Heroic Voices from ex Yugoslavia”, MAXXI Museum, Rome (2021); “Not Fully Human, Not Human at All” at Kadist Foundation, Paris (2021); “Tirana Patience”, National Gallery of Arts in Tirana (2020); “Public Heroes and Secrets”, curated by Hana Halilaj, The National Museum of Kosovo (2020), among others. She is representing the Kosovo Pavilion with her new sculptural and audio installation titled “The Echoing Silences of Metal and Skin”, for which she earned the Special Mention as National Participation to the 60th Venice Biennale.
Works
The age of silver bones I
2023
Materials: cast aluminium, straps
Size per shell: 90 x 152 x 50 cm, 92 x 148 x 39 cm (each)
Edition: 3 + 1 AP
Photo: Ivan Zupanc
The age of silver bones II
2023
Materials: cast aluminium, metal wires
Size per shell: 90 x 152 x 50 cm, 92 x 148 x 39 cm (each)
Edition: 3 + 1 AP
Photo: Ivan Zupanc
Sugar, starch, labour
2023
2 channel video with sound, in collaboration with Leart Rama
Edition: 5
Photo: Ivan Zupanc