This website was active from 2000 until 2010, when Linda, the Albanian Women Artists Association, closed its physical space (the Lindart Cultural Center) and stopped its activities. Lindart's archival materials, held by its former president Eleni Laperi, were reactivated in 2022 at academy of others, an artist studio founded by Valentina Bonizzi, as part of an ongoing research project focusing on art in Albania during the 1990s. This archive will soon be digitized and available here, as well as at the Centre for Artistic Documentation at the Art Studies Centre at the Academy of Sciences in Tirana, Albania.

For any enquiries, please write to [email protected].

Activities

2000

May — “Eden’s Irony”, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana; curator Eleni Laperi, supported by the Swiss Foundation Pro Helvetia and DEZA.


August — “Eden’s Irony”, Kulturfokus Sara, Stockholm, Sweden. Supported by Pro Helvetia and Swedish Institute for Culture.

2001

January — “Cultural Center Lindart”, financially supported by Pro Helvetia and DEZA. Group exhibition of Lindart association members.


April — ‘Invent yourself’, workshop on photography led by Monica von Rosen; supported by Swedish Institute, Pro Helvetia & DEZA, Soros Foundation.


September — Video projections from international project ‘Digital Odyssey’, curated by Nina Czegledy.


October — ‘Invent Yourself’, group exhibition on photography, Cultural Center Karl der Grosse, Zurich (Pro Helvetia Zurich).


November — ‘Dare to be different’, international exhibition of artist women, Fier, Albania; curator Eleni Laperi.

2002

March — ‘Homage on 8 of March’, group exhibition, Tirana.


April — Conference on art theory: Art of the Balkans during ’80, Marina Grzinic (Soros Foundation, Tirana).


April — Conference on art creativity in Great Britain for students of the Art Academy in Tirana (PALP group: Sue Bleakley, Amanda Lorens).


August — OPEN2002 ‘Imaginaire feminine’, Suela Muça, installation ‘Let’s go shopping’; curator Eleni Laperi.


July — Photo exhibition ‘Faces’, Krajlevo, Yugoslavia.


September — Forum of Mediterranean Artist Women, Rhodes, Greece (Ministry of Culture Greece).


September — Installation of the dark room and photography workshop by Barbara Hausammann.


October — 'Dreaming generations', dolls and drawings by Nimfa Jaço and Evis Myftaraj.


November 15 — Exhibition; supported by Pro Helvetia.


Sept.–Dec. — Training courses on digital media (KulturKontakt, Austria).


November — ‘Loves&hates’, exhibition of Albanian artist immigrant women; curator Eleni Laperi.


December — Workshop ‘Windows and Curtains’, digital image, curated by Nina Czegledy.


December — ‘Confrontation’: performance and communication workshop curated by Tanja Ostojic; Group Exhibition.

2003

February — ‘Maid in Cyberspace Festival’, Quebec & Montreal, Canada.


March 7 — ‘existence from insistence’, MuseumQuartier, Vienna (Kulturkontakt). Curator Eleni Laperi.


March 12 — Poetry evening with High School ‘Qemal Stafa’ and French embassy in Tirana.


March 18, 29 — ‘Lies’, collaboration with street theater group ‘kumulus’ (France).


April 11 — ‘Les fleurs du mal’, mixed-media exhibition.


April 14 — Conference on photography by Martin Gasser (Ph.D.).


April 24 — VideoMedea festival, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia.


May — ‘The city is you and me’, photo exhibition, Tirana (Soros Foundation).


June — ‘Reportage from Peter Pan’, children photography exhibition.


August — Participation at OPEN2003, project by Artur Gorishti, Venice.


September — ‘Medieval Unreality’, workshop on new media & technology (KulturKontakt, Pro Helvetia).


October — ‘Plato’s dinner 1’, conference on art and culture in Albania (Soros Foundation).


November — ‘Plato’s dinner 2’, conference series (Soros Foundation).

2004

January — ‘Plato’s dinner 3 & 4’, conference series. Lectures by Gazmend Leka and Natasha Lako.


May — ‘The city of Dolls’, group exhibition; curator Enkelejda Limani.


June 1 — ‘Reportage from the Medieval Ages’, children photo exhibition (Northern Albania).


July — ‘Identities I - a piece of world in my city’, workshop & exhibition (KulturKontakt, Kodak Distributor).


August — ‘ReAffiliation’, international exhibition and workshop, curator Claudia-Maria Luenig.


Sept. 12 — Promotion of the literary creativity of Eglantina Mandia.


Sept. 15 — ‘Girls and Guns’, exhibition of Canadian & Albanian artist women, curator Nina Czegledy.


October — ‘Prison’s Sheets’, solo show of Harri Palviranta (NIFCA).


November — Workshop on culture and communication through art, Lepush, Kelmend-Northern Albania.


November — Workshop on photography: ‘Identities II - a piece of world in my city’, led by Harri Palviranta.

2005

January — ‘The brich of 7 archs- Berati’, photo exhibition of Dhimiter Topi.


March — ‘together’, exhibition of 5 Albanian artist women at the US Embassy in Tirana.


Mar–Dec — ‘Looking the word through photography’, workshops, exhibitions and publications on children rights and photography.


April — Families and homilies, discussion on Woman/Mother/Daughter/Migration (Claudia-Maria Luenig).


June — ‘Looking Vendetta through the children eyes’, photo exhibition and support action for children in blood feud, Tirana.


June — Participation at EDITING project by Zerynthia, presented in Venice (51st Biennale di Venezia).


Jul–Aug — ‘Sleeping Beauty’, digital project on Albanian cultural heritage, directed by Nina Czegledy.


September — Workshop on photography with Academy of Fine Arts and German Embassy in Tirana.


September — be-longing, cooperation with IG BILDENDE KUNST Vienna — first part, Vienna.


October — ‘The foreigner are us’, videomarathon and panel discussion of female video artists from the region.


November — ‘Minorities & Majorities or sharing history’, activities on minorities and coexistence in peace, Delvina.


December — be-longing, second part — Tirana, Albania.