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.

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project info for the year 2005:

January, 2005 - 'The brich of 7 archs- Berati', photo exhibition of Dhimiter Topi, photographer;

March 2005 - 'together', exhibiton of 5 Albanian artist women at the US Embassy in Tirana.

March- December 2005 - ' Looking the word through photography', workshops, exhibitions and publications on children rights and photography, with participation of children from group in risk and minorities in Albania, in collaboration with UNICEF, Albania, FotoKozmos, Kodak distributor in Albania and artist photographers.

April 2005 - Families and homilies, discussion on relationship Woman/Mother/Daughter/Migration, organized by Claudia-Maria Luenig, Vienna-Austria.

June 2005 - 'Looking Vendetta through the children eyes', exhibition with photos realized from children of families in blood feud from Shkodra Region and promoting action for supporting the children in blood feud for a save future, at 'Xhezmi Delli' elementary school - Tirana, Albania.

June 2005 - Participation at the EDITING project by Zerynthia, presented in Venice on the 10th June 2005, in the occasion of the inauguration of the 51st Biennale di Venezia. A brochure containing information about the project -partners and Institutions that support the initiative - is available during the presentation in Venice. The curators of Editing are: Cecilia Casorati, Giovanni Iovane and Lorenzo Benedetti.

July-August 2005 - 'Sleeping Beauty', digital project on Albanian cultural heritage in a global society, directed by Nina Czegledy, Canadian curator and artist of new media.

September 2005 - Workshop on photography, organized in collaboration with Academy of Fine Arts and German Embassy in Tirana.

September 2005 - be-longing, a co-operational project between the LindArt Center Tirana/Albania and the IG BILDENDE KUNST Vienna, first part - Vienna, Austria.

October 2005 - 'The foreigner are us', videomarathon and panel discussion of female video artists from Albania, Greece, Macedonia, Kosovo, Serbia&Montenegro.

Partner of the project - "Community education, intercultural dialogue and promotion of cultural rights", organized by Interarts Foundation, Barcelona, a project proposal under the European Commission's Call for Proposals.

October 2005 - Participant at the Zerynthia project actually a work in progress, opening at Palazzo Lantieri in Gorizia, from 6 through 9 October 2005; further events are anticipated in the partner's countries of the Editing project:Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Czech Republic; Hungry, Austria, Germany and Italy.

November 2005 - ' Minorities&Majorities or sharing history', workshops, conferences and cultural activities on minorities and coexistence in peace, Delvina - South Albania.

December 2005 - be-longing, A co-operational project between the LindArt Center Tirana/Albania and the IG BILDENDE KUNST Vienna, second part - Tirana, Albania.

additional projects:

Together 2005 - exhibition of 5 Albanian artist women at the US Embassy in Tirana / Families and homilies, discussion on relationship Woman/Mother/Daughter/Migration,edition n paradoxa,London - England.

Looking Vendetta through the children eyes, exhibition with photos realized from children of minorities in risk, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana.

'Sleeping Beauty', digital project on Albanian cultural heritage in a global society.

Be-longing, co-operational project between the LindArt Center Tirana / Albania and the IG BILDENDEKUNST, Vienna-Austria.

2006 - 'I communicate therefore I am', workshops and exhibition, Tirana

Your city is my city Interactive exhibition of Swedish artist Knutte Westler (artist in residency at Lindart), in Collaboration with NICFA and Historical Museum, Tirana.

2007 - Project 5.6 – An Albanian school of photography; www.projekt56.com

The need of professional photographers has driven in 2007 the Swiss Cultural Program Albania, to support CCLA to implement 'Projekt 5.6', a program of professional training courses for photography in Tirana. Some of the best Albanian specialists in this field of photography and design and guest international professionals facilitate the professional preparation of young Albanian photographers: (www.projekt56.com)

2008 - "Albania'08" Group exhibition of graduated students of Projekt5.6 (first course).Salaisons gallery Paris-France www.salaisons.org / www.albania08.org

Sotiri International prize for young photographers. First edition. http://www.projekt56.com/web_all/exhibitions.html

"open space" Athens (workshop organized by British Council); participation.

Participant and lecturer at 'International Salon of initiatives for Peace', at La cite de l'Industrie et des Sciences, Paris-France, in collaboration with MRAP – France.