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It is our pleasure to invite you to a presentation by Erëmirë Krasniqi, the current Writer-and-Researcher-in-Residence of the 2025 Styria-Artist-in-Residence (St.A.i.R.) program. During her stay in Graz, Krasniqi is being hosted by Camera Austria, where she has access to the institution’s library. This annual exchange of an artist/researcher from Kosovo and Graz is facilitated by the Regional Government of Styria and Shtatëmbëdhjetë in Prishtina.

Erëmirë Krasniqi is primarily a researcher, activating her work through curating and publishing. During her three-month residency in Graz, which began in November 2025, she has been exploring the largely undocumented history of video art in Kosovo, tracing how artists have responded to the social, aesthetic, and technological shifts of the decade following the 1998–99 war.

In the scope of her presentation on Tuesday, January 27, 2026, at 6 p.m., Krasniqi will discuss one strand of her ongoing research. The presentation, titled “In Review: The First Decade of Video Art in Kosovo,” looks at the development of video art as being central to the aesthetics of the country’s multiple transitions. A focus is placed on how artists working in the first postwar decade used the medium to articulate traumatic experiences of war, expose gender disparity in a male-dominated society, and probe evolving imaginaries of nationhood in the years leading up to Kosovo’s independence in 2008. The talk will also offer insights into Krasniqi’s research process and the reference materials consulted in Camera Austria’s study library.

Born and raised in Prishtina (XK), Erëmirë Krasniqi studied art and aesthetics as well as literature and rhetoric at Bard College Berlin (DE) from 2009 to 2013. She went on to complete a master’s degree in comparative literature at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire (US) in 2014–15, where her research focused on nonlinear temporality in 1970s feminist utopias. Drawing on this multidisciplinary background, she returned to Prishtina and joined a collective of scholars and activists from different generations, contributing to the growth and development of Oral History Kosovo, a research platform that enables critical engagement with diverse forms of narration, recollection, and archiving. As an independent curator, she has led and curated projects for the National Gallery of Kosovo, the National Gallery of Arts in Albania, Manifesta 14, and the 39th EVA International in Ireland. Most notably, she curated the Pavilion of the Republic of Kosovo at the 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (IT), which received a special mention for National Participation.