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This Is Not a Palm Tree

This is not a palm treeFor the first time presented in this form in Berlin, the group exhibition “This Is Not a Palm Tree” focuses on the work of young protagonist artists of the contemporary art scene in Albanian and Kosovar. The 17 artists on display attempt to approach the multi-layered manifestations of collectivized memory and national identity, which play currently an imperative role in the present art production of these two young countries.

By Olson Lamaj
By Olson Lamaj

To envelop individual artistic positions under a national context seems stifling, even anachronistic and out of place, in the face of global realities such as mass migration and trans-cultural, hybrid identities. At the same time, however, an art conception that moves into an international context also needs to create a space, in which local connections and differences can be named and discussed.

Enkelejd Zonja
Enkelejd Zonja

Albania and Kosovo are still strongly informed by their communist past and state dictated image-politics, as well as the current construction and manipulation of national commemorative and founding myths. The juxtaposition of artistic positions that deal with the historical and current commemorative and representational politics of two states that consider themselves one people opens another dimension: not only will the respective Kosovar and Albanian state ideologies be questioned, but also this constitution of a commonality – the narrative of Albanian as an ethnicity, homeland, culture and tradition.

Haveit
Haveit

That is the context of this unmissable exhibition, which will have its opening this Saturday November in neurotitan gallery.

Artists: Alban Muja | Artan Hajrullahu | Atdhe Mulla | Dren Maliqi | Driant Zeneli | Endri Dani | Ermir Destani I Enkelejd Zonja | Haveit | Ilir Kaso | Jakup Ferri | Jeton Muja | Koja | Ledia Kostandini |  Majlinda Hoxha | Olson Lamaj | Remijon Pronja | Silva Agostini

Where: Neurotitan / Rosenthalerstr. 39, 10178 Berlin

When: Opening 7. November, 7 p.m
Aftershowparty from 11 p.m at Eschschloraque

Opening hours Mo – Sa 12 to 8 p.m
Duration: from 9. November – 28.November