Kosovo Capital Hosts European Nomadic Biennale Manifesta

"Here, at this equally captivating and contested site, Manifesta 14 Prishtina is launching an associative inquiry into one of the key questions of the biennial: What role do the arts and art thinking to play in telling stories otherwise, in bringing forth political imagination and engagement, in enacting healing, repair and transformation?" the venue's description reads. Multimedia exhibitions and art installations from local and international artists are held from the first up to the ninth floor. 

Manifesta Biennial has a total of 25 venues all over Pristina aiming at bringing back public spaces to the people via a combination of art and architecture. It features 102 artists from 30 different countries.  

Manifesta was created in the early 1990s and changes location every two years and adapts with the social circumstances of the city that hosts it by bringing contemporary culture and social dialogue.

All Manifesta's venues are open to the public and free of charge. Mediated tours are also free of charge for groups from the Western Balkans and for 50 euros for internationals.

Kosovo artist Jakup Ferri's art from the Venice Biennale displayed at the Grand Hotel for Manifesta 14 Biennale. Photo: BIRN/ Isa Vatovci

A visitor at the installation of Kosovo artist Doruntina Kastrati's installation at the Grand Hotel for Manifesta 14 Biennale. Photo: BIRN

The Seapussy Power Galore - Abcession (If you don't know, you don't grow) performance by Mette Sterre at the Grand Hotel for Manifesta 14 Biennale. Photo: BIRN/ Isa Vatovci 

The seventeen-metre floating ellipsoid, artistic intervention of Lee Bul at the Kosovo Palace of Youth and Sports. Photo: BIRN/ Dorentina Kastrati

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