Ky numër i Studimeve për artin shqyrton temën e revizionizmit, kuptuar njëkohësisht si një dukuri historike, për aq sa lufta kundër të ashtuquajturit “revizionizëm modern” (fillimisht sovjetik por më pas edhe kinez) luajti një rol vendimtar në rrugën e ndjekur nga Partia e Punës së Shqipërisë nga fi…

Dikur një spektakël i modernitetit, kinemaja shëtitëse i ofronte publikut të saj mundësinë e rrallë për të përjetuar magjinë e teknologjive audiovizive, sidomos për ata që kishin patur shumë pak kontakte me kësi mrekullish teknologjike më parë. Kjo ishte e vlefshme edhe për zonat e pamata rurale të …

Ky numër i revistës Studime për artin merret me temën e fillesave dhe specifikisht me tri pika kyçe në historinë moderne e bashkëkohore të Shqipërisë, që u hapën rrugë fillimeve të reja (qofshin këto “të mira”, “të këqija”, apo të rreme – dhe gjithçka e ndërmjetme): Lufta Antifashiste Nacional-Çliri…

In the history of Albanian Socialist Realist art, the period spanning from the 1960s to 1973 is known as a relatively fervent period in terms of creative freedom, especially in comparison to the period following 1973. For visual artists, experimentation with modernist modes of expression and innovat…

Consulting the most recent publication on the history of Albanian theater, we find the term partisan theater used to describe a practice that precedes the emergence of professional Albanian theater. It is surprising that (even today) such a minor theatrical phenomenon, which appeared in the years 19…

The Calendars were one of the elements included in the first exhibition of Diaries: LindArt & the Albanian Women Artists Association. The exhibition opened in 2022, after I had spent the previous few years trying to dig into the work of the Linda association, the first and only association of women …

Based mainly on Albanian primary sources, this article is a comparative analysis of the Ideological and Cultural Revolution in communist Albania in the mid 1960s. The article emphasizes the importance that the regime placed on the historical tradition of mass mobilizations accumulated in other commu…

This article explores the reactions to and critical discussions surrounding exhibitions in the first few years of the 1970s, primarily focusing on the 1971 National Figurative Arts Exhibition and the Pranvera exhibition of 1972. It looks closely at the responses of artists to the developments taking…

Alban Hajdinaj is an artist whose work addresses the impact of politics on the monumental context of contemporary Albania. Through different media (objects, photos, videos and paintings), he critically questions the transformations of Albania’s capital city, Tirana. In this interview, he speaks with…

In this article we reflect on the archive and its relation to justice, memory and time, by focusing on Esat Shala’s lifetime archiving ‘project’. Esat Shala, a young man from the village of Krajkova, Kosovo, has been collecting for more than twenty years video and audio records, photographs and diar…

Where did Socialist Realism come from, and what was it, really? Was it a style, a movement, or something else entirely—a “method”, as its proponents so often characterized it? How did it relate to modernism, that similarly ambiguous phenomenon that dominated so much of cultural discourse—in the West…

Today’s debates on archival practices, especially in the era of widespread digitalization, are focused on theories and practices aimed at making archives more accessible for all. Archiving today speaks to new dynamics. Theater archiving in particular brings its own specific problems, problems that d…