Doruntina Kastrati (b. 1991) lives and works in Prishtina.
And So We Lay New Stones Upon the Old (2025)

Blurring the line between artifact and replica within its vaulted chambers, the historic bathhouse invites visitors to become active participants in the act of interpretation—a theme explored in Doruntina Kastrati’s work. Often taking sculptural, infrastructural, and filmic forms, Kastrati’s practice foregrounds fragmented bodies, labor conditions, and the precarity of everyday life. In this context, her intervention marks a vital artistic dialogue with the space, contributing a fresh layer to its evolving narrative.

Kastrati is an artist working mainly across sculpture, installation, sound and movie images. In 2014, she was awarded the Young Visual Artist Award from the National Gallery of Kosovo, and she won the Hajde x 6 Award from the Hajde Foundation in 2017. She was a resident at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York in 2015, a resident at Art House in Shkodra in 2018 and at Initiators in Athens in 2018. In 2024, She represented the Kosovo Pavilion with a new sculptural and audio installation titled “The Echoing Silences of Metal and Skin”, for which she earned a Special Mention for National Participation at the 60th Venice Biennale.

Recent solo exhibitions include:
Clouds of White Dust, Secci Gallery, Milan, Italy (2025);
No Burning, No Wounds, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2024);
Here (Air Carries Poison But Yet We Breathe), ChertLüdde, Berlin, Germany (2021).

Recent group exhibitions include:
Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (2025);
Manifesta 14, Prishtina, Kosovo (2022);
Life without buildings, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (2022).

Commissioned by: Autostrada Biennale