Erëmirë Krasniqi

Erëmirë Krasniqi (b. 1985) is an art writer, researcher and curator based in Prishtina, Kosovo. She received her M.A. in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, U.S. and B.A. in Arts and Aesthetics from Bard College Berlin, Germany. In 2017, Erëmirë completed a year-long postgraduate program in curation and museology at the Friedrich Schiller University, Germany.

As a freelance writer, her articles on art and culture were published in local and international magazines, including Kosovo 2.0, Springerin, Frieze, Artforum among others. Alongside, she has contributed to and edited numerous publications focused on art, social movements and cultural heritage. Having started as a Research Coordinator at the Oral History Initiative (OHI) in 2015, soon after Erëmirë became the Executive Director of the organization - a research platform which enables critical engagement with different forms of narrating, recollecting and archiving. During her tenure at OHI, she emphasized an interest in building programmatic links between oral history practice and other disciplines in the arts and humanities and facilitated an environment that encouraged bottom-up local knowledge production and historical dialogue. From 2022 to 2023, Erëmirë served as a member of the Initiating Council of the Museum of Contemporary Art, expected to be fully operational in the capital of Kosovo by 2028.

As an independent curator, she has led and curated projects for the National Gallery of Kosovo, the National Gallery of Arts in Albania, 39th EVA International, Ireland, and Manifesta 14, Kosovo.

Currently, Erëmirë is the curator of the National Pavilion of the Republic of Kosovo at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, which presented The Echoing Silences of Metal and Skin, a sculptural installation by Doruntina Kastrati, receiving a Special Mention for National Participation at the Official Awards Ceremony of the 60th International Art Exhibition-La Biennale di Venezia.

Erëmirë Krasniqi, Independent Curator, Pristina, Kosovo, has been awarded by the Getty Foundation, Los Angeles.