Jonida Gashi and Armando Lulaj present DebatikCenter of Contemporary Art's MANIFESTO, a multidisciplinary project that brings together artists, curators, historians, architects, writers, cultural theorists, Albanians or non-Albanians, etc., to reflect on the current state of contemporary art in Albania and beyond, with the aim of provoking a "momentum" capable of breaking the current artistic and historical narrative by proposing an alternative. Given the current political and geographical state, this movement proposes itself as an antagonistic project and laboratory of ideas in a territory where the neoliberal experiment fused with contemporary art is more evident than ever. Unlike many of its neighbours, Albania has not invented a great historical narrative. Here, the conditions of modernism are still able to open up different possibilities for art, possibilities that can be developed without replicating situations and experiences that have already happened elsewhere. The Manifesto project has been analysing and working on these particularities for several years, through its first two editions, Manifesto HIJACKING (2022) and Manifesto DESERTION (2023). In this third edition, Manifesto comes as a GREAT WAVE (2024–25), proposing a new movement in the visual, cinematographic, theoretical and political arts: a movement that deconstructs the country's past along with its current neoliberal consolidation, offering a critical retrospective perspective that focuses on social reality and proposes a new historical narrative of Albanian arts and society.
Workshops: 24.10. / 11:00 / Lothringer 13 Halle AND 25.10. / 10:00 / AdBK Munich, students can register at
*The lecture and workshops will be held in English.