Anyla Kabashi

[email protected]art historian and curator⋆⁺₊⋆ ☾𖤓 ⋆⁺₊⋆

Exhibitionsctrl/cmd + click to open links on a separate tab

Renea Begolli | Art Çibukçiu | Tinka Kelmendivitirine exhibitions in Kurshllus studio Prizrencurated and organized by Anyla Kabashi and Somer Şpat

HAJDE ME TEPRU, Studio Residency at Grand Hotel, Organized by Hajde! Foundation × Sekhmet Institute Exhibition open from March 6, 2026 to March 22, 2026 (Monday Friday, 12:00 16:00)Ana Morina | Zgjim Zyba | Adnit Hoxhacurated by Anyla Kabashi

ALL THIS TIME, BECOMING
RENEA BEGOLLICurated by Anyla KabashiSupported by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, and Hajde! Foundation
At Hajde! Foundation, GRAND HOTEL, 6th floor, Prishtina, KosovoOn view 9 June 2025 to 30 July 2025

WRAPPED IN THE SHADOW OF FREEDOMAgha Shahid Ali / Anna Ehrenstein / Arlinda Morina – Liki / Arber Selmani / Astrit Ismaili / Bashar Murad / Clifford Prince King / Kristiyan Chalakov / Ledia Dushi / Marko Gutić Mižimakov / Nanda Agić / Paola Revenioti / Pêdra Costa / Piro Rexhepi / Rah Naqvi / Robert Gabrís / Silvi Naci with Dëshira Maja / The Queer Muslim Project / Uresa Ahmeti / Va–Bene Elikem Fiatsi (crazinisT artisT)
Curated by Shaunak MahbubaniWith Assistant Curator Anyla Kabashi
Curatorial Advisors: Dardan Hoti and Ajete KërqeliOrganized by Sekhmet InstituteAt Grand Hotel, 6th floor, Prishtina, Kosovo
On view until 29 Sep 2024, Wed–Sun, 8–12pm

Anyla Kabashi

research projects, zines & essaysctrl/cmd + click to open links on a separate tab

Body as an Archive: Performative Art
Practices in Postwar Kosova (2026)Anyla Kabashi & Renea Begolli
Edited by: Dr. Vjollca Krasniqi
funded and supported by the National Gallery of KosovoBody as an Archive is an ongoing curatorial and research project exploring the body as a site of memory, resistance, and representation in post-war contemporary art in Kosovo.
Drawing on feminist and decolonial methodologies, the project
focuses on body-based practices such as performance, video art,
and installation that challenge dominant narratives of nationhood,
gender, and institutional visibility.
Through archival research, artist interviews, and public discussions,
the project traces how artists use the body to talk about trauma,
articulate marginalized identities, and create alternative forms of
knowledge and care.
The project's first deliverable was a non-linear, thematic publication bringing together critical texts, artworks, and visual materials to propose (re)thinking about embodied memory and artistic practice in postwar contexts.

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Anyla Kabashi

More about me and my work

I am Anyla, an emerging art historian, researcher, curator, and writer based in Prishtina, Kosovo.I was born in 1996 and grew up in post-war Kosovo. This context has influenced my interest in art, particularly in relation to memory, representation, and social structures.My practice moves slowly, and often begins with paying attention to the ways people make sense of their realities.At the moment, I work as an art coordinator at the Sekhmet Institute in Prishtina, where I am involved in developing curatorial projects and residency programs, including the Artists-in-Residence program at Grand Hotel Prishtina in collaboration with Hajde! Foundation. I also curate an ongoing series of exhibitions at Kurshllus Studio in Prizren.
Alongside this, I work with the National Gallery of Kosovo as a freelance editor in the Department of Education and Research.I studied Art History and Information and Communication Sciences at the University of Zagreb, and later Semiotics at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. These experiences shaped how I read images and cultural texts, not as fixed meanings, but as something constantly shifting, layered, and open.My work moves between research, writing, and curating. I spend a lot of time working with archives, thinking about how artworks are documented, classified, and remembered, and how these processes shape what becomes visible as history. I have worked on the digitization of the work of Vera Dajht Kralj and contributed to artist databases in Kosovo.In 2023, I spent time in Vienna as an artist-in-residence at the MuseumsQuartier, where I was an intern on the curatorial team of Kunsthalle Wien. I helped in preparing the exhibitions Ancestral Clouds, Ancestral Claims, and Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat.Through everything I do, I try to hold on to a simple idea: that we are connected. That no one should be left behind. That there doesn’t have to be a hierarchy between lives, cultures, or ways of being. I am interested in what happens when we take interdependence seriously as a way of caring for one another.

Anyla Kabashi