opening
08.03.2024
h 18:00
closure
13.03.2024
LULE MIMOZA 2024

LULE MIMOZA 2024

For the second year in a row, Bulevard has commissioned five artists to make posters on the occasion of the 8th of March, International Women’s Day. The 2024 posters are by Orestia Kapidani (1978), Suela Muça (1973), Anxhela Pipero (1995), Alketa Ramaj (1983), and Abi Shehu (1993).

Produced by Bulevard and distributed free of charge at the 8th of March, the posters and overarching project bring artists’ work into the space of the protest. Developed through dialogue—particularly around how aesthetics are embedded in gender politics and everyday life—the 2024 artists were all directly recommended by the 2023 artists Bora Baboçi (1988), Lindart (1993–2010–ongoing), Matilda Odobashi (1988), Edit Pula (1974), and Gerta Xhaferaj (1993).

The posters are for sale at Bulevard Bookshop. Sales help to sustain an economy of independence.

opening
15.02.2024
h 19:00
closure
01.03.2024
LULE KOSOVA 2024

LULE KOSOVA 2024

This year, on the 16th anniversary of Kosovo's Independence will be celebrated as Kosovo citizens experience for the first time the possibility to travel freely to the western part of the continent. To reflect on concepts such as borders, freedom and identity processes, Lule Kosova, presents a newly commissioned project curated by publisher and creative director Rina Meta built around the work of poet and musician Eljesa Beka. The project develops in several stages during the course of one year starting with an exhibition performance in Bulevard gallery spaces on the 15th of February 2024.

opening
18.01.2024
h 19:00
closure
18.01.2024
h 22:00
KAFE KOKOSHKA 2024

KAFE KOKOSHKA 2024

KafeKokoshka 2024 is curated by franz_sella - who has invited “100 Capre” a never-ending film by Francesco Bertelé with a remote live performance by Gustafturmak and the 1981 fantasy film by Marcell Jankovics Fehérlófia or Son of the White Mare.

Poster artwork: byunknow

opening
25.11.2023
h 17:00
closure
27.11.2023
h 19:00
LULE SHQIPONJA 2023  \nAN INDEPENDENT BOOK FAIR

LULE SHQIPONJA 2023
AN INDEPENDENT BOOK FAIR

For the second year, An Independent Book Fair brings together publishers and bookmakers from Albania, Kosovo, and beyond through an international open call. As part of Lule Shqiponja, the fair is co-organized with 28 November.

* 28 November purveys texts (new, used, bootlegged) that relate to independence, anarchy, spaces of exception, desire, withdrawal, noncompliance, self-management, forms of identification, love.

2023 publishers

28 November, Aleph Klub, ArtHouse, Benedict Brink, Berk, Bulevard, Byunknow, CHwB Kosova, COMMENTARIVM, Kolektivi Zine, Kurdistan Solidarity Network, Literatura Anarkiste, Lirindja, Nepotik, Nisesos, O Göce, Oral History Kosovo, Palazzo Bronzo, Pararoja, Peizazhe të Fjalës, Pika pa Sipërfaqe, Potpuri, Private Print, Sherebel, Shtatëmbëdhjetë, StoryLab, Werkplaats Typografie, Yeah! Pizza!, Zachariah Riley, Zeta Contemporary Art Center

opening
29.10.2023
h 18:00
closure
12.12.2023
THE URGENT (ARTIST) ATELIER

THE URGENT (ARTIST) ATELIER

The Urgent (Artist) Atelier is a program dedicated to young artists. Bulevard is transformed into a communal studio space to question the intersection between art and education. The urgencies are developed through seminars, workshops, and public presentations, to unravel and share questions related to personal and collective work. 

Artists: Anxhela Pipero, Aurela Kumanaku, Besa Mustafaj, Diona Kusari, Doris Vila, Egi Mali, Emi Behari, Enza Rripaj, Erald Nezaj, Erisalda Veizaj, Franklin Pelari, Hajrie Dedej, Iris Canaj, Kei Suçi, Klea Muceku, Pakita Rustemi, Redina Quse, Renid Tosuni, Resina Meçani, Samela Balazi, Tiziana Lohja

Guests: Mobile School of Visual Art, Arnisa Zeqo, Ukrainian Museum of Contemporary Art/Olga Balashove and Yuliia Hnat, Glen Caçi, Silvi Naçi, Fully Funded Residencies, Leah Whitman-Salkin, Academy of Others

opening
23.09.2023
h 19:00
closure
08.10.2023
THE BULEVARD SHOW \nWURMKOS | LIVING BRIDGES

THE BULEVARD SHOW
WURMKOS | LIVING BRIDGES

The Bulevard Show 2023 presents the first performative intervention of Living Bridges, a project developed with Wurmkos, which intervenes in a threshold, a crack in the urban texture created by the demolition of a building designed by artist and architect Maks Velo (1935–2020). Living Bridges intervenes precisely in the space-time that exists between demolition and reconstruction. 

Wurmkos is a group of artists founded in 1987 in Sesto San Giovanni (Milan). It was inspired by Franco Basaglia, the psychiatrist who, at the end of the 1970s, strived to close psychiatric hospitals in Italy. 

Venue: In front of the demolished Maks Velo building (next to Bulevard/Destil)

opening
26.06.2023
h 12:00
closure
09.10.2023
DIARIES 2023

DIARIES 2023

Bulevard is pleased to present the second year of Diaries: a quest exploring collective artistic production in Albania, from the 1990s across the first decade of the 2000s, through the lens of Lindart, the first and only association of women artists in Albania. The first Diaries exhibition in 2022 was conceived as the beginning of a process, rather than an end result. Bulevard opens the second Diaries “entry” by combining an exhibition with a symposium. Both iterations interweave documentation and storytelling, where reimagined art historical narratives, engaged in artistic practice, friendship, and mutual support become visible across and within political and social borders.

An exhibition featuring: Lindart and the Albanian Women Artists Association: Eleni Laperi, Ikbal Beli, Merita Selimi, Suela Muça, Suzana Varvarica Kuka, Xheneta Kadillatri with Lala Meredith-Vula, Marina Grzinić, Tanja Ostojić, and Andreja Dugandžić, Lana Čmajčanin, and Silvi Naçi 

A symposium with: Valentina Bonizzi, Andreja Dugandžić, Eleni Laperi, Ëremire Krasniqi, Ermir Hoxha, Danijela Dugandžić, Dimitra Gitska, Hana Halilaj, Jelena Petrović, Jonida Gashi, Lala Meredith-Vula, Lana Čmajčanin, Marina Gržinić, Raino Isto, Riet van der Linden, Tanja Ostojić, Silvi Naçi, Sokol Çunga.

opening
20.05.2023
h 17:00
closure
18.06.2023
LULET E MAJIT 2023

LULET E MAJIT 2023

For the second year, Lule Majt coincides with Pride and works in collaboration with Aleanca LGBT to focus with artists and poets in developing, expanding, promoting queer language and image making.

This year Lule Majit hosted the Cyanotype Lab by artist Silvi Naçi.

opening
08.03.2023
h 12:00
closure
15.04.2023
LULE MIMOZA

LULE MIMOZA

Feminism and LGBTQI+ struggles are nothing without representation—political, cultural, and aesthetic. This year, on March 8, International Women Day, five artists—Bora Baboçi, Lindart, Matilda Odobashi, Edit Pula, and Gerta Xhaferaj—have created posters for the protest. 

Including political demands, everyday challenges, symbolic tensions, and much more, the posters mark a moment and space where the visual, the verbal, and the mundane come together in a collective movement. 

The posters will be distributed free of charge at the march in Tirana on 8 March, at Mother Teresa Square.

opening
17.02.2023
h 12:00
closure
19.02.2023
LULE KOSOVA

LULE KOSOVA

Dedicated to the theme of independece of expression, love, and thought, Lule Kosova opened Bulevard’s library in construction. With a desire to establish increasing institutional relationships between Albania and Kosovo, Lule Kosova starts from the language shared by both.

For this year, in partnership with Kino Armata, the film Gratë e Lirisë by Lum Çitaku (2022) will be screened in Bulevard’s Pocket Cinema.

opening
19.01.2023
h 12:00
closure
02.02.2023
KAFE KOKOSHKA

KAFE KOKOSHKA

Kafe Kokoshka is a film program curated by artists, inspired by other artists who invite more artists! 

Curated by Laura Haby, the two-week program in Bulevard’s Pocket Cinema will screen 100 minutes of the following:

  • Boat, David Lynch, 2007
  • My Eyes are Gone, Laura Haby, 2017
  • My Mexican Bretzel, Nuria Gimenéz, 2019