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Erdiola Kanda Mustafaj

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2026/2027 Hidden Narratives Residency at Royal Geographical Society, London
2026 Culture Moves Europe, Tirana

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Such an amazing pleasure to present and make my work evolve at Galeria e Bregdetit @galeria.e.bregdetit in Vlorë, an immense thanks to @elian.stefa that curated it and everyone that came for the opening.
You can still visit the work until June together with amazing artwork of @fatlumdoci @blertahocia and @olson_lamaj taken in GALERiA e BREGDETiT by @erdiola_kanda

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We're pleased to announce @erdiola_kanda has been selected as the recipient of the Hidden Narratives Residency, where she will immerse herself in the historic Collections of the Royal Geographical Society and engage with materials in relation to the environment and the humanitarian.

Erdiola will give a talk to share work and research in progress at Summit Photo 2026 (17-19 July), with the final presentations taking place during Summit Photo 2027.

Erdiola Kanda Mustafaj is an Albanian/Italian multi-disciplinary artist based in Paris, working across photography, video installation and sound. Her research lies at the intersection of memory, displacement and the politics of image-making.

The Hidden Narratives Residency is a partnership between Photoworks, @rgs_ibg and @iiclondra.

Read more information on our website. Link in bio! by @erdiola_kanda

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Some memories from the three-month residency at Vila 31 in Tirana with @annebourrasse

@vila31artexplora taken in Vila31 x Art Explora by @erdiola_kanda

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Save the date!

The exhibition featuring the finalists of the ARDHJE 2026 Prize — Enza Rripaj, Arnilda Kyçyku, Erdiola Mustafaj, and Kristanja Çene — will open on 15 October 2026, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, at ZETA Contemporary Art Center.

The winner of the ARDHJE 2026 Prize will be announced during the opening by an international jury.

The ARDHJE 2026 Prize is supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding, Residency Unlimited, and the Young Visual Artists Awards. by @erdiola_kanda

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“Nuove Traiettorie” är ett projekt som skapades 2023 som ett samarbete mellan Italienska Kulturinstitutet i Stockholm, Kommunen Reggio Emilia och Giovane Fotografia Italiana – Premio Luigi Ghirri med målet att stötta den nya generationen italienska fotografer och ge dem möjligheten att ta del av en internationell kontext.
Varje år har projektet gett möjlighet till en av finalisterna i Premio Luigi Ghirri att göra en konstnärsresidens i Stockholm under vilken de utvecklat en utställning som sedan har visats på Institutet.
De första tre åren blev resultatet utställningarna “Leave the door open” av Eleonora Agostini, “Hypersea” av Claudia Amatruda och “Un volto non comune” av Erdiola Kanda Mustafaj.
Dessa tre projekt har nu förevigats i boken “Nuove Traiettorie” som vi kommer att presentera måndag 26 oktober kl. 18 under eventet “She’s IT!”, tillsammans med de tre fotograferna, curatorn Ilaria Campioli och Centrum för Fotografis verksamhetschef Kristyna Müller.

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“Nuove Traiettorie” nasce nel 2023 dalla collaborazione tra l’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Stoccolma, il Comune di Reggio Emilia e Giovane Fotografia Italiana – Premio Luigi Ghirri, con l’obiettivo di sostenere le nuove generazioni della fotografia italiana e favorirne il confronto con un contesto internazionale.
Ogni anno il progetto offre a uno dei finalisti del Premio Luigi Ghirri una residenza artistica a Stoccolma, durante la quale sviluppare una nuova ricerca poi presentata in mostra all’Istituto.
Le prime tre edizioni hanno coinvolto Eleonora Agostini con “Leave the door open”, Claudia Amatruda con “Hypersea” ed Erdiola Kanda Mustafaj con “Un volto non comune”.
Questi tre percorsi sono oggi raccolti nel volume “Nuove Traiettorie”, che presenteremo lunedì 26 ottobre alle 18 durante “She’s IT!”, insieme alle tre fotografe, alla curatrice Ilaria Campioli e alla direttrice del Centrum för Fotografi Kristyna Müller.

@eleonoraagostini @claudiamatruda @erdiola_kanda @culturareggioemilia @ilacampioli @kristynamuller @centrumforfotografi

#nuovetraiettorie #fotografiaitaliana #diplomaziaculturale #diplomaziadellacrescita by @erdiola_kanda

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Måndag 26 oktober kl. 18 organiserar vi eventet “She’s IT!”, en kväll tillägnad samtida italiensk kultur inom två områden som Institutet har arbetat extra mycket med under de senaste åren: fotografi och den nya generationen italienska singer-songwriters.
Detta blir även direktören Francesco Di Lellas sista event på Institutet då hans mandat tar slut efter fyra år i Stockholm.
Kvällen börjar med en presentation av boken “Nuove Traiettorie” om de tre fotoresidensserna organiserade 2023-2026 av vårt Institut, Kommunen Reggio Emilia och Giovane Fotografia Italiana – Premio Luigi Ghirri.
Fotograferna Eleonora Agostini, Claudia Amatruda och Erdiola Kanda Mustafaj kommer att närvara tillsammans med curatorn Ilaria Campioli och Centrum för Fotografis verksamhetschef Kristyna Müller för att berätta om de projekt de skapade under sin tid i Stockholm.
Efter lite mingel spelar sedan MILLE för första gången i Sverige med en akustisk konsert som rör sig mellan indie och alternativ rock.
En kväll vi ser mycket fram emot och hoppas få fira tillsammans med alla er.
Vi ses!

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Lunedì 26 ottobre alle 18 vi aspettiamo per “She’s IT!”, una serata dedicata alla creatività italiana che riunisce due ambiti a cui l’Istituto ha dato particolare spazio in questi anni: la fotografia emergente e il nuovo cantautorato italiano.
Sarà anche l’ultimo evento del direttore Francesco Di Lella, che conclude il suo mandato dopo quattro anni a Stoccolma.
La serata si apre con la presentazione di “Nuove Traiettorie”, il libro che raccoglie tre anni di residenze fotografiche nate dalla collaborazione tra l’Istituto, il Comune di Reggio Emilia e Giovane Fotografia Italiana – Premio Luigi Ghirri.
E. Agostini, C. Amatruda ed E. Kanda saranno presenti insieme alla curatrice I. Campioli e alla direttrice del Centrum för Fotografi K. Müller per raccontare i progetti sviluppati a Stoccolma.
A seguire, dopo un cocktail, MILLE arriva per la prima volta in Svezia con un concerto acustico tra cantautorato e alternative rock.
Una serata importante per l’Istituto, che siamo felici di condividere con voi. Vi aspettiamo!

@mrs.mille @eleonoraagostini @claudiamatruda @erdiola_kanda by @erdiola_kanda

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🏭 Prush nën hirin e ri (Embers beneath new ashes) (2025) is a photographic series that amalgamates realism and dystopia to uncover the aftermath of Albania’s recent history. Erdiola Kanda Mustafa’s series takes place in Kombinati Metalurgjik, a huge iron and steel factory in Elbasan, the artist’s ‘city town’. It was the most ambitious industrial project undertaken during the dictatorship of Enver Hoxha (1944-1985), located in the centre of the country.

In this series, the now-abandoned building reincarnates as a sort of social container of both the memories and effects of a shattered illusion, and embodies the collective visual memory promoted of communist propaganda. The medium of photography here presents itself as a record, a cultural repository—and a trace of absence.

Hear @erdiola_kanda in this special episode of EMPIRE LINES Live at @rgs_ibg - find all the links in the first Instagram post 📷 instagram.com/reel/DcjgXf6u6wl/?igsi=MWc3OHl3cXVwZXkwYQ==

This episode was recorded live as part of the public programme for Summit Photo 2026, organised by the Royal Geographical Society (@rgs_ibg), Photoworks (@photoworks_uk), and the Royal Photographic Society (@royalphotographicsociety), supported by the Italian Cultural Institute in London (@iiclondra), in July 2026. Erdiola’s research will be exhibited at the conclusion of her Hidden Narratives Residency in 2027: rgs.org/events/summit-photo

For more about Margaret Masson Hardie Hasluck, read Object Collections: Contemporary Encounters with Ethnographic Photography in Britain and the Balkans, an essay commissioned by the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York (@svamfaphotovideo, @svanyc), in the Brooklyn Rail (@brooklynrail): brooklynrail.org/2026/07/special-report/object-collections-contemporary-encounters-with-ethnographic-photography-in-britain-and-the-balkans/ taken in Elbasan, Albania by @erdiola_kanda

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*EMPIRE LINES - NEW EPISODE*

In this special episode, contemporary artist Erdiola Kanda Mustafaj (@erdiola_kanda) joins EMPIRE LINES live, to discuss memory, displacement and the politics of image-making in Albania and the Western Balkans, through their ongoing photography project, Pasqyra e Lëndës (sommarium, or ‘mirror of matter’).

listen+follow 🔊 pod.link/1533637675/episode/N2Q1Y2Y5OWEtNTdhNC00YmFmLTlkOTMtYzVjNmU2MDZiMmU0

This episode was recorded live as part of the public programme for Summit Photo 2026, organised by the Royal Geographical Society (@rgs_ibg), Photoworks (@photoworks_uk), and the Royal Photographic Society (@royalphotographicsociety), and supported by the Italian Cultural Institute (@iiclondra), in London in July 2026. Erdiola’s research will be exhibited in London at the conclusion of her Hidden Narratives Residency in 2027: rgs.org/events/summit-photo

For more about Margaret Masson Hardie Hasluck, read Object Collections: Contemporary Encounters with Ethnographic Photography in Britain and the Balkans, an essay commissioned by the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York (@svamfaphotovideo, @svanyc), in the Brooklyn Rail (@brooklynrail): brooklynrail.org/2026/07/special-report/object-collections-contemporary-encounters-with-ethnographic-photography-in-britain-and-the-balkans/

EMPIRE LINES is a project within the ecosystem of @radicalecology (2026-2027) 🌱

@jamie.owen @mazmanian
@vila31artexplora @art.explora
@studionicolajeffs taken in Royal Geographical Society by @erdiola_kanda

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Pasqyra e Lëndësh by @erdiola_kanda explores exile as something that does not end when a person leaves a country. The long-term project brings together analog photography, archives, oral histories, rituals, landscapes, video, sound, and writing to examine how displacement survives through family stories and inherited memory. Rather than resolving these fragments into a clear narrative, Mustafaj keeps absence and uncertainty visible, allowing the work to remain as unstable as memory itself.

In our interview, Mustafaj explains how the project grew from returning to Albania and finding it both familiar and foreign. We discuss why she rejects photographs that explain too much, how she sequences images through tension rather than chronology, why fragile materials became part of the work, and how moving between Albania, Italy, and France changed her understanding of exile from a single rupture into something that can repeat across generations.

What if home stops being a place and becomes something you carry? That question sits underneath the whole project.

Read the full article on aboutphotography.blog

Comment "Link" bellow and I will send you the whole article in the DM by @erdiola_kanda

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Double language 9”50 Video and Sound (Reel), 2025
Exhibited at Art Explora × Vila 31 residency, Tirana
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Some things are carried in the body long before they are understood. The memory of a land left behind, a dialect passed down in whispers, a dance that once defied oppression — Double Language gathers these inheritances tenderly, tracing what survives across generations of exile. A work about longing, language, and the gestures we inherit from those who came before us.

Director and Editor: Erdiola Kanda
Performer: Clara Maudet @clara.maudet
Music Composer: Genc Elezaj @dimensiongenc
Voix Off : Vullnet Dine taken in Vila31 x Art Explora by @erdiola_kanda

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´Un Volto Non Comune’ / ‘An Unusual face’ curated by @ilacampioli
Infinite thanks to @iicstoccolma @culturareggioemilia @museicivicire @fondazioneluigighirri @francescodl88 Giovane Fotografia Italiana curator @danieledeluigi75
On view in Stockholm until 11 September 2026 taken in Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Stoccolma "C.M. Lerici" by @erdiola_kanda

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🇸🇪 Igår kväll invigde vi fotoutställningen “Un volto non comune” av Erdiola Kanda Mustafaj, efter en spännande dialog mellan fotografen och curatorn Abir Boukhari.
Utställningen är resultatet av projektet “Nuove Traiettorie”, organiserat av vårt Institut i samarbete med Kommunen Reggio Emilia, och som för tredje året i rad gett möjligheten till en av finalisterna i open call “Giovane Fotografia Italiana - Premio Luigi Ghirri” att spendera en artistresidens i Stockholm och skapa en fotoutställning.
Erdiola Kanda Mustafaj valdes som vinnare april förra året och när hon var i Stockholm i höstas utforskade hon teman som minne, landskap, språk och migration genom möten med italienare som bor i Sverige, teman hon även har utforskat i tidigare arbeten.
Resultatet är ett poetiskt arbete som, genom olika formspråk, uttrycker identitetens förändring genom distans och relationen till en ny plats.
Utställningen kan ses fram till 11 september. Missa den inte!

🇮🇹 Inaugurata ieri la mostra fotografica “Un volto non comune” di Erdiola Kanda Mustafaj in seguito a un dialogo appassionato tra l’autrice e la curatrice Abir Boukhari.
La mostra è il risultato del progetto “Nuove Traiettorie”, organizzato dal nostro Istituto in collaborazione con il Comune di Reggio Emilia, che per il terzo anno di seguito ha dato la possibilità a un/a finalista dell’open call “Giovane Fotografia Italiana - Premio Luigi Ghirri” di trascorrere un mese in residenza a Stoccolma e di elaborare un progetto fotografico originale.
Erdiola Kanda Mustafaj, selezionata lo scorso aprile, è stata a Stoccolma in autunno dove ha portato avanti la sua riflessione su memoria, paesaggio, linguaggio e migrazione, già avviata nei progetti precedenti, incontrando alcune persone italo-discendenti che vivono qui in Svezia.
Il risultato è un lavoro poetico che, attraverso una varietà di linguaggi, esprime il motivo dell’identità come distanza e come relazione con un altrove.
La mostra è visitabile fino all’11 settembre. Non mancate!

@erdiola_kanda @culturareggioemilia @fondazioneluigighirri @allartnow_organisation taken in Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Stoccolma "C.M. Lerici" by @erdiola_kanda

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