<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%> About Lindart
   
 
_About us
The Cultural Center Lindart emerged from the efforts of the Albanian Artist Women Association “Linda” - founded in 1994 in Tirana. Cultural Center Lindart was opened in January 2001, as a project supported from January 2001 to March 2003 by the Swiss Cultural Foundation Pro Helvetia and DECA.
After 2004, Cultural Lindart Centre was joined by ‘Anima’, a group of young artists focused on new media and photography.

Our activity is based on Culture in this context understood as the heart of the human development in societies, and one of the fundamental elements in the construction of dialog within and between communities emerging from totalitarian regimes of the East Europe.

Looking on cultural freedom as a basic condition for peace and mutual understanding, we build our projects by the need to promote cultural diversity and inter-cultural dialog, participation in cultural life and conservation and diffusion of cultural heritage, and the identification of the common elements for building peace and understanding between communities.

Lindart has an experience of bringing together artists, groups of activists, art theoreticians and cultural managers from different countries especially through different cooperation projects.
_Main activities:

2000
May - “Eden’s Irony”, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana; curator Eleni Laperi, supported by the Swiss Foundation Pro Helvetia and DEZA.
August - “Eden’s Irony”, Kulturfokus Sara, Stockholm, Sweden. Supported by Pro Helvetia and Swedish Institute for Culture.

2001
January - “Cultural Center Lindart”, Project financially supported by the Swiss Cultural Foundation Pro Helvetia and DEZA.
Group exhibition of the members of Lindart association.
April - ‘Invent yourself’, Workshop on photography, participants 13 Albanian artist women; directed by Monica von Rosen, German- Sweden artist, supported by Swedish Institute, Pro Helvetia and DEZA, and Soros Foundation.
September - Video Projections from international project ‘Digital Odyssey’, realized by the curator Nina Czegledy, Canada.
October - ‘Invent Yourself’, group exhibition on photography, Cultural Center Karl der Grosse, Zurich, Switzerland, supported by Pro Helvetia office in Zurich, Swiss.
November - ‘Dare to be different’, international exhibition of artist women from the Balkans, city of Fier, Albania; curator Eleni Laperi; Supported by Soros Foundation, Pro Helvetia&DEZA, City Hall of Fier, Gjini & Co.Ltd, Fier, Albania.

2002
March - ‘Homage on 8 of March’, group exhibition, Lindart centre, Tirana.
April - Conference on art theory: Art of the Balkans during ’80, Marina Grzinic, supported by Soros Foundation, Tirana.
April - Conference on art creativity Great Britain for students of Art Academy in Tirana, realized by members of group PALP from Great Britain: Sue Bleakley and Amanda Lorens,
August - Representation at the OPEN2002, ‘Imaginaire feminine’, artist Suela Muça with the installation ‘Let’s go shopping’; curator Eleni Laperi. Supported by Soros Foundation, Pro Helvetia, Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of Albania.
July - Participation at the photo exhibition ‘Faces’, Krajlevo, Yugoslavia.
September - Participation at the Second Forum of Mediterranean Artist Women, Rhodes, Greece supported by Ministry of Culture Greece.
September -Installation of the dark room and workshop on photography, by Swiss Photographer Barbara Hausammann;
October - 'Dreaming generations', exhibition of dolls and drawings by Nimfa Jaço and Evis Myftaraj.
November 15 - Exhibition; supported by Pro Helvetia.
Sept.- Dec. - Training courses on digital media, supported by KulturKontakt, Austria.
November - ‘Loves&hates’, exhibition of Albanian artist immigrant women, curator Eleni Laperi. Supported by Pro Helvetia, Film Archive- Tirana, International Cultural Center- Tirana, ECC. Ltd - Tirana.
December - Workshop ‘Windows and Curtains’, on digital image, curator Nina Czegledy, Canada; web site: www.lindart.org; supported by Soros Foundation, Tirana and Budapest-Hungary.
December - ‘Confrontation’: Workshop on performance and communication, ideated and curated by Tanja Ostojic; Group Exhibition, supported by Pro Helvetia&DEZA, National Gallery of Arts, restaurant Xhoki- Tirana.

2003
February - Participation at ‘Maid in Cyberspace Festival’, Quebec and Montreal, Canada;
March 7, - ‘existence from insistence’, exhibition at MuseumQuartier, Vienna, supported by Kulturkontakt, Austria. Curator Eleni Laperi.
March 12, - Poetry evening: in collaboration with High School ‘Qemal Stafa’ and French embassy in Tirana. Poetries off Andrée Dupuy-Massacrier and others;
March 18, 29 - Meeting of boxes: ‘Lies’, a collaboration between C.C. Lindart and group of street theater ‘kumulus’ - France, supported by French Embassy in Tirana, International Cultural Centre, Ozone Radio, Campus, Tirana-Albania.
April 11th, - ‘Les fleurs du mal’, exhibition of mixed media. Participants: visual artists, photographers, writers, singers, etc; curator Eleni Laperi.
April 14th, - Conference on photography by Mr. Martin Gasser (Ph.D. in the history of art and photography) Swiss.
April 24, - Participation at VideoMedea festival, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia.
May - ‘The city is you and me’, exhibition on photography, organized by Lindart Center, Tirana; supported by Soros Foundation, Tirana.
June - ‘Reportage from Peter Pan’, exhibition with photographs realized by children, organized by Lindart Center, Tirana.
August - Participation at the OPEN2003, with the project of the Albanian movie actor and photographer Artur Gorishti, Venice-Italy.
September - ‘Medieval Unreality’, workshop on new media and technology, part of the project ‘E-mail from the medieval Ages’. Curators: Nina Czegledy-media artists, writer and curator from Canada, and Maia Engeli- media artist from Switzerland, supported by KulturKontakt - Austria, Pro Helvetia- Swiss. (http://www.lindart.org/project_info/projekte03/unreal/).
October - ‘Plato’s dinner 1’, conference on the situation of the art and culture in the nowadays Albania, Lecturer: Besim Tula, painter. Supported by the Soros Foundation, Tirana.
November - ‘Plato’s dinner 2’, conference on the situation of the art and culture in the nowadays Albania, a series of conferences. Lecturer Edi Muka curator. Supported by the Soros Foundation, Tirana.

2004
January - ‘Plato’s dinner 3 &4’, conferences on the situation of the art and culture in the nowadays Albania, a series of conferences. Lectures by Gazmend Leka and Natasha Lako. Supported by the Soros Foundation, Tirana.
May - ‘The city of Dolls’, group exhibition; curator Enkelejda Limani; supported by the Soros Foundation-Tirana.
June 1st - ‘Reportage from the Medieval Ages’, photo exhibition of children involved in blood feud from Northern Albania. Curator Eleni Laperi, coordinator: Vilma Verteniku. Supported by Fotokozmos Kodak distributor for Albania, Foto Rreli, Foto Mondo, Foto Kumi, Foto Ulqini, Tirana.
July - ‘Identities I - a piece of world in my city’, workshop&exhibition with participation of 6 Austrian and 6 Albanian artists; Supported by KulturKontakt - Austria, Kodak Distributor, Albania.
August - ‘ReAffiliation’, international exhibition of artist women and workshop, curator Claudia-Maria Luenig, Austria.
Sept. 12, - Promotion of the literary creativity of the woman writer Eglantina Mandia, Albania-Canada;
Sept. 15, - ‘Girls and Guns’, exhibition of Canadian&Albanian artist women, curator Nina Czegledy, Canada.
October - ‘Prison’s Sheets’, solo show of Finn artis Harri Palviranta, a collaboration with NIFCA.
November - Workshop on culture and communication through art, Lepush, Kelmend-Northern Albania, supported by Pro Helvetia and DEZA, and Dod Gjek Dragu-restaurant 'Kelmendi', Lepush.
November - Workshop on photography: Identities II - a piece of world in my city’, leaded by Finn photographer Harri Palviranta.