Bio

Vesa Sahatçiu is a writer and art historian. She studied Art History at The University of Auckland, New Zealand, and did her MA in Visual Cultures, at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has worked for the National Gallery of Kosovo, as a researcher in art history, and has curated some shows. Her research, and academic interest is Modernism, with a particular focus on former-Yugoslav Modernism in art and architecture. Her poetry and fictional work has appeared in New Zealand literary journals, such as JAAM, a literary journal for new writing. In 2004, Vesa received a scholarship from the British Council Kosovo for a summer course in curating at Saint Martin’s College. In 2007, she won the Lannan Foundation residency for Young Balkan Artists and Writers, at the Santa Fe Art Institute. Vesa has written for local kosovar newspapers on issues of culture and politics, such as, Kosovo 2.0, Prishtina Insight, Express, and Java.  In 2014, she curated “Darling Squeeze the Button and Remove my Memory”, a solo exhibition of the artist Petrit Halilaj, at the National Gallery of Kosovo. Lastly, she has worked with the Prishtina Municipality, in the culture department, on Manifesta 14, 2022, for which she co-wrote the bid that has made Prishtina the host city of MF14.