We are very proud and honored to have one of our publications — The Arbiter by Artrit Bytyçi — featured by Chertluedde Books in Berlin through their collaboration with Hajde Foundation Library as part of Petrit Halilaj’s “Who Does the Earth Belong to While Painting the Wind” solo exhibition. The selection of books is co-curated by Hana Curak.

Go see the exhibition, have a çaj and read Albanian Literature.

#chertlueddebooks#petrithalilaj#kosovostorylab

Ejani për punëtorinë tonë 2 javore për lidhjen e librave. Në këtë punëtori, do t’ju prezantojmë me artin e lidhjes së librave dhe do t’ju udhëzojmë në proçesin e lidhjes dhe qepjes Koptike. Në fund do të keni një fletore të përfunduar, të punuar me dorë.

Në dy sesionet e para do të mësoni bazat e ldihjes së librave dhe do të filloni të qepni librin tuaj.

Në sesionin e tretë do të krijoni kopertinën tuaj të personalizuar dhe do të mësoni se si ta bashkangjisni atë në fletore.

Punëtoria do të drejtohet nga Vjosa Maxhuni, e diplomuar në Dizajn Komunikimi në Universitetin e Shkencave të Aplikuara në Düsseldorf, Gjermani.

Nuk kërkohet përvojë e mëparshme. Aplikoni deri më 11 maj 2026, vendet janë të kufizuara. Ky program është falas për pjesëmarrësit.

Sesioni 1: E shtunë, 16 maj 2026, 12:00 – 14:00
Sesioni  2:  E diel, 17 maj 2026, 12:00 –  14:00
Sesioni  3:  E shtunë  , 23 maj 2026, 12:00 – 14:00

Në hapësirën e StoryLab, Sheshi artistëve, Prishtinë

Aplikoni këtu.

Join us for our 2-week bookbinding workshop. In this workshop, we’ll introduce you to the art of bookbinding and guide you through the Coptic binding stitch. By the end, you’ll have a finished, handmade notebook.

In the first two sessions, you’ll learn the fundamentals of bookbinding and begin sewing your own book. In the third session you will create your personalized cover and learn how to attach it to the notebook.

Sessions will be led by Vjosa Maxhuni, graduate student in Communication Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf, Germany.

No previous experience is needed. Apply until 11-May-2026, limited spots. This program is free for participants.

Session 1: Saturday, 16 May 2026, 12:00 – 14:00
Session 2:  Sunday, 17 May 2026, 12:00 – 14:00
Session 3: Saturday, 23 May 2026, 12:00 – 14:00

At StoryLab space, Artists’ Square, Prishtina

Apply here.

Me 29 prill prej orës 14:00, po mblidhemi në StoryLab për me diskutu rreth arkivave digjitale, promovimit të dijes së lirë dhe të skenojmë e publikojmë foto në platformën e Wikimedia Commons. Synimi ynë është që të dokumentojmë, ndajmë dhe ndërtojmë një arkiv publik digjital të kujtimeve e përjetimeve nga vitet e 90-ta në Kosovë.

Nëse keni albume familjare, fotografi personale ose materiale audiovizuale nga vitet e 90-ta, ky është momenti i duhun t’i ndajmë ato me të tjerët, dhe t’i bëjmë të qasshme për krejt botën.

Ky event mbahet në kuadër të fushatës “Të 90-tat”, organizuar dhe implementuar nga “Wikimedianët e Gjuhës Shqipe” dhe zhvillohet në kuadër të programit “Storylab Communities”

Si pjesë e programit tonë StoryLab Communities, ju ftojmë të merrni pjesë në evenimentin nga ___. Collective, me temë: Nietzche mbi artin.

Jemi të lumtur të ju njoftojmë se ___. (Blank) Collective po fillon degëzimin e parë të ngjarjeve publike të ___. Talks. Këto ngjarje synojnë të shtyjnë përpara diskutime të reja në art, kulturë, kritikë dhe teori brenda skenës në Kosovë.☄️

Më 15 prill, nga ora 18:00, në StoryLab në Prishtinë, Leon Sylejmani do të mbajë sesionin e parë me titull: “Arti do të na shpëtojë nga e vërteta: Nietzsche mbi artin”. Prezantimi do të trajtojë mënyrën se si Friedrich Nietzsche e koncepton artin, si dhe rolin që ky koncept luan përbrenda filozofisë së tij. Diskutimi do të nisë nga idetë e hershme të paraqitura në “Lindja e Tragjedisë”, do të vazhdojë përmes “Vullneti për Fuqi” dhe “Gjenealogjia e Moralit”, dhe do të kulmojë me veprën “Kështu foli Zarathustra”.

Përmes këtij prezentimi synohet të ndërtohet një bazë konceptuale për të kuptuar më thellë mendimin filozofik të Nietzsche-s dhe raportin e tij me artin.

Ju mirëpresim!

Diskutimi do të mbahet në gjuhën shqipe.
Lokacioni: StoryLab, Rruga Egnatia 63, Prishtinë
Data dhe ora: 15 prill, 18:00

//

Leon Sylejmani është student në vitin e fundit të studimeve Bachelor në Filozofi në Universitetin e Prishtinës, me fokus në filozofinë e gjuhës, metafizikës, fenomenologjisë dhe estetikës. Puna e tij akademike udhëhiqet nga një interes i gjerë mbi mënyrën se si gjuha dhe arti formësojnë realitetin përreth nesh. Ai është i angazhuar aktivisht në art si kryeredaktor i revistës së kolektivit ___. ku merret me teoretizimin dhe prezantimin e artit bashkëkohorë në Kosovës. Jashtë kësaj, ai luan bass në dy bende, duke ruajtur një lidhje të fortë me muzikën si formë shprehjeje. Gjatë rritjes, Leoni ishte i tërhequr nga dizajni grafik dhe kaloi kohë duke eksploruar programimin, përvoja që vazhdojnë të ndikojnë në mënyrën se si ai i qaset sot si artit ashtu edhe teorisë.

StoryLab is super happy to announce that our publication, Ksci-Fi: New Science Fiction and Fantasy from Kosovo and Beyond, has been selected to be part of a book exchange collaboration between the National Library of Kosovo and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

You can find all our publications at StoryLab space in Prishtina, or at https://storylab.al/shop

Pse të humbasim kohë duke…

…imagjinu distopi tekno-optimiste

e enjte, 5 shkurt 2026, ora 18:00, StoryLab

Në Kosovë, që prej kur jemi përpjekë për shtetësi e pavarësi, kemi tentu me imagjinu të ardhme më të mira. Tash, si shtet i ri, vazhdojmë të imagjinojmë utopi. Në këtë përzgjedhje do të përqëndrohemi në veprat që, drejtpërsëdrejti ose tërthorazi, kanë për temë teknologjinë. Bisedat do të përqëndrohen në çështje shoqërore, etike, morale, si dhe në idenë se utopia kuptohet më qartë përmes shqyrtimit të distopive. 

“Code of Illusion” nga Ard Kelmendi

“Pack up we’re leaving” nga Angola

“Blindspot” nga Panot Mahmutaj

Kino Armata, StoryLab, Termokiss dhe Undesignate Institute prezantojne programin eksperimental me vepra audiovizuale.

Pse të Humbasim kohë duke…

… imagjinu distopi tekno-optimiste

e enjte, 5 shkurt 2026, ora 18:00, StoryLab

… shiku filma eksperimental

e premte, 6 shkurt 2026, ora 19:00 Kino Armata

… diskutu për festival eksperimental

e shtunë, 7 shkurt 2026, ora 17:00, Termokiss

“Pse të humbasim kohë duke…”
program eksperimental me vepra audiovizuale
5, 6 dhe 7 shkurt 2026
nga Kino Armata, Termokiss, StoryLab, Undesignate Institute

As part of our StoryLab Communities collaboration we invite you to an infosession of the European Solidarity Corps.

Are you 18 – 30 years old and interested in discovering opportunities to volunteer abroad?

We are hosting an infosession at Kosovo StoryLab in Prishtina. Focusing on the European Solidarity Corps (ESC), an EU programme that offers young people the opportunity to join impactful projects across Europe.

Join us on this presentation to learn more about how to be part of this program through Gaia Kosovo.

See you at StoryLab in Prishtina on the 24th of February from 16:00 – 17:00.

During our tenth and final session of “Book as an Artwork” workshop we reviewed works in progress of participant’s personal zine and artbook projects. From works in early conceptual stages and all the way to finished mockups, we commented on the work of our peers, discussed things that worked well and gave constructive suggestions.

We discussed the importance of prototyping your artbook at different stages of the process, the benefits of small and bite sized print runs, as well as editorial and design processes.

We were honored to have such a variety of talented and hardworking individuals who produces amazing artworks that we are very excited to share with you in our upcoming publications.

This program is made possible with the generous support of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Republic of Kosovo.

@ministriaekultures.rks Ministria e Kulturës, Rinisë dhe Sportit

During October 2025, as StoryLab we were very honored and exited to collaborate with the University of Prishtina’s Sociology Department, Poetics of Walkability, Czech Technical University’s Faculty of Architecture, and Pro Peace with “Prishtina Walkability” workshops.

StoryLab contributed with creative writing workshops alongside multidisciplinary array that included architecture, urbanism, sociology, anthropology, gender studies, memory studies, among others.

During out first session we did an exercise to create stories inspired by memories of the walk through Prishtina from the previous day. Different paths taken alongside personal interests and points of view led to emergence of many themes. This led us to discuss psycho-geography as an art movement, as well as showcasing of some art books that use walking as a theme. We then proceeded with a writing exercise that encouraged the participants to use their memories to create short stories.

During our second session we explored uses of memory in literature — form Proust’s madeleines all the way to Baldwin’s non-fiction. Then we continued by discussing participant’s draft ideas for the final multidisciplinary projects. Based on the themes we looked at literary works by Borges and Italo Calvino, and proceeded with writing exercises directly inspired by these writings.

During our third session participants presented works that fell under three common themes that had emerged: 1. (in)visibility – about the activism in Prishtina during the 90s, 2. City as an Archive and 3. City of Duality – about gender, freedom, and lack thereof. These featured literary texts, poetry, photography, audio, video, drawings, and other forms of multimedia arranged throughout the map of Prishtina.

During our tenth and final session of “Book as an Artwork” workshop we reviewed works in progress of participant’s personal zine and artbook projects. From works in early conceptual stages and all the way to finished mockups, we commented on the work of our peers, discussed things that worked well and gave constructive suggestions.

We discussed the importance of prototyping your artbook at different stages of the process, the benefits of small and bite sized print runs, as well as editorial and design processes.

We were honored to have such a variety of talented and hardworking individuals who produces amazing artworks that we are very excited to share with you in our upcoming publications.

This program is made possible with the generous support of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Republic of Kosovo.

On the second day of “In Between | Në Mes | Dazwischen” on Saturday 15th of November, the halls of the Prishtina Bus Station were transformed by the sound and the musical performance of ZWADA.

On a cold November night many a traveler stumbled upon unexpected tunes like “Burn in Hell”, “Lady’s Eyes”, “Falma Hanën” and “Hajde puthëm”, as they found themselves in between destinations.

As the performance in Munich was going as scheduled within a moving bus, back in Prishtina we organized a metaphorical welcome with music – like triumphs of old – for the bus that would be indefinitely held “in between”.

The Prishtina-Munich link was again reinforced through “Interstitial Ghosts”, an interactive digital art installation, by Endrit Jashanica and Futur Studio, where audiences met and interacted with each other.

Special thanks to Prishtina Bus Station for the exceptional cooperation and support of the public art projects.

Special thanks to Prishtina Bus Station for the exceptional cooperation and support of the public art projects.

We kicked off “In Between | Në Mes | Dazwischen” at Prishtina Bus Station on Friday 14^th of November with “Well for Fountain”, a performance by Valdrin Thaqi and Svenja Schafer, interpreted by Klara Grapci-Gërmizaj and Art Pasha with music composed and interpreted by Viola Rrecaj. The performance took place against the backdrop of passengers rolling their luggage and buying bus tickets, in an “in between” space amidst a static audience and people in transition.

It was followed with a culinary experience by Rebeca Werkmann, that fused Kosovar and German cuisines. These “in between” delicacies epitomize through food the conceptual link between Prishtina and Munich.

While the Prishtina event, organized by StoryLab, was ongoing, the event in Munich organized by dasvinzenz, happened at the same time in the form of a series of performances inside a moving bus (which would symbolically transport the Munich audience to Prishtina).

Both events spread across time and space were brought together by “Interstitial Ghosts”, an interactive digital art installation, by Endrit Jashanica and Futur Studio, where audiences from both Prishtina and Munich could meet and interact with each other in a virtual “in between”-space.

Stay tuned for info and images from the second day of “In Between | Në Mes | Dazwischen”.

Special thanks to Prishtina Bus Station for the exceptional cooperation and support of the public art projects.

StoryLab was part of the Art Book Fair in Tirana in November/December 2025 organized by 28 November.

Visitors could buy our publications such as zines, art books, comic books, bookmarks, stickers, tote bags, and other literary and art merchandise.

If you want to get a copy of StoryLab publications you can DM us on Instagram and we will deliver it to you by the post office. For more information on our publications check our E-Shop at https://storylab.al/shop/

A belated throwback to our November 2025 collaboration with the Kosovo National Gallery. We were super happy to conduct this three-day workshop titled “Post Scriptum | Art & Zine Workshop”, where we used samples of archival materials used in the “From the Archives: Kind Regards” exhibition to create artbook prototypes and zines.

The artworks created during this series of workshops were conceptualized to be indirect conversation with the original artifacts featured in the exhibition: correspondence, catalogues, posters, and flyers from the 1970s–80s.

Dates: 18–19–20 November 2025

Location: National Gallery of Kosovo – QAFA

During our eighth and ninth session of “Book as an Artwork” workshop we welcomed Olson Lamaj from Albania with a double-header workshop “Rediscovering the Archive”.

Presentations of publications by Pararoja helped us see the potential zines and artbooks have as a medium. While the exhibitions provide “white walls” to artworks, this is done by paper for artbooks and zines. We also saw the importance and advantage of working with restrictions when publishing.

During the first part of the session, each participant created an eight page A3 zine, with archival photographs they brought from home. On the second part we all worked together on a joint project to create a collective A5 zine with the draft title “Memory Box”.

Olson Lamaj is a visual artist, editor and founder of Pararoja platform.

Pararoja is an alternative publishing house specialized in artistic publications, focused primarily in promoting visual artists through realizing publications in the form of zines. The platform experiments with the concept of limited edition as an alternative artistic space for creative expression and dialogue. Since the founding in 2020, Pararoja has realized over 22 publications, collaborated with around 15 artists from different parts of the world and has taken part in international book fairs in Greece, Istanbul, Paris and Vienna.

This program is made possible with the generous support of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Republic of Kosovo.

During our seventh session of “Book as an Artwork” workshop we welcomed Arif Muharremi with “FantaZINA” lecture on hand drawn zines.

We saw how a zine is a medium that can contribute to social change, and how it is always important to create your artworks and writings and put them in the social context.

We saw how images are the perfect medium for the times we live in where the contexts change rapidly.

In the second part of the workshop, participants worked in groups to create their own mini publications that tackled current social issues relevant to Kosovo.

Arif Muharremi is a journalist and editor of culture in Koha Ditore, Express and author of the weekly Culture in Kosovo (BIRN).

He has coordinated EU programmes for education in cultural heritage, has managed projects for Manifesta 14-Western Balkans.

He is the author of the book with poetry and strips (OH!) and of educational games based on culture, heritage and visual art “Discover Prishtina” and “Who am I?”.

This program is made possible with the generous support of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Republic of Kosovo.

Throwback to our collaboration with Sekhmet Institute for “Recycling as an Artistic Practice” workshop, in November 2025. We were super happy to contribute with storytelling modules alongside great artists like Renea Begolli’s art module and Lumturie Krasniqi’s papermaking module.

During our first session we brainstormed ideas for potential stories that played on the theme of , recycling, ecology, and other environmental topics. We also experimented beyond content and focused on different literary forms that could frame these stories. Participants came up with amazing ideas that could accompany their upcoming conceptual artworks (during Renea’s sessions) on papers that they themselves created (during Lumturie’s sessions).

During our second session we continued with a new set of writing exercises and gave feedback on each others stories for further refinement. The resulting works were exhibited at Sekhmet Project Space.

Sekhmet Project Space | November 3–7, 2025

Photo credits to Sekhmet Institute and Yll Kada.

Ftojmë krijues(e) që duan të ndajnë punë eksperimentale në formë të videos, të çdo lloj cilësie. Një përzgjedhje e veprave do të shfaqet publikisht. Preferohen punë nën 31 minuta. Afati i fundit: një javë para 28 nëntorit 2025.

Pëe të aplikuar, klikoni këtu.

During our sixth session of “Book as an Artwork” workshop we brainstormed ideas for our upcoming zines and artbooks. We focused on the concept as the most important part. We discussed format, typography, special features, and use of unconventional materials. For inspiration we looked at some hardcover artbooks and zines.

This program is made possible with the generous support of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Republic of Kosovo.

During our fifth session of “Book as an Artwork” workshop we welcomed Ferdi Limani with his lecture on “Storytelling through photography”.

We discussed how to communicate important social issues to the public through photography and how by mastering the frame we guide the eye of the audience.

We learned good practices in photography by exploring Ferdi’s beginner mistakes and evolution of his style towards simplicity, as well as the importance of learning from mistakes.

We explored the strength that comes from limitations (either in equipment or environment), how to take photos with respect for the people/subjects, as well as the importance of taking your time to take a picture.

Ferdi Limani is an independent photographer, who works with Getty Images. He studied journalism and with local and international media in news and documentary projects.

This program is made possible with the generous support of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Republic of Kosovo.

Ksci-Fi Video Klub comes back with a Halloween Special, with the screening of The Thing (1982) directed by John Carpenter.

Come by the StoryLab space on Friday, 31st of October 2025, at 18:00.

What better way to deal with chilling weather than with this seminal science fiction horror set in Antarctica. Feel the solitary chills at the back of your neck from vast snowy expanses and all the way to claustrophobic corridors of research stations.

#scifi #horrorfilm #Halloween

During our fourth session of “Book as an Artwork” workshop we welcomed Fatmir Mustafa Karllo with his lecture performance titled “Book of ideas”.

Karllo discussed how we complement each other as a group during the process of co-creation, as well as the role of instinct, improvisation, and spontaneity in the creative process.

Karllo also focused on the importance that the process of transformation plays in creating artworks, and made us think about impossible books: how to create an invisible book; what if we create a book that no one reads; a book that is present only at certain times; a book that is only one copy; a book that deletes itself.

During the workshop we collaborated with Karllo to create a book in the form of conceptual artwork.

Fatmir Mustafa Karllo graduated from the University of Prishtina, Faculty of Arts in the Department of Painting. From 2009 until 2018 he lived in Finland, where he also finished his master’s degree in the Department of Sculpture in the University of Arts “Kuvataideakatemia” in Helsinki.

In 2007 he won the award for “Artists of Tomorrow” from the National Gallery of Kosova.

His performances, installations and his visual works have been presented in different exhibitions, solo as well as group exhibitions in Prishtina, Helsinki, Brussels, Milano, Zagreb, Skopje, and New York.

He is the initiator of the project “On Top Residency” (2020) on a panoramic hill near the village of Butovc, where he built a “gallery without walls” with a view of Prishtina. He also founded the institute for Art and Culture Epifani in 2022. His personal exhibition “Strange Seed” was showed in the National Gallery of Kosovo in 2003.

This program is made possible with the generous support of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Republic of Kosovo.

During our third session of “Book as an Artwork” workshop we looked at several examples of artists’ books. We discussed technologies of mass production and how they affect artworks, especially when compared to classical art

We saw how some art movements used artbook making as a utopian project. We focused on the relationship between form and content, experimentation as a process, and saw some examples of how randomness and permutations were incorporated into different works.

We also saw examples of how new technologies were integrated into artbook projects starting with the early avant garde of the 1900s all the way to some current examples.

This program is made possible with the generous support of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Republic of Kosovo.

During our second session of “Book as an Artwork” workshop we discussed history of contemporary art and how it relates to artbooks and zines. The importance of concepts and ideas, social context, use of ready-made objects, intentionality, and transfromation in art were discussed, among others.

We discussed questions like: What is art; Who decides; what is its role in society; value of an artwork; how can we make art more accessible; etc.

In the second part we discussed zines, what makes them a unique art form, and some of the advantages of the medium.

This program is made possible with the generous support of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Republic of Kosovo.

During the first session of “Book as an Artwork” workshop we welcomed participants from Kosovo, Albania, Germany, and the United States.

As always, we are super happy to have such a diverse group that includes architects, artists, designers, university professors, writers, game designers, publishers, economists, journalists, multimedia artists, as well as established zines and book artists who constantly enrich our classes with their unique views and discussions.

As StoryLab we are very honored for the opportunity to learn from their diverse experiences and have a chance to cross pollinate ideas.

All of the participants shared their great ideas and concepts for their upcoming zines and artbooks, and artworks and books relevant to their projects were recommended.

This program is made possible with the generous support of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Republic of Kosovo.