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

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

We focused on the importance that the process of transformation plays in creating artworks.

We thought 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 created 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.