Becoming independent, building an Archive – Announcements

Founded in 2016 within CHwB Kosovo, Heritage Space now continues independently, expanding how cultural heritage can be made, studied, and shared today. With the launch of its new website, the platform introduces the Heritage Space Archive, an evolving repository where visitors can follow fellowship projects as they unfold, tracing proposals, work-in-progress, and methods alongside outcomes. 

This new chapter begins with the eighth edition of the Heritage Space Fellowship, which brings together researchers, artists, and cultural practitioners whose projects reimagine cultural memory through film, research, storytelling, and multidisciplinary art. The 2025 cohort is the first to take part in the newly established two-year format, a shift that allows for deeper engagement with process and reflects Heritage Space’s commitment to sustained forms of research, production, and mentorship.

The Fellows’ works move between the intimate and the collective, the visible and the overlooked: from the highland pastures of Isniq, where Çlirimtare Januzaj and Urtesë Zeneli trace the rhythms of transhumance; to Eljesa Beka’s reconstruction of radio dedications as acts of connection and resistance in the 90s Kosovo; Elton Ferati’s inquiry into marriage as a space of meaning-making during wartime; Diona Kusari and Likana Cana’s mapping of belief and witchery as cultural knowledge; Berna Kosova’s portraits of Kosovo’s Turkish community; and Tesa Kabashi with Enis Bytyqi’s reading of the 80s and 90s Prishtina’s eateries as living archives.

Mentorship remains central to the Fellowship. Filmmaker Kaltrina Krasniqi, who has guided fellows for the past two editions, describes Heritage Space as “a living, evolving community committed to surfacing historically overlooked narratives of people, places, rituals, and cultures.” She is joined this year by artist and art historian Zef Paci, whose experience in visual and curatorial practice supports the fellows in expanding their methodologies and deepening their engagement with heritage.

Through the Fellowship programme and the recently-launched In Conversation series of public talks and Collaboration projects, Heritage Space continues to intervene in the understanding of cultural heritage not as static preservation, but as a dynamic, evolving practice—developing tools, archives, and encounters that expand how heritage can be studied and reimagined across contexts.

Upcoming​ events this November
In Conversation with Forensic Architecture
On evidence, memory, ​spatial analysis and the documentation of colonial violence.

​In Conversation with Ledia Xhoga
On her Booker long-listed debut novel, Misinterpretation, interrogating the darker legacies of family and country, and the boundary between compassion and self-preservation.

Visit the archive
Look into fellowship projects, trace work-in-progress, and follow how ideas evolve over time at here. 

Programme director
Blerta Ismaili, [email protected].

Press contact
Heritage Space, [email protected].

Credits
Website: No Plans / Communications: Rina Meta 

Initiated by CHwB Kosova / Supported by the Embassy of Sweden in Kosovo.