Three artists represent Albania in Sweden’s Supermarket fair

TIRANA, Feb. 7 – Three contemporary Albanian artists have been selected to participate in the 2013 edition of the Supermarket international art fair which is taking place in Stockholm from February 15 to 17. Albania is participating in the event with the private Zeta gallery which is represented by Ledia Kostandini, Klodi Agostini and Enkelejd Zonja.
Kostandini is participating in the exhibition with two cartoon movies installations.
Based in Tirana, Kostandini is a graduate of the Art Academy, Tirana. Her work focuses on social transformations of inherited and lost culture. Her works – photography, paintings and installations with mixed media objects – show a highly sensitive instinct for ideologies in different disguises. Back in 2011, Ledia Kostandini, one of Albania’s most promising young painters and photographers, was announced the winner of the Grand Finale of Contemporary Art Award, Ardhje (Arrival).
Enkelejd Zonja, also a Tirana based painter who has also specialized in the Royal University College of Fine Art, Stockholm, is participating in the event with an oil on canvass painting called “Option out of table.”
The third artist participating in the event is Klod Agostini, the coordinator of the Zeta gallery who is participating with two bizarre black and white pictures from the Albanian reality.
Artist-run galleries and similar artists’ initiatives will be exhibiting the latest tendencies in art in the Supermarket art fair created and managed by artists.
The focus is on the meeting between audience, art and artists from around the world as much as the exhibition itself.
The goal of Supermarket is to provide a showcase for artists’ initiatives from all over the world and to create opportunities for new networks in the Swedish and international art scenes. It is also an art fair that strives to offer the visitor an experience, rather than focusing on sales.
Hundreds of artists, 88 artist-run galleries and similar artists’ initiatives from 32 countries will be featured at Kulturhuset, located in the city centre of Stockholm from February 15 to 17.
Open since 2007, the Zeta centre is a non- profit center focused on visual arts that promotes collaborative, professional practices between the artists and curators, critics, researchers and other art professionals in order to contribute to the establishing of an active contemporary art scene in Albania. During the past 4 years, it has been hosting solo exhibitions by Albanian and international artists and has been a partner of important contemporary art events in Albania such as Artist Talk and Artist in Residency in cooperation with Tirana Institute of Contemporary Arts.