Artist Talk
Artist Talk
Sat 12 9 | 16:00 Das Lehrerzimmer
Sat 12 9 | 16:00 Das Lehrerzimmer
Curator Elise Lammer in conversation with Artist in Residence Laureta Hajrullahu and Anita Muçolli. At the heart of Elise Lammer’s transdisciplinary practice is the role of public and private spaces, as well as the construction and expression of identity. The conversation explores the artists’ practices, highlighting shared questions, connections, and points of intersection.


Elise Lammer (b. Lausanne, Switzerland) is a curator, researcher, and writer. Her practice centres on the role of space—both public and domestic—in the construction and expression of identity. Transdisciplinary in nature, her work considers what dominant historical narratives render visible, and what they leave at their margin.
She is the curator of Claudia Pagès Rabal’s project Paper Tears, representing Catalonia at the current Venice Biennale.
She is currently pursuing a PhD at the Art Gender Nature Institute in Basel and the University of Linz in Austria. Her research focuses on the garden of British artist, filmmaker, author, and gay rights activist Derek Jarman (1942–1994).
She has curated numerous international exhibitions, including at Calouste Gulbenkian Museum (Lisbon); mumok – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (Vienna); MACRO (Rome); Schinkel Pavillon (Berlin); Centre culturel suisse (Paris); MAMCO (Geneva); Kunsthaus Glarus (Glarus); Gallery of the Ministry of Culture, Pristina, Kosovo; and Istituto Svizzero di Roma (Rome), among others.
Laureta Hajrullahu (*1997) is a visual artist based in Prishtina who explores the shifting boundaries between the virtual and physical realms. Through installations, video works and game-based environments, she constructs speculative landscapes that challenge conventional notions of identity, space and “reality” itself. Her work resonates with a generation that is living an increasingly hybrid life.
Working with industrial fabrication and synthetic materials, Hajrullahu builds intricate installations that blend technology and fiction, creating immersive and seemingly living environments where human presence is no longer central.
Her research spans plants and particles, clouds and computer memory, bringing together scientific, aesthetic, and speculative perspectives. Through this approach, she cultivates attentiveness to materials and opens space for alternative narratives and counter-histories to emerge.
Laureta Hajrullahu has participated in numerous exhibitions, including the Biennale Manifesta 14, at the National Gallery of Kosovo, Zona Sztuki Aktuelnej, Bazament Art Space in Tirana, FORUM STADTPARK in Graz, Tallinn Art Hall, Art Quarter in Budapest, Vänersborgs Konsthall with GIBCA Extended and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montenegro. She was an Artist in Residence at the Academy of Art in Szczecin, scholarship holder of St.AiR and shortlisted for the Young Visual Artist Award.
ANITA Muçolli (*1993) is a Swiss-born Kosovar artist based in Basel, Switzerland.
Anita Muçolli explores the psychological impact of objects, buildings, and spaces. Starting from what already exists, she relocates it in a new constellation, a new material, or a new, smoothened formal language. This method of alienation and distillation enables a focused examination both of the expressive qualities of spaces and objects and of the social and political intentions behind their design. Muçolli directs her critique at the Western belief in progress, whose measuring-stick is the conviction that all of humanity’s problems can be solved through ever-new technologies. What presents itself, on the one hand, as sleek, efficiency-driven design reveals, on the other hand, an increasingly blatant loss of the spiritual, emotional, or ethical. This mixture of optimism, performance-oriented thinking, but also fear, manifests itself in ambivalent, abstract forms, which Muçolli surveys and investigates, addressing in particular the disappearance of the humane dimension in our societies as the price paid for technological perfection.
Anita Muçolli has exhibited in numerous group shows including at ifa Galerie, Berlin; Autostrada Biennale Prizren, Kosovo; Tirana Art Weekend, Albania; Widefield Geneva; Kunsthaus Baselland; Kunsthaus Langenthal; Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal; Museo Villa die Cedri, Bellinzona; The National Gallery of Kosovo, Pristina; Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster; Gallery Von Bartha, Basel; Kunst- und Kulturzentrum Montabaur, Germany; and the Swiss Art Awards, Basel.
Her first solo show was held at Sattelkammer, Bern, followed by Liste Art Fair, Basel, Kulturfolger Zürich, Centre d’art contemporain Yverdon-les-Bains, and Kunsthaus Biel Centre d'art Bienne (KBCB). She was the recipient of the Manor Art Prize 2026 of the Canton of Bern, and of the Helvetia Art Prize 2021; was amongst the laureates of the Kiefer Hablitzel I Göhner Art Prize 2022; and was nominated for the Swiss Art Award 2024, for the Shizuko Yoshikawa Award 2024 and for the Prix Mobilière 2026.
She completed both her BA (2020) and MA (2022) studies at the Basel Academy of Art & Design FHNW.