Vangjush Vellahu (born 1987 in Pogradec, Albania, lives and
works in Berlin) is a visual artist working with
video,
prints, objects and
archives
with the focus on different forms of storytelling particular to specific
communities; exploring how collective memories of authoritarian regimes
are produced and remembered by communities affected by them. His works
intertwine urban histories of entities that from an ideological and
political stand point remain on the margins of recognition. His travels
often take a shape of journal-like reconfigurations that attempt at
re-defining the popular understanding of what borders, territories or
geographies represent today. Since 2014 he is part of a local group of
emerging young artists – Nucleu 0000 in Bucharest, that tries to coagulate
an artistic organization as a response to the lack of cultural finance.
