In Kosovo, art to erase the war

Special Envoy to Pristina (Kosovo)

A traveling art biennial that lands on the powder keg of the Balkans? This is the bet of Manifesta 14 Prishtina 2022, which stands for one hundred days in Kosovo, until October 30. This European and committed biennale relies on art to show cities in a different way and to revive the public space for debate, the agora of ancient Greece, synonymous with democracy.

It succeeds the editions of Palermo in 2018superb above all for its abandoned palaces, and from Marseillebattered by local dissension and cut short by a month by the Covid in 2020. Barely a week after its enthusiastic inauguration in Pristina, the capital and largest city of Kosovo with still disputed international status, Manifesta 14 is confronting the news in its harshest and most random aspect.

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