Heldi Pema

My work explores a wide area of artistic investigation channeling in social, economic and political realities associated with the various complexities of modern society.
My investigation explores different phenomena like political power, illegality, and the underworld by reflecting the way how they become rooted in contemporary culture. As an artist, I do not want to reflect reality, but I do want to question it. My social upbringing does not embrace, rational linear actions, but rather approaching the world and life with primal instinctive behavior.
In my work I practice a wide range of contemporary multimedia, from photography and digital manipulation to video from installation to sculpture, using a minimal language and at the same time ironic and subversive one.

National Academy of Arts / Albania
Salzburg International Summer Academy of Arts / Austria

selected group exhibitions:
52th Venice Biennale, Italy
12th Shairjah Biennial / Istambul Biennal / Performa 17, New Yor /, Lyons Biennale, France / MoMa PS1, New York / Tirana Biennale 2, Albania / European Month of Photography, Germany / ViennAfair, Austria / Museum of Contemporary Art 'Villa Croce', Italy