Doruntina Kastrati (b. 1991, Prizren, Kosovo) is an artist based in Pristina, Kosovo who works mainly across sculpture, installation, sound, and movie images. Through her practice, Doruntina researches and focuses on the body and its relationship to biopolitical power. Specifically, she directs one’s attention to social and political issues of labour in the global context. She represented the Kosovo Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale with the sculptural and audio installation The Echoing Silences of Metal and Skin, for which she received a Special Mention for National Participation. Her work has been the subject of solo presentations No Burning, No Wound at the Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana (2024) and for the Kosovo Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024). Selected group exhibitions include the 18th Istanbul Biennial (2025), 16th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (2025); Manifesta 14, Prishtina (2022); Bigger than Myself. Heroic voices from ex-Yugoslavia, MAXXI Museum, Rome (2021); Not Fully Human, Not Human At All, Kadist, Paris (2020).
Cover Photo: Ivan Županac, © Courtesy of Eugster II Belgrade gallery