Erdiola Kanda Mustafaj

Biography

Erdiola Kanda Mustafaj is an Albanian-Italian multidisciplinary artist currently based in Paris.

Combining visual and media arts, from installation to sound art, she creates imaginary landscapes that embody the indistinct and elusive dimension of societies, places and historical events, with a poetic attention to politics and a particular meditation on the importance of diaspora. In her research, she appropriates and rewrites sources from personal archives and collective memories to discuss the intellectual and political history of her country, in a narrative interwoven with oral tradition, myth and fairy tale. His works are based primarily on a profound relationship with space and its transformation, in which raw material and man create an inseparable bond, shaping each other without a hierarchy of values.

Her work has been shown in several institutional exhibitions including: Solo exhibition at Kunst- im-kreuzgang (Bielefeld, Germany, 2025). Group shows at Luigi Ghirri Prize for Fotografia Europea (Reggio Emilia, 2025), Ardhje 2024 Prize, Young Visual Artists Award, organised by Zeta Gallery (Tirana, Albania, 2024), “Rencontres de la jeune photographie internationale” curated by François Cheval at Villa Pérochon (Niort, France, 2022), and “Beyond the image” promoted by Shkodra Arthouse and Marubi Museum (Shkodër, Albania, 2019).