“All Images Will Disappear, One Day.” The fourth edition of Autostrada Biennale has opened its doors for visitors in three Kosovar cities with a slogan that reminds us all of the temporality of things.

“It’s an exhibition about what makes and unmakes us, what entangles and disentangles us from ourselves, about freedoms beyond choices, imaginaries that flow despite and across borders. It is about connecting with the unknown,” reads Autostrada’s introductory page.

The contemporary art exhibition will present work in Prishtina, Prizren, and Mitrovica and will be open from July 7 to September 9.

“This year’s edition is coming together with an institution. While other editions of Autostrada Biennale used temporary spaces, this edition adds Hangar as a permanent space where artists can create installations on a larger scale,” says Leutrim Fishekqiu, one of the founders of Autostrada Biennale.

Autostrada’s third and fourth editions were co-curated by Övül O. Durmuşoğlu and Joanna Warsza.

The biennale takes you on a journey around former NATO hangars, where the core of the exhibition sits, and then down into the streets of Prizren, and farther to Prishtina and Mitrovica. It starts with an artwork that first took root in 2021, which follows the sun: Agnes Denes’s Sunflower Fields.

“Another 30 art installations, of them 17 new commissions created in Hangar, are the novelty of this edition. The art pieces are of a larger scale as well,” adds Fishekqiu, for Prishtina Insight.

“Another novelty of this edition is the art installation of Rena Rädle and Vladan Jeremić, two artists from Belgrade who will present their installation on the rooftop of 7arte in Mitrovica. Together with the installation of Alban Muja, this will raise a debate about art and society,” he explains.

“Art is breaking the political barriers and uniting people,” Fishekqiu says.

Autostrada Biennale, established by Leutrim Fishekqiu, Vatra Abrashi, and Barış Karamuço in 2014, takes place every two years since 2017.

With thousands of visitors during the two-month program, with the process of making context-specific artworks open to the public, and with a strong content and a striking visual language, the exhibitions contribute to the development of cultural life, education, and cultural tourism.

As the only contemporary art institution in Prizren, Autostrada Biennale functions on two speeds: one is a physical exhibition that takes place every two years, the other is our new education, production, and exhibition space called “Autostrada Hangar” in the former German KFOR military base now ITP, Innovation and Training Park in Prizren.