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Klodiana Millona (b. 1990, Albania) is a visual practitioner and spatial researcher based in Rotterdam and working between the Netherlands and Albania. She holds a Master’s degree in Interior Architecture from the Royal Academy of the Arts in the Hague and studied Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire.

Working across text, sound, and moving image, her practice interrogates the politics of invisibility in space and invisibilized spatial practices. She is co-founder of the design and visual practice millonaliu and of the investigative platform zones of exception, which researches the outsourcing of EU borders to third countries outside the Union. This work focuses in particular on the Italian offshore detention centers built in Albania, reading externalization from the places it reshapes, and situating them within longer histories of colonial ordering and border imperialism.

Klodiana was awarded the Gjon Mili Award for Photography and Moving Image in 2025 and was a fellow at the Jan van Eyck Academie (2023-24). She has taught at various educational institutions and is engaged in experimental forms of pedagogy. Her work has been exhibited among others at The National Gallery of Kosovo (2025), Manifesta Biennial 14 (2022), ARUCS Project Japan (2022), Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (2021), Kiev Biennial (2021) and Tbilisi Architecture Biennial (2020).

Artist’s Website.

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1. NON EU ONLY, 2024, Publication, Riso Print, ed.100 copies; 2. I had white cotton in my yard, I fed it, I watered it, 2025, Two-Channel Audio visual, Loop, 15:15, Photo by cylixe, © werkleitz; 3. Wave Function Collapse, 2024, Aural Publication, Two Color Riso Printed, Embossed Cover, Cassette Tape, Sound, 64:5, ed.50 copies; 4.The city that was not supposed to be on the map, 2023, Video Still, Short Documentary, 11:13; 5. It’s Not The Fault of The House, 2018, Blue Foam, Model 100x100 cm, Silkscreen, Canvas 200x250 cm, Photo by Medina Resic, courtesy Stroom Den Haag; 6. Sticky Entanglements, 2022, Two-Channel Video, Digital, Loop, 11:25, Photo by Hajime Kato, courtesy ARCUS Project; 7. The Un-Making of Two Miracles, 2023, two channel digital video, loop,11:25, archive images, blackboard drawing, fermented rice paper objects

Artist statement

Klodiana’s research concerns minor, marginal, and invisible architectures, engaging with questions of spatial justice and geographies of resistance. Rooted in her training as an architect, her practice is deeply shaped by witnessing the spatial transformations that unfolded in post-1990s Albania. Thinking through mapmaking as a practice of extracting, erasing, and producing ruptures, she employs counter-mapping as a method to interrogate dominant historical narratives and colonial legacies inscribed in the built environment and its implication in engineering and perpetuating violence.

Her engagement with migration as a multi-sited spatial practice is both situated and personal. Framing the politics of citizenship as an uninhabitable architecture—produced by the weaponization of waiting within institutionalized visa regimes, whether in immigration offices or bedrooms that become de facto extended waiting rooms to contain those pending validation from the nation state—she examines how slow violence is enacted on immobilized migrant bodies.

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