As part of its first group curatorial research trip in Spain October 2025, Catapulta hosted curator Hana Halilaj. Hana Halilaj is a curator at the National Gallery of Kosovo. Her curatorial projects include What does it mean for a place to be loved? (2025), at ifa Gallery Berlin, Sanja Ivekovič: Women’s House (2024) (co-curated), The Event of a Thread. Global Narratives in Textiles (2024) (co-curated), Violeta Xhaferi: Revisions (2023) at the National Gallery of Kosovo, Clubbing Insistence: After a Party (2022) at Doza Gallery and Toplocentrala, Informator (2022) at the Hessel Museum of Art, Alije Vokshi: I Decided to Draw Bigger Hands (2021) at Chert Lüdde, and Public Heroes and Secrets (2020) at The National Museum of Kosovo, amongst others.
During the 2022-2023 academic year, she was Assistant Curator at CuratorLab at Konstfack University of Arts in Stockholm. She commissioned the Pavilion of the Republic of Kosovo, awarded a Special Mention for National Participation at the 60th Venice Biennale, and currently serves as Commissioner of the Kosovo Pavilion for the 61st edition as a representative of the National Gallery of Kosovo. Halilaj holds an M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
