Bora Baboçi (1988) was born and lives in Tirana, Albania. She studied architectural design and theory at the University of Toronto, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, and has a master’s degree from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. After some years of work experience in architecture, since 2015 she has been a researcher and academic assistant at the Technischen Universität in Berlin. Since 2017 she has developed an independent practice of diffusing her spatial research with visual and performative arts. Her practice entails drawing, sculpture, performance and photography, and her research is drawn to the connection between landscape and constructive elements, spatial and affective encounters, and embodied memory through time and space.

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She took part in residencies such as: Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria (2022); Il Lazzaretto, Milan, Italy (2021); EVA International Biennal’s residency, Limerick, Ireland (2019); Art House School, Shkoder, Albania (2017); Centrum fur Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin, Germany (2017).

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Solo and group exhibitions include: Manifesta14, It Matters What Words World Worlds, Prishtina (2022); Autostrada Biennale, What If A Journey, Prizren, Kosovo (2021); Mediterranea 19 Biennal BCJEM School of Waters, San Marino, Italy (2021); NEXT Balkan A for Unapologetic, Sofia, Bulgaria (2021); National Gallery of Albania Ambitions, Tirana, Albanian (2021); EVA International Biennal 39th, The Golden Vale, Limerick, Ireland (2020); MULA Museo di Latronico Del Tempo Fossile, Italy (2019); Bazament Space, Tirana, Albania (2019); Transmediale/CTM, Rituals Berlin, Germany (2017).