(NOTE: Interview in Italian) Critic, curator and ARTonAIR.org roving correspondent Claudia Loefferholz speaks with Albanian artist Anila Rubiku during the opening week of the 2011 Venice Biennale. Rubiku was born in Albania in 1970 and lives and works between Milan and Tirana. Her work includes drawings and installations and a new approach to the traditional craft of embroidery. She actively incorporates local people into community projects that combine tradition and art and local history. Recent projects address memory, time, architecture and gender. The Albanian Pavilion is located on Giudecca Island in Venice.
Claudia Löffelholz is an art critic, independent curator and journalist. She was born in Germany and lives and works both in Germany and Italy. After passing her Master's degree in Romance and Germanic Philology at the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena, Germany, she began to work as a cultural manager for Kulturbüro LaRete, Weimar, organizing European exhibition projects. In 2004 she is one of the co-founders of LaRete Art Projects in Modena, Italy. She writes regularly essays for catalogues and art magazines such as KUNSTZEITUNG and ARTE E CRITICA.









