Silva Agostini grew up in Tirana during the final years of Albania's communist regime. She witnessed the collapse of the regime, the country's opening, and the turbulent transition that followed during her teenage years. These dramatic shifts left a profound mark on her artistic identity, as she perceived the images of Albanias cities and landscapes during this period as a stark expression of human existentiality. She began her art studies in Tirana, moved later to Berlin, where she graduated and received her Master Degree at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Her artistic practice encompasses photography, video, site-specific performances, and installations. The various media constitute distinct yet interwoven fields of inquiry, unified by a conceptual engagement with the image itself. This aproach manifests primarily through the medium of photography, which in her practice functions not only as an autonomous form but also as a tool and point of departure from which further modes of artistic expression unfold.
Silva Agostini`s conceptual framework centers on time's persistence as a vital, and affective historical dimension of contemporary experience. Rather than understanding the past as a closed or static entity, she conceives of it as a living layer that continually shapes conditions and transforms the present. Her work investigates how the contemporary emerges from the ongoing negotiation of historical experience, how the past inscribes itself into the textures of present life and influences our modes of perception, remembering, and existence.
Silva Agostinis works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany and Europe, including: Autostrada Biennale 2025 Prizren, Villa Medici Rom, Elevation 1049 Gstaad, National Gallery Tirana, Bazament Tirana, Belvedere 21 Wien, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Macedonian Museum of contemporary art Thessaloniki, Gallery Isabella Czarnowska Berlin, Kunstsammlung Gera, as well as at the Tirana Biennale. She received the Onufri Award in 2014 and has attended the TICA Residency in 2016 and the Art House in Shkodra 2018. She is a founding member of the project space “Very” in Berlin.
Silva Agostini grew up in Tirana during the final years of Albania's communist regime. She witnessed the collapse of the regime, the country's opening, and the turbulent transition that followed during her teenage years. These dramatic shifts left a profound mark on her artistic identity, as she perceived the images of Albanias cities and landscapes during this period as a stark expression of human existentiality. She began her art studies in Tirana, moved later to Berlin, where she graduated and received her Master Degree at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Her artistic practice encompasses photography, video, site-specific performances, and installations. The various media constitute distinct yet interwoven fields of inquiry, unified by a conceptual engagement with the image itself. This aproach manifests primarily through the medium of photography, which in her practice functions not only as an autonomous form but also as a tool and point of departure from which further modes of artistic expression unfold.
Silva Agostini`s conceptual framework centers on time's persistence as a vital, and affective historical dimension of contemporary experience. Rather than understanding the past as a closed or static entity, she conceives of it as a living layer that continually shapes conditions and transforms the present. Her work investigates how the contemporary emerges from the ongoing negotiation of historical experience, how the past inscribes itself into the textures of present life and influences our modes of perception, remembering, and existence.
Silva Agostinis works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany and Europe, including: Autostrada Biennale 2025 Prizren, Villa Medici Rom, Elevation 1049 Gstaad, National Gallery Tirana, Bazament Tirana, Belvedere 21 Wien, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Macedonian Museum of contemporary art Thessaloniki, Gallery Isabella Czarnowska Berlin, Kunstsammlung Gera, as well as at the Tirana Biennale. She received the Onufri Award in 2014 and has attended the TICA Residency in 2016 and the Art House in Shkodra 2018. She is a founding member of the project space “Very” in Berlin.