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︎Design
︎Performance
︎Teaching

Gentë Retkoceri is a multidisciplinary artist from Kosova. She was a former Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Communication, Northwestern University in Qatar. She obtained her MFA in Design from VCUarts in Qatar. Through her work she has merged live performance and film with designs that tackle controversial topics mostly about women’s rights. Through performing arts, she has developed educational design ideas and workshops for children and adults in Qatar. She has a BA in Architecture and Acting from the University of Prishtina and an MA in Theater Education from Emerson College in Boston, US. She is an experienced actor in a theater and film counting more than 20 main roles over her 10-year career. Her wide-ranging career has taken her from working in Kosovo at the University of Prishtina, the National Theater to the USA working for the Emerson Stage in Boston. Currently, she is also conducting different acting and performance courses at the Al Jazeera Training institute in Doha.
She conducted two theater workshops during the D'reesha Performing Arts Festival which was inaugurated for the first time on December 2021 by Qatar Foundation.

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Gentë Retkoceri is a multidisciplinary artist from Kosova. Currently she is an Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Communication, Northwestern University in Qatar. She obtained her MFA in Design from VCUarts in Qatar. Through her work she has merged live performance and film with designs that tackle controversial topics mostly about women’s rights. Through performing arts, she has developed educational design ideas and workshops for children and adults in Qatar. She has a BA in Architecture and Acting from the University of Prishtina and an MA in Theater Education from Emerson College in Boston, US. She is an experienced actor in a theater and film counting more than 20 main roles over her 10-year career. Her wide-ranging career has taken her from working in Kosovo at the University of Prishtina, the National Theater to the USA working for the Emerson Stage in Boston. Currently, she is also conducting different acting and performance courses at the Al Jazeera Training institute in Doha. She conducted two theater workshops during the D'reesha Performing Arts Festival which was inaugurated for the first time on December 2021 by Qatar Foundation.

Design your acting ︎Qatar 22’

MFA Design, Performance Art Installation

A gun for every woman

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Teaching performance, Product/Service

Design your acting

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Ceramic Vases, Field Study VCUarts Qatar

Melting Pottery

About the project

Melting Pottery is a project developed within the Master of Design (MFA) of VCUarts Qatar and is part of an annual program, the Field Study Project, in which students and teachers collaborate with international artisans and designers to create series of objects that explore the theme of cultural identity. 

Artistic Direction: Marco Bruno & Giovanni Innella, VCUarts Qatar

Computational Design: Andrea Graziano, Co-de-iTDigital 

Ceramist: Bruno Demasi, 

Clay CodeCooking: Antonio Russo

3D clay printer: Pauta Queen, Clay Code in collaboration with Elettronicamicro

Glazings: La Bottega delle Ceramiche

Designer:

Abdulrahman Al Muftah (Qatar)Alaa Albarazy (Syria)Anurag Wallace (India)Ayah Elnour (Sudan)Faheem Khan (Bangladesh)Gabrielle Tesfaye (USA)Genta Retkoceri(Kosovo)Giovanni Innella (Italy)Marco Bruno (Italy)Rab McClure (USA)Reema Abu Hassan (Palestine/Canada)Somaia Dorzadeh (Iran)Sidra Sohail (Pakistan)Steffi Braganza (India)Stella Colaleo (Italy)Tharwa Dalansi (Tunisia)Yasmeen Suleiman (Palestin/Jordan)

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Photo by: ph. Luca Vianello and Silvia Mangosio

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Gentë Retkoceri

Multidisciplinary ︎Design ︎Performance ︎Teaching