PROFILE
Linda Paganelli is an artist, anthropologist, and film director. With an MA in Visual Anthropology, she utilizes a decolonial, queer*feminist approach and sensory visual practices for immersive experiences and self-reflexive explorations of reality. Over thirteen years she has collaborated with universities, educational institutions, museums and galleries, exploring themes of migration, belonging, mass violence, memory culture, and more than human, integrating her work in conflict zones such as Afghanistan, Israel/Palestine, the Western Balkans, and Europe.
EXPERIENCE
Installation “Echoes of Abandonment”, in collaboration with the researchers Snežana Stanković and Emina Zoletic, part of the permanent collection at the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa — 2025
Photographic series exhibition “Unforgotten Resistance: People and Nature Saved Me”, in collaboration with researcher and poet Snežana Stanković, Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. & PINKDOT gGmbH, Berlin, Germany — 2025
Workshop leader “Memory as a Tool for Resistance” at 90Mil, Berlin, Germany — 2025
Workshop leader “memory, resistance, and sensory storytelling” at the University of St Andrews, part of master in Anthropology, Art and Perception postgraduate programme; UK — 2025
Berlin Film Community Association Co-founder, Germany — 2017-ongoing
Concept and video-Editor of “Stories We Didn’t Tell”, in collaboration with research associate in the Department of Migration Jonna Rock, PAIDEIA INSTITUTE, Sweden — 2025
Part of Jury at Al Ard Film Festival, Italy — 2025
Multimedia exhibition “We’re staying! Gentrification and resistance in Berlin” for Berlin Global, Stadtmuseum Berlin in Humboldt Forum; Germany — 2022-2025
Workshop leader “How to Translate Ethnographic Research into an Artistic Visual Piece” at the University of St Andrews, part of master in Anthropology, Art and Perception postgraduate programme, UK — 2024
Exhibition “Eco-Mourning” Producer and Curator, CitizenLab NGO; Germany — 2024
Conference contribution “Cultural Heritage in Contested Spaces” at Heritage in Focus #1, Goethe Institute Athen, Greece — 2024
Documentary and field research, Nehemiah Gateway Albania, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania — 2023-2024
Workshop Leader “Dismantling Racism”, Rete Donne* Berlino association, Germany — 2024
Documentary and field research “Gurbetçars, The non Migrants”, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Humboldt University, North Macedonia-Kosovo — 2022-2024
Documentary and interviews “We Remember! 3.0“ – The Third Generation Tells”, EVZ Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft, Albanischer Studenten und Alumni e.V., Humboldt University, North Macedonia-Kosovo-Albania — 2022-2023
Curatorial work for a film event and presentation “No Place Like Home. Return Films in Southeastern Europe” at the International Academic Week 2022 “Return Migration and its Consequences in Southeastern Europe”, SüdosteuropaGesellschaft e.V. (SOG); Germany — 2022
Field research and visual production “LILAB: Linguistic Landscape of the Cultural Region Banat in Diachrony and Synchrony (Participation)”, Friedrich Schiller University Jena; DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst e.V.), Serbia — 2022
Presentation “Semiotic Landscapes in Multilingual Border Regions”, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Art, Germany — 2022
Curatorial work and exhibition “I Nature”, GlogauAIR; Germany — 2022
Curatorial work and creative workshop “ZuHause”, Polyrama – Museum für Lebensgeschichten, Integrationsbüro Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf; Germany — 2022
Itinerant installation art work and workshop “Macht Sichtbar*”, Nachbarschaftstreff im Moselviertel; Germany — 2022
Presentation “Empty Desert” at the Second Sunday Culture Films, Penn Museum, CLALS University of Pennsylvania, the Middle East Center, and AL Bustan; USA — 2021
Photographs and video production “The green colour of grief. A spider-human meditation”, Lateral – Journal of the Cultural Studies Association; Germany — 2021
Curatorial work and exhibition “LongingBelonging”, GlogauAIR; Germany — 2021
Workshop “Visual Anthropology, Borders and Migration in Digital Times”, Viadrina Centre B/ORDER IN MOTION summer school, Viadrina University; Germany — 2021
Creative editing for a research laboratory on stage movement on a zoom platform “Re-Moti”, Fisiomorfica, Italy — 2021-2022
Workshop mentor and curator “We need to learn to rest while moving”, Museum Viadrina, Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Viadrinicum, Viadrina University; Germany — 2021
Installation art work “Neukölln ist auch mein Platz!” in a U-Bahn station, DaMigra e.V., ReteDonne e.V., BVG, Germany — 2020-2021
Field research and documentary production “Imprinted”, video production as part of the research project “Ruptures in Memoryscapes. Holocaust and Romani genocide on Southeast Europe”, DAAD, Viadrina Centre B/ORDER IN MOTION, Viadrina University; Serbia, Croatia — 2019-2020
Workshop mentor “The Relationship between Filmmaker and Subject”, filmArche e.V., Germany — 2019.
Curatorial work and exhibition “Longing for Home”, DaMigra e.V., ReteDonne e.V., Chokofabrik e.V.; Germany — 2019
Documentary “Journey of Waves”, referenced at Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Anthropology, Oxford University Press; United Kingdom — 2018
Documentary “DisAbility”, EducAid Onlus; Gaza — 2015-2017
Workshop “Filmmaking and Visual Art”, International Academy of Art Palestine, Palestine 2017
Documentary and field research “Empty Desert”, ESPLORARE LA METROPOLI production company, Israel — 2014-2017
EDUCATION
2025
Interactive Exhibition Design: New Technologies and Multisensory Experiences
Node Center for Curatorial Studies, Berlin, Germany
Advanced training course in interactive exhibition design and multisensory technologies.
2024
Artificial Intelligence and Art
Node Center for Curatorial Studies, Berlin, Germany
Specialization course on the application of artificial intelligence in contemporary creative and curatorial processes.
2022
Decolonizing Curatorial and Artistic Practices
Node Center for Curatorial Studies, Berlin, Germany
Advanced course on the decolonization of curatorial and artistic methodologies.
2010
Master of Arts in Visual Anthropology
Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom
Specialized program in ethnographic research through visual and cinematic methodologies.
2008
Master Module in Practical Ethnographic and Documentary Filmmaking
University of London, United Kingdom
Specialized module in practical ethnographic and documentary film production.
2004
Master’s Degree in Education Sciences (Pedagogy)
University of Bologna, Italy
Program focused on theories and methodologies of education and training.
AWARDS
Award Winner of BEYOND GENOCIDE with “Echoes of Abandonment”, U.S.A. 2025
Award Winner of Open Spaces in BERLIN GLOBAL with “We’re Staying! Gentrification and Resistance in Berlin”, Germany 2022
IMPRINTED was officially selected at 19 Film Festivals of which 3 times semi finalist.
Gurbetçars. The non Migrants was officially selected at 2 Film Festivals.
Winner of the competition ‘Un’Opera per L’italiano dell’Anno’ Comites Berlin 2017.
Linda Paganelli 