Cripto Sirenas

1993 Born in Germany. Working and living in Berlin and Tirana, Albania
2011 Photographic Studies B.A., University of Applied Arts and Sciences, Dortmund
2017 & 2018 Curatorial School, University of Malta
2018 Postgraduate Studies Media Arts, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne 
2019 Curatorial Intensive, Lagos Biennale
2024 Professor of photography in the field of contemporary art at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB) 

Selected exhibitions
2025
CRIPTO SIRENAS, OFFICE IMPART, Berlin, DE
CRIPTO SIRENAS, Goethe-Institut New York, New York, USA
‘Chommie – The Digital Closet’’ iacollaboration between Anna Ehrenstein and Brian Montshiwa and Mahube Diseko, Melkweg, Amsterdam, NL

2024  
Cripto Sirenas, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn, DE
Politics of Love, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, DE
Tools for Change, HEK Basel, Basel, CH
Sex Reenchanted, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, DE
Der Sammlung zugeneigt. Fotomuseum Winterthur, DZ BANK, Frankfurt, DE
hold me grieving, Maxim Gorki Theater, curated by Sunny Pfalzer und Anna Ehrenstein, Berlin, DE
Protest Praxis / Tupamaras Technophallus, Weserburg, Bremen, DE
REFUGE, Lagos Biennial, Lagos, NGA

2023
Imagined Inevitabilities, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, DE (s)
ALTERED EMOTIONS, ARTCO Gallery, Berlin, DE
For Now, Grisebach, Düsseldorf, in cooperation with OFFICE IMPART, DE
Clans of Berlin, CARPARK, Berlin, DE
Out of Scale, Transmediale, Berlin, DE

2022  
Das Auto Rosi Aber, KOW, Berlin, DE
The Balkanization of the Cloud OFFICE IMPART, Berlin, DE (s)
Screen City Biennial, Berlin, DE
Visibilities Ausstellung, Balance Club Culture Festival, Leipzig, DE
Kunststation Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, DE (s)
Empowerment, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, DE
WE ARE- Feminismus gehört uns allen, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, DE
Various Others, Sperling/KOW, Munich, DE
Pornotopia revised, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, AT
Biennale for Contemporary Photography- From Where I Stand /// Collective Minds, Mannheim, DE
TUPAMARAS TECHNOPHALLUS, Stadt Galerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, DE (s)