Juli Ndoci
Open the windows, Installation, Video, 2009
In 1989, Juli Ndoce and her brother Frederik (who represented Albania at the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest), won the national albanian song festival with the song »Land of Sun«. When the duo entered this competition again in 1990, their song »Open the windows«, which had a provocative text calling for Europe and freedom, was banned and both artists were banned from performing. Juli was told she should consider herself lucky not to have ended up in prison. When pressed to take up a career in structural engineering rather than attending the arts academy, Juli decided to flee and came to Germany. In the hotel room, she is showing an installation including the two songs from the years 1989 and 1990 and notes, photographs, sketches, stories and memories from her personal and professional life.
Juli Ndoci
Born in 1971 in Shkodra, Albania.
Lives and works in Hildesheim, Germany.
Actress
2007/2008 »Trurls Elektrobarde« by Stanislaw Lem,
Theater 11 August, Hildesheim / Hannover 2004 TV
Klan Albania 2002 Sylvester programme TVSH
Singer/Songwriter
2009 »gojamars«, albanian Balkan-Beats und Pop ›››
Regional competition for Hamburg&Schleswig-Holstein
2006 »Juli & Rita« –Days of Albanian Culture,
Jena 2005 Albania meets Jazz, Kaiserslautern ›››
Performance with the Band »Caustic«, Hannover
Congress ››› Israel – Palestina – Deutschland open
Space ››› Ganz Rohr, Literatur Festival in Amsterdam
2004/2005 Furige Toungen 2004 Cultural Exchange
Germany-Russia 2001 guest singer at »The Blues
Guys & the Guinness Horns«, Kosovo 1989 with her
brother Frederik and with Manjola Nallbani she wins
the Song contest in Albania 1990 she sings »open
the window«, the song was forbidden, stage ban
Performance:
2009 Buchgedicht 89, Berlin 2004 Exhibition of Anri
Sala, Deichtor-Hallen Hamburg and Gallery Hauser &
Wirt, London ››› Transmediale Berlin ››› In den
Schluchten des Balkans, Fridericianum Kassel 2005
Heimat, photo Exhibition at Jacobi church, Hildesheim
2006 Den Künstlern hinter die Karten geschaut,
Sparkasse Hildesheim ››› Time of the mute dreams
