Kleidi Eski
Designer & visual artist
Kleidi Eski

Kleidi Eski is a multidisciplinary designer and visual artist working across visual culture, moving image, and cultural strategy. He graduated in Architecture from Tirana Polytechnic University in 2011.

His practice spans animated film, music video, and creative direction. In the early 2000s, he created artistic animated visuals for music channels. He later collaborated with musicians to produce and direct nine music videos. His animated films and music videos have been screened and exhibited internationally, within collaborative contexts and cultural programmes in Paris, New York, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. Between 2013 and 2019, he also engaged in theatre and musical performances. During this period, he also contributed to campaigns with environmental, open-source, digital freedom, and online privacy activists.

Over the past nine years, his work through the Swiss Cultural Fund has focused on supporting emerging artists from the Albanian independent cultural scene, through grant policy development and the curation or co-curation of multidisciplinary cultural programmes. Since 2023, he has been collaborating with the Tirana office Heinrich Böll Stiftung in the framework of "Albania is Biodiversity" campaign.