Alma Bakiaj’s work explores states of suspension where bodies, memory, and identity remain in formation rather than fixed. Working across painting, textile, and mixed media, she investigates how inherited rituals, domestic materials, and repeated gestures shape bodily experience and social identity. Her figures often appear partially veiled or obscured, occupying transitional spaces between visibility and concealment, where personal histories intersect with collective cultural structures. Through layered surfaces and restrained color fields, Bakiaj examines how care, discipline, and expectation become embedded in the body over time, transforming painting into a site where ritual, memory, and material presence converge.
who are you who live in all these many ways?
On / Before / Between / While (Study of Ritual),
40 × 40cm, 2025
21 Questions, GOEN Project, Safehouse 1, London
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Untitled, 150x150cm, digital print on aluminum composite panel, 2014 @LIVE IN YOUR DREAMS Exhibition, The Crypt Gallery London
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Alma Bakiaj_Exhibition view Action Field Kodra Thessaloniki 2013
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Untitled, 110x65cm, oil on canvas, 2011
@Action Field Kodra, Kodra Fresh 2013 ”Floating Walls”, curator: Vasilis Zografos
It’s been a long time, but that day seems much longer to me , 140x110cm, double sided tape and color dust on Museum wall, digital print, marble bases, 2012
MACEDONIAN MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF THESSALONIKI, GREECE
INSPIRE FESTIVAL 2012 ‘The World is Not Enough”
(In situ work directly on to the Museum’s walls. It was destroyed after the exhibition)
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Untitled (Landscapes series)
35x30cm, oil on canvas, 2012
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Untitled
130x110cm, oil on canvas, 2011
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Alma Bakiaj 