a portrait shot of Alberta Sinani

Alberta Sinani (AT/XK)

diaspora memory and archives

Alberta Sinani is a cultural practitioner and community researcher working with diaspora communities across Europe, with a particular focus on the Kosovo-Albanian diaspora. Born in Kosovo and raised in Vienna, her work is shaped by lived experience across cultures and by questions of memory, identity, and belonging.

She co-initiated the event series Breaking Archival Silences on the Kosovo-Albanian Diaspora, developed together with the Diasporas Speaking podcast, creating spaces to reflect on whose histories are preserved, whose are missing, and how diasporic memory can be documented and shared. The series launched in Vienna and continues internationally, with upcoming events planned in London.

With a background in Social Design and Community Psychology, Alberta brings an artistic and participatory lens to community-based work. Her practice centers on dialogue, collective reflection, and the creation of formats that support diasporic knowledge, intergenerational memory, and cultural continuity—closely aligning with shrine’s focus on lived experience, memory, and participatory storytelling.