Pleurad Xhafa is an Albanian artist and activist.

He received his MFA in 2012 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. He is one of the founders of the DebatikCenter of Contemporary Art (www.debatikcenter.net). In 2014 he was the winner of the “Ardhje” Award for Young Visual Artists from Albania. Xhafa develops projects that examine the effects produced by neoliberal political experiments. His research and critical work comes as a result of a post-conceptual practice, which operates on a documentary basis to subsequently report—visually and politically—on the culture of our time. Some of his site-specific interventions in Tirana have been realized in collaboration with the DebatikCenter of Contemporary Art, the Department of Eagles, and MAPS: the Museum of Art in Public Space. His work has been presented in international group exhibitions and festivals such as the Alternative Film/Video Festival (Belgrade, 2018); Les Rencontres Internationales (Paris/Berlin, 2015–16), Teatri i Gjelbërimit (Galeria FAB, Tirana, 2016), Shame on you (Celje, 2015), the 6th Berlin Biennial (2010), the 4th Tirana Biennial (2009), and Onufri XIV (GKA, Tirana, 2008).