Born in Mitrovica, Kosovo, September 10, 1980
Lives and works in Berlin and Prishtina, Kosovo
Education:
2006 – 2008
MA, Fine Academy of Arts in Prishtina, University of Prishtina
2006
MA, Winter semester, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe NM, USA
1999 – 2003
BA, Fine Academy of Arts, University of Prishtina
Residency and Fellowships:
2018
Cite Internationale des Arts – 2018 Winner, Paris, France
2016
Q21 Residency, Museum Quarter, Vienna, Austria
2011
Artist-in-residence in Tobacna Center/ City Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2011
‘Apartment Project’ Residency, Istanbul, Turkey
2010
Young visual art award at ISCP Residency, New York
2010
New York ARTSLINK Residency, New York
2008
KulturKontakt Residency, Vienna, Austria
2007
Backyard International Artist Residency, Kuda-Center for New Media”Novi Sad, Serbia
2006
International Artist and Writer Residency, Santa Fe Art Institute, USA
2006
Braziers International Artist Residency, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire, England
Selected Solo shows:
2024
‘Fragments of Walls’ Trieste Contemporanea’, Trieste, Italy
‘THE FADING LINE: Stories on the Edge of Legality’ Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, N.Macedonia
2023
‘Above Everyone’ Charim Gallery, Vienna, Austria
‘Family Album’ DCK, Prishtina, Kosovo
2022
‘Sooner or later you will catch the sight’ REITER Galleries, Berlin
2021
‘Why Kamza” Bazament Art Space, Tirana, Albania
‘Whatever Happens, We Will Be Prepared’, The National Gallery of Kosovo, Prishtina, Kosovo
‘In spite of everything, there is a wall’, Charim Gallery, Vienna, Austria
‘Family Album’, ICSP, New York
2020
‘Family Album’ Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2019
‘F.M The Process’, Petrit Gallery, Cite des Arts, Paris, France
‘Just Another Hero’ Kunstraum LLLLLL, Vienna, Austria
2018
‘HOTel’ Labin Art Express XXI, Labin, Croatia
2017
‘Legendary dog’ Projektraum LS43, Berlin, Germany
2016
‘Brotherhood Phallicism’ Museum of Fine Art, Split, Croatia
’47 km far from capital’ Artists Club ‘CoffreFort’, Brussels, Belgium
‘Mbi qiell nen’ COD,(with O.Lamaj) Tirana, Albania
2015
‘Everyone has a story’ OneNightStand Gallery, Sofie, Bulgaria
‘From Brotherhood to Brotherly Love’ Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rijeka, Croatia
‘From Brotherhood to Brotherly Love’ ‘Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste, Italy
‘From Brotherhood to Brotherly Love’ Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2014
‘The beautiful travelers’ MyToro gallery, (with D.Hajredini) Hamburg, Germany
‘Naming’ Serious Interest Agency (SIA) in Skopje, Macedonia
‘I never knew how to explain’ Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2013
‘From Palestine to Tibet’ FAK at Schloßtheater, Munster, Germany
‘I never knew how to explain’ The National Gallery of Kosovo, Prishtina, Kosovo
‘Naming’ Java Galery, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina
‘My name, their city’ Miza Galery, Tirana, Albania
2012
‘My name, their city’ Center for Contemporary Art ‘Station’, Prishtina, Kosovo
‘Its all about names’ KC Tobacna 001-Mesnta Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2011
‘Politics of naming’ Myymala2 Gallery Helsinki, Finland
2010
‘What’s In A Name?’ UnionDocs NY, USA
‘From east to the southwest’ Able Kulturverein, Berlin, Germany
2009
‘All around’ Siz Gallery’ Rijeka, Croatia
2007
‘Distance’, Center for Contemporary Art ‘Station’, Prishtina, Kosovo
2005
‘Meat shop’, 1/60 Insurgent space – National Gallery of Art, Tirana, Albania
2003
‘Beings’ Gallery Hani 2 Roberteve, Prishtina, Kosovo
Selected group shows:
2024
‘Summoning the Boogeyman’ Art Hub Film Club, Copenhagen, Denmark
‘Legendary Dog’ | Ulay & Alban Muja, Charim Gallery, Vienna, Austria
‘Ghost of a Dream: I know a place where they perform miracles’, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington,VA, United States
2023
‘Bodies of Identities’ Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
4th Autostrada Biennale, Prizren, Kosovo
‘I Wish It Was Mine’ Galerie Alberta Pane, Venice
2022
‘Urban Text : This Space Called Balkans’ ICI, Paris
‘I dream of peace’ Kuenstlerhaus, Lauenburg, Germany
‘Manifesta 14’ Prishtina, Kosovo
‘Hot Mess’ Kühlhaus, Berlin
2021
‘Beyond Borders’ Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia
‘BON MÉNAGE…’ Galeria Alberta Pana, Paris
‘The Great Smoke of 2020’ The National Gallery of Kosovo, Prishtina, Kosovo
‘Beyond Borders’ Center for Contemporary Arts, Celje, Slovenia
3rd Autostrada Biennale, Prizren, Kosovo
‘Bigger Than Myself: Heroic Voices from Ex-Yugoslavia’ Maxxi Museum, Rome, Italy
2020
Citizen Nowhere/Citizen Somewhere: The Imagined Nation, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
3rd Industrial Art Biennial ‘Ride Into the Sun’ Labin /Opatija/Pula/Raša/ Rijeka, Croatia
Curated by 20 ‘HYBRID Unknown Identities’ Galerie Raum mit Light, Vienna, Austria
2019
NSK State in Time, viennacontemporary, Vienna, Austria
Die Verwandlung / Borders are Vacillating, Center fort he Future, Fratres/Slavonice, Austria
‘All That We Have In Common’ MOMus Experimental Center for the Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece
‘Long live the war’ 59th Annale, Porec, Croatia
58th Venice Biennale – Pavilion of the Republic of Kosovo, Venice, Italy
2018
‘Muslim Muliqi Prize’ National Gallery of Art, Prishtina, Kosovo
‘Stranger Than Paradise’ MeetFactory, Prague, Czech Republic
‘All That We Have In Common’ Museum Of Contemporary Art Skopje, North Macedonia
‘#3 New Geographies – Imaginary Beyond Crisis’, Palazzo Costanzi, Trieste, Italy
2017
‘Symptoms of Society’ Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
‘Migration of fear’ Koroska Gallery of Fine Arts, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia
Westkunst – Ostkunst. A Selection from the Collection-Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
‘Utopia / Dystopia: Architecture, City, Territory’ Mestna Galerija / City Art Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
‘Migration of fear’ Art Today Association for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
‘The Travellers’ Kumu Art Museum, Tallin, Estonia
1st Autostrada Biennale, Prizren, Kosovo
‘Symptoms of Society’ Guangdong Museum of Art, China
‘Finding Kosovo’ Atelierhause Salzamt, Linz, Austria
‘Videobox Festival’ Paris, France
‘Resistance, movement, change – fragments of activist and artistic practices in the region from the 1980s onwards” S.C. Zagreb, Croatia
‘Migration of fear’ Forum Stadpark, Graz, Austria
NSK State Art: New York, The Impossible Return, New York
2016
‘Ho(M)me’ Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Trento, Itali
‘Teatri i Gjelberimit’ Galeria Fab, Tirana, Albania
‘Omul Negru’ Galeria Nicodim, Los Angelos, USA
‘The whale that was a submarine’ Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
‘Omul Negru’ Galeria Nicodim Cantacuzino Palace, Bucharest, Romania
‘The Travellers’ Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
‘Private Nationalism’ Apartament project, Berlin, Germany
‘Normalities’ Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
2015
‘This is not a palm tree’ Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin, Germany
‘Parallel Vienna 2015, Vienna, Austria
‘Imagined Communities – Personal Imaginations’ Budapest Gallery and Kiscell Museum, Budapest Hungary
‘Theories on Forgetting’ Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills, USA
‘All about these…Ladies and Gentlemen’ Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Germany
‘Do you want something sweet’ City Gallery Piran, Slovenia
‘Tirana Open – PaMur’, Tirana, Albania
Mardin Biennale, Mardin, Turkey
‘Everything is Eternity” SIZ Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia
2014
‘Private Nationalism’ Ostrale´014, Dresden, Germany
‘Balcony to the Balkans’ Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
‘Multiplicity’ – NURTUREart Gallery, New York City, New York
‘The (Re)construction of Friendshi’, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia
‘All about these…Ladies and Gentlemen, National Art Gallery, Tirana, Albania
‘Private Nationalism’ M21 Gallery, Pecs, Hungary
‘Liquidation’ Miroslav Kralavic Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
‘All about these… Ladies and Gentlemen’, Co-Pilot, Istanbul, Turkey
2013
‘Onufri XX” National Gallery of Art, Tirana, Albania
‘XVII Biennale d’ Arte Città di Penne’ Penne, Italy
‘Free Zone Festival’ Belgrade, Serbia
Larger Than Borders, Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste, Italy
‘Victory Obsessed’ Pozan, Poland
‘DokuFest’ Prizren, Kosovo
‘Unkraut’ Kunstcamp MS DOCKVILLE, Hamburg, Germany
‘SB Film Festival’, Slavonski Brod, Croatia
‘2ndBiennial of Contemporary Art in the Atomic shelter in Konjic, Bosnia and
Herzegovina
’50 Years of Ljubljana Art Gallery’ Mestna Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2012
‘Sui Generis’ Museum of Energy – Santralistanbul, Itsnabul,Turkey
‘No So Distant Memory’-Festival of Video-art and Animation in Ufa, Russia.’Balkan
‘Florence Express’ Florence, Italy
‘Hebron Road/Ridge Route’, Art Cube Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
‘Between words: UrbanFestival 12’ HDLU and Barrel Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
‘Corner of HaTzionut Avenue and HaGefeb, BeitHagefen gallery, Haifa, Israel
‘Mediterranean – Arrivals and Departure’ Ancona, Italy
‘Cross-Time Stories’ Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, USA
‘Archive V – Security and insecurity ’ Açıkekran Yeni Medya Sanatları Galerisi, Istanbul, Turkey
‘’White’ Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2011
‘Pixxelpoint 2011, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
‘Roaming’ Teatro Margherita, Bari, Italy
‘Not So Distant Memory’ Delaware Contemporary Center for Arts, USA
‘Cross Border Experience’ Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
‘Not So Distant Memory’ Cyberfest, St Petersburg, Russia
‘URBAN MAPS’ Tina B, Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
‘VIDEO/ COLLAGE: Architecture’ DAZ / Architect’s association, Zagreb Croatia
‘Ironapplause.net’ YVAA, Slovak National; Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
‘Spaceship Yugoslavia’ NGBK Berlin, Germany
‘Re-Locate’ Apartment Project, Istanbul, Turkey
‘LAMPEMUSA’ Archeological Museum, Lampedusa, Italy
‘PRIVATE | PUBLIC taking space — > making space’, Skopje, Macedonia
‘255 804 km²’ – Brot Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
‘Balkan Trafik’ Brussels, Belgium
‘Supermarket 2011’ – the artist-run art fair in Stockholm, Sweden
‘Big Screen Project’ The Center For Book Arts, ARTspace Media Art, New York
2010
‘14 international short film’ Winterthur, Switzerland
‘Double bind’ Center for contemporary art ‘Casa Masaccio’ Corso, Italy
‘Sings of Futility’-Multimeridijan ’10, Pula, Croatia
‘Art forum Berlin, Germany
‘Word for Word, Without Words’ Mestna Galerija / City; Museum, Ljubljana Slovenia
‘SCREENSAVER’ Open Video Projects, Gorizia, Italy
‘255.804 km2” Mestna Galerija / City Museum, Ljubljana Slovenia
‘Qui Vive?” Moscow International Biennale, Moscow Russia
‘The Another Side of The Coin’ Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana Slovenia
‘LONDON LOVES’, Vitrine Gallery, London, UK
‘Berlinale’ 60 film festivale, Berlin Germany
5thVideo Festival ‘Catodica’ Trieste, Italy
‘Biennale Quadrilaterale 3/Biennale OFF’ Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
‘Spasticus Artisticus’ Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2009
Kasseler Dokumentarfilm & Videofest, Kassel, Germany
‘Balkan Snapshot Film festival’, Kriterion Amsterdam, Netherlands
22nd Festival Les Instants Vidéo Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, France
‘namaTRE.ba 3 project’ Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina
‘Ljubljana Graphic Biennale’, Lublana, Slovenia
‘After Ego’ Contemporary Arts Museum, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
‘A step to the right’ Open Space, Vienna, Austria
/si:n / festival of video art & performance, Ramallah / Jerusalem / Gaza, Palestine
10th Tempo Documentary Festival, Stockholm Sweden
4thVideo Festival ‘Catodica’ Trieste Italy
2008
‘Cooperation BÄCKERSTRASSE4’ Platform for Young Artist, Vienna, Austria
‘Henkel Award for Contemporary Drawing, Art Point Gallery, Vienna, Austria
‘Kriterion Cinema Club Movie’ Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
‘Military City’ Polis Jadran Europa, Pula, Croatia
‘What about power relations’ Skuc Gallery & Vzigalica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
‘The Practice of Everyday Life’ Feinkost Gallery, Berlin, Germany
‘Plazma’, Siemens artLab, Vienna, Austria
‘It’s hard to be an artist’ Art Point Gallery, Vienna, Austria
1st t International Tehran Biennale “ Urban Jealousy” Tehran, Istanbul, Berlin, Belgrade
‘Control and Resistance on the Street’, Kontekst Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
‘Festival 404’, International Contemporary Art, Trieste, Italy
‘Exception’ Museum of Contemporary art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad and Kontekst Gallery Belgrade, Serbia
‘Play Grl’ Göteborg Museum of Art, Göteborg, Sweeden
2nd International Short Film Festival Psarokokalo, Athens, Greece
Festival by chance 7002, Pecs, Hungary
2007
Zurich Film Festival, Zurich, Switzerland
11th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic
‘Film, video and visual art Festival ‘T1’ Lisbon, Portugal
‘Plazma’, Leonhardi Kulture Project, Frafurtkt, Germany
‘Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia
‘Pa Titull’, Roxy Nod gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
‘Intothepill at her(his)tory’, Cycladic Museum Athens, Greece
‘Nobodies Story,:/Seconds’, Leeds, England
’53rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
2006
‘Gift-Objects in Waiting’ – Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, England
‘Objects in Waiting’ End Gallery, Sheffield, England
Semionauti ‘Border Crossing III’ Kult Gallery, Bologna, Italy
‘Indefinite Rituals’ Leonhardi Culture Projects, Frankfurt, Germany
‘ViennaBiennale1’, Vienna, Austria
‘Open Day’ Braziers Park, Oxfordshire, England
NOMAD screening program ‘Eclipsed Voices’, Amsterdam, Netherlands
‘Border Crossing –Semionauti’ C/O Careof, Milan, Italy
‘1:1 between personally in contemporary art’, HDLU Center Zagreb, Croatia
2005
‘Our good resolution of the year’ National Gallery of Art, Tirana Albania
‘Visura Aperta Momian’ Video and visual festival Istra, Croatia
‘Marubi’ International conceptual photo exhibition, Tirana, Albania
2004
3rd Video Art Fest ‘Home made marmalade’, National Museum, Prishtina, Kosovo
‘17th Instants Video nomade’”- Paris, Marseille, Nice, Metz, Martigues, France
‘Three different cultures in same place’ Casa de Cultura, Aliante, Spain
‘Love it or Leave it’ Cetinje Biennale 5, National Museum of Montenegro
‘Artist of Fun’ Artestudio Clocchiatti, Udine, Italy
‘Need a radical change’, Nova Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Public Projects:
2022 ‘Never Say Never’ Prishtina, Kosovo
2022 ‘Svi žele pogled’ Bihac, BiH
2021 ‘Enough is Enough’, Tirana, Albania
2007 ‘Tourist City’ Novi Sad, Serbia
Resident Lecturer:
University UBT, from 2106 – Prishtina, Kosovo
Faculty of Fina Art, University of Prishtina, 2012-2014, Prishtina, Kosovo
AAB University, 2012-2016 Prishtina, Kosovo
Guest Lectures held:
ISCP, New York
Cite des Arts, Paris
The Players, New York
Tulla Culture Center, Tirana, Albania
KC Dunaj, Bratislava, Stanica, Zelina, Takacka Kulturfabrik, Kosice, Slovakia
Columbia University, New York
AVA’ (Academy of Visual Art) Ljubljana, Slovenia
‘MoAA Museum of American art’, Berlin
Apartment project, Istanbul
Artslink’, New York
ISCP – International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art’, Novi Sad, Serbia
Brera Art Academy, Milan
Kontekst Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
