Alban Muja

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Alban Muja (born 10 September 1980) is a Kosovan contemporary artist and film-maker.[1] In 2019 he represented Kosovo at the 58th Venice Biennale.[2] In his work he is mostly influenced by the social, political and economical transformation processes in wider surrounding region, he investigates history and socio-political themes and links them to his position in Kosovo today. His works cover a wide range of media including video installation, films, drawings, paintings, photographs and performance which have been exhibited extensively in various exhibitions and festivals.

Exhibitions (selection)[]

  • 2021 - ‘In spite of everything, there is a wall' Charim Gallery, Vienna, Austria,[3]
  • 2021 - 'Family Album' ISCP, New York, [4]
  • 2021 - 3rd Autostrada Biennale - WHAT IF A JOURNEY..., Prizren, Kosovo[5]
  • 2021 - ‘Bigger Than Myself: Heroic Voices from Ex-Yugoslavia’ Maxxi Museum Rome, Italy[6]
  • 2020 – 3rd Industrial Art Biennial 'Ride Into the Sun' Rijeka, Croatia[7]
  • 2020 – Curated by 20 'HYBRID Unknown Identities' Galerie Raum mit Light, Vienna, Austria
  • 2020 – Family Album, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary[8]
  • 2019 – 58th. Venice Biennale - May You Live In Interesting Times, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
  • 2019 – NSK State in Time, viennacontemporary Vienna, Austria[23]
  • 2019 – F.M The Process, Petrit Gallery, Cite des Arts, Paris, France[24]
  • 2019 – 'All That We Have In Common' MOMus Experimental Center for the Arts Thessaloniki, Greece
  • 2018 – 'Stranger Than Paradise' MeetFactory Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2018 – 'All That We Have In Common' Museum Of Contemporary Art Skopje, North Macedonia
  • 2017 – Autostrada Biennale 2017 - The Future of Borders, Autostrada Biennale, Prizren, Kosovo[25]
  • 2017 – 'Symptoms of Society' Zhejiang Art Museum Hangzhou, China
  • 2017 – 'Migration of fear' Koroska Gallery of Fine Arts Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia
  • 2017 – Westkunst – Ostkunst. A Selection from the Collection, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Hungary
  • 2017 – 'Utopia / Dystopia: Architecture, City, Territory' Mestna Galerija Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 2017 – 'The Travellers' Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
  • 2017 – 'Symptoms of Society' Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
  • 2017 – 'Migration of fear' Forum Stadpark, Graz, Austria
  • 2016 – 'Omul Negru' Galeria Nicodim, Los Angeles
  • 2016 – 'Brotherhood Phallicism' Museum of Fine Art, Split, Croatia[26]
  • 2016 – The whale that was a submarine' Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
  • 2016 – 'The Travellers' Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland[27]
  • 2016 – 'Normalities' Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
  • 2015 – 3rd Mardin Biennial - Mythologies, Mardin Biennial Mardin, Turkey[28]
  • 2015 – 'Theories on Forgetting' Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
  • 2015 – 'From Brotherhood to Brotherly Love' Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
  • 2015 – 'From Brotherhood to Brotherly Love' 'Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste, Italy
  • 2014 – 'I never knew how to explain' Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia[29]
  • 2014 – 'Balcony to the Balkans' Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
  • 2013 – 2nd Project Biennial Of Contemporary Art, D-0 Ark Underground Project Biennial of Contemporary Art, Konjic Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • 2012 – 'Hebron Road/Ridge Route', Art Cube Gallery, Jerusalem
  • 2012 – 'Mediterranean – Arrivals and Departure', Ancona, Italy
  • 2012 – 'Cross-Time Stories' Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York
  • 2011 – 'Spaceship Yugoslavia' NGBK, Berlin[30]
  • 2011 – 'Its all about names' KC Tobacna 001-Mesnta Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia[31]
  • 2011 – 'Politics of naming' Myymala2 Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
  • 2011 – '255 804 km2' – Brot Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria[32]
  • 2010 – 'The Another Side of The Coin' Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 2010 – 'Qui Vive?' Moscow International Biennale, Moscow
  • 2010 – 'Spasticus Artisticus' Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool
  • 2009 – 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana, Slovenia[33]

Personal life[]

Born in Mitrovica, SFR Yugoslavia, now Kosovo. Muja lives and works in Pristina and Berlin He graduated with a Bachelor and Master's degree from the Faculty of Arts, University of Pristina. He is married to photographer and former model .

References[]

  1. ^ "Alban Muja". Artfacts. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
  2. ^ "Kosove Republic". LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
  3. ^ https://www.charimgalerie.at/exhibition/alban_muja/
  4. ^ https://iscp-nyc.org/event/alban-muja-family-album/
  5. ^ https://autostradabiennale.org/portfolio/alban-muja/
  6. ^ https://www.maxxi.art/en/events/piu-grande-di-me-voci-eroiche-dalla-ex-jugoslavia/
  7. ^ http://www.industrialartbiennale.eu/project/alban-muja/
  8. ^ https://www.ludwigmuseum.hu/en/exhibition/alban-muja-family-album
  9. ^ "An artist revisits famous images from the Kosovo war – Memory and the media". The Economist. 2019-05-16. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
  10. ^ https://artreview.com/2019-venice-questionnaire-alban-muja/
  11. ^ https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/kosovo-pavilion-venice-1506256
  12. ^ https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/257914/alban-mujafamily-album/
  13. ^ https://www.artforum.com/news/alban-muja-to-represent-kosovo-at-2019-venice-biennale-79113
  14. ^ https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/alban-muja-will-represent-kosovo-at-the-2019-venice-biennale-12255/
  15. ^ https://www.sleek-mag.com/article/kosovar-artist/
  16. ^ https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-venice-biennales-10-best-pavilions
  17. ^ https://www.artribune.com/arti-visive/arte-contemporanea/2019/04/biennale-darte-2019-lartista-alban-muja-per-il-padiglione-kosovo-a-venezia/
  18. ^ http://www.opinione.it/cultura/2019/05/10/domenico-letizia_kosovo-guerra-artista-alban-muja-biennale-venezia-vincent-honor%C3%A9-alma-lama-hashim-tha%C3%A7i-aleksandar-vu%C4%8Di%C4%87/
  19. ^ https://www.sleek-mag.com/article/what-not-to-miss-in-and-around-this-years-venice-biennale/
  20. ^ https://kallxo.com/gjate/interviste/interviste-me-alban-mujen-artisti-qe-perfaqeson-kosoven-ne-bienalen-e-venedikut/
  21. ^ https://kosovotwopointzero.com/en/alban-muja-i-want-to-share-what-we-experienced-as-a-society-because-weve-forgotten/
  22. ^ https://www.moussepublishing.com/?product=alban-muja-family-album-the-kosovo-pavilion-58th-international-art-exhibition-la-biennale-di-venezia
  23. ^ https://viennacontemporarymagazine.wordpress.com/2019/09/17/viennacontemporary-2019-focus-nsk-state-in-time/
  24. ^ https://www.citedesartsparis.net/en/fm--the-process--alban-muja
  25. ^ http://autostradabiennale.org/future-of-borders/artist/alban-muja/
  26. ^ https://www.galum.hr/en/exhibitions/exibition/1493/
  27. ^ https://zacheta.art.pl/en/wystawy/podroznicy
  28. ^ SAHA (2015-06-15). "SAHA". SAHA. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
  29. ^ https://www.galerijaskuc.si/exhibition/alban-muja-i-never-knew-how-to-explain/
  30. ^ https://archiv.ngbk.de/en/projekte/raumschiff-jugoslawien-die-aufhebung-der-zeit/
  31. ^ https://mgml.si/en/center-tobacco/exhibitions/177/alban-muja/
  32. ^ https://www.wartist.org/blog/?p=904&lang=en
  33. ^ https://www.mglc-lj.si/eng/the_biennial/the_28th_biennial_of_graphic_arts


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