Ecco un'altra importante partecipazione alla prossima Biennale, il Kosovo che presenta l'artista Petrit Halilaj, che sta riscuotendo interessanti consensi sul suo operato artistico.
Comunicato stampa ufficiale:
Artist: Petrit Halilaj
Curator: Kathrin Rhomberg
Commissioner: Erzen Shkololli
Organization: Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Republic of Kosovo, National Gallery of Kosovo
Venue: The Kosovan Pavilion at Arsenale
Dates: June 1st to November 24th 2013
Professional Preview: May 29th, 30th and 31st 2013
Being
invited to contribute to the realisation of Kosovo's first appearance at
the Venice Biennale is a great privilege for me, all the more so, due
to the symbolic significance attached to the decision that Kosovo be
represented at the Venice Biennale for the very first time. The invitation
comes with a high degree of responsibility, which I would have been more
anxious about, were it not for the artist Petrit Halilaj, who has been chosen
to represent Kosovo in Venice this year.
Petrit
Halilaj's artistic practice is deeply routed in a constant search of what
reality is and how reality might be represented through art. His memories of a
rural childhood, his personal experience of war, destruction, exodus and
displacement are the very basis of his reflections on life and the human
condition. The artist moves back and forth between different countries, between
Kosovo - where he grew up and where his family and many friends are - Italy,
where he studied and Berlin, where he temporarily lives. This transnational way
of life not only adds to his experience but is also representative of Petrit
Halilaj's specific way of exploring art and reality, and of his continuing
attempts to translate or even transform the one into the other. His art can be
seen as building bridges between different worlds and realities, ideologies,
different generations and phases of life.
Petrit Halilaj's art is unique, but this kind of
transnational existence and experience that is at the core of his work, is not.
On the contrary, to a varying extent it is an increasingly contemporary reality
of everyone´s life and thus all the more a radical starting point for Kosovo's
first appearance at the Venice Biennale.
Kathrin Rhomberg
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Petrit Halilaj was born in 1986 in Skenderaj (Kosovo), he
lives and works between Kosovo, Berlin and Mantova, Italy.
Recent solo exhibitions include: “Who does the earth belong
to while painting the wind?!”, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen (2012); Art
Basel Statements with Chert, Berlin (2011); Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck
(2011); "Back to the Future", Station, Prishtina (2009); Petrit Halilaj solo
exhibition, Chert, Berlin (2009).
Recent group exhibitions include: "SUPER Visions -
Zeichnen und Sein", Museum Schloss Moyland (2013); "New
Public", Museion, Bolzano (2012); "30 Künstler 30 Räume",
Kunstverein Nürnberg, Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft (2012); “Temoraneao”, Nomas
Foundation, Rome (2011); "Ernste Tiere", Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
(2011); "Ostalgia", New Museum, New York (2011); STRUKTUR & ORGANISMUS,
Marillenhof – DestillerieKausl, Österreich (2011); "Maladresses ou La
Figure de l’idiot", The Institute of Social Hypocrisy, Paris (2010);
"Based in Berlin", Atelierhaus Monbijoupark, Berlin (2011); 6th
Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2010).
Upcoming solo exhibitions are in program at Wiels, Bruelles
(2013), National Gallery of Kosovo (2013) and at Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
(2014).
The Kosovo entry in the Venice Biennale is made possible thanks to the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports
of the Republic of Kosovo.
http://www.mkrs-ks.org/
Official Kosovo
Pavillion website coming soon: www.kosovopavilion.com
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