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{{short description|Kosovar visual artist}}
{{short description|Kosovar visual artist}}

{{Infobox person
{{Infobox person
| name = Petrit Halilaj
| name = Petrit Halilaj
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1986}}<ref name="Tate">{{cite web |title=Petrit Halilaj – Exhibition at Tate St Ives |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/exhibition/petrit-halilaj |website=Tate |date=1975}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Petrit Halilaj {{!}} Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía |url=https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/exhibitions/petrit-halilaj |website=www.museoreinasofia.es |language=en}}</ref>
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1986}}<ref name=":1">{{cite web |title=Petrit Halilaj – Exhibition at Tate St Ives |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/exhibition/petrit-halilaj |website=Tate |date=1975}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{cite web |title=Petrit Halilaj {{!}} Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía |url=https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/exhibitions/petrit-halilaj |website=www.museoreinasofia.es |language=en}}</ref>
| birth_place = Kostërc, [[District of Mitrovica]], [[Kosovo]]<ref name="Tate"/>
| birth_place = Kostërc, [[District of Mitrovica]], [[Kosovo]]<ref name=":1"/>
| nationality = Kosovar
| nationality = Kosovar
| known_for = [[sculpture]], [[installation art]]
| known_for = [[sculpture]], [[installation art]]
}}
}}
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'''Petrit Halilaj''' (born 1986) is a Kosovar [[visual artist]]<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|last=Larios|first=Pablo|date=|title=In Focus: Petrit Halilaj|language=en|work=Frieze|issue=155|url=https://www.frieze.com/article/focus-petrit-halilaj|url-status=live|access-date=2020-08-02|issn=0962-0672}}</ref><ref name="ArtnewsBiennale" /> living and working between Germany, Kosovo and Italy.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Mario Merz Prize|url=https://www.mariomerzprize.org/en/petrit-halilaj/|access-date=2020-07-18|website=www.mariomerzprize.org}}</ref> His work is based on documents, stories, and memories related to the history of Kosovo.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|last=WIELS|title=Petrit Halilaj: Poisoned by men in need of some love {{!}} Exhibitions {{!}} WIELS|url=http://www.wiels.org/en/exhibitions/474/Petrit-Halilaj-Poisoned-by-men-in-need-of-some-love|access-date=2020-07-18|website=www.wiels.org|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web|title=Petrit Halilaj: RU|url=http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/petrit-halilaj|access-date=2020-07-18|website=www.newmuseum.org|language=en}}</ref>


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'''Petrit Halilaj''' (born 1986) is a [[Kosovo Albanians|Kosovar]] [[visual artist]]<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|last=Larios|first=Pablo|title=In Focus: Petrit Halilaj|language=en|work=Frieze|issue=155|url=https://www.frieze.com/article/focus-petrit-halilaj|access-date=2020-08-02|issn=0962-0672}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{cite web |title=Artist Petrit Halilaj Has Pulled Out of the Belgrade Biennial After Its Organizers Refused to Recognize His Nationality |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/petrit-halilaj-withdrawal-belgrade-biennial-1897776 |website=artnet News |date=28 July 2020}}</ref> living and working between Germany, Kosovo and Italy.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|title=Mario Merz Prize|url=https://www.mariomerzprize.org/en/petrit-halilaj/|access-date=2020-07-18|website=www.mariomerzprize.org}}</ref> His work is based on documents, stories, and memories related to the history of Kosovo.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|last=WIELS|title=Petrit Halilaj: Poisoned by men in need of some love {{!}} Exhibitions {{!}} WIELS|url=http://www.wiels.org/en/exhibitions/474/Petrit-Halilaj-Poisoned-by-men-in-need-of-some-love|access-date=2020-07-18|website=www.wiels.org|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite web|title=Petrit Halilaj: RU|url=http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/petrit-halilaj|access-date=2020-07-18|website=www.newmuseum.org|language=en}}</ref>
Halilaj is a joint tutor with Alvaro Urbano at [[École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts|Beaux-Arts de Paris]], in Paris, France.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Petrit HALILAJ et Alvaro URBANO|url=https://www.beauxartsparis.fr/fr/formation/professeurs/15-formation/professeurs/203-petrit-halilaj-alvaro-urbano|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-07-18|website=www.beauxartsparis.fr|language=fr}}</ref>

With his husband Alvaro Urbano, Halilaj is a joint tutor at [[École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts|Beaux-Arts de Paris]], in Paris, France.<ref name=":8">{{Cite web|title=Petrit Halilaj and Alvaro Urbano|url=https://www.beauxartsparis.fr/en/professeur/halilaj-and-alvaro-urbano|access-date=2021-08-02|website=Beaux-Arts de Paris|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":31">{{cite web |title= Wonders, and Horrors, Drawn From Boyhood in a War Zone |website=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/arts/design/petrit-halilaj-tate-kosovo-war.html | date=2021-10-27}}</ref>


==Early life==
==Early life==
Born in [[SFR Yugoslavia]], now [[Kosovo]], Halilah left the country with his family during the [[Yugoslav Wars|Yugoslav wars]] of 1991–2001.<ref name=":7">{{Cite news|last=Judah|first=Hettie|title=Artist Petrit Halilaj’s Living Archaeology|language=en|work=Frieze|issue=201|url=https://frieze.com/article/artist-petrit-halilajs-living-archaeology|access-date=2020-08-03|issn=0962-0672}}</ref> Settled in Italy, Hililaj studied at the [[Brera Academy|Brera Academy of Fine Arts]] in Milan.<ref name="FlashArt2016">{{cite web |last1=Cherubini |first1=Laura |title=Petrit Halilaj |url=https://flash---art.com/article/petrit-halilaj/ |website=Flash Art |date=18 February 2016}}</ref>
Born in [[SFR Yugoslavia]], now [[Kosovo]], Halilaj left the country at the age of 13 with his family during the [[Yugoslav Wars]] of 1991–2001.<ref name=":9">{{Cite news|last=Judah|first=Hettie|title=Artist Petrit Halilaj's Living Archaeology|language=en|work=Frieze|issue=201|url=https://frieze.com/article/artist-petrit-halilajs-living-archaeology|access-date=2020-08-03|issn=0962-0672}}</ref> At a refugee camp in Albania, a team of Italian psychologists, hoping to help the children process the trauma of the war, gave Halilaj felt-tip markers, with which he began to make drawings about his experiences.<ref name=":31"/>
Settled in Italy, Halilaj studied at the [[Brera Academy|Brera Academy of Fine Arts]] in Milan.<ref name=":10">{{cite web |last1=Cherubini |first1=Laura |title=Petrit Halilaj |url=https://flash---art.com/article/petrit-halilaj/ |website=Flash Art |date=18 February 2016}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
During the [[Berlin Biennale#6th Berlin Biennale|6th Berlin Biennale]] in 2010, Halilaj exhibited a sculptural reconstruction of a house built by his parents, to replace the family home that was levelled by bombing during the 1998-1999 Kosovo war.<ref name=":8">{{cite news |title=Petrit Halilaj “Space Shuttle in the Garden” at HangarBicocca, Milan • |url=http://moussemagazine.it/petrit-halilaj-hangar-bicocca-2016/ |work=Mousse Magazine |date=2 March 2016 |language=it-IT}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{cite web |title=Berlin Biennale 2010: where art imitates real life {{!}} Skye Sherwin |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jun/15/berlin-biennale-2010-art-real-life |website=the Guardian |language=en |date=15 June 2010}}</ref>
During the [[Berlin Biennale#6th Berlin Biennale|6th Berlin Biennale]] in 2010, Halilaj exhibited a sculptural reconstruction of a house built by his parents, to replace the family home that was levelled by bombing during the 1998–1999 Kosovo war.<ref name=":11">{{cite news |title=Petrit Halilaj "Space Shuttle in the Garden" at HangarBicocca, Milan |url=http://moussemagazine.it/petrit-halilaj-hangar-bicocca-2016/ |work=Mousse Magazine |date=2 March 2016 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":12">{{cite web |title=Berlin Biennale 2010: where art imitates real life {{!}} Skye Sherwin |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jun/15/berlin-biennale-2010-art-real-life |website=the Guardian |language=en |date=15 June 2010}}</ref>


Halilaj represented [[National pavilions at the Venice Biennale#Republic of Kosovo|the Republic of Kosovo at the 55th Venice Biennale]] in 2013.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|last=Editor|first=News|date=2012-12-21|title=Curator Kathrin Rhomberg selected Petrit Halilaj to represent Kosovo at the 55th Venice Biennial 2013.|url=https://www.biennialfoundation.org/2012/12/curator-kathrin-rhomberg-selected-petrit-halilaj-to-represent-kosovo-at-the-55th-venice-biennial-2013/|access-date=2020-07-18|website=Biennial Foundation|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Hammer Projects: Petrit Halilaj {{!}} Hammer Museum|url=https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2018/hammer-projects-petrit-halilaj|access-date=2020-07-18|website=hammer.ucla.edu|language=en}}</ref>
Halilaj represented [[National pavilions at the Venice Biennale#Republic of Kosovo|the Republic of Kosovo at the 55th Venice Biennale]] in 2013.<ref name=":13">{{cite web | title=Curator Kathrin Rhomberg selected Petrit Halilaj to represent Kosovo at the 55th Venice Biennial 2013. | website=Biennial Foundation | date=21 December 2012 | url=https://biennialfoundation.org/2012/12/curator-kathrin-rhomberg-selected-petrit-halilaj-to-represent-kosovo-at-the-55th-venice-biennial-2013/ | access-date=30 January 2022}}</ref><ref name=":14">{{Cite web|title=Hammer Projects: Petrit Halilaj {{!}} Hammer Museum|url=https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2018/hammer-projects-petrit-halilaj|access-date=2020-07-18|website=hammer.ucla.edu|language=en}}</ref>


Halilaj had several solo exhibitions, including one at the [[New Museum]] in New York in 2017-2018<ref name=":4" /> and one at the [[Hammer Museum]] in Los Angeles in 2018-2019.<ref name=":1" />
Halilaj had several solo exhibitions, including one at the [[New Museum]] in New York in 2017–2018<ref name=":7" /> and one at the [[Hammer Museum]] in Los Angeles in 2018–2019.<ref name=":14" />


Halilaj created a large site-specific installation of giant sculptural flowers in 2020 for Madrid's [[Palacio de Cristal del Retiro|Palacio de Cristal]].<ref>{{cite web |title=petrit halilaj turns madrid's palacio de cristal into nest of giant flowers |url=https://www.designboom.com/art/petrit-halilaj-madrid-palacio-de-cristal-nest-giant-flowers-07-24-2020/ |website=designboom {{!}} architecture & design magazine |language=en |date=24 July 2020}}</ref>
Halilaj created a large site-specific installation of giant sculptural flowers in 2020 for Madrid's [[Palacio de Cristal del Retiro|Palacio de Cristal]].<ref name=":2"/><ref name=":15">{{cite web |title=petrit halilaj turns madrid's palacio de cristal into nest of giant flowers |url=https://www.designboom.com/art/petrit-halilaj-madrid-palacio-de-cristal-nest-giant-flowers-07-24-2020/ |website=designboom {{!}} architecture & design magazine |language=en |date=24 July 2020}}</ref>


In 2020 Halilaj dropped out of the 58th {{ill|October Salon – Belgrade Biennale|sr|Октобарски салон}}, claiming that the {{ill|Cultural Center of Belgrade|sr|Културни центар Београд}}, which organises it, would not recognize his Kosovar nationality.<ref name="ArtnewsBiennale">{{cite web |title=Artist Petrit Halilaj Has Pulled Out of the Belgrade Biennial After Its Organizers Refused to Recognize His Nationality |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/petrit-halilaj-withdrawal-belgrade-biennial-1897776 |website=artnet News |date=28 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Kosovar Artist Withdraws from Belgrade Biennial over Country of Origin Dispute |url=https://exit.al/en/2020/07/29/kosovar-artist-withdraws-from-belgrade-biennial-over-country-of-origin-dispute/ |website=Exit - Explaining Albania |date=29 July 2020}}</ref>
In 2020 Halilaj dropped out of the 58th {{ill|October Salon – Belgrade Biennale|sr|Октобарски салон}}, claiming that the {{ill|Cultural Center of Belgrade|sr|Културни центар Београд}}, which organises it, would not recognize his Kosovar nationality.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":16">{{cite web |title=Kosovar Artist Withdraws from Belgrade Biennial over Country of Origin Dispute |url=https://exit.al/en/2020/07/29/kosovar-artist-withdraws-from-belgrade-biennial-over-country-of-origin-dispute/ |website=Exit – Explaining Albania |date=29 July 2020}}</ref>


In July 2021, Halilaj and Urbano collaborated on an installation of "huge fabric flowers" at the Kosovo National Library to celebrate the 5th annual Kosovo Pride Week.<ref name=":31"/>
==Solo exhibitions==
<ref>{{Cite web|title= Forget Me Not: What if a Journey|url=https://chertluedde.com/exhibition/forget-me-not-what-if-a-journey3rd-autostrada-biennale-curated-by-ovul-o-durmusoglu-and-joanna-warsza-1st-july-11th-september-2021/|access-date=2021-11-08}}</ref> According to the [[New York Times]]:
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* 2018-2019 – ''Shkrepëtima'', curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, at [[Mario Merz#Legacy|Fondazione Merz]], [[Turin]], Italy<ref>{{Cite web|title=Petrit Halilaj. Shkrepëtima|url=https://www.fondazionemerz.org/petrit-halilaj-shkrepetima-2/|access-date=2020-08-02|website=Fondazione Merz|language=it}}</ref><ref name=":7" />
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* 2018-2019 – ''Hammer Projects: Petrit Halilaj'', organised by adjunct curator Ali Subotnick and curatorial associate MacKenzie Stevens, at [[Hammer Museum]], [[Los Angeles]], CA, USA<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":7" />
* 2017-2018 – ''Petrit Halilaj: RU'', curated by assistant curator Helga Christoffersen, at [[New Museum]], [[New York City]], NY, USA<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Panicelli|first=Ida|date=|title=Critics' Picks – New York: Petrit Halilaj|url=https://www.artforum.com/picks/petrit-halilaj-73011|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-03|website=www.artforum.com|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":7" />
* 2015-2016 – ''Petrit Halilaj: Space Shuttle in the Garden'', curated by Roberta Tenconi, at [[HangarBicocca]], [[Milan]], Italy<ref>{{Cite web|title=Petrit Halilaj: Space Shuttle in the Garden|url=https://pirellihangarbicocca.org/mostra/petrit-halilaj-space-shuttle-in-the-garden/|access-date=2020-08-03|website=Pirelli HangarBicocca|language=it-IT}}</ref><ref name=":8" />
* 2013-2014 – ''Petrit Halilaj: Poisoned by men in need of some love'', curated by [[Elena Filipovic]], at [[Wiels|WIELS]], [[Brussels]], Belgium<ref name=":3" />
* 2013 – ''[[National pavilions at the Venice Biennale#Republic%20of%20Kosovo|Kosovar Pavilion]], 55th [[Venice Biennale]]'', curated by [[Kathrin Rhomberg]], at the [[Venice Biennale#Central%20Pavilion%20and%20Arsenale|Arsenale]], [[Venice]], Italy<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":7" />
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* 2009 – ''Back to the Future'', curated by Albert Heta, at [[Culture in Pristina#Art museums and galleries|Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina]], [[Pristina]], Kosovo<ref name=":7" />


{{quote|text=[The flowers] included a replica of a lily that had been part of [Urbano and Halilaj's] engagement bouquet. Kosovo is still a macho society, Halilaj said, yet no one had "thrown tomatoes" or protested against the artists’ celebration of gay love. "When this happened, under the flowers, I felt home for the first time in my life." <ref name=":31"/>}}
==Group exhibitions==

* 2019 – ''Homeless Souls'', curated by Marie Laurberg, at the [[Louisiana Museum of Modern Art|Louisiana Museum]], [[Humlebæk]], Denmark<ref>{{Cite web|last=Albrethsen|first=Pernille|date=2019-06-05|title=Summer Sonata 2019 – Denmark|url=https://kunstkritikk.com/summer-sonata-denmark|access-date=2020-08-03|website=Kunstkritikk|language=en-US}}</ref>
In October 2021, an exhibit opened at [[Tate St Ives]] of an installation by Halilaj inspired by his youthful marker drawings done in the refugee camp.
* 2017 – [[57th Venice Biennale|57th Venice Biennale: Viva Arte Viva]], curated by [[Christine Macel]], at the [[Venice Biennale#Central Pavilion and Arsenale|Central Pavilion]], [[Venice]], Italy<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-02-20|title=Biennale Arte 2017 {{!}} Homepage 2017|url=https://www.labiennale.org/en/art/2017|access-date=2020-08-03|website=La Biennale di Venezia|language=en}}</ref>
* 2010 – [[Berlin Biennale#6th Berlin Biennale|6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art: what is waiting out there]], curated by [[Kathrin Rhomberg]], at [[KW Institute for Contemporary Art]], [[Berlin]], Germany<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":2" />
{{quote|text=He revisited the pictures [in 2020] and was surprised by what he’d drawn. Among the violence, he said, “I saw all these birds — peacocks and doves — and they were as big as the soldiers, as happy and proud. ... It was like I was saying, ‘Yes, it was awful, but I can dream and love, too.’” <ref name=":31"/>}}

In the exhibit, visitors walk among hanging cutouts of images from the drawings blown up to a huge scale. Approached from the entrance, the cutouts show "a fantasy landscape of exotic birds and palm trees," but when the visitors turn back to the entrance, "they find that some of the suspended forms have been printed on the reverse with a more macabre selection of Halilaj’s doodles: soldiers, tanks, wailing figures, burning houses."<ref name=":31"/>

==Exhibitions==
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*2009 – ''Back to the Future'', curated by Albert Heta, at [[Culture in Pristina#Art museums and galleries|Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina]], Pristina, Kosovo<ref name=":9" />
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*2018–2019 – ''Hammer Projects: Petrit Halilaj'', organised by adjunct curator Ali Subotnick and curatorial associate MacKenzie Stevens, at [[Hammer Museum]], Los Angeles, CA, USA<ref name=":9" /><ref name=":14" />
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*2018–2019 – ''Shkrepëtima'', curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, at [[Mario Merz#Legacy|Fondazione Merz]], Turin, Italy<ref name=":9" /><ref name=":19">{{Cite web|title=Petrit Halilaj. Shkrepëtima|url=https://www.fondazionemerz.org/en/petrit-halilaj-shkrepetima-3/|access-date=2020-08-02|website=Fondazione Merz|language=en}}</ref>


==Collections==
==Collections==
*[[Centre Pompidou]], Paris, France<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pompidou |first1=Musée national d’art moderne-Centre |title=Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou |url=https://collection.centrepompidou.fr/artwork/150000001039879?filters=query%3Apetrit%20halilaj&page=1&layout=grid&sort=by_author |website=Navigart.fr |language=fr |date=7 July 2020}}</ref>
*[[Centre Pompidou]], Paris, France<ref name=":25">{{cite web |last1=Pompidou |first1=Musée national d’art moderne-Centre |title=Musée national d'art moderne – Centre Pompidou |url=https://collection.centrepompidou.fr/artwork/150000001039879?filters=query%3Apetrit%20halilaj&page=1&layout=grid&sort=by_author |website=Navigart.fr |language=fr |date=7 July 2020}}</ref>
* Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy<ref>{{cite web |title=Collection |url=http://www.museofico.it/en/museum/collection/ |website=MEF}}</ref>
*{{ill|Museo Ettore Fico|it|Museo Ettore Fico}}, Turin, Italy<ref name=":26">{{cite web |title=Collection |url=http://www.museofico.it/en/museum/collection/ |website=MEF}}</ref>
*[[Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago]], Chicago, IL, USA<ref>{{cite web |title=Petrit Halilaj, Do you realise there is a rainbow even if it’s night!? (beige), 2017 |url=https://mcachicago.org/Collection/Items/2017/Petrit-Halilaj-Do-You-Realise-There-Is-A-Rainbow-Even-If-Its-Night-Beige-2017 |website=MCA |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago]], Chicago, IL, USA<ref name=":27">{{cite web |title=Petrit Halilaj, Do you realise there is a rainbow even if it's night!? (beige), 2017 |url=https://mcachicago.org/Collection/Items/2017/Petrit-Halilaj-Do-You-Realise-There-Is-A-Rainbow-Even-If-Its-Night-Beige-2017 |website=MCA |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw]], Warsaw, Poland<ref>{{cite web |title=Petrit Halilaj - Do you realise there is a rainbow even if it’s night!? |url=https://artmuseum.pl/en/kolekcja/praca/halilaj-petrit-do-you-realise-there-is-a-rainbow-even-if-its |website=artmuseum.pl |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw]], Warsaw, Poland<ref name=":28">{{cite web |title=Petrit Halilaj – Do you realise there is a rainbow even if it's night!? |url=https://artmuseum.pl/en/kolekcja/praca/halilaj-petrit-do-you-realise-there-is-a-rainbow-even-if-its |website=artmuseum.pl |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Tate Modern]], London, UK<ref>{{cite web |title=Petrit Halilaj born 1986 |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/petrit-halilaj-27734 |website=Tate}}</ref>
*[[Tate Modern]], London, UK<ref name=":29">{{cite web |title=Petrit Halilaj born 1986 |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/petrit-halilaj-27734 |website=Tate}}</ref>


==Awards==
==Awards==
He received the [[Mario Merz#Legacy|Mario Merz Prize]]<ref name=":0" /> and a special mention of the jury at the [[57th Venice Biennale]], both in 2017.<ref name=":1" />
He received the [[Mario Merz#Legacy|Mario Merz Prize]]<ref name=":5" /> and a special mention of the jury at the [[57th Venice Biennale]], both in 2017.<ref name=":14" />


==Books==
==Books==
* Roberta Tenconi, ed., ''Petrit Halilaj: Space Shuttle in the Garden'', Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2016, 160 p., English / Italian, {{ISBN|978-88-6749-241-1}}<ref name=":8" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Petrit Halilaj : Space Shuttle in the Garden - Les presses du réel (book)|url=https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=5117|access-date=2020-08-02|website=www.lespressesdureel.com}}</ref>
*Roberta Tenconi, ed., ''Petrit Halilaj: Space Shuttle in the Garden'', Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2016, 160 p., English / Italian, {{ISBN|978-88-6749-241-1}}<ref name=":11" /><ref name=":30">{{Cite web|title=Petrit Halilaj : Space Shuttle in the Garden – Les presses du réel (book)|url=https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=5117|access-date=2020-08-02|website=www.lespressesdureel.com}}</ref>


==References==
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Latest revision as of 22:12, 16 February 2024

Petrit Halilaj
Born1986 (age 37–38)[1][2]
Kostërc, District of Mitrovica, Kosovo[1]
NationalityKosovar
Known forsculpture, installation art

Petrit Halilaj (born 1986) is a Kosovar visual artist[3][4] living and working between Germany, Kosovo and Italy.[5] His work is based on documents, stories, and memories related to the history of Kosovo.[6][7]

With his husband Alvaro Urbano, Halilaj is a joint tutor at Beaux-Arts de Paris, in Paris, France.[8][9]

Early life[edit]

Born in SFR Yugoslavia, now Kosovo, Halilaj left the country at the age of 13 with his family during the Yugoslav Wars of 1991–2001.[10] At a refugee camp in Albania, a team of Italian psychologists, hoping to help the children process the trauma of the war, gave Halilaj felt-tip markers, with which he began to make drawings about his experiences.[9]

Settled in Italy, Halilaj studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.[11]

Career[edit]

During the 6th Berlin Biennale in 2010, Halilaj exhibited a sculptural reconstruction of a house built by his parents, to replace the family home that was levelled by bombing during the 1998–1999 Kosovo war.[12][13]

Halilaj represented the Republic of Kosovo at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013.[14][15]

Halilaj had several solo exhibitions, including one at the New Museum in New York in 2017–2018[7] and one at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 2018–2019.[15]

Halilaj created a large site-specific installation of giant sculptural flowers in 2020 for Madrid's Palacio de Cristal.[2][16]

In 2020 Halilaj dropped out of the 58th October Salon – Belgrade Biennale [sr], claiming that the Cultural Center of Belgrade [sr], which organises it, would not recognize his Kosovar nationality.[4][17]

In July 2021, Halilaj and Urbano collaborated on an installation of "huge fabric flowers" at the Kosovo National Library to celebrate the 5th annual Kosovo Pride Week.[9] [18] According to the New York Times:

[The flowers] included a replica of a lily that had been part of [Urbano and Halilaj's] engagement bouquet. Kosovo is still a macho society, Halilaj said, yet no one had "thrown tomatoes" or protested against the artists’ celebration of gay love. "When this happened, under the flowers, I felt home for the first time in my life." [9]

In October 2021, an exhibit opened at Tate St Ives of an installation by Halilaj inspired by his youthful marker drawings done in the refugee camp.

He revisited the pictures [in 2020] and was surprised by what he’d drawn. Among the violence, he said, “I saw all these birds — peacocks and doves — and they were as big as the soldiers, as happy and proud. ... It was like I was saying, ‘Yes, it was awful, but I can dream and love, too.’” [9]

In the exhibit, visitors walk among hanging cutouts of images from the drawings blown up to a huge scale. Approached from the entrance, the cutouts show "a fantasy landscape of exotic birds and palm trees," but when the visitors turn back to the entrance, "they find that some of the suspended forms have been printed on the reverse with a more macabre selection of Halilaj’s doodles: soldiers, tanks, wailing figures, burning houses."[9]

Exhibitions[edit]

Collections[edit]

Awards[edit]

He received the Mario Merz Prize[5] and a special mention of the jury at the 57th Venice Biennale, both in 2017.[15]

Books[edit]

  • Roberta Tenconi, ed., Petrit Halilaj: Space Shuttle in the Garden, Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2016, 160 p., English / Italian, ISBN 978-88-6749-241-1[12][25]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Petrit Halilaj – Exhibition at Tate St Ives". Tate. 1975.
  2. ^ a b "Petrit Halilaj | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía". www.museoreinasofia.es.
  3. ^ Larios, Pablo. "In Focus: Petrit Halilaj". Frieze. No. 155. ISSN 0962-0672. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  4. ^ a b "Artist Petrit Halilaj Has Pulled Out of the Belgrade Biennial After Its Organizers Refused to Recognize His Nationality". artnet News. 28 July 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Mario Merz Prize". www.mariomerzprize.org. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
  6. ^ WIELS. "Petrit Halilaj: Poisoned by men in need of some love | Exhibitions | WIELS". www.wiels.org. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
  7. ^ a b "Petrit Halilaj: RU". www.newmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
  8. ^ "Petrit Halilaj and Alvaro Urbano". Beaux-Arts de Paris. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
  9. ^ a b c d e f "Wonders, and Horrors, Drawn From Boyhood in a War Zone". The New York Times. 2021-10-27.
  10. ^ a b c d Judah, Hettie. "Artist Petrit Halilaj's Living Archaeology". Frieze. No. 201. ISSN 0962-0672. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
  11. ^ Cherubini, Laura (18 February 2016). "Petrit Halilaj". Flash Art.
  12. ^ a b "Petrit Halilaj "Space Shuttle in the Garden" at HangarBicocca, Milan". Mousse Magazine. 2 March 2016.
  13. ^ "Berlin Biennale 2010: where art imitates real life | Skye Sherwin". the Guardian. 15 June 2010.
  14. ^ "Curator Kathrin Rhomberg selected Petrit Halilaj to represent Kosovo at the 55th Venice Biennial 2013". Biennial Foundation. 21 December 2012. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  15. ^ a b c d "Hammer Projects: Petrit Halilaj | Hammer Museum". hammer.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
  16. ^ "petrit halilaj turns madrid's palacio de cristal into nest of giant flowers". designboom | architecture & design magazine. 24 July 2020.
  17. ^ "Kosovar Artist Withdraws from Belgrade Biennial over Country of Origin Dispute". Exit – Explaining Albania. 29 July 2020.
  18. ^ "Forget Me Not: What if a Journey". Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  19. ^ "Petrit Halilaj. Shkrepëtima". Fondazione Merz. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  20. ^ Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne-Centre (7 July 2020). "Musée national d'art moderne – Centre Pompidou". Navigart.fr (in French).
  21. ^ "Collection". MEF.
  22. ^ "Petrit Halilaj, Do you realise there is a rainbow even if it's night!? (beige), 2017". MCA.
  23. ^ "Petrit Halilaj – Do you realise there is a rainbow even if it's night!?". artmuseum.pl.
  24. ^ "Petrit Halilaj born 1986". Tate.
  25. ^ "Petrit Halilaj : Space Shuttle in the Garden – Les presses du réel (book)". www.lespressesdureel.com. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
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