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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"/> |
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"/> |
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<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> |
<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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{{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," Halilaj said. <ref name=":31"/>}} |
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==Solo exhibitions== |
==Solo exhibitions== |
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Petrit Halilaj | |
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| Born | 1986 (age 37–38)[1][2] |
| Nationality | Kosovar |
| Known for | sculpture, 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
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, which with he began to make drawings about his experiences.[9]
Settled in Italy, Hililaj studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.[11]
Career
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, claiming that the Cultural Center of Belgrade, 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," Halilaj said. [9]
Solo exhibitions
- 2009 – Back to the Future, curated by Albert Heta, at Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, Pristina, Kosovo[10]
- 2013 – Kosovar Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale, curated by Kathrin Rhomberg, at the Arsenale, Venice, Italy[10][14]
- 2013-2014 – Petrit Halilaj: Poisoned by men in need of some love, curated by Elena Filipovic, at WIELS, Brussels, Belgium[6]
- 2015-2016 – Petrit Halilaj: Space Shuttle in the Garden, curated by Roberta Tenconi, at HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy[12][19]
- 2017-2018 – Petrit Halilaj: RU, curated by assistant curator Helga Christoffersen, at New Museum, New York City, NY, USA[7][10][20]
- 2018-2019 – Hammer Projects: Petrit Halilaj, organised by adjunct curator Ali Subotnick and curatorial associate MacKenzie Stevens, at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA[10][15]
- 2018-2019 – Shkrepëtima, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, at Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy[10][21]
- 2021-2022 – Petrit Halilaj: Very volcanic over this green feather, curated by Anne Barlow with assistant curator Giles Jackson, Tate St Ives, Saint Ives, UK[22]
Group exhibitions
- 2010 – 6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art: what is waiting out there, curated by Kathrin Rhomberg, at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany[3][13]
- 2011 – Ostalgia, curated by Massimiliani Gioni, at the New Museum, New York City, NY, USA[23]
- 2015-2016 – Super Superstudio: Radical Art and Architecture, curated by Andreas Angelidakis, Vittorio Pizzigoni, and Valter Scelsi, at Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea (PAC), Milan, Italy[24]
- 2017 – 57th Venice Biennale: Viva Arte Viva, curated by Christine Macel, at the Central Pavilion, Venice, Italy[25]
- 2019 – Hotel Europa: Their Past, Your Present, Our Future, curated by Théo-Mario Coppola with associate curator Livia Tarsia in Curia, at Open Space of Experimental Art, Tbilisi, Georgia[26]
- 2019 – Homeless Souls, curated by Marie Laurberg, at the Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, Denmark[27]
Collections
- Centre Pompidou, Paris, France[28]
- Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy[29]
- Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA[30]
- Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland[31]
- Tate Modern, London, UK[32]
Awards
He received the Mario Merz Prize[5] and a special mention of the jury at the 57th Venice Biennale, both in 2017.[15]
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[12][33]
References
- ^ a b "Petrit Halilaj – Exhibition at Tate St Ives". Tate. 1975.
- ^ a b "Petrit Halilaj | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía". www.museoreinasofia.es.
- ^ a b Larios, Pablo. "In Focus: Petrit Halilaj". Frieze. No. 155. ISSN 0962-0672. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "Mario Merz Prize". www.mariomerzprize.org. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
- ^ a b WIELS. "Petrit Halilaj: Poisoned by men in need of some love | Exhibitions | WIELS". www.wiels.org. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
- ^ a b c "Petrit Halilaj: RU". www.newmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
- ^ "Petrit Halilaj and Alvaro Urbano". Beaux-Arts de Paris. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c d "Wonders, and Horrors, Drawn From Boyhood in a War Zone". 2021-10-27.
- ^ a b c d e f Judah, Hettie. "Artist Petrit Halilaj's Living Archaeology". Frieze. No. 201. ISSN 0962-0672. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ^ Cherubini, Laura (18 February 2016). "Petrit Halilaj". Flash Art.
- ^ a b c "Petrit Halilaj "Space Shuttle in the Garden" at HangarBicocca, Milan". Mousse Magazine. 2 March 2016.
- ^ a b "Berlin Biennale 2010: where art imitates real life | Skye Sherwin". the Guardian. 15 June 2010.
- ^ a b News Editor (2012-12-21). "Curator Kathrin Rhomberg selected Petrit Halilaj to represent Kosovo at the 55th Venice Biennial 2013". Biennial Foundation. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
{{cite web}}:|author=has generic name (help) - ^ a b c d "Hammer Projects: Petrit Halilaj | Hammer Museum". hammer.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
- ^ "petrit halilaj turns madrid's palacio de cristal into nest of giant flowers". designboom | architecture & design magazine. 24 July 2020.
- ^ "Kosovar Artist Withdraws from Belgrade Biennial over Country of Origin Dispute". Exit - Explaining Albania. 29 July 2020.
- ^ "Forget Me Not: What if a Journey". Retrieved 2021-11-08.
- ^ "Petrit Halilaj: Space Shuttle in the Garden". Pirelli HangarBicocca. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ^ Panicelli, Ida (2017-12-15). "Critics' Picks – New York: Petrit Halilaj". Artforum. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ^ "Petrit Halilaj. Shkrepëtima". Fondazione Merz. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
- ^ "Petrit Halilaj: Very volcanic over this green feather". Tate. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Gratza, Agnieszka (2011-08-03). "Critic's Picks – New York: "Ostalgia" at the New Museum". Artforum. Retrieved 2020-09-06.
- ^ Mascheroni, Loredana (2015-12-10). "Super Superstudio – PAC, Milano". Klat. ISSN 2036-6760. Retrieved 2020-09-06.
- ^ "Biennale Arte 2017 | Homepage 2017". La Biennale di Venezia. 2017-02-20. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ^ "Tbilisi Art Fair 2019: About the Fair". Artsy. 2019-05-07. Retrieved 2020-07-16.
- ^ Albrethsen, Pernille (2019-06-05). "Summer Sonata 2019 – Denmark". Kunstkritikk. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ^ Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne-Centre (7 July 2020). "Musée national d'art moderne – Centre Pompidou". Navigart.fr (in French).
- ^ "Collection". MEF.
- ^ "Petrit Halilaj, Do you realise there is a rainbow even if it's night!? (beige), 2017". MCA.
- ^ "Petrit Halilaj - Do you realise there is a rainbow even if it's night!?". artmuseum.pl.
- ^ "Petrit Halilaj born 1986". Tate.
- ^ "Petrit Halilaj : Space Shuttle in the Garden - Les presses du réel (book)". www.lespressesdureel.com. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
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