CV
1980
Born in Mitrovica, Kosovo
1999-2003
BA, Fine Academy of Arts, University of Prishtina
2006
Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe NM, USA
2006-2008
MA, Fine Academy of Arts, University of Prishtina
Alban Muja lives and works in Berlin and Prishtina
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
»Sooner or later you will catch the sight« REITER | Berlin prospect
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. USA.
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
»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 Exhibitions
2022
»Urban Text : This Space Called Balkans« ICI, Paris. France
»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. France
»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. USA
2016
»Ho(M)me« Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Trento. Italy
»Teatri i Gjelberimit« Galeria Fab, Tirana. Albania
»Omul Negru« Galeria Nicodim, Los Angeles. 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. USA
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. USA
»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« Atomic shelter, Konjic. Bosnia and
Herzegovina
»50 Years of Ljubljana Art Gallery« Mestna Museum, Ljubljana. Slovenia
2012
»Sui Generis« Museum of Energy – Santralistanbul, Istanbul. Turkey
»No So Distant Memory« Festival of Video-art and Animation, Ufa. Russia
»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« CDA Projects, 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, Slovakia 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, Stockholm. Sweden
»Big Screen Project« The Center For Book Arts, ARTspace Media Art, New York. USA
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 festival, 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« Lubljana. 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 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
»Exceptio« Museum of Contemporary art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad and Kontekst Gallery, Belgrade. Serbia
»Play Grl« Göteborg Museum of Art, Göteborg. Sweden
»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, Frankfurt. 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. UK
»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. UK
»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. Montenegro
»Artist of Fun« Artestudio Clocchiatti, Udine. Italy
»Need a radical change« Nova Gallery, Zagreb. Croatia
