Alban Muja

Alban Muja (born 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.^{[ citation needed ]} 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.^{[ citation needed ]}

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2023 - 'Above Everyone' Charim Gallery, Vienna, Austria ^[3]
• 2023 - 'Bodies of Identities' Casino Luxembourg – Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg, Luxembourg ^[4]
• 2023 - '4th Autostrada Biennale', Prizren, Pristina Mitrovica, Kosovo ^[5]
• 2022 - 'Urban Text : This Space Called Balkans', Institut Cultures Islam, Paris, France ^[6]
• 2022 - ' Manifesta 14', Pishtina, Pristina, Kosovo ^[7]
• 2022 - 'Hot Mess', Kühlhaus, Berlin, Germany ^[8]
• 2021 - 'Beyond Borders', Center for Contemporary Arts, Celje, Slovenia ^[9]
• 2021 - 'Whatever Happens, We Will Be Prepared', The National Gallery of Kosovo, Pristina, Kosovo ^[10]
• 2021 -'In spite of everything, there is a wall' Charim Gallery, Vienna, Austria ^[11]
• 2021 - 'Family Album' ISCP, New York, United States ^[12]
• 2021 - 3rd Autostrada Biennale - What If a Journey..., Prizren, Kosovo ^[13]
• 2021 - 'Bigger Than Myself: Heroic Voices from Ex-Yugoslavia' Maxxi Museum Rome, Italy ^[14]
• 2020 – 3rd Industrial Art Biennial 'Ride Into the Sun' Rijeka, Croatia ^[15]
• 2020 – Curated by 20 'HYBRID Unknown Identities' Galerie Raum mit Light, Vienna, Austria
• 2020 – Family Album, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary ^[16]
• 2019 – 58th. Venice Biennale - May You Live In Interesting Times, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy ^[17]
• 2019 – NSK State in Time, viennacontemporary Vienna, Austria ^[18]
• 2019 – F.M The Process, Petrit Gallery, Cite des Arts, Paris, France ^[19]
• 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 ^[20]
• 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, United States
• 2016 – 'Brotherhood Phallicism' Museum of Fine Art, Split, Croatia ^[21]
• 2016 – The whale that was a submarine' Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
• 2016 – 'The Travellers' Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland ^[22]
• 2016 – 'Normalities' Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, United States
• 2015 – 3rd Mardin Biennial - Mythologies, Mardin Biennial Mardin, Turkey ^[23]
• 2015 – 'Theories on Forgetting' Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, United States
• 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 ^[24]
• 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, Israel
• 2012 – 'Mediterranean – Arrivals and Departure', Ancona, Italy
• 2012 – 'Cross-Time Stories' Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, United States
• 2011 – 'Spaceship Yugoslavia' NGBK, Berlin, Germany ^[25]
• 2011 – 'Its all about names' KC Tobacna 001-Mesnta Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia ^[26]
• 2011 – 'Politics of naming' Myymala2 Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
• 2011 – '255 804 km²' – Brot Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria ^[27]
• 2010 – 'The Another Side of The Coin' Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• 2010 – 'Qui Vive?' Moscow International Biennale, Moscow, Russia
• 2010 – 'Spasticus Artisticus' Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom
• 2009 – 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana, Slovenia ^[28]

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 Albe Hamiti.

References

1. "Alban Muja". Artfacts. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
2. "Kosove Republic". La Biennale di Venezia. 7 May 2019. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
3. "Above Everyone". 8 September 2023.
4. "Bodies of Identities'". 8 September 2023.
5. "4th Autostrada Biennale". 4 July 2023.
6. "Urban Text : This Space Called Balkans". 20 September 2023.
7. "Manifesta 14 Prishtina – Public Survey Results". manifesta.org. June 2023.
8. "Hotmess". kuehlhaus-berlin.com. May 2022.
9. "Beyond Borders". 20 September 2021.
10. "Alban Muja / Whatever Happens, We Will be Prepared".
11. "Alban Muja – In spite of everything, there is a wall". Charim Wien.
12. "Alban Muja: Family Album". iscp-nyc.org.
13. "Moving Monument, 2021 – Autostrada Biennale".
14. "Più grande di me. Voci eroiche dalla ex Jugoslavia | MAXXI". 16 February 2021.
15. "Alban Muja | Industrial Art Biennial". 16 October 2020.
16. "Alban Muja: Family Album". 10 February 2020.
17. "An artist revisits famous images from the Kosovo war – Memory and the media". The Economist. 2019-05-16. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
18. "Viennacontemporary 2019 | Focus: NSK State in Time". 17 September 2019.
19. arts, Cité internationale des. "Exhibition & Conversation – F.M - the process - Alban Muja". Cité internationale des arts.
20. "Moving Monument, 2021 – Autostrada Biennale".
21. "ALBAN MUJA // Brotherhood Phallicism 8 December 2016 – 3 January 2017 Curator: Branko Franceschi".
22. "The Travellers - Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki".
23. "Saha". saha.org. 2015-06-15. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
24. "Alban Muja: I Never Knew How to Explain..."
25. "Raumschiff Jugoslawien. Die Aufhebung der Zeit (2011) – nGbK Archive". archiv.ngbk.de.
26. "Alban Muja".
27. "255.804 km² – Young Art from the Former Yugoslavia (Brot Kunsthalle, Vienna)". 25 May 2011.
28. "MGLC - International centre of graphic arts".