Alban Muja

Alban Muja (born 10 September 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. 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.

Exhibitions (selection)

2021 - ‘In spite of everything, there is a wall' Charim Gallery, Vienna, Austria,[3]
2021 - 'Family Album' ISCP, New York, [4]
2021 - 3rd Autostrada Biennale - WHAT IF A JOURNEY..., Prizren, Kosovo[5]
2021 - ‘Bigger Than Myself: Heroic Voices from Ex-Yugoslavia’ Maxxi Museum Rome, Italy[6]
2020 – 3rd Industrial Art Biennial 'Ride Into the Sun' Rijeka, Croatia[7]
2020 – Curated by 20 'HYBRID Unknown Identities' Galerie Raum mit Light, Vienna, Austria
2020 – Family Album, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary[8]
2019 – 58th. Venice Biennale - May You Live In Interesting Times, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
2019 – NSK State in Time, viennacontemporary Vienna, Austria[23]
2019 – F.M The Process, Petrit Gallery, Cite des Arts, Paris, France[24]
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[25]
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
2016 – 'Brotherhood Phallicism' Museum of Fine Art, Split, Croatia[26]
2016 – The whale that was a submarine' Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2016 – 'The Travellers' Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland[27]
2016 – 'Normalities' Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
2015 – 3rd Mardin Biennial - Mythologies, Mardin Biennial Mardin, Turkey[28]
2015 – 'Theories on Forgetting' Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
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[29]
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
2012 – 'Mediterranean – Arrivals and Departure', Ancona, Italy
2012 – 'Cross-Time Stories' Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York
2011 – 'Spaceship Yugoslavia' NGBK, Berlin[30]
2011 – 'Its all about names' KC Tobacna 001-Mesnta Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia[31]
2011 – 'Politics of naming' Myymala2 Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2011 – '255 804 km²' – Brot Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria[32]
2010 – 'The Another Side of The Coin' Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2010 – 'Qui Vive?' Moscow International Biennale, Moscow
2010 – 'Spasticus Artisticus' Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool
2009 – 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana, Slovenia[33]

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

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[1] "Alban Muja". Artfacts. Retrieved 2019-06-24.

[2] "Kosove Republic". LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA. 7 May 2019. Retrieved 2019-06-24.

[3] "Alban Muja | in spite of everything, there is a wall".

[4] "Alban Muja: Family Album".

[5] "Moving Monument, 2021 – Autostrada Biennale".

[6] ttps://www.maxxi.art/en/events/piu-grande-di-me-voci-eroiche-dalla-ex-jugoslavia/

[7] ttp://www.industrialartbiennale.eu/project/alban-muja/

[8] ttps://www.ludwigmuseum.hu/en/exhibition/alban-muja-family-album

[The_Economist_2019-9] "An artist revisits famous images from the Kosovo war – Memory and the media". The Economist. 2019-05-16. Retrieved 2019-06-24.

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[12] ttps://www.e-flux.com/announcements/257914/alban-mujafamily-album/

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[14] ttps://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/alban-muja-will-represent-kosovo-at-the-2019-venice-biennale-12255/

[15] ttps://www.sleek-mag.com/article/kosovar-artist/

[16] ttps://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-venice-biennales-10-best-pavilions

[17] ttps://www.artribune.com/arti-visive/arte-contemporanea/2019/04/biennale-darte-2019-lartista-alban-muja-per-il-padiglione-kosovo-a-venezia/

[18] ttp://www.opinione.it/cultura/2019/05/10/domenico-letizia_kosovo-guerra-artista-alban-muja-biennale-venezia-vincent-honor%C3%A9-alma-lama-hashim-tha%C3%A7i-aleksandar-vu%C4%8Di%C4%87/

[19] ttps://www.sleek-mag.com/article/what-not-to-miss-in-and-around-this-years-venice-biennale/

[20] ttps://kallxo.com/gjate/interviste/interviste-me-alban-mujen-artisti-qe-perfaqeson-kosoven-ne-bienalen-e-venedikut/

[21] ttps://kosovotwopointzero.com/en/alban-muja-i-want-to-share-what-we-experienced-as-a-society-because-weve-forgotten/

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[23] ttps://viennacontemporarymagazine.wordpress.com/2019/09/17/viennacontemporary-2019-focus-nsk-state-in-time/

[24] ttps://www.citedesartsparis.net/en/fm--the-process--alban-muja

[25] ttp://autostradabiennale.org/future-of-borders/artist/alban-muja/

[26] ttps://www.galum.hr/en/exhibitions/exibition/1493/

[27] ttps://zacheta.art.pl/en/wystawy/podroznicy

[SAHA_2015-28] SAHA (2015-06-15). "SAHA". SAHA. Retrieved 2019-06-24.

[29] ttps://www.galerijaskuc.si/exhibition/alban-muja-i-never-knew-how-to-explain/

[30] ttps://archiv.ngbk.de/en/projekte/raumschiff-jugoslawien-die-aufhebung-der-zeit/

[31] ttps://mgml.si/en/center-tobacco/exhibitions/177/alban-muja/

[32] ttps://www.wartist.org/blog/?p=904&lang=en

[33] ttps://www.mglc-lj.si/eng/the_biennial/the_28th_biennial_of_graphic_arts