ALBAN MUJA

 

Born in Mitrovica - Kosovo on 10. September 1980

Lives and works in Prishtina - Kosovo

 

Education:

 

1999 – 2003 BA, Fine Academy of Arts, University of Prishtina

2006 – 2008 MA, Fine Academy of Arts in Prishtina, University of Prishtina

 

Realized works in video installation, painting, drawing, photo, performance etc…

 

Solo exhibitions:

 

2007

‘I - scream - Free your mind’', Gray Area, Area for Contemporary Art and Media, Korcula, Croatia

 ‘I – scream’ Ghetto Gallery, Split, Croatia 

‘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

 

Collective Exhibitions and festivals:

 

2008

Henkel Award for Contemporary Drawing, Art Point Gallery, Vienna Austria  

‘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 Jealosy” Tehran, Iran & Istanbul Turkey 

Control and Resistance on the Street, Kontekst Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

 ‘Festival 404’, International Contemporary Art, Trieste, Italy

 ‘Exception’ Museum of Contemporary art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia 

 ‘Play Grl’ Göteborg Museum of Art, Göteborg, Sweeden

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, Frafurtkt, 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, England 

53rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany

Screening Program Abingdon Theater, New York, USA 

2006

‘Open Day’ International Artist and Writer Winner Residency Exhibition” Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico-USA

 ‘Gift-Objects in Waiting’ part of Liverpool Biennale, Man Museum, 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, England 

  NOMAD screening program ‘Eclipsed Voices’, Amsterdam, Holland 

‘Border Crossing –Semionauti’ C/O Careof, Milan, Italy

 ‘1:1 between personally in contemporary art’, HDLU Center Zagreb, Croatia

2005

Kosovo Video Art" Kontekst Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

 ‘Our good resolution of the year’ National Gallery of Art, Tirana Albania

 Video and visual festival ‘Visura Aperta Momian’ Istra, Croatia

International conceptual photo exhibition ‘Marubi’ 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 

Cetinje Biennale 5 ‘Love it or Leave it’, National Museum of Montenegro

Cetinje, Montenegro 

Screening Program ‘Love it or Leave it’, Art workshop Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia  Screening Program ‘Love it or Leave it’, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania ‘Artist of Fun’,  Artestudio Clocchiatti, Udine, Italy

 ‘Need a radical change’, Nova Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia

 

Public Projects:

 

2004

‘Speak UP’, Artist project with young artist from Balkan and Scandinavia “Nova” Gallery, Zagreb Croatia.

 ‘Besos’ Public Art Project, developed with artist from Kosovo and Spain, Alicante, Spain

 

 

Awards and Fellowships:

 

2008

KulturKontakt Residency, Vienna Austria 

2007

Backyard International Artist Residency, Kuda-Center for New Media”

 Novi Sad, Serbia

2006

International Artist and Writer Residency, Santa Fe Art Institute, USA

Braziers International Artist Residency, Braziers Park, OxfordShire, England

 

 

 

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