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Kosovan visual artist

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)

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• 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, Prishtina Mitrovica, Kosovo[5]
• 2022 - ‘Urban Text : This Space Called Balkans’ , Institut Cultures Islam, Paris, France[6]
• 2022 - ' Manifesta 14', Pishtina, Prishtina, 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, Prishtina, Kosovo[10]
• 2021 -'In spite of everything, there is a wall' Charim Gallery, Vienna, Austria,[11]
• 2021 - 'Family Album' ISCP, New York,[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][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]
• 2019 – NSK State in Time, viennacontemporary Vienna, Austria[31]
• 2019 – F.M The Process, Petrit Gallery, Cite des Arts, Paris, France[32]
• 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[33]
• 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[34]
• 2016 – The whale that was a submarine' Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
• 2016 – 'The Travellers' Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland[35]
• 2016 – 'Normalities' Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
• 2015 – 3rd Mardin Biennial - Mythologies, Mardin Biennial Mardin, Turkey[36]
• 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[37]
• 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[38]
• 2011 – 'Its all about names' KC Tobacna 001-Mesnta Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia[39]
• 2011 – 'Politics of naming' Myymala2 Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
• 2011 – '255 804 km2' – Brot Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria[40]
• 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[41]

Born in Mitrovica, SFR Yugoslavia, now Kosovo. Muja lives and works in Pristina and BerlinHe 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.

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40. ^ "255.804 km² – Young Art from the Former Yugoslavia (Brot Kunsthalle, Vienna) | Wartist". 25 May 2011.
41. ^ "| MGLC - International centre of graphic arts".