Institute of Contemporary Art presents solo exhibition of Kosovo artist Alban Muja: From brotherhood to brotherly love in Rijeka, Mali Salon, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korzo 24
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Alban Muja (Mitrovica, 1980) is one of the leading young Kosovar artists.
Opening of the exhibition May 18, 2015 at 8:00 pm
The exhibition reamains open until June3, 2015
Works Alban Muja mainly deal with the socio-cultural phenomena of Kosovo’s contemporary transition and transformation, its phenomenology, deviance and pathology, as well as human, primarily personal and consequently common, group reactions. Topics such as the naming and renaming point to the socio-historical changes as a symbolic barometer and play an important role in Muja’s body of work. Topics that pertain politics and symptoms of severe economic consequences of the situation of transition, Muja approach with irony, but humorously. The individual is viewed as a consequence of social aspirations, and social aspirations and practices are in his work represented discreetely, almost voyeuristic, creating certain tension between scenes of his works and the audience in the place of critical comments. In the background of all Muja’s works stands a permanent relationship with the social or “people’s” creativity, aesthetics and his attitude towards the world of art, regardless of the medium in which the works are performed, and in this exhibition it is the photographs, video and paintings.
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Alban Muja is a Kosovo based visual artist and filmmaker. He completed his BA and MA at Academy of Fine Arts at University of Prishtina.
He has exhibited extensively in various festivals, art fairs, group and solo exhibitions including Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia; The National Gallery of Kosovo, Prishtina; Miza Galery, Tirana; Center for Contemporary Art ‘Station’, Prishtina; Viennafiar, Vienna; Myymala2 Gallery, Helsinki; UnionDocs, New York; Able Kulturverein, Berlin; Siz Gallery, Rijeka; Mardin Biennale, ‘2nd Biennial of Contemporary Art in the Atomic shelter in Konjic, BH.; ‘Mediterranean – Arrivals and Departure’ Ancona; “Qui Vive?” Moscow International Biennale, Moscow; 28th Ljubljana Graphic Biennale; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka; Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava; Museum of Contemporary art of Vojvodina; 1st International Tehran Biennale; Columbia University, New York; Berlinale’ 60 film festival, Berlin; Delaware Contemporary Center for Arts; VOLTA 5, Basel; Cyberfest, St Petersburg; 53rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen; Open Space, Vienna; NGBK, Berlin; Brot Kunsthalle, Vienna; ARTspace Media Art, New York; Göteborg Museum of Art ; Cetinje Biennale 5 ; Nova Gallery, Zagreb; City Museum, Ljubljana.
Muja attended various residencies and received number of fellowships: Tobačna 001 residency/ City Museum Ljubljana; Apartment Project residency Istanbul; Young visual art award at ISCP, New York; ARTSLINK, New York; KulturKontakt Residency, Vienna, Austria; Backyard International Artist Residency, Kuda-Center, Novi Sad; International Artist and Writer Residency, Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico; Braziers International Artist Residency, Braziers Park, OxfordShire.
Photo: Brotherhood, 2013; 7 paintings; 50 x 50 cm
Courtesy of artist