PETRIT HALILAJ Né en 1986 à Kostërrc (Skenderaj-Kosovo). Vit et travaille entre Bozzolo (Italie), Berlin (Allemagne) and Pristina (Kosovo). EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES 2018 et à venir Shkrepëtima, Paul Klee Zentrum, Bern, Suisse Petrit Halilaj, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA Shkrepëtima, Fondazione Merz, Torino, Italie ChertLüdde, Berlin, Allemagne «Petrit Halilaj : Ru», commissariée par Helga Christoffersen, New Museum, New York, États- Unis. Petrit Halilaj, Abetare (Fluturat), kamel mennour, Paris Petrit Halilaj, Do you realise there is a rainbow even if it s night!?, kamel mennour, Londres Astronauts Saw My Work and Started Laughing, Stacion, Center for Contemporary Art, Pristina, Kosovo 2015 «Space Shuttle in the Garden», Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italie. «ABETARE», commissariat d exposition Moritz Wesseler et Carla Donauer, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, «She fully turning around became terrestrial», Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Allemagne, commissariat d exposition Rein Wolfs. «Yes, but the sea is attached to the earth and it never floats around in space. The stars would turn off and what about my planet?», kamel mennour, Paris, France. «of course blue affects my way of shitting», Chert, Berlin, «Darling squeeze the button and remove my memory», Galeria e Arteve e Kosovës, Prishtina, Kosovo. «I m hungry to keep you close. I want to find the words to resist but in the end there is a locked sphere. The funny thing is that you re not here, nothing is», Kunshalle Lissabon, Lisbonne, Portugal. «July 14th?», Fondation d'entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France. «Kosovo Pavillion», Venice Biennale, commissariat d exposition Kathrin Rhomberg, commission Erzen Shkololli, Arsenale, Venice, Italie. «Poisoned by men in need of some love», commissariat d exposition Elena Filipovic, WIELS Contemporary Art Center, Bruxelles, Belgique. «Solo exhibition», Tongewölbe T25, Ingolstadt, «Who does the earth belong to while painting the wind?!», commissariat d exposition Giovanni Carmine, Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen, «Petrit Halilaj», Kunstraum Innsbruck, commissariat d exposition Veit Loers, Autriche. «Statement», Art Basel solo presentation, avec Chert, Berlin, 2009
«Back to the Future», commissariat d exposition Albert Heta, Stacion, Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, Kosovo. «Petrit Halilaj», Chert, Berlin, 1996 Scuola Elementare Shote Galica Runik-Kosovo, commissariat d exposition Behlul Spahiu. EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES 2018 Materialism: in praise of slowness, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Suède That s it, MAMBO, Bologne, Italie Art and Alphabet, Curated by Brigitte Kölle, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg An ear, severed, listens, ChertLüdde, Berlin Viva Arte Viva, 57 th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. Mario Merz Prize, Fondazione Merz, Torino, Italy. Friends of Birds, DOC, Paris, France. Exhibition Fellows - Final Projects: Group XLII, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, USA. Animality, Marian Goodman Gallery, Curated by Jens Hoffmann, London To Walk a Line, at Akademie der Künste der Welt, Köln for PLURIVESALE V Group presentation at Artissima, Turin The Distance of a Day: New in Contemporary Art, curated by Rita Kersting, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Triennale Fellbach, Curated by Susanne Gaensheimer, Co-Curator Anna Goetz, Alte Kelter Fellbach Par tibi, Roma, nihil, Curated by Raffaella Frascarelli, Palatin Hill, Rome SUPER SUPERSTUDIO, Co-curated by Andreas Angelidakis, Vittorio Pizzigoni and Valter Scelsi, PAC-Pavilion of Contemporary Art, Milan 2016 «Preface #1», kamel mennour, Londres, Royaume-Uni. «Animality», Marian Goodman Gallery, Londres, Royaume-Uni. Fellbach Triennal of Small-Scale sculpture, curated by Susanne Gaensheimer, Co-Curator Anna Goetz, Fellbach, «To Walk a Line», Akademie der Künst der Welt, Cologne, Artissima, Turin, Italie. «The Distance of a Day: New in Contemporary Art», curated by Rita Kersting, The Israël Museum, Jerusalem. «Par tibi, Roma, nihil», commissariée par Raffaella Frascarelli, Palatin Hill, Rome, Italie. SUPER SUPERSTUDIO, co-commissariée par Andreas Angelidakis, Vittorio Pizzigoni et Valter Scelsi, PAC-Pavilion of Contemporary Art, Milan, Italie. 2015 Thirty One, par Hans Ulrich Obrist et Petrit Halilaj, Galeria Kombetare e Arteve e Kosoves, Pristina, Kosovo. «What s Love Gotta Do With It», S.A.L.T.S., Switzerland, Birsfelden, Suisse. «Trouble in Paradise», Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn,
Slip of the Tongue, Palazzo Grassi, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italie, commissariat d exposition Caroline Bourgeois. «Shit and Die», Palazzo Cavour, commissariat d exposition Maurizio Cattelan, Myriam Ben Salah et Marta Papini, Turin, Italie. «Fragile Sense of Hope», Telekom Collection, commissariat d exposition Nathalie Hoyos et Rainald Schumacher, me Collectors Room, Berlin, «Artists Artists», Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, Etats-Unis. «Fieldworks: Animal Habitats in Contemporary Art», commissariat Chris Clarke, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, CorkVilla Romana-Preisträger, Villa Romana, Florence, Italie. «EDITIONSHOW», Chert, Berlin, «Zweiter Streich», Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch, Donaueschingen, «SUPER Visions - Zeichnen und Sein», commissariat d exposition Stefanie Heckmann, Museum Schloss Moyland, «Fuoriclasse 20 years of Italian Art in the class of Alberto Garutti», commissariat d exposition Luca Cerizza, Galleria d Arte Moderna, Milan, Italie. «Focus», Frieze art fair, avec Chert Berlin, «It doesn t always have to be beautiful, unless it s beautiful», The Kosovo Art Gallery, Prishtina, Muslim Mulliqi prize,. «New Public», commissariat d exposition Rein Wolfs, Museion, Bolzano, Italie. «Lost and found», commissariat d exposition Isabel Devriendt, Wilfried Huet, Dirk Engelen, Stella Lohaus. ERROR ONE, a nomadic initiative for contemporary art, Antwerp, Belgique. «30 Künstler/30 Räume», commissariat d exposition Kathleen Rahn, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft. «Temporaneo», organisé par IMF Foundation and Nomas Foundation, Auditorium, Rome, Italie. «Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands», avec Juliette Blightman, Petrit Halilaj, Robert Kinmont, Danh Vo, Cerith Wyn Evans, commissariat d exposition Scott C. Weaver, RaebervonStenglin, Zurich, «Ernste Tiere»: Petrit Halilaj, Judith Hopf, Bedwyr Williams, commissariat d exposition Christina Végh Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, «Ostalgia», commissariat d exposition Massimiliano Gioni, New Museum, New York, États- Unis. «Based in Berlin», commissariat d exposition Angelique Campens, Fredi Fischli, Magdalena Magiera, Jakob Schillinger and Scott Cameron Weaver, Atelierhaus Monbijoupark, Berlin, «STRUKTUR & ORGANISMUS», avec Max Frey, Tue Greenfort, Petrit Halilaj, Rita Vitorelli, commissariat d exposition Stefan Tasch, Marillenhof - Destillerie Kausl, Autriche. «You don t love me anymore», commissariat d exposition Katja Schroeder, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, «Maladresses ou La Figure de l idiot», commissariat d exposition Fanny Gonella, The Institute of Social Hypocrisy, Paris, France. «Drinnen & Draussen», Chert, Berlin, «6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art», commissariat d exposition Kathrin Rhomberg, Berlin, Berlin - Paris. Un échange de galeries, Petrit Halilaj, Heike Kabisch, Carla Scott Fullerton, Galerie Carlos Cardenas, Paris, avec Chert Galerie, Berlin, Alemagne. 2009 «Melancholy of Compassion», commissariat d exposition Melih Gorgun, Siemens Gallery,
Istanbul, Turquie. «Time Machine», commissariat d exposition Vlado Velkov, Kunstverein Arnsberg, 2008 «The Lamb s Mother in the Creche?», Chert, Berlin, «Art is my Playground», Tershane, Istanbul, Turquie. 2006 «Mediterraneo Contemporaneo», Castello Aragonese, Taranto, commissariat d exposition Antonio d Avossa. «Corpo Urbano, De portesio 2006», Fondazione Cominelli, Brescia, commissariat d exposition di Bruno Muzzolini, Roberta Baldaro, Massimo Rossi. «Wireless», Unorossodue, commissariat d exposition Alessandro Mancassola et Bruno Muzzolini. «MIGRE», Careof, Milano, commissariat d exposition Katia Anguelova et Alessandra Poggianti. «Open Air», Orto Botanico, Parma, commissariat d exposition Marinella Paderni et Isotta Saccani. 1999 «BAMBINI DI KUKES», Palazzo Municipale di Cremona, organisé par Dr. Poli Giacomo. «KOSOVE 1999», I Premio Galleria d Arte, Lezhe Albania, organisé par Ymer Metalia. RÉSIDENCES ET PRIX 2018 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution, Washington Mention Spéciale du Jury de la 57 ème Biennale de Venise. Mario Merz Prize. 2016 MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, États-Unis. Villa Romana, Florence, Italie. Prix de la Fondation Ettore Fico, durant Artissima Fürstenberg, Donaueschingen Blau Orange shortlist Simon Denny, Petrit Halilaj, Klara Liden, Nora Schultz. PUBLICATIONS «Of course blue affects my way of shitting,» Chert et Motto Books, Berlin, «Kushtetuta», edited by Petrit Halilaj, Alvaro Urbano, Issue 2, KOSOVO 2.0. "Poisoned by men in need of some love", exhibition catalogue, édité par Elena Filipovic, publié par Wiels et Motto books. Kushtetuta, édité par Petrit Halilaj, Alvaro Urbano, Issue 1, KOSOVO 2.0. «SUPER Visions - Zeichen und Sein», exhibition catalogue, Museum Schloss Moyland, publie par Verlag für Moderne Kunst. "The New Public", Museion, Bozen-Bolzano, Italie. "30 Künstler 30 Räume", exhibition catalogue., publie par Verlag für Moderne Kunst.
Livre d artiste, publie par Kunstraum Innsbruck et Chert, Berlin, STRUKTUR & ORGANISMUS, exhibition Catalogue, édité par Stefan Tasch, Marillenhof - Destillerie Kausl, Autriche. Ostalgia, exhibition catalogue, New Museum NY, États-Unis. Based in Berlin, exhibition Catalogue,Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Koenig, Koeln, Kostërrc (CH), Petrit Halilaj, Brochure, Chert & Bonner Kunstverein,. My work and me, édité par Susanne Pfeffer, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Koenig, Koeln, Blau Orange shortlist Simon Denny, Petrit Halilaj, Klara Liden, Nora Schultz, publie par BVR, National Association of German Cooperative Banks. Drinnen & Draussen exhibition catalogue, publie par Chert & Motto, Berlin, Juin. What is waiting out there, Berlin Biennale, commissariat d exposition Kathrin Rhomberg. Publie par DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne. ISBN: 976-3-8321-9338-6. Liste, Fair catalogue, artist text.