SISLEJ XHAFA born 1970 in Peja, Kosovo, lives and works in New York SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2017 Sisley Xhafa. shadow of curls, Blain Southern, Berlin Lost and Found, 57th Biennale di Venezia, Pavillion of the Republic of Kosovo, Venice 2016 BENVENUTO! SISLEJ XHAFA, MAXXI Museum, Rome 2013 SISLEJ XHAFA ASYMMETRIC DÉSIR, London Hanover Square, Blain Southern, London 55th Biennale di Venezia, Italian Pavilion, Venice 2012 Sislej Xhafa Unplugged 2012, NON İstanbul Spheres 4, GALLERIA CONTINUA, Le Moulin, France 2011 Sislej Xhafa, from Naples to Toronto, MADRE, Naples, Itlay oblique motionless, Christine König Galerie, Vienna Y, Hardaupark, Zurich, Switzerland 2010 2705 Baci..., Röda Sten, Göteborg, Sewden 2009 Moulin Rouge, Magazzino d Arte Moderna, Rome NEONS, public art project, Geneva 2008 sadnesssurge (together with Adel Abdessemed), Christine König Galerie, Vienna 2007 Giuseppe, GAMeC Galleria d'arte Moderna di Bergamo, Italy Passion Fruit, L appartement 22, Rabbat, Marocco Retrospective + L.R.B., Van Tendeloo Residence Salon, Kortrijk, Belgium vallée verticale, Yvon Lambert, Paris 2006 stuztespia, Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza, Italy MN Unplugged, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt, Germany Opportunistisch Naturalistisch, SKUC galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia livelihood rainbow on broel, Liebaert Projects, Kortrijk, Belgium when Mac goes black, Yvon Lambert, New York Four Movements, Quarter Florence, 51 Venice Biennale /Albanian Pavilion/ 2005 Skinheads Swimming, Magazzino d Arte Moderna, Rome Merely, HOET BEKAERT Gallery, Gent, Belgium 51th Biennale di Venezia, Albanian Pavilion, Venice 2004 Miedo Total (with Adel Abdessemed), Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona Giuseppe, MART of Trento, Italy 2003 Vetrine della Calcografia: See no evil / hear no evil/speak no evil, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome Twice Upon a Time, Magazzino d Arte Moderna, Rome Nivea, W 139, Amsterdam PM Zagreb, Croatia Galerie Drantmann, Brussels 2002 Motion in Paradise, Deitch Projects, New York Skinheads Swimming, Galleria Laura Pecci, Milan Heavy Metal, GAMeC Galleria d'arte Moderna di Bergamo, Italy Foundation of Teseco Pisa, Italy
Foundation of Teseco Pisa 2001 Siyum, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark Kunsthalle Bern. Switzerland Talk is Cheap, Swiss Cultural Institute, New York, hooligans in heaven. Galleria Laura Pecci, Milan 2000 buona serra, Fondazione Olivetta. Rom 1997 G.A.M.E., Galleria d'arte Moderna, Bologna 47th Biennale di Venezia, Clandestine Albanian Pavilion, Venice SELECTED GROUP SHOWS 2015 MDE15: HISTORIAS LOCALES/PRÁCTICAS GLOBALES, Museo de Antioquia, Medellín CREATING COMMON GOOD, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna 2014 TIME::CODE, White Box Art Center, New York 2013 Borderline: Collection Exhibition II, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan Tell Me Whom You Haunt, BlainISouthern, London REMEMBERING IS NOT ENOUGH, MAXII Collection, Rome Requiem for a Bank, Hartware MedienKunst Verein HMKV Dortmund, Germany Victory Obsessed, ZAMEK Culture Centre Poznan, Poland Sconfinamenti, Spoleto Festival of 2 Worlds, Italy 2012 Predicting Memories, Ehemaliges KuK Telegrafenamt, Vienna Rearview Mirrow, Gallery of Alberta, Canada Beautiful Game, Mestna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia More than South A Project for Lampedusa, Museo Riso, Palermo, Sicily Facing walls, Opening windows, Galleria Continua, Beijing Mediterraneo: Incontri o Conflitti?, Palazzo Gargasole, Gagliano del Capo, Italy 2011 The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi, Pinault Fondation, Venice IL BELPAESE DELL ARTE. Etiche ed Estetiche della Nazione, Galleria d'arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo GAMeC Spheres 4, GALLERIACONTINUA / Le Moulin, France Rebus, Simon Lee Gallery, London Power Plant, Toronto, Canada Big Brother - artists and tyrants, Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard, France 2010 Ibrido. Genetica delle forme d'arte, PAC Padiglione d'arte Contemporanea, Milan Indefinite Destinations, DEPO Istanbul Sphères 2010, GALLERIA CONTINUA, Le Moulin, France In what we trust,the Art Miami Pavilion Misericordia, PRISM West Hollywood, California What s the Difference?, Stadtgalerie Bern, Switzerland IL MUSEO PRIVATO. La passione per l arte contemporanea nelle collezioni bergamasche GAMeC Bergamo Viaggio in Italia. Sguardi internazionali sull Italia Contemporanea, Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia, Italy Collezione UBI-Banca Popolare di Bergamo, Italy Cosmogonia, Le Supernova del collezionismo italiano, Palazzo Collicola di Spoleto, Italy Spazio. Dalle collezioni di arte e architettura, MAXXI, Rome
Language and Experimentations, MART Rovereto; Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy 2009 BAROCK, M.A.D.R.E Museo d Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples, Italy The Brick + Mortar, International Video Art Festival, Greenfield, USA Transmission Interrupted, Modern Art Oxford Until the End of the World, Andreas Melas Presents, Athens Esposizione Universale L arte alla prova del tempo, GAMeC, Italy Havana Biennial, Havana, Kuba 2008 Business As Usual, MOCAD Museum of Contemporary Art of Detroit, USA Biennale of Gwangju, Gwangju, South Korea Futurotextiel, Broelmuseum NMBS Hall Kortrijk, Belgium worlds on video, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy All-Inclusive. A Tourist World, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany 2007 o lo que vio Betty Boop, Museo Reina Sofía Madrid Rightfully Yours, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery Toronto Luce dei miei Occhi, GAMeC a Cinema Festa Internazionale di Roma, Italy Time Present, Time Past, Museum of Modern Art Istanbul Rethinking Dissent, International Biennial for Contemporary Art Göteborg, Sweden Theater of Theater of Cruelty, White Box, New York All About Laughter Humor in Contemporary art, Mori Art Museum Tokyo Commitment, The Garage, Mechelen, Belgium Museum of Kortrijk, Kortrijk, Belgium Heros! like us?, PAN / Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy A forest and a tree, Kunsthalle Exergasse, Vienna 2006 Choosing my Religion, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland Allegories of Displacement, Westport Museum, Conecticut, USA Art Film, Stadtkino Basel, Switzerland New Video New Europe, The Kitchen, New York Video REPORT ITALIA 04_05, Galleria Comunale d Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Italy Double Happiness, l'ex fabbrica "Italcementi" Trento, Italy Capolavoro, Palazzo di Primavera, Center of Contemporary Art di Terni, Italy ECCO UOMO, Spazio Oberdan, Milan 2005 PERFORMA05, New York INTRAMOENIA-EXTRA ART, Castel Del Monte, Italy This May Be What Parallel Play Looks Like, Sculpture Center, New York WAR IS OVER 1945 2005 la Libertà dell arte, GAMeC Galleria d Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy Summer Show, SHUGOARTS, Tokyo ARTE ALL ARTE 10, Art Architecture, Landscape, Montalcino, Italy First We Take Museums, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, URB Visuals, Helsinki Democracy is Fun?, White Box, New York The gesture, Macedonian Museum Of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece and Quartar Centro Produzione Arte, Florence, Italy Due progetti, Arte a dimensione urbana, GAMeC Galleria d Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy Videodrome, ELETTRO +, Florence, Italy
Deliciouse... Sint, Truiden, Belgium A Forest and a Tree, Yellow Bird Gallery, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA Identity and Nomadism, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy Double Vision, Magazzino d'arte Moderna, Rome On Sale, Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2004 La alegria de mis sueños, I Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Fundación BIACS, Monasterio la Cartuja de Santa María de las Cuervas, Sevilla, Spain New Video, New Europe, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, travelling to: Museum of Contemporary Art, St.Louis und Tate Modern, London, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam,North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks Seven Sins, MUSEION, Bolzano, Italy Vanitas, Le Opere e i Giorni, Certosa di San Lorenzo, Padula, Italy Contemporanity, Museum of Fine Arts Bishkek, Kyrgystan Se/ Bashku/ Juntos/ Tillsammans, Upssala Art Museum, Sweden Our house on the move, Pavelhaus, Laafeld, Austria and Škuc Gallery, Lubjana, Slovenia 2003 G 2003, Vira/Ascona, Italy La Natura dell Arte, San Lorenzello, Italy Luoghi di Affezione, Academia Belgica, Rome Tirana Biennial, Tirana, Albania BEAULIEU ART-gallery, Gent, Belgium Haifa Museum of Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel Salon des Réfusés, Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice Galleria Civica d Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy Public Sampler Projektion, Dresden, Germany Blut & Honig, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg / Vienna Sweet Bitter Harmony, Art Lab, Holon, Tel Aviv Hardcore, Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2002 Pause, Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, South Korea Emotional Site, SHUGOARTS, Tokyo Open House, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg Opening Exhibition, Palais de Tokyo, Paris Fuoriuso, Pescara, Italy Il valore dell essere, EXTRAordinario Catania, Italy Next Bari, L'Arte di Domani, Italy SMK, Copenhagen, Danemark L ultima cena, Napoli, Italy Big Torino 2002, Torino, Italy MUSEION, Museo d Arte Moderna, Bozen, Italy 2001 Egofugal, Istanbul Biennial Casino 2001, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium Uniform, PS1, New York Biennial of Ceramic in Contemporary Art, Albisola, Italy Tirana Biennial, Tirana, Albania Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy Artline 5, Borken, Germany
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, PS1, Rome Short Stories, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan Galleria Comunale d'arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome Velodromo and Museo dell'arengario, Milan SESC, Sao Paulo Genève; Queens Museum of Art, New York Grassy Knoll Productions, Belfast Finale Di Partita - Endgame - Fin de partie, Florence Chinese Whisper, Apex Art, New York 2000 Manifesta III, Ljubljana, Slovenia Over the Edges, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium Arte all'arte, 5th Edition, Colle Val d'elsa, Italy Ironic, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy Galleria Laura Pecci, Milan Premio Querini-Furla per l'arte, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice ANNO ZERO, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy Center-Storms, Zomer-Poezie, Watou, Belgium 1999 dapertutto, 48th Biennale di Venezia, Venice Galleria Marabini, Bologna 1998 Atlante, MACS, Sassari, Italy Care Off, Cusano, Milan Indicazioni, Depanis, Florence Welcome, Città Sant Angelo, Italy AWARDS 2009 First prize Hardau City Park, Zurich; Y project (collaboration with Iso Asani and Frederic Levrat), supported by the city of Zurich, ZHDK and IFCAR 2008 NEONS, in collaboration with Contemporary Art Fund of the City and Canton of Geneva (Fmac and FCAC) Plaine de Plainpalais; Geneva 2001 First Prize Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella 2000 First Prize Artista Emergente Italiano/Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Premio Querini- Furla per l Arte, Venice 1999 First prize in "Onufri" National Gallery, Tirana