Alban Muja – HARABEL

SHORT BIO

Alban Muja (born 1980 in Mitrovica) is a Kosovo based visual artist. He completed his BA and MA at Academy of Fine Arts at University of Prishtina.

His works cover a wide range of media including video installation, short film, documentary film, drawings, paintings, photographs and performance which have been exhibited extensively in various group and solo exhibitions including Museum Of Contemporary Art Skopje, MeetFactory, Prague, Kumu Art Museum, Tallin, Estonia; Guangdong Museum of Art, China; Forum Stadpark, Graz Austria; James Gallery New York; Museum of Fine Art, Split, Croatia; Trieste Contemporanea, Italy; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rijeka Croatia; Zacheta National Gallery of Art Warsaw Poland; Austrian Cultural Forum, New York; Škuc Gallery Ljubljan Slovenia; The National Gallery of Kosovo; Myymala2 Gallery Helsinki; Center for Contemporary Art ‘Stacion’, Prishtina, Kosovo ; Nicodim Gallery, Buchares/Los Angelos; Ludwing Museum, Budepest; Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills; ‘Mardin Biennle’ Turkey ; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany; ‘2nd Biennial of Contemporary Art in the Atomic shelter in Konjic, BH; 28th Ljubljana Graphic Biennale Slovenia; Slovak National Gallery; Museum of Contemporary art of Vojvodina; Sebia; Berlinale ’60; Mestna Gallery, Ljubljana Slovenia; Vitrine Gallery. London UK; NGBK, Berlin; Brot Kunsthalle, Vienna; Göteborg Museum of Art; Cetinje Biennale 5 Montenegro; Nova Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia, ect.

He attended various residencies and received number of fellowships in, among others, ‘Cite Internationale des Arts’, Paris, ‘ Q21’ Residency, Museum Quarier, Vienna, Artist-in-residence in Tobacna Center/ City Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ‘Backyard International Artist Residency’, Kuda-Center for New Media”Novi Sad, Serbia, ‘Young visual art award at ISCP’ Residency, New York, ‘ARTSLINK’ Residency New York, International Artist and Writer Residency, Santa Fe Art Institute, USA, ‘KulturKontakt’ Residency, Vienna ‘Apartment Project’ Istanbul, Artist Residency, ‘Braziers Park’, OxfordShire, England/ He lives and works in Pristina, Kosovo.

STATEMENT

Influenced primarily by the social, political and economic transformation processes in the wider surrounding region, he investigates history and socio-political themes and links them to his position in Kosovo today.