Sislej Xhafa
CURRICULUM
Born 1970 in Peja, Kosovo
Lives and works in Brussels and New York
Upcoming Shows
May – November 2013, Italian Pavilion of the 55th Venice Biennale, curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi
Selected Solo Shows
2012
Unpoetic Bride, Galleria Continua / Le Moulin
NON Unplugged 2012, Non Gallery, Istanbul
Brko like bird, Center 42°, Cetinje, Montenegro
2011
Oblique Motionless, Christine König Galerie, Wien
still untitled, MADRE Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Napoli, curated by Mario Codognato
Y, Hardau City Park, City of Zürich, ZHDK and IFCAR, Zürich
2010
2705 Baci…, Röda Sten, Göteborg, curated by Edi Muka
2009
Moulin Rouge, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Roma
NEONS in collaboration with Contemporary Art Fund of the City and Canton of Geneva (Fmac and FCAC) Plaine de Plainpalais (project of public art), Geneva
2008
Sadnesssurge (two artist show with Adel Abdessemed), Christine König Galerie, Wien
2007
Giuseppe, GAMeC Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
Passion Fruit, L’appartement 22, Rabbat, Marocco
Salon Retrospective + L.R.B., Van Tendeloo Residence, Kortrijk
Vallée Verticale, Yvon Lambert, Paris
2006
Stuztespia, Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza, curated by Daniela Lotta
MN Unplugged, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt
Opportunistisch Naturalistisch, SKUC Galerija, Ljubljana
Livelihood rainbow on broel, Liebaert Projects, Livelihood Rainbow On Broel, Kortrijk
When Mac goes black, Yvon Lambert, New York
2005
Four Movements, Quarter Florence, 51 Venice Biennal/ Albanian Pavilio
Skinheads Swimming, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Roma
Merely, HOET BEKAERT Gallery, Gent
2004
Miedo Total, xhafabdessemed (two-person show with Adel Abdessemed), Fundació ‘la Caixa’ la Sala Montcada, Barcelona, curated by Teresa Macrě
Giuseppe, MART, travelling exhibition,Trento, curated by Giorgio Verzotti
2003
Vetrine della Calcografia: See no evil / hear no evil / speak no evil, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Roma, curated by Luigi Ficacci
Twice Upon a Time, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Roma
Nivea, W 139, Amsterdam, curated by Ann Demeester
PM, Zagreb, curated by Radmila Iva Jankovic
Galerie Drantmann, Bruxelles
2002
Motion in Paradise, Deitch Projects, New York
Skinheads Swimming, Galleria Laura Pecci, Milano
Heavy Metal, GAMeC Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
Foundation Teseco, Pisa, curated by Gail Cochrane
2001
Siyum, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus
Project Room, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, curated by Evelyne Jouannou
Talk is Cheap, Swiss Cultural Institute, New York, curated by Marc Olivier Wahler
Galleria Laura Pecci, Milano
2000
Fondazione Olivetti, Roma, curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi
1997
Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, G.A.M., Bologna
47° Venice Biennial, Clandestine Albanian Pavilion, Venezia
Selected Group Shows
2012
Mediterraneo: Incontri o Conflitti?, Curated by Ludovico Pratesi. Palazzo Gargasole. Gagliano del Capo (LE)
Rearview Mirror, Art Gallery of Alberta, Canada, curated by Christopher Eamon
Piů a Sud, Museo Palazzo Riso di Palermo, curated by Paola Nicita, Palermo
2011
Il Bel Paese dell’Arte. Etiche ed Estetiche della Nazione, GAMeC Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, , Bergamo, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and Maria Cristina Rodeschini
SPHERES 4, GALLERIA CONTINUA / Le Moulin, France
Rebus, Simon Lee Gallery, London, curated by Mario Codognato
The world belongs to you, Palazzo Grassi, François Pinault collection, Venezia, curated by Caroline Bourgeois
Rearview Mirror, Power Plant Toronto, Canada, curated by Christopher Eamon
Big Brother, Palais des Arts et du Festival Dinard, Brittany, France by curated Ashok Adiceam Dinard’s
2010
SPHERES 3, GALLERIA CONTINUA / Le Moulin, France
In what we trust, with Francis Alys, Yael Bartana, Sylvie Blocher, Niklas Goldbach, Omer Fast, Bjřrn Melhus, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Fabrizio Passarella, Corinna Schnitt, The Art Miami Pavilion Miami curated by Julia Draganovic
Misericordia West Hollywood, PRISM, California, curated by Birte Kleemann
What’s the Difference?, Stadtgalerie, Bern, Switzerland curated by Beate Engel
Il Museo Privato, La passione per l’arte contemporanea nelle collezioni bergamasche, GAMeC Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and Maria Cristina Rodeschini
Viaggio in Italia. Sguardi internazionali sull’Italia contemporanea, Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia, curated by Ludovico Pratesi
Collezione UBI-Banca Popolare di Bergamo, Bergamo curated by Enrico De Pascale
Cosmogonia. Le Supernova del collezionismo italiano Stefano e Raffaella Sciarretta, Palazzo Collicola di Spoleto, Spoleto, curated by Gianluca Marziani
Dalle collezioni di arte e architettura MAXXI Spazio, Roma, curated by di Pippo Ciorra, Alessandro D’Onofrio, Bartolomeo Pietromarchi e Gabi Scardi
Language and Experimentations, MART Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto
Videoarte al Museo internazionale delle marionette Antonio Pasqualino, Festival Finzioni, Palermo curated by Paola Nicita
Ibrido. Genetica delle forme d'arte, PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, , Milano, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and Francesco Garutti
Indefinite Destinations, DEPO, Istanbul curated by Oyku Ozsoy and Vessela Nozharova
2009
BAROCK, MADRE Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Napoli, curated by Mario Codognato
Collezione Al-bunduqiyya, Venice, curated by Cecilia Tirelli
The Brick + Mortar, International Video Art Festival, Greenfield, curated by Natasha Becker
Transmission Interrupted, Modern Art Oxford, curated by Suzanne Cotter and Gilane Tawadros
Andreas Melas Presents Until the End of the World, Athens, curated by Max Henry
Esposizione Universale – L’arte alla prova del tempo, GAMeC Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
2008
Business As Usual, MOCAD Museum of Contemporary Art of Detroit Business, curated by Jacob Proctor
Biennale of Gwangju, Gwangju
Futurotextiel, Broelmuseum NMBS, Kortrijk, curated by Caroline David and Arne Quinze
Worlds on video, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, curated by Anita Beckers
All-Inclusive. A Tourist World Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, curated Matthias Ulrich
2007
o lo que vio Betty Boop, Museo Reina Sofía Madrid, curated Raimundas Malasausk
Rightfully Yours, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery Toronto, curated by Tejpal S. Ajji
Luce dei miei Occhi, GAMeC Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo
Festa Internazionale del Cinema di Roma, Roma a cura di Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
Time Present, Time Past, Istanbul Museum Of Modern Art, Istanbul, co-curated by David Elliott and Rosa Martínez
Rethinking Dissent, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg, curated by Joa Ljungberg and Edi Muka
Theater of Cruelty, White Box, New York, curated by Raul Zamudio
All About Laughter Humor in Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, curated by Kataoka Mami
Committment, The Garage, Mechelen / Cultural Centre Strombeek Commitment, Strombeek, curated by Koen Leemans & Luk Lambrecht
Museum of Kortrijk, Kortrijk curated by Veerle Van Durme e Lievan Vandenabeele
Eroi! come noi…?, PAN / Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Napoli, curated by Julia Draganovic
A Forest and a Tree, Kunsthalle Exergasse, Vienna, curated by Pelin Uran
2006
Choosing my Religion, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun curated by Madeleine Schuppli
Allegories of Displacement, Westport Museum, Connecticut, curated by Michele Cone
Art Film Basel, Stadtkino Basel, Basel curated by Benjamin Weil
New Video, New Europe, The Kitchen, New York (travelling exhibition) curated by Hamza Walzer
videoREPORT ITALIA 04_05, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, curated by Andrea Bruciati
Double Happiness, ex fabbrica "Italcementi", Trento, curated by Fabio Cavalluci
Capolavoro, Palazzo di Primavera, Center of Contemporary Art di Terni, curated by Angelo Capasso
ECCO UOMO, Spazio Oberdan, Milano curated by Gemma De Angelis Testa and Sergio Risaliti
2005
PERFORMA05, New York, curated by Defne Ayas / chief curator: Roselee Goldberg
INTRAMOENIA-EXTRA ART, Castel Del Monte, curated by Achile Bonito Oliva and Giusy Caroppo
This May Be What Parallel Play Looks Like, Sculpture Center, New York, curated by Defne Ayas
WAR IS OVER 1945–2005 la Libertŕ dell’arte, GAMeC Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and Maria Cristina Rodeschini
Summer Show, SHUGOARTS, Tokyo
ARTE ALL’ARTE 10, Art Architecture Landscape, Montalcino, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Laura Cherubini, Emanuela De Cecco, Elio Grazioli, Jan Hoet, Hou Hanru, Florian Matzner, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Roberto Pinto, James Putnam, Jerome Sans, Pier Luigi Tazzi, Vicente Todolě, Angela Vettese and Gilda Williams
First We Take Museums, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, URB Visuals, Helsinki, curated by Jari-Pekka Vanhala
Democracy is Fun? Whitebox, New York curated by Defne Ayas and Michele Thursz
Macedonian Museum Of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece and Quarter
The gesture, Centro Produzione Arte, Firenze, curated by Marina Fokidis, Sergio Risaliti and Daphne Vitali
Due progetti, arte a dimensione urbana, GAMeC Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
Videodrome, ELETTRO +, Firenze, curated by Matteo Chini
Deliciouse... Sint. Truiden, Belgium, curated by Luk Lambrecht
A Forest and a Tree, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Yellow Bird Gallery,
Annandale-on-Hudson, curated by Pelin Uran
Identity and Nomadism, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena
Double Vision, Magazzino d'Arte Moderna, Roma
On Sale Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana curated by Alenka Gregoric and Natasha Petreshin
2004
La alegria de mis sueńos, Fundación BIACS, I Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Monasterio la Cartuja de Santa María de las Cuervas, Sevilla, curated by Harald Szeemann
New Video, New Europe, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, curated by Hamza Walker / travelling to the Museum of Contemporary Art, St.Louis and Tate Modern, London Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks
Seven Sins, MUSEION, Bolzano, curated by Letizia Ragaglia
Vanitas, Le Opere e i Giorni, Certosa di San Lorenzo, Padula, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva
Contemporanity, Museum of Fine Arts Bishkek, Kyrgystan, curated by Leeza Ahmady
Se/ Bashku/ Juntos/ Tillsammans, Upssala Art Museum, Stockholm, curated by Rodrigo Mallea Lira, Edi Muka, Joa Ljungberg and Yuneikys Villalonga
Our house on the move, Pavelhaus, Laafeld, Austria and Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, curated by Natasha Petreshin
2003
G 2003, Vira/Ascona, curated by Harald Szeemann
La Natura dell’Arte, San Lorenzello, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
Luoghi di Affezione, Accademia Belgica, Roma, curated by Angelo Capasso
Tirana Biennial, Tirana
BEAULIEU ART-Gallery, Gent
Haifa Museum of Contemporary Art, Haifa,curated by Daniela Talmor
Salon des Réfusés, Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venezia, curated by Roberto Pinto
Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea, Trento, curated by Fabio Cavallucci
Public Sampler, Projektion, Dresden, curated by Torsten Birne
Blut & Honig, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Wien, curated by Harald Szeemann
Sweet Bitter Harmony, Art Lab, Holon, Tel Aviv, curated by Edi Muka
Hardcore, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, curated by Jérôme Sans
2002
Pause, Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, curated by Hou Hanru
Emotional Site, SHUGOARTS, Tokyo
Open House, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg, curated by Evelyne Jouannou
Opening Exhibition, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, curated by Jérôme Sans and Nicholas Bourriaud
Fuoriuso, Pescara, curated by Teresa Macrě
Il valore dell’essere, EXTRAordinario – Catania
Next, L'Arte di Domani, Bari, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
SMK, Copenhagen
L’ultima cena, Napoli, curated by Massimo Sgroi
Big Torino 2002, Torino, curated by Michelangelo Pistoletto and Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
MUSEION, Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bolzano, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
2001
Egofugal, Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, curated by Yuko Hasegawa
Casino 2001, S.M.A.K., Gent, curated by Jean Greenberg
Uniform, PS1, New York, curated by Francesco Bonami
Biennial of Ceramic in Contemporary Art, Albisola, curated by Tiziana Casapietra and Roberto Constantino
Tirana Biennial, Tirana
Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
Artline 5, Borken, Germany, curated by Jan Hoet
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, PS1, Roma
Short Stories, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano, curated by Roberto Pinto
Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roma
Velodromo and Museo dell'Arengario, Milano SESC, Sao Paulo Genčve
Museum of Art, Queens, New York, curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg
Grassy Knoll Productions, Belfast
Finale Di Partita - Endgame - Fin de partie, Florence, curated by Pierluigi Tazzi
Chinese Whisper, Apex Art, New York, curated by Branka Stipancic
2000
Manifesta III, Ljubljana, curated by Francesco Bonami, Maria Hlavajova and Ole
Bouman
Over the Edges, S.M.A.K., Gent, curated by Jan Hoet and Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
Arte all'Arte, 5th Edition, Colle Val d'Elsa, curated by Gilda Williams and Roberto Pinto
Ironic, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, curated by Lino Baldini
Galleria Laura Pecci, Milano
Premio Querini Furla per l'Arte, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venezia
ANNO ZERO, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella
Center-Storms, Zomer-Poezie, Watou, curated by Ann Demeester
1999
59° Venice Biennal, Venezia, curated by Harald Szeemann
Galleria Marabini, Bologna, curated by Guido Molinari
1998
Atlante, MACS, Sassari
Care Off, Cusano Milanino, curated by Guido Molinari
Indicazioni, Depanis, Firenze, curated by Matteo Chini
Welcome, Cittŕ Sant’Angelo, Pescara, curated by Renato Bianchini
1997
GAME, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna
Clandestine, Albanian Pavillion, 47° Venice Biennale
Awards
2009
First prize Hardau City Park, Zürich; Y Supported by City of Zürich, 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, Venezia
1999
First prize in Onufri National Gallery, Tirana
