Monday, July 02nd 2007, 20:00 h
Alban Muja will speak about his experience in Novi Sad, but in his presentation he will focus more in his previous art work, since he start doing conceptual art work, he will speak as well about his project (action) in street of Novi Sad called "Tourist city”.
During presentation Alban will show part of his video work’s:
Free Your Mind 9 ;45 min
Palestina 6;30 min
Agreement 5 ; 18 min
Bio
Alban Muja (1980), artist (Kosovska Mitrovica/Pristina, Kosovo)
He currently lives in Prishtina, having graduate from the Faculty of Fine Art in Prishtina in 2003.
His works cover a wide range of media including video installation, paintings, photos, drawings and performance. Alban have been exhibited extensively in place around Europe and America, including ‘Distance’ Center for Contemporary Art ‘Station’ - Prishtina, Kosovo, 53rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany, Screening Program ‘Abingdon Theatre’ -New York USA, “Objects in Waiting-Gift”, Man Museum, part of Liverpool Biennale - Liverpool England, Semionauti “Border Crossing III” - Bologna Italy, “Indefinite Rituals“ Leonhardi Culture Projects - Frankfurt, Germany, “ViennaBiennale1”-Vienna Austria, NOMAD screening programme "Eclipsed Voices" - Amsterdam Holland, “Border Crossing - Semionauti” C/O Careof – Milan Italy, 1/60 Insurgent space-‘Meat shop’- National Gallery of Art – Tirana Albania, “17th Instants Video nomades”- Paris, Marseille, Nice, Metz, Martigues, France , “Three different cultures in same place” Casa de Cultura - Aliante Spain, Cetinje Biennale 5”Love it or Leave it”, National Museum of Montenegro - Cetinje Montenegro, “Need a radical change”, Nova Gallery - Zagreb, Croatia etc.
In 2006 Alban was granted International Artist Residency, Braziers Park, OxfordShire, England and International Artist and Writer Residency, Santa Fe Art Institute, USA.
Presentation is realized in frame of New Program of Artists’ Residences in South-East Europe “Backyard residencies”, supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers.
“Backyard residencies” program aims at stressing the artistic cooperation in the SEE "backyard" and to amend the most common type of available artists' residencies in our region as the way of communication between the East and the West.
Program is take a part at the three prestigious independent art institutions in Vector Association, Iasi (Romania), Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul (Turkey) and New Media Cener_kuda.org, Novi Sad / Belgrade (Serbia).
