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Petrit Halilaj
The places I’m looking for, my dear, are utopian places, they are boring and I don’t know how to make them real.
2010. Wood, iron, various materials. 13 x 11 x 8 meter circa.
Installation view 6th Berlin Biennial for contemporary art, curated by Kathrin Rhomberg, Berlin, June 2010.

Un gallo borghese che voleva essere un pappagallo fino a quando ha potuto capire che poteva essere un gallo. E la sua moglie. (A bourgeois cock who wanted to be a parrot until he could understand that he could be a cock. And his wife)
2010
drawings on paper, wood frame

Petrit Halilaj
They are Lucky to be Bourgeois Hens
2009. Wood, iron. 400 x 100 cm circa.
Installation view Siemens Gallery, Istanbul, curated by Melih Gorgun.

Petrit Halilaj
Bathroom wall, water pipes, shower rail
wood, paint, shower rail, copper pipes, various objects.
Installation view at Artforum Berlin, September 2009, with Chert galerie, Berlin.

Petrit Halilaj
Untitled
various objects.
Installation view Petrit Halilaj solo exhibition, Chert, Berlin 2009.

Petrit Halilaj
Space shuttle in the garden
2009. Ink and pencil on Paper, wood footboard from Murano glass laboratory. 50 x 46 x 11 cm

Petrit Halilaj
They are Lucky to be Bourgeois Hens
2008
Installation, various materials
“Art is my Playground”, Tershane, Istanbul.
Courtesy Chert, Berlin
Photo: Alexis Zavialoff

Petrit Halilaj
They are Lucky to be Bourgeois Hens
2008
Wood, Iron
“Art is my Playground”, Tershane, Istanbul.

Petrit Halilaj

1986 born in Runik, Kosovo

Lives in Berlin, Germany

Grants

2010
Blau Orange 2010 – shortlist Simon Denny, Petrit Halilaj, Klara Liden, Nora Schultz

Solo Exhibitions

2011
Statement, Art Basel solo presentation, with Chert, Berlin - upcoming June.
Kunstraum Innsbruck, curated by Veit Loers - upcoming September.

2009
"Back to the Future", curated by Albert Heta, Stacion, Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, Kosovo.
Chert, Berlin.

1996
Scuola Elementare “Shote Galica” Runik-Kosovo curated by Behlul Spahiu.

Group Exhibitions

2011
Petrit Halilaj, Judith Hopf, Bedwyr Williams, Bonner Kunstverein, Curated by Christina Végh.
STRUKTUR & ORGANISMUS, with Max Frey, Tue Greenfort, Petrit Halilaj, Rita Vitorelli, curated by Stefan Tasch, Marillenhof - Destillerie Kausl, Austria.
"You don ́t love me anymore", curated by Katja Schroeder, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster.

2010
“Drinnen & Draussen”, Chert, Berlin.
6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, curated by Kathrin Rhomberg, Berlin.
Berlin - Paris. Un échange de galeries, “Petrit Halilaj, Heike Kabisch, Carla Scott Fullerton”, Galerie Carlos Cardenas, Paris, with Chert Galerie, Berlin.

2009
“Melancholy of Compassion”, curated by Melih Gorgun, Siemens Gallery, Istanbul.
“Time Machine”, curated by Vlado Velkov, Kunstverein Arnsberg.

2008
The Lamb ́s Mother in the Creche?, Chert, Berlin.
Art is my Playground, Tershane, Istanbul.

2006
Mediterraneo Contemporaneo, Castello Aragonese, Taranto, curated by Antonio d’Avossa.
Corpo Urbano, De portesio 2006, Fondazione Cominelli, Brescia, curated by di Bruno Muzzolini, Roberta Baldaro, Massimo Rossi.
Wireless, Unorossodue, curated by Alessandro Mancassola and Bruno Muzzolini.
MIGRE, Careof, Milano, curated by Katia Anguelova and Alessandra Poggianti.
Open Air, Orto Botanico, Parma, curated by Marinella Paderni and Isotta Saccani.

1999
BAMBINI DI KUKES, Palazzo Municipale di Cremona, organized by Dr. Poli Giacomo.
KOSOVE 1999, I° Premio Galleria d’Arte, Lezhe–Albania, organized by Ymer Metalia.

Bibliography

Articles
2011
Petrit Halilaj - BRAND NEW, by Laura Cherubini, Flash Art International, March-April 2011.
2010
“Best of 2010”, by Christine Macel, in Artforum, December 2010, p. 196/197.
“Where is Petrit ́s real Hause?” by Vincenzo Latronico, in Domus n. 939, September 2010
DU Magazine, June 2010, “Kunst im 21. Jahrhundert”, kuratiert von Hans Ulrich Obrist June 8, 2010
“6 Berlin Biennale, spezial” – Monopol Juni 2010
“Here and there” by Barbara Casavecchia, Mousse magazine n. 23, April 2010

2009
“Home away from home” by Vincenzo Latronico Domus, November 2009
“Communication seems to be lacking us as well”, in Gargarin n. 19/2009, Gagarin, the artists in their own words

2008
“Ombre, arte, fucili, case e tableaux vivant. Sotto il cielo dell’arte a Torino e Milano.
“Artissima”, le “50 lune di Saturno” e le performance di Tino Sehgal.”, by Francesca Pasini, in Linus December 2008, p.102/103.

2007
“Nuovi, Nuovi, Nuovi, dall’archivio Careof & Viafarini” by Milovan Farronato, in Exibart.onpaper, n. 37,February/March 2007.

Catalogues:

2011
"My work and me", edited by Susanne Pfeffer, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Koenig, Koeln.

2010
“Blau Orange 2010 – shortlist Simon Denny, Petrit Halilaj, Klara Liden, Nora Schultz”, Published by BVR, National Association of German Cooperative Banks
“Drinnen & Draussen” exhibition catalogue, published by Chert & Motto, Berlin, June.
“What is waiting out there”, Berlin Biennale 2010, curated by Kathrin Rhomberg. Published by DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne. ISBN: 976-3-8321-9338-6.
Liste 2010, Fair catalogue, artist ́ text.