Vangjush Vellahu
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Vangjush Vellahu
is a visual artist born in 1987 in Pogradec, Albania, who lives and works between Berlin and Tirana.
Education:
2011 Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts at Bucharest National University of Arts, Romania
2014 Master Degree in Fine Arts at Bucharest National University of Arts, Romania
2016 Master Degree in Fine Arts at Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel, Germany
Works in Collections:
ΕΜΣΤ - National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, GR
Solo Exhibitions:
2023 A Tool of Resistance, An Other World Project Space, Rotterdam, NL
2022 Visa Interview, Tulla Culture Center, Tirane, AL
2018 Fragments I - Where stories cut across the land, Hestia, Belgrade, RS (Cat.)
2018 Home Conversations, Alert Studio, Bucharest, RO
Group Exhibitions:
2024
No Departures Without Arrivals, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin, DE
Bucharest Biennale 11 (BB11), Bucharest, RO (Cat.)
Sede Virtual Bienalsur, Buenos Aires, AR
2022
Manifesta 14th Biennial, Prishtina, XK (Cat.)
Other Stories - Manifesta 14th Western Balkans Project, Hestia, Belgrade, RS (Cat.)
Are you sure you want to leave, Art Quarter Budapest, HU (Cat.)
Pleasures, Bazament Art Space, Tirane, AL
Graw Böckler GarageN Art, Berlin, DE
2021
Angst, Keine Angst / Fear, No Fear, Times Art Center, Berlin, DE (Cat.)
Ostrale Biennale, Robotron Kantine, Dresden, DE (Cat.)
Where the roads are paved with Gold, Galera e Bregdetit, Radhime, AL
My favorite objects, Hestia Art Residency & Exhibitions Bureau, Belgrade, RS
2020
Tales from an Old World, Museu d´Història de Catalunya, Barcelona, ES
Ardhje Award, Zeta Contemporary Art Center, Tirana, AL
Everything that happens here, Galeria e Arteve, Pogradec, AL
2019
We’re Not Like Them, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, HR (Cat.)
Double wall of silence, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, SI (Cat.)
They put it together, Projektraum - Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, DE
From Here to There, Tranzit, Cluj, RO
2018
Hello World. Revising a Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE (Cat.)
SKG Bridges Festival, Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, GR (Cat.)
Infected Landscapes, M.1. Arthur Boskamp Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt, DE
Albania the spirit of the times, Museum of Contemporary Art, Acri, IT (Cat.)
2017
Onufri XXIII - Au fil du temps, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, AL (Cat.)
Mediterranea 18 Young Artists Biennale, National Historical Museum, Tirana, AL (Cat.)
Arthur Boskamp Stiftung - Förderpreise, M.1, Hohenlockstedt, DE
2016
Start Point Prize, Trade Fair Palace - National Gallery, Prague, CZ (Cat.)
Dilijan Arts Observatory, curated by Clementine Deliss, Impuls Kondensator, Dilijan, AM
Nucleu 0005 - Anything Goes, Combinatul Fondului Plastic, Bucharest, RO
Eirene, Fladernbunker Museum, Kiel, DE (Cat.)
Nucleu 0004 - Nature v2.0, Victoria Art Center, Bucharest, RO
Master - die Zweite, Atelierhaus im Anscharpark-Haus 8, Kiel, DE (Cat.)
2015
Ziran / Nature, curated by Antje Majewski, Brunswiker Pavillion, Kiel, DE (Cat.)
Masters - die Erste, Atelierhaus im Anscharpark-Haus 8, Kiel, DE
Referral Cities of Peripheria, Galeria e Arteve, Korce, AL
2014
Nucleu 0002 - Imaginea Corpului Meu, Centrul Artelor Vizuale Gallery, Bucharest, RO
Grafica - generatia - 14, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest, RO
Ziran / Nature, curated by Antje Majewski, Star Gallery, Guangzhou, CN (Cat.)
2013
Nucleu 0001, Tipografia Gallery, Bucharest, RO
Desen de Litera, Forme si Transformari, Una-Gallery, Bucharest, RO
Florenz Einfluss, Kunstraum B Gallery, Kiel, DE
2012
EBienale -1st Edition, Romanian Athenaeum, Bucharest, RO (Cat.)
Scrieri și descrieri, Mansarda Gallery, Timisoara, RO (Cat.)
E.G.G, Casa Arte, Bucharest, RO
Screenings:
2024 MoCA - Skopje Performance Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, MK
2021 Radical Film Network Meeting Festival, BUFA-Atelier Gardens, Berlin, DE
2021 Almissa Open Art - Contemporary Art Festival, Omis, HR
2021 Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin
Awards and Grants
2020 Ardhje Award, Zeta Contemporary Art Center, Tirana, AL (Shortlisted)
2017 Arthur Boskamp Stiftung Förderpreise, Hohenlockstedt, DE (Won)
2017 Onufri Prize, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, AL (Shortlisted)
2016 Start Point Prize, National Gallery, Prague, CZ (Shortlisted)
Residencies / Researches:
2025 Artists Residency, Vila 31 x Art Explora, Tirana, AL
2024 Art Omi: Artists Residency, (supported by TMU) Ghent, N.Y, USA
2023 ZK/U - Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin, DE
2021 Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art (T.I.C.A. Situated A.I.R), Tirana, AL
2020 Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, HR
2019 Jalovik Art Residency, Jalovik, SR
2018 Hestia Art Residency & Exhibitions Bureau, Belgrade, SR
2018 Arthur Boskamp Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt, DE
2018 LANDXCAPES, Art, Storytelling, Landscape, a residency by BJCEM, Puglia, IT
2017 Work in Common at Primary, a residency by UKYA, Nottingham, UK
2016 Dilijan Arts Observatory, conducted by Clementine Deliss, Dilijan, AM
2015 Ravensbrück Memorial Museum, Fürstenberg/Havel, DE
2014 Collaboration with South China Normal University, Guangzhou, CN