Artist Gallery

Born on 5. 7. 1981, Prishtinë, Kosova.
Studied at Prishtina University, Faculty of Visual Arts. He still lives and works in Prishtina, Kosovo.

Shows
2004 “M’vyn ndrim radikal ” – Nova Galerija, Zagreb
2003 “Variations In space ” – Thesaloniki
2003 “ In den Schluchten des Balkan” – Fridericianum, Kassel
2003 “The fish doesn’t think, ose the fish knows everything” curetted by Edi Muka, Art Gallery of Kosova
2003 “You” - Art Gallery of Kosova
2002 “Shiny and elegance” curetted by Sislej Xhafa and Mehmet Behluli / Prishtinë
2002 “We” - Art Gallery of Kosova
2001 “Exhibition of 5 students” curetted by Mehmet Behluli / Prishtinë
2000 “Journeys to memory” curetted by Lala Meredith Vula - Art Gallery of Kosova

contact: Nazim Gafuri 67 Prishtina Kosovo UNMIK
tel. +377 44 153 940;

e-mail: drenmaliqi@tonetube.net


Dren Maliqi explores images that display the tensions of a world triumfantly taken over by liberalism and individualism, but a world that is still strongly influenced by the legacy of colectivist ideologies and institutions. He affirms the creative powers of the indvidual and his ego (in his work titled „As“ he courageously portraits Christ, Mohammed, Albanian national hero Skenderbeu, etc, with his own face!), while at the same time he records the yielding fatalities that threaten the individual by eliminating and annihilatig his freedom.

Shkëlzen Maliqi

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