STRANGER THAN KINDNESS at NATIONAL GALLERY OF ARTS TIRANA
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STRANGER
THAN KINDNESS – MITRUSH KUTELI *
22nd
International Onufri Prize, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana
From
December 15, 2016 until February 1, 2017
Curator
Fani Zguro
Hamra
Abbas, Klodiana Alia, Luca Bolognesi, Guri Bulovari, Erik Bünger, Kajsa
Dahlberg, Nico Dockx, Jakup Ferri, Ulrika Ferm, Regina José Galindo, Rä di
Martino, Dora Garcia, Manuela Garcia, Yllka Gjollesha, Khaled Hafez, Pablo
Helguera, Dejan Kaludjerovic, Ilir Lluka, Edson Luli, Christopher Milne, Haroon
Mirza, Museo Aero Solar, Bruno Muzzolini, Ferhat Özgür, Klodian Pasku, Steve
Piccolo, Leonard Qylafi, Pipilotti Rist, Damien Roach, Karl Ingar Røys, Anri
Sala, Tomas Saraceno, Mariette Schiltz and Bert Theis, Arjan Shehaj, Bert
Theis, Josephine Turalba, Esmé Valk, Daniëlle Van Ark, Desmond Xhixha, Helidon
Xhixha, Shingo Yoshida, Ergin Zaloshnja
* … Ju
e dini se gjoli ësht ë i madh, i thellë …
National
Gallery of Arts in Tirana is proud to present the 22nd International
Onufri Prize, “Stranger than Kindness – Mitrush Kuteli”, curated by the Albanian
artist Fani Zguro… with the support of The Albanian Ministry of Tourism,
Cultural Affairs, Youth and Sports. The exhibition will occupy all the spaces of
National Gallery of Arts and part of this show are also the special projects
“Cinema” and “Taxi” (originates by Anri Sala’s “No Formula One No Cry – Taxi”).
Inspired from the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds hit (Stranger than Kindness),
this edition is dedicated to the Albanian writer Mitrush Kuteli (1907-1967).
The exhibition will be open for the public from December 15, 2016 until February
1, 2017.
Fani
Zguro was born in 1977 in Tirana. Lives and works in Berlin. Zguro studied at
Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. In 2007 he won the International
Onufri Prize organized by National Gallery of Arts in Tirana, in 2016 the
International Mulliqi Prize organized by the National Gallery of Kosovo in
Prishtina and Best Video-Art organized by TIFF. Zguro is part of the program Artists-in-residence
at Q21, Museumsquartier for 2017 in Vienna. He has exhibited at Haus der
Kulturen der Welt Berlin, National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest, Musée
des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Mediterranée Marseille, Filmoteca
Espanola Madrid, Docva Careof Milan, 2nd Tirana Biennale, 3rd Mardin Biennale,
4th Young Artists Biennale of Bucharest, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Museum of
Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka, Public Library New York and Centre Pompidou
Paris.
Address:
Bulevardi Dëshmorët e Kombit, 1001, Tirana (Albania)
Tel:
+355 4 222 60 33
E-mail:
info@galeriakombetare.gov.al
Web:
www.galeriakombetare.gov.al
