Driton Selmani

Driton Selmani – born in 1987, based in Pristina. He completed his MA studies at The Arts University Bournemouth, UK. Selmani’s work presents simple instructions or ideas on how to live, often appearing as sketches or aphorisms written in ordinary places. He approaches the idea of perceived reality by deconstructing the social, political and cultural topics that have been embodied around him, while reflecting on his personal experience and collective history of Kosovo and Yugoslavia. He works across various media. Selmani took part in numerous group exhibitions and had solo shows at Rijeka Contemporary Art Museum in Croatia, Stacion Center For Contemporary Art Pristina, Ludwig Museum in Budapest, Kunstraum Niederosterreich, Vienna, Casa Contemporanea in Sāo Paulo, Mediterranea Biennial 16 in Ancona, 5th Marrakesh Biennial, Fabbrica del Vapore Milan, Bregenz Biennale, National Art Gallery Tirana, Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art, and others.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021	Screenshots Of Now, HayArt Cultural Center, Yerevan Untitled, Museum of Contemporary Art – Skopje Red Tape, Klubi i Boksit / Stacion Center For Contemporary Art, Pristina Depart to Somewhere Else / The Myth, Its Foundation, And The Sacred Rituals Of Our Era, Salon Galič, Split The Grave Is Better Than Not Knowing, Palace of Youth, Prishtina Screenshots Of Now, Muzej i Galerije Podgorica Beyond, Beyond, Dotrščina Monument Park / Virtualni muzej Dotrščina, Zagreb
2020	Love Letters, Ta·da , Copenhagen Red tape, Klubi i Boksit / Stacion Center For Contemporary Art, Pristina Two Jokes Make One Truth, Corridor Project Space, Amsterdam Artists in Quarantine, virtual exhibition, National Gallery, Pristina
2019	More And More Thoughts About Other Thoughts, U10 – Belgrade, curated by Lora Sariaslan Places We Leave Behind, Writers Association, Ljubljana, curated by Hana Ostan Ožbolt (HOoST) The Noise, Skanderbeg Square, Pristina, curated by Simona Raphaela Schwitter First Day of Spring, SKulpturgarten \| Margareten, Vienna, curated by Albert Allgaier
2016	My country on my back, Exchiesetta, Polignano a Mare, curated by Roberto Lacarbonara
2015	Panorama, Tulla Culture Center Tirana, curated by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei
2014	Strange things happening in the Neighborhood, Hotel Gracanica, Gracanica, curated by Andreas Wormser Daf, Def, Deaf – AfG, Vienna, curated by Albert Allgaier
2010	Right turn, turn right, Traffic, Pristina, curated by Lulzim Zeqiri

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022	Manifesta 14, Pristina Warm. Checking Temperature in Three Acts, Tallinn Print Triennial
2021	Back & Forth, HayArt Cultural Center, Yerevan FUTURE ECOLOGIES, The Isle of Thorns, curated by Elian Stefa, GALERiA e BREGDETiT, Vlorë OSTRALE Biennale O21, Breathturn, Dresden Bigger than Myself – Heroic Voices from ex Yugoslavia, MAXXI Museum Rome, curated by Zdenka Badovinac Memory Of The Fallen Trees, Gallery of the Faculty of Arts – Pristina Wanderlust, XIII Biennial Of Young Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art – Skopje The Manifest of Survival, Tulla Culture Center Tirana
2020	Double Wall Of Silence, ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana / Hestia Exhibitions Bureau, Belgrade Almissa Open Art Festival, Omiš
2019	Long-Distance Relationship, Espace Témoin, Geneva, Switzerland / Motrat Pristina 6–Chome-30-3 Higashi-Ogu, Tokyo We’re Not Like Them, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art – MMSU Rijeka Open City – Nuit Blanche Prizren, Prizren From Anywhere to Anywhere, La Maison des Arts, Brussels Norrköping Light Festival, Norrköping Mundane, Eugster \|\| Belgrade, Belgrade Fog, National Gallery – Mala Stanica Skopje
2018	Are Our Memories History?, Muslim Mulliqi Prize, National Gallery, Pristina The Map Is The Territory, Bregenz Biennale, Bregenz Fog, National Gallery, Pristina
2017	Existential, Amsterdam Light Festival, 6th Edition, Amsterdam So Close So Far, Center for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
2016	Bregenz Biennale, Bregenz The Whale That Was a Submarine, Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest Young Art From Kosovo, Galerie Lukas Feichtner, Vienna
2015	Parallel Sprawl, Modelariumi i Arkitektures, Pristina Nationless, Thessaliniki Center of Contemporary Art A New Round of Cultural Dialogue, OCA Culture Re product Odžaci Actual art, a rupture within the antagonism, MKC Youth Cultural Centre, Skopje Different Worlds, Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana
2014	Let us start from the middle, Tirana Art Lab, Tirana Here Now Where?, Participatory project of sonic ambulation in Marrakesh’s taxis 5th Marrakesh Biennial Zoo art 14, Giardini Fresia, Cuneo Sculpture Me, Kunstraum Niederosterreich, Vienna Anonymous lives, Batman universitesi, Batman Praise of Doubt, Onufri Prize XX, National Art Gallery,Tirana
2013	Alternative Nomadi Post Biennal selection, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan EX – Ordinary No Borders No Nations, Collegium artisticum, Sarajevo Monumental Sculptures from Yugoslavia in Kosovo, Artifacts between Memory and Neglect, Stacion Center for Contemporary Art, Pristina Errors Allowed, Mediterranea 16 Young Artists Biennial, Ancona
2012	Sex Lives of the Poor and Unknown, Polymer Culture Factory, Tallinn Dust, The Gallery, Arts University Bournemouth I am what I used to be, Northern Studios, Arts University Bournemouth
2011	Aberto para Re – Forma, Casa Contemporanea São Paulo Polip, Manipulation Center TETRIS, Pristina Buzz’n’Buss, Urban Traffic Center, Pristina
2010	Onufri Prize, National Art Gallery, Tirana Artists of Tomorrow Prize, National Art Gallery, Pristina Muslim Mulliqi Prize, National Art Gallery, Pristina
2009	Open Call 3+4, Stacion Center For Contemporary Art , Pristina Personally Political, Contemporary Sensation, Kunsthaus Tachels, Berlin

Works

HOWL

2021

Materials: Engraving on white marble

Dimensions: 100 × 70 × 5 cm

Photo credits:
Duško Miljanić

Driton Selmani

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Works

HOWL

Binum Silentium

Untitled

Milk Of Dreams

Dial L for Luck

Missed Call

Landlocked Deep Desires

Eye to Eye

Hopes & Fears

They Say You Can’t Hold Two Watermelons In One Hand

Borders

Let's pretend

Red Tape

Secretly Kissing in Belgrade

I THINK I CAN NOT BE MYSELF ALL THE TIME

If I was God, God Save Us

Tell me where I am from?

These Stories

WE'RE NOT LIKE THEM

WE'RE NOT LIKE THEM