MALIQI DREN

 

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Born in 1981 in Prishtina, Kosovo

 

 

EXHIBITIONS

 

 


2005
“Marubi 2005”, Tirana
“Kosovo.exe”, The Brno House of Arts G99, Czech Republic
2004
“I need a radikal change”, Zagreb, Galerija Nova
2003
“YOUNG BALKAN ARTISTS. Variations in Balkan Spaces”, Thessalonica
“Artists of tomorrow “ Young visual Award, Prishtinë
“In the Gorges of the Balkans” – Kunst halle Fridericianum, Kassel
“The fish doesn’t think, cose the fish knows everything”, Prishtinë GAK
“You” – GAK
2002
“Shiny and elegance”, Prishtinë
“We” – GAK
2001
“Exhibition of 5 students”, Prishtinë
2000
“Journeys to memory”, GAK

 

 

 


Summertime

2003 / 3’29”

The video ‘Summertime’ is the kind of video where nothing happens. In the distance one can see a man walking slowly, not to say that absolutely nothing is moving. The camera is installed in one of the buildings of Prishtina, and it records an ordinary, even boring
view of Prishtina, Maliqi’s city. The view is so still that it is almost disturbing. And, at the same time, having in mind Maliqi’s previous work ‘I need a radical change’ (a work consisting of the above mentioned sentence, which was written in neon lights in the exhibition ‘I need a radical change’ in Galleria Nova, Zagreb, Croatia), the video could be seen in a different context. It accumulated a strange energy, where everything seems in the brink of exploding. This video is an interpretation from an artist who is living in peculiar situation, full of contradictions, and above all, in a society that has tremendous energy that can be used constructively. But, as one can see from the past, this energy could also be extremely destructive.

 

 

IN THE FRAMEWORK OF :
Projected Visions – Kosovo