HETA ALBERT

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Born 1974 in Prishtina, Kosovo.

 

SELECTED SHOWS

 

2005
Prague – Brno, Czech Republic: KOSOVA.EXE, The Brno House of Arts.
Seul, Korea: A NEW PAST, Marronnier Art Center & Insa Art Space of the Korean Culture & Arts Foundation.
2004
Dubrovnik – Cetinje – Tirana: LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT, 5TH BIENNALE OF CETINJE.
Zagreb, Croatia: I NEED A RADICAL CHANGE, Galerija NOVA.
2003
Kassel, Germany: IN THE GORGES OF THE BALKANS, Kunsthalle Fridericianum.
Skopje, Macedonia: COMPILER//01 “Was ist Kunst, Marinela Ko_elj?” , Press to Exit Gallery.
2001
Berlin, Germany: NOW: PRISHTINË – BERLIN, Thacheles New Gallery.
London, UK: OUR WORLD TODAY, London Print Studio.
Istanbul, Tyrkey: TURN, Post War Art in Kosova, Mimar Sinan Sniversitesi, Osman Hamdi Bey Balonu
2000
Portland, USA: CARNIVAL IN THE EYE OF THE STORM – KOSOV@: ART; NEW TECHNOLOGIES, PNCA Philip Feldman Gallery.
1999
Peja, Kosova: PEJA OLD MARKET HAPPENING, Peja – Kosova.

Bang Bang 

2003 / 2’28”

The art works by Albert Heta have a common point in emphasizing the non-present, the absence. Heta uses minimalist tools of a totally reduced symbolism, and places his work at the edge of the ambiguity of signs, signs which are “attacked” by oblivion and lackness.
In his last video titled Bang Bang, Heta relies only upon the great imaginative power of a woman’s voice, who tells the story of how she and her two children had survived a tragedy.

IN THE FRAMEWORK OF :
Projected Visions – Kosovo