Sislej Xhafa (b, in 1970) in Pejë, Kosova. Sislej Xhafa lives and works in New York. He is known for his artistic investigation into the social, economic and political realities associated with the various complexities of modern society.
Xhafa has over the years highlighted his artistic work on economic and social themes, political realities, as they interactьwith the protean variety of modern society. His investigations, for example,into phenomena of tourism or forced
illegality use a minimal language and they are at the same time ironic and subversive, practicing indifferently a wide range of media, from sculpture to drawing, from performance to photography.
In March 2022, Sislej Xhafa was appointed Honor Academician of ACCADEMIA DI BELLE ARTI DI FIRENZE.
In 2022, Xhafa founded ARKIV, the Institute of Contemporary Art, in Pejë, Kosovo. A public, non-profit NGO located at the current public school 'Vaso Pash Shkodrani', ARKIV was inaugurated in July 2022 with a personal exhibition of artist Artan Hajrullahu.
Xhafa has exhibited widely including at the Galleria Continua, France and Italy (2012, 2016, 2022); and recently at MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Krakow (2022), Manifesta 14, Prishtina (2022), Harabel Foundation, Tirana (2021), the National Fine Arts Museum of Havana (2018) ZAC, Palermo (2017); MAXXI Museum, Rome (2016); BWA Sokol Contemporary Art Gallery, Nowy Sacz (2016); François Pinault Foundation, The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi, Venice; Hardau City Park, Y, Zurich; MADRE Museum of Contemporary Art Donna Regina, Still Untitled, Napoli; The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Rearview Mirror, Toronto (2011); PRISM Misericordia, West Hollywood, California; MAXXI Spazio. Dalle collezioni di arte e architettura, Roma; Il Museo Privato. La passione per l’arte contemporanea nelle collezioni bergamasche, GAMeC, Bergamo; Röda Sten, 2705 Baci…, Göteborg (2010), MART Rovereto Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Language and Experimentations; PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Ibrido. Genetica delle forme, Milano; DEPO, Indefinite Destinations, Istanbul; MADRE Museum of Contemporary Art Donna Regina, Barock, Napoli (2009); Havana Biennial,Havana, Cuba; Modern Art Oxford Transmission Interrupted; Biennale of Gwangju, Gwangju, Korea; MOCAD Museum of Contemporary Art of Detroit, Business As Usual; Schirn Kunsthalle, All-Inclusive. A Tourist World, Frankfurt (2008); Istanbul Museum Of Modern Art Time Present, Time Past, Istanbul; Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art Rethinking Dissent, Göteborg, Sweden; Mori Art Museum, All About Laughter Humor in Contemporary art, Tokyo (2007); PERFORMA05, performance biennial, New York (2005); I Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Fundación BIACS, La alegria de mis sueños, Monasterio la Cartuja de Santa María de las Cuervas, Sevilla; The Renaissance Society, New Video, New Europe, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, St.Louis; Tate Modern, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks;
Fundació ‘la Caixa’ la Sala Montcada, Barcelona; Haifa Museum of Art, Israel (2004), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2003), Gwangju Biennial, Pause, Gwangju, (2002); Istanbul Biennial, Egofugal, Istanbul; S.M.A.K., Casino, Gent; PS1, Uniform, New York (2001); Manifesta III, Ljubljana, Slovenia, S.M.A.K., Over the Edges, Gent (2000); Fondazione Olivetti, Rome (2000), Venice Biennale (1997,1999, 2005, 2013, 2017); Shadow of Curls, Blain Southern, Berlin, DE (2017), Ephemeral installation for Children Action, Parc des Bastions, Geneva, CH, (2017), Infermeria, ZAC, Palermo, IT (2017), Rosa azul, National Fine Arts Museum of Havana, Havana, CU (2018), Demanio Marittimo, Ancona, IT (2018), love you without knowing, National Gallery of Kosovo, Prishtina, XK (2018), J, permanent installation,Nuovo Palazzo Di Giustizia, Florence, IT (2018), ovoid solitude, ArtBasel UNLIMITED, Basel, CH (2019).
Xhafa has over the years highlighted his artistic work on economic and social themes, political realities, as they interactьwith the protean variety of modern society. His investigations, for example,into phenomena of tourism or forced
illegality use a minimal language and they are at the same time ironic and subversive, practicing indifferently a wide range of media, from sculpture to drawing, from performance to photography.
In March 2022, Sislej Xhafa was appointed Honor Academician of ACCADEMIA DI BELLE ARTI DI FIRENZE.
In 2022, Xhafa founded ARKIV, the Institute of Contemporary Art, in Pejë, Kosovo. A public, non-profit NGO located at the current public school 'Vaso Pash Shkodrani', ARKIV was inaugurated in July 2022 with a personal exhibition of artist Artan Hajrullahu.
Xhafa has exhibited widely including at the Galleria Continua, France and Italy (2012, 2016, 2022); and recently at MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Krakow (2022), Manifesta 14, Prishtina (2022), Harabel Foundation, Tirana (2021), the National Fine Arts Museum of Havana (2018) ZAC, Palermo (2017); MAXXI Museum, Rome (2016); BWA Sokol Contemporary Art Gallery, Nowy Sacz (2016); François Pinault Foundation, The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi, Venice; Hardau City Park, Y, Zurich; MADRE Museum of Contemporary Art Donna Regina, Still Untitled, Napoli; The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Rearview Mirror, Toronto (2011); PRISM Misericordia, West Hollywood, California; MAXXI Spazio. Dalle collezioni di arte e architettura, Roma; Il Museo Privato. La passione per l’arte contemporanea nelle collezioni bergamasche, GAMeC, Bergamo; Röda Sten, 2705 Baci…, Göteborg (2010), MART Rovereto Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Language and Experimentations; PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Ibrido. Genetica delle forme, Milano; DEPO, Indefinite Destinations, Istanbul; MADRE Museum of Contemporary Art Donna Regina, Barock, Napoli (2009); Havana Biennial,Havana, Cuba; Modern Art Oxford Transmission Interrupted; Biennale of Gwangju, Gwangju, Korea; MOCAD Museum of Contemporary Art of Detroit, Business As Usual; Schirn Kunsthalle, All-Inclusive. A Tourist World, Frankfurt (2008); Istanbul Museum Of Modern Art Time Present, Time Past, Istanbul; Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art Rethinking Dissent, Göteborg, Sweden; Mori Art Museum, All About Laughter Humor in Contemporary art, Tokyo (2007); PERFORMA05, performance biennial, New York (2005); I Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Fundación BIACS, La alegria de mis sueños, Monasterio la Cartuja de Santa María de las Cuervas, Sevilla; The Renaissance Society, New Video, New Europe, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, St.Louis; Tate Modern, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks;
Fundació ‘la Caixa’ la Sala Montcada, Barcelona; Haifa Museum of Art, Israel (2004), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2003), Gwangju Biennial, Pause, Gwangju, (2002); Istanbul Biennial, Egofugal, Istanbul; S.M.A.K., Casino, Gent; PS1, Uniform, New York (2001); Manifesta III, Ljubljana, Slovenia, S.M.A.K., Over the Edges, Gent (2000); Fondazione Olivetti, Rome (2000), Venice Biennale (1997,1999, 2005, 2013, 2017); Shadow of Curls, Blain Southern, Berlin, DE (2017), Ephemeral installation for Children Action, Parc des Bastions, Geneva, CH, (2017), Infermeria, ZAC, Palermo, IT (2017), Rosa azul, National Fine Arts Museum of Havana, Havana, CU (2018), Demanio Marittimo, Ancona, IT (2018), love you without knowing, National Gallery of Kosovo, Prishtina, XK (2018), J, permanent installation,Nuovo Palazzo Di Giustizia, Florence, IT (2018), ovoid solitude, ArtBasel UNLIMITED, Basel, CH (2019).
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