Petrit Halilaj
Born in Kostërrc (Skenderaj-Kosovo) 1986. Lives and works between Bozzolo (Mn), Berlin and Pristina.

Residencies
2018
Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (SARF), Washington D.C.
2016
MAK-Schindler Scholarship Program at the Mackey Apartments, Los Angeles
2014
Villa Romana, Florence
2013
Fürstenberg, Donaueschingen

Grants – Prizes
2017
Mario Merz Prize
2010
Blau Orange 2010 – shortlist Simon Denny, Petrit Halilaj, Klara Liden, Nora Schultz

Solo Exhibitions
2021
Solo exhibition, curated by Anne Barlow, Tate St Ives, Cornwall (upcoming)
2020
To a raven and hurricanes that from unknown places bring back smells of humans in love, Palacio de Cristal, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
2018
Shkrepëtima, Fondazione Merz, Turin
Hammer Projects: Petrit Halilaj, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Shkrepëtima, Paul Klee Zentrum, Bern
Shkrepëtima, Performance, Runik, Kosovo
2017
RU, curated by Helga Christoffersen, New Museum, New York
ABETARE (Fluturat), Kamel Mennour, Paris
Do you realise there is a rainbow even if it’s night!?, Kamel Mennour, London
2015
Space Shuttle in the Garden, Hangar Bicocca, curated by Roberta Tenconi, Milan
ABETARE, curated by Moritz Wesseler and Carla Donauer, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
She fully turning around became terrestrial, curated by Rein Wolfs, at Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
2014
Yes but the sea is attached to the earth and it never floats around in space. The stars would turn off and what about my planet?, Kamel Mennour, Paris
of course blue affects my way of shitting, Chert, Berlin
Darling squeeze the button and remove my memory, Galeria e Arteve e Kosovës, Prishtina
I’m hungry to keep you close. I want to find the words to resist but in the end there is a locked sphere. The funny thing is that you’re not here, nothing is, Kunshalle Lissabon, Lisbon
2013
July 14th?, Foundation d’Enterprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris
I’m hungry to keep you close. I want to find the words to resist but in the end there is a locked sphere. The funny thing is that you’re not here, nothing is, Kosovo Pavillion, Venice Biennale, curated by Kathrin Rhomberg, commissioned by Erzen Shkololli, Arsenale, Venice
Poisoned by men in need of some love, curated by Elena Filipovic, WIELS Contemporary Art Center, Brussels
Petrit Halilaj, Tongewölbe T25, Ingolstadt
2012
Who does the earth belong to while painting the wind?!, curated by Giovanni Carmine, Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen
2011
Petrit Halilaj, curated by Veit Loers, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck
Kostërrc (CH), Statements, Art Basel , with Chert, Berlin
2009
Back to the Future, curated by Albert Heta, Stacion, Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, Kosovo.
Petrit Halilaj, solo exhibition, Chert, Berlin.
1996
Shote Galica, Scuola Elementare, curated by Behlul Spahiu, Runik-Kosovo

Group Exhibitions
2020
Macht! Licht!, curated by Andreas Beitin and Holger Broeker, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Mother!, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
Biennale Gherdëina 7, curated by Adam Budak, Dolomites, Ortisei, South Tyrol, Italy

2019
Infancy and History, curated by Andris Brinkmanis, Paolo Caffoni and Yin Shuai, OCAT Institute, Beijing
THE GARDEN BRIDGE, curated by Kinderhook & Caracas, Brücke Museum, Berlin
A Shiver in Search of a Spine, Arario Gallery, Samcheong, Korea
Homeless Souls, curated by Marie Laurberg, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
15th Lyon Biennale, Lyon
The Palace at 4 A.M., curated by Elina Kountouri and Iwona Blazwick, Archeological Museum of Mykonos, Mykonos
Wege zur Welt – Sammlung Hildebrand, curated by Anka Ziefer, G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig
2018
New Materialism, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
CHILDHOOD. Another Banana Day for the Perfect Fish, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
THAT’S IT!, MAMbo – Sala delle Ciminiere, Bologna
When Animal Talked to Human, Traversia Cuarto, Madrid
Friend of a Friend, ChertLüdde hosted by Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
Una vida doméstica – A Domestic Life, Curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy, Curated Sector at Salón Acme, Mexico City
2017
Mit den Händen zu greifen und doch nicht zu fassen, Kunsthalle Mainz
Art and Alphabet, Curated by Brigitte Kölle, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
FIAC, ChertLüdde
Friends of Birds, Curated by Jeanne Barral, DOC!, Paris
Viva Arte Viva, Curated by Christine Macel, 57th Biennale di Venezia
Mario Merz Prize, Fondazione Merz, Turin
An ear, severed, listens, ChertLüdde, Berlin
Exhibition Fellows – Final Projects: Group XLII, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
2016
Artissima, ChertLüdde
Animality, Marian Goodman Gallery, Curated by Jens Hoffmann, London
To Walk a Line, at Akademie der Künste der Welt, Köln for PLURIVESALE V
Group presentation at Artissima, Turin
The Distance of a Day: New in Contemporary Art, curated by Rita Kersting, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Triennale Fellbach, Curated by Susanne Gaensheimer, Co-Curator Anna Goetz, Alte Kelter Fellbach
Par tibi, Roma, nihil, Curated by Raffaella Frascarelli, Palatin Hill, Rome
SUPER SUPERSTUDIO,  Co-curated by Andreas Angelidakis, Vittorio Pizzigoni and Valter Scelsi, PAC-Pavilion of Contemporary Art, Milan
2015
Alfred Jarry Archipelago: ‘HA ‘HA, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, Museo Marino Marini, Florence
Appearance & Essence – Timișoara Art Encounters 1st Edition, Curated by Nathalie Hoyos and Rainald Schumacher, Art Encounters Foundation, Timisoara
Florenz Contemporary, Italian Embassy in Berlin, Berlin
Thirty one, curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Petrit Halilaj, National Gallery of Kosovo, Kosovo
What’s Love Gotta Do With It, S.A.L.T.S., Switzerland
Trouble in Paradise, curated by Rein Wolfs, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
Slip of the Tongue, curated by Caroline Bourgeois and Danh Vo, Punta della Dogana, Venice
2014
Shit and Die, Palazzo Cavour, curated by Maurizio Cattelan, Myriam Ben and Marta Papini, Turin
Fragile Sense of Hope, Telekom Collection, curated by Nathalie Hoyos and Rainald Schumacher, me Collectors Room, Berlin
Artists’ Artists, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Fieldworks: Animal Habitats in Contemporary Art, curated by Chris Clarke, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, CorkVilla Romana-Preisträger 2014, Villa Romana, Florence
2013
Editionshow, Chert, Berlin
Zweiter Streich, Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch, Donaueschingen.
SUPER Visions – Zeichnen und Sein, curated by Stefanie Heckmann, Museum Schloss Moyland, Moyland
2012
Fuoriclasse – 20 years of Italian Art in the class of Alberto Garutti, curated by Luca Cerizza, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan
Focus, Frieze art fair, with Chert Berlin
It doesn’t always have to be beautiful, unless it’s beautiful, Muslim Mulliqi prize, The National Gallery of Kosovo, Prishtina
New Public, curated by Rein Wolfs, Museion, Bolzano
Lost and Found, curated by Isabel Devriendt, Wilfried Huet, Dirk Engelen, Stella Lohaus. ERROR ONE, Antwerp
30 Künstler/30 Räume, curated by Kathleen Rahn, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nuremberg
2011
Temporaneo, organized by IMF Foundation and Nomas Foundation, Auditorium, Rome
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands, curated by Scott C. Weaver, RaebervonStenglin, Zurich
Ernste Tiere: Petrit Halilaj, Judith Hopf, Bedwyr Williams, curated by Christina Végh Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
Ostalgia, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, New Museum, New York
Based in Berlin, curated by Angelique Campens, Fredi Fischli, Magdalena Magiera, Jakob Schillinger, and Scott Cameron Weaver, Atelierhaus Monbijoupark, Berlin
Struktur & Organismus, with Max Frey, Tue Greenfort, Petrit Halilaj, Rita Vitorelli, curated by Stefan Tasch, Marillenhof – Destillerie Kausl, Austria
You don’t love me anymore, curated by Katja Schroeder, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
2010
Maladresses ou La Figure de l’idiot, curated by Fanny Gonella, The Institute of Social Hypocrisy, Paris
Drinnen & Draussen, Chert, Berlin
6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, curated by Kathrin Rhomberg, KW, Berlin
Petrit Halilaj, Heike Kabisch, Carla Scott Fullerton, Berlin–Paris Exchange, Galerie Carlos Cardenas, Paris with Chert, Berlin
2009
Melancholy of Compassion, curated by Melih Gorgun, Siemens Gallery, Istanbul
Time Machine, curated by Vlado Velkov, Kunstverein Arnsberg
2008
The Lamb’s Mother in the Creche?, Chert, Berlin
Art is my Playground, Tershane, Istanbul
2006
Mediterraneo Contemporaneo, curated by Antonio d’Avossa, Castello Aragonese, Taranto
Corpo Urbano, De Portesio, curated by di Bruno Muzzolini, Roberta Baldaro, Massimo Rossi, Fondazione Cominelli, Brescia
Wireless, curated by Alessandro Mancassola and Bruno Muzzolini, Unorossodue
Migre, curated by Katia Anguelova and Alessandra Poggianti, Careof, Milano
Open Air, curated by Marinella Paderni and Isotta Saccani, Orto Botanico, Parma
1999
Bambini Di Kukes, organized by Dr. Poli Giacomo, Palazzo Municipale di Cremona
Kosove 1999, organized by Ymer Metalia, I° Premio Galleria d’Arte, Lezhe–Albania

Collections
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco; MCA, Chicago; Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin, Galerie Lafayette, Paris; University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago; Nomas Foundation, Rome; Fürstenberg Contemporary Collection, Donaueschingen; Ettore Fico Foundation, Turin; Sammlung Telekom Deutschland, Lohmar; Lewben Art Foundation, Lituania; Bundeskunstsammlung, The Federal Collection of Contemporary Art of the Federal Republic of Germany; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; Colección Jumex, Mexico City;  FRAC Champagne-Ardenne / Regional Funds for Contemporary Art; FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais; Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf; Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Collección Isabel y Augustín Coppel, Mexico.

Bibliography – Selected Articles
2019
“KOSTERRC (CH) by artist Petrit Halilaj” by Sokol Ferizi, on Stillpoint, September 2019, online
“Living Archaeology – Petrit Halilaj talks with Heddie Judah about butterflies, the politicisation of artefacts and the lost cultural history of his Kosovar home city”, Petrit Halilaj interviewed by Heddie Judah on Frieze, March 2019
2018
“Shkrepëtima!” by Leonardo Bigazzi on Flash Art, December 2018
“I luoghi utopici” by Vincenzo Latronico on Flash Art, December 2018
“Ahead of Artissima – Your Guide to the Best Shows in Turin”, by Barbara Casavecchia on Frieze, 30 October 2018
“In Turin spürt PETRIT HALILAJ der verlorenen Heimat hat” by Jens Hinrichsen on Monopol, October 2018
“Stories from the ruins” by Anya Harrison on BLOU IN Modern Painters, October 2018
“Halilaj, il Kosovo è un sogno multietnico” by Fabio Bozzato on Il Venerdì, October 2018
“Petrit Halilaj The Lightning” by Elise Lammer on L’Officiel, Fall 2018
“The little revolution of Runik” by Cristina Marí on kosovotwopointzero, July 2018
2017
“Petrit Halilaj’s presents a major project at the New Museum” on domusweb, October 2017
“Petrit Halilaj – NEW MUSEUM” by Ida Panicelli on Artforum, September 2017
“9 Breakout Artists from the Venice Biennale” by Marina Garcia-Vasquez on Vice, August 2017
“Petrit Halilaj alla Biennale d’Arte di Venezia” by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi on L’Uomo Vogue, May 2017
2016
“Petrit Halilaj – Space Shuttle in the Garden at HangarBicocca”, Mousse, 2016
“Petrit Halilaj all’Hangar Bicocca”, Juliet Art Magazine, February 2016
“Halilaj: Che borghesi queste galline!”, Sole 24 ore, February 2016
“Una casa volante per polli astronauti”, Il Giornale dell’Arte, January 2016
2015
“Artist’s Diary: Petrit Halilaj and Alvaro Urbano, ATP DIARY, July 2015
“Alte Meister, Von Neuen Geliebt”, Monopol, pp. 38, issue #06/2015, June 2015
“No More Trauma, but a Long Journey for Homeland: On the Art of Kosovan Artist Petrit Halilaj”, by Yunnia Yang, Art Collection+Design, Taiwan, February 2015, pp. 124-129
2014
“Best of 2014” selected by Maurizio Cattelan, ARTFORUM, December 2014
“Petrit Halilaj”, by Barbara Casavecchia, ArtReview, January, February 2014
2013
“Le mejor de 2013 – Petrit Halilaj selectedby Danh Vo”, Código Magazine, issue #78, December 2013
“Agenda: Petrit Halilaj at WIELS”, Babara Casavecchia, Mousse, issue no. 40, November 2013
“Highlights: Petrit Halilaj”, Elena Filipovic, Kaleidoscope, issue 18, Summer 2013
“Kosovo Historienspiel”, Birgit Sonna, Art Das Kunstmagazin, June 2013
“Papier erobert den Raum”, Susanne Schreiber, Handelsblatt, March 2013
“Kosovo: Première Vénitiene”, Beaux Arts Magazine, February 2013
2012
Review of the exhibition “Who does the earth belong to while painting the wind?!”, Marco Tagliafierro, Artforum, November 2012
“‘Who does the earth belong to while painting the wind?!’ Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen.,” Aoife Rosenmeyer, Art Review, n0. 62 / October 2012
“Petrit Halilaj’s new project for Kunsthalle St. Gallen”, Michele Robecchi, Kunstbulletin, 7-8/2012
“Future Greats”, Giovanni Carmine, Art Review, issue 57, March 2012
2011
“Die Zeit zurückdrehen”, Dorothea Nikolussi-Salzer, Der Standard, October 2011
“Eine Himmelsscheibe, die die Zeit zurückdreht”, Ivona Jelcic, Tiroler Tageszeitung, October 2011
Ingeborg Wiensowski, Loch der Erinnerung, Spiegel Online, July 25, 2011
“Ernste Tiere” im Bonner Kunstverein, General Anzeiger Bonn, July 15, 22011
“Art Basel”, Quinn Latimer, Art Agenda, June 17, 2011
“Petrit Halilaj – Zeitschrift zuschnitt 42” Stefan Tasch, Obendrauf, June 2011
“Petrit Halilaj, by Johan Lundh, Metropolis M, no. 3 June / July 2011
“Petrit Halilaj – Brand New”, Laura Cherubini, Flash Art International, March-April 2011
2010
“Best of 2010”, Christine Macel, Artforum, December 2010
“Where Is Petrit’s Real House?”, by Vincenzo Latronico, Domus, no. 939, September 2010
“Kunst im 21. Jahrhundert”, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, DU Magazine, June 2010
“6 Berlin Biennale, Spezial”, Monopol, June 2010
“Here and there”, by Barbara Casavecchia, Mousse, n0. 23, April 2010
2009
“Home away from home”, by Vincenzo Latronico, Domus, November 2009
“Communication seems to be lacking us as well”, Gargarin, no. 19, 2009
2008
“Ombre, arte, fucili, case e tableaux vivant. Sotto il cielo dell’arte a Torino e Milano. Artissima, le 50 lune di Saturno e le performance di Tino Sehgal”, by Francesca Pasini, Linus, December 2008
2007
“Nuovi, Nuovi, Nuovi, dall’archivio Careof & Viafarini”, Milovan Farronato, Exibart.onpaper, no. 37, February/March 2007

Catalogues – Publications
2019
“Shkrepëtima”, exhibition catalogue, published by fondazione merz, Torino, ISBN: 978-88-7757-276-9.
2018
“New Materialism|Ny Materialism”, exhibition catalogue at Bonniers Konsthall, published by Art and Theory Publishing, Stockholm. ISBN: 9789188031662
“That’s IT!”, exhibition catalogue at MAMbo, published by Istituzione Bologna Musei MAMbo, Trento. ISBN: 978-88-96296-56-1
“Another Banana Day for the Dream-Fish”, exhibition catalogue, Palais Magazine, published by Palais de Tokyo, Paris. ISBN: 978-2-84711-102-6
2016
“Space Shuttle In The Garden, Petrit Halilaj”, exhibition catalogue at HangarBicocca, published by Mousse Publishing, catalogue edited by Roberta Tenconi. ISBN 9788867492411
2015
“Petrit Halilaj” exhibition catalogue at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Bundeskunsthalle, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln. ISBN: 9783863357344
2014
“Shit and Die”, Maurizio Cattelan, Myriam Ben Salah, Marta Papini, Published by Damiani, Bologna, ISBN: 9788862084024
“De Generation of Painting”, published by Fondazione 107, Turin, 2014
“Il Piedistallo Vuoto/The Empty Pedestal”, Mousse, texts by Boris Buden, Keti Chukhrov, Vit Havránek, Marco Scotini and Joanna Warsza, Milan, ISBN: 9788867490691
“of course blue affects my way of shitting”, Chert and Motto books, Berlin, ISBN: 978294052418
“Kushtetuta”, edited by Petrit Halilaj, Alvaro Urbano, Issue 2, Self-published
2013
“Kosovo Pavilion – Venice Biennale”, Walther König, edited by Kathrin Rhomberg & Erzen Shkololli, Cologne, ISBN-10: 3863355474, ISBN-13: 978-3863355470
“Poisoned by men in need of some love”, exhibition catalogue, edited by Elena Filipovic, WIELS and Motto books, ISBN: 978-2-940524-07-5
“Kushtetuta”, edited by Petrit Halilaj, Alvaro Urbano, Issue 1, KOSOVO 2.0
“SUPER Visions – Zeichen und Sein”, exhibition catalogue, Museum Schloss Moyland, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, ISBN: 3869844191
2012
“New Public”, exhibition catalogue at Museion, Walther König, edited by Rein Wolfs, texts by Federico Campagna, Maria Lind, Rein Wolfs, Cologne, ISBN: 9783863352400
“30 Künstler 30 Räume”, exhibition catalogue, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, text by Franz Xaver Baier, Dietrich Mahlow, Angelika Nollert, Nürnberg, ISBN: 978-3-86984-320-9
2011
Artist’s book, published by Kunstraum Innsbruck and Chert, Berlin
“Struktur & Organismus”, exhibition catalogue, edited by Stefan Tasch, Marillenhof – Destillerie Kausl, Austria
“Ostalgia”, exhibition catalogue, published by New Museum, New York
“Based in Berlin”, exhibition catalogue, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, ISBN: 9783863350451
“Kostërrc (CH)”, brochure, Chert and Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
“My work and me”, edited by Susanne Pfeffer, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, ISBN: 9783865609052
2010
“Blau Orange 2010 – shortlist Simon Denny, Petrit Halilaj, Klara Liden, Nora Schultz”, published by BVR – National Association of German Cooperative Banks
“Drinnen & Draussen”, exhibition catalogue, Chert and Motto Books, Berlin
“What is waiting out there”, Berlin Biennale 2010, curated by Kathrin Rhomberg, DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne
“Liste”, fair catalogue, Basel