Alban Muja

Alban Muja (born 10 September 1980) is a Kosovan contemporary artist and film-maker. In 2019 he represented Kosovo at the 58th Venice Biennale. In his work he is mostly influenced by the social, political and economical transformation processes in wider surrounding region, he investigates history and socio-political themes and links them to his position in Kosovo today. His works cover a wide range of media including video installation, films, drawings, paintings, photographs and performance which have been exhibited extensively in various exhibitions and festivals.

Exhibitions (selection)

 * 2023 - 'Above Everyone’ Charim Gallery, Vienna, Austria
 * 2023 - 'Bodies of Identities’ Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
 * 2023 - '4th Autostrada Biennale', Prizren, Prishtina Mitrovica, Kosovo
 * 2022 - ‘Urban Text : This Space Called Balkans’, Institut Cultures Islam, Paris, France
 * 2022 - ' Manifesta 14', Pishtina, Prishtina, Kosovo
 * 2022 - 'Hot Mess', Kühlhaus, Berlin, Germany
 * 2021 - 'Beyond Borders', Center for Contemporary Arts, Celje, Slovenia
 * 2021 - 'Whatever Happens, We Will Be Prepared', The National Gallery of Kosovo, Prishtina, Kosovo
 * 2021 -'In spite of everything, there is a wall' Charim Gallery, Vienna, Austria,
 * 2021 - 'Family Album' ISCP, New York,
 * 2021 - 3rd Autostrada Biennale - What If a Journey..., Prizren, Kosovo
 * 2021 - 'Bigger Than Myself: Heroic Voices from Ex-Yugoslavia' Maxxi Museum Rome, Italy
 * 2020 – 3rd Industrial Art Biennial 'Ride Into the Sun' Rijeka, Croatia
 * 2020 – Curated by 20 'HYBRID Unknown Identities' Galerie Raum mit Light, Vienna, Austria
 * 2020 – Family Album, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
 * 2019 – 58th. Venice Biennale - May You Live In Interesting Times, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
 * 2019 – NSK State in Time, viennacontemporary Vienna, Austria
 * 2019 – F.M The Process, Petrit Gallery, Cite des Arts, Paris, France
 * 2019 – 'All That We Have In Common' MOMus Experimental Center for the Arts Thessaloniki, Greece
 * 2018 – 'Stranger Than Paradise' MeetFactory Prague, Czech Republic
 * 2018 – 'All That We Have In Common' Museum Of Contemporary Art Skopje, North Macedonia
 * 2017 – Autostrada Biennale 2017 - The Future of Borders, Autostrada Biennale, Prizren, Kosovo
 * 2017 – 'Symptoms of Society' Zhejiang Art Museum Hangzhou, China
 * 2017 – 'Migration of fear' Koroska Gallery of Fine Arts Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia
 * 2017 – Westkunst – Ostkunst. A Selection from the Collection, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Hungary
 * 2017 – 'Utopia / Dystopia: Architecture, City, Territory' Mestna Galerija Ljubljana, Slovenia
 * 2017 – 'The Travellers' Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
 * 2017 – 'Symptoms of Society' Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
 * 2017 – 'Migration of fear' Forum Stadpark, Graz, Austria
 * 2016 – 'Omul Negru' Galeria Nicodim, Los Angeles
 * 2016 – 'Brotherhood Phallicism' Museum of Fine Art, Split, Croatia
 * 2016 – The whale that was a submarine' Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
 * 2016 – 'The Travellers' Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
 * 2016 – 'Normalities' Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
 * 2015 – 3rd Mardin Biennial - Mythologies, Mardin Biennial Mardin, Turkey
 * 2015 – 'Theories on Forgetting' Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
 * 2015 – 'From Brotherhood to Brotherly Love' Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
 * 2015 – 'From Brotherhood to Brotherly Love' 'Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste, Italy
 * 2014 – 'I never knew how to explain' Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
 * 2014 – 'Balcony to the Balkans' Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
 * 2013 – 2nd Project Biennial Of Contemporary Art, D-0 Ark Underground Project Biennial of Contemporary Art, Konjic Bosnia and Herzegovina
 * 2012 – 'Hebron Road/Ridge Route', Art Cube Gallery, Jerusalem
 * 2012 – 'Mediterranean – Arrivals and Departure', Ancona, Italy
 * 2012 – 'Cross-Time Stories' Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York
 * 2011 – 'Spaceship Yugoslavia' NGBK, Berlin
 * 2011 – 'Its all about names' KC Tobacna 001-Mesnta Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia
 * 2011 – 'Politics of naming' Myymala2 Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
 * 2011 – '255 804 km2' – Brot Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
 * 2010 – 'The Another Side of The Coin' Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
 * 2010 – 'Qui Vive?' Moscow International Biennale, Moscow
 * 2010 – 'Spasticus Artisticus' Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool
 * 2009 – 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana, Slovenia

Personal life
Born in Mitrovica, SFR Yugoslavia, now Kosovo. Muja lives and works in Pristina and Berlin He graduated with a Bachelor and Master's degree from the Faculty of Arts, University of Pristina. He is married to photographer and former model Albe Hamiti.