User:Fate Velaj

fate velaj, mas- art and culture manager, curator, painter, photograph and essayist/narrator

1963 born in vlora-lives and works in vienna and vlora (on ionian sea) with an austrian and an albanian passport 2003-became in federal chancellery of austria the medal “bundesehrenzeichen”-federal decoration of honour for special merit to the republic of austria 2003-won the "golden medal" as the best artist in internationally competition of fine arts -sanremo,italy 2006-diploma for "art & cultural management" at the university of applied arts, vienna- http://velaj.com/?cid=1,85,220 fate velaj is:

since 2001-chairman and curator of forum weltoffen international http://www.weltoffen.org

2004-2008 artistic director of "wmc artforum vienna"

since 2007-chairman of europeanforum al

member of managementclub austria

board member in different international organizations

fate velaj speaks: german, englisch, italian and albanian

initiator and organizer of different international symposiums with the participation of higher personalities from art, culture and politic: 2001-renner institute

2001-university of vienna

2002-house of literature

2002-schrack ag

2002-city hall of scheibbs

2003-cultural centre of athens, greece "xenos"

2003-diplomatic academy,vienna book presentation-“albanien” from christine von kohl

2004-oberbank, vienna "macedonia"

2004-diplomatic academy

2004-cultural centre of czech republic,vienna "eu enlargement-also cultural?"

2005-romanian centre,vienna-book presentation „paradigm of the longing" from luan topciu

2005-managementclub-"albania:take me to the ionian sea"

2005-managementclub-"bulgaria-art,economy,politic"

2005-art school of vlora - "art positioins"

2005-managementclub-"croatia-art,economy,politic"

2005-managementclub-"macedonia-art,economy,politic"

2006-academy of fine arts tirana "orgies mysteries theatre" from hermann nitsch

2006-europaen forum alpbach "albania - differently seen”

2007-university of vlora "europa-so far so near"

2008-"the new positions in the contemporary photography" in art school of vlora

2010-"vlora forum for international dialog"

initiator and curator of international exhibitions and cultural initiatives with the participation of international acclaimed artists: hermann nitsch, adolf frohner, theodoros papayannis, zaharias avranitis, robert kabas, oliver dorfer, kyoko adanyia, zora stancic, aurel vlad, klaus joachim keller, erwin maria hafner, sinasi bozatli, omar el nagdi, reshat ameti, etc.

selcted:

2001-"weltoffen" in austrian parliament, vienna

2002-“art improves the time” in city hall of vienna

2002-"art improves the time" in national cultural centre of macedonia, skopje

2002-“between danube and nile” in egyptian cultural centre, vienna

2002-"between danube and nile" in national art centre of egypt, cairo

2003-“good morning, balkan” in art centre of athens, greece

2004-"new art from neighbours" romanian art centre, vienna

2004-"good morning, balkan" in national museum of romania, bucharest

2005-"good morning, balkan" in national gallery of albania, tirana

2005-"into the south's blue" art colony in radhima beach

2005-"artist of the month"–klaus joachim keller

2005-"artist of the month"–erwin maria hafner

2005-"artist of the month"–mario grubisic

2005-"artist of the month"–nadja dimitrova

2005-"a japanese in florisdorf " kyoko adanyia

2005-"artist of the month"–alex bilc

2005-"artist of the month"–sinasi bozatli

2005-"artist of the month"–reshat ameti, flora emurlai

2005-"artist of the month"–valentina koleva

2005-"artist of the month"-jasna sukalo

2005-"artist of the month"–fate velaj

2006-"good morning, balkan"in national gallery of kosovo,pristina

2006-"good morning,balkan" in gallery of the city trieste,italy

2007-"heat" in the gallery of the city vlora, albania

2007-"good morning, balkan" national gallery of macedonia, ohrid

2008-"good morning, balkan" european forum alpbach

2008-"light&shadow"- new photography from macedonia

2009-"100 steps towards europe-europa boulevard " in pogradec on lake ohrid - http://velaj.com/?cid=1,103,252

publication:

catalogue - memories from the future - tirana, 2008

catalogue - "on the road" -rrota artspace- pristina 2008

catalogue - "good morning, balkan" 1- cultural centre of athens, greece, 2003

catalogue - "good morning, balkan" 2, national museum cotroceni, bucharest, romania 2004

catalogue - "good morning, balkan" 3, albanian national gallery, tirana 2005

catalogue - "good morning, balkan" 4, national gallery of kosovo, pristina 2006

brochure - good morning balkan-trieste 2006 [http://velaj.com/?cid=1,85,144

catalogue-„good morning, balkan“ 6 - national gallery of macedonia, ohrid,2007

catalogue - "good morning, balkan" 7 - european forum alpbach, 2008

catalogue - "...between danube and nile" national art centre of egypt, cairo 2002

catalogue - "kunst verbessert die zeit", skopje, macedonia 2002

brochure - "al-eu-al", national museum tirana and university of vlora 2007

brochure - "albania - differently seen", european forum alpbach 2006

catalogue - "paint into the light" gallery in palais palffy, vienna, austria 2000