Artan Shabani
Artan Shabani Biography Artan Shabani was born in 1969 in Vlora, Albania and currently lives between Tirana and Turin. In 1991 he moved to Italy, then travelled in France and Spain, constantly working with different artistic projects. Shabani is the founder of The Promenade Gallery (2007) in Vlora. From October 2013 he has been Director of the National Gallery of Arts, Tirana. As an artist he works with a broad spectrum of media such as painting, drawing, photography, video and installation. His works have been displayed in various biennials, personal and group exhibitions, fairs and competitions, held in important galleries, museums and public institutions, private and public, national and international. Shabani’s work focuses mainly on historical, political and social themes, and in particular in the metamorphosis of those societies who experienced the trauma of the cold war in a local and international key, built mostly as an endless album of persisting personal memories. Shabani’s works can be found in many private and public institutions and collections, mainly in the US, France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and Albania.
MOSTRE PERSONALI
2014 “Atlas”, Beyoğlu Municipal Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2012 “Your Only Real Thing Is Time”, The Promenade Gallery & PIA Residential Area, Vlorë, Albania
2010 ‘’Talking About’’, La Générale en Manufacture Sèvres, Paris, France
2010 “The Beatles Yeah! Yeah!”, Alexander Alvarez Gallery, Alessandria, Italy
2009 Works on Paper, Promenade Gallery, Vlora, Albania
2008 “Foreigners, ma non troppo”, Mavi Kum Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2008 “The labyrinth of memory”, Salone del Ghetto, Chieri, Torino, Italy
2007 “Discourses in Painting”, Galeria Jozef, Durrës, Albania
2006 “Visage d’Albanie, BPS Suisse, Commission Nationale Monègasque pour l’UNESCO. Monte Carlo
2006 “Delfi dorme e dove risuona il grande destino”, Galleria Mikro, Torino, Italy
2006 “Balkan Metamorphosis”, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania
2006 Palazzo Doria-Pamphilj, San Martino al Cimino, Viterbo, Italy
2005 “Visioni di Confine”, Galleria Koiné, Scicli, Ragusa, Italy
2005 Villa Caruso Bellosguardo, Lastra a Signa, Firenze, Italy
2005 “Via Egnatia”, National Automobile Museum of Italy, Torino, Italy
2004 “Constructed Realities”, Palace of European Councils, Strasbourg, France
2004 Palazzo del Capitano, Bagno di Romagna, Italy
2004 “L’acqua dei Balcani é nel mare di Venezia”, Palazzo delle Prigioni, Venezia, Italy
2004 “Sguardo ad Est”, Palazzo Salmatoris, Cherasco, Cuneo, Italy
2004 “The Green Room”, Villa Strozzi, Firenze, Italy
2003 Pohjanmaan museo / Österbottens Museum, Vaasa, Finland
2003 “Still Life”, Palazzo Serbelloni, Milano, Italy
2002 “Ngjyrat e Mesdheut”, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania
2002 Palazzo Barberini, Roma, Italy
2001 “Below The Light”, Antibes Gallery, Antibes France
2001 Lenka Tresnak Gallery, Bruneck, South Tyrol, Italy
2000 “In transito”, Palazzo Congressi, Limone sul Garda, Italy
2000 ‘’Galleria Manini’’, Curated by Paolo Levi, Torino, Italy
1999 ‘’Salle Municipale des Deux Frères”, Roquebrune Cap Martin, France
1999 “Les couleurs du Sud”, Galerie du Métropole, Principauté de Monaco
1998 Scaglia di Verrua’s Palace, ‘Salon 3’, Torino, Italy
1998 “Blu di Prussia”, Palazzo Scaglia di Verrua, Torino, Italy
1998 “Realismi”, Galleria La Lanterna, Moncalieri, Torino, Italy
1997 “Extraordinary Visions”, Fundamentals of San Pietro, Porto Venere, Italy
1996 “Territori”, Ginko Biloba Gallery, Torino, Italy
1993 “Eureka”, Castello Ducale De Monti, Corigliano d’Otranto, Lecce, Italy
MOSTRE COLLETTIVE
2015 “All About These... Ladies and Gentlemen”, Temporary Gallery, Koln, Germany
2015 “Reflections from Albania”, Museum of Modern Art, Kuwait City, Kuwait
2014 Arab Guggenheim Museum and White House Biennial, The Kennedy Bunker, Berlin, Germany
2014 48th Internationaler Kunstmarkt, Art Cologne, Germany
2013 - 2014 “All About These... Ladies and Gentlemen”, Soma, Mexico City, Mexico / Viafarini, Milan, Italy
/ Co-Pilot, Pilot Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey / Studio Arte Gallery, Bucharest, Romania/ Other artists: Shadi
Habib Allah, Rosa Barba, Fikret Atay, Ali Kazma, Adrian Paci, Anri Sala, Nick Zedd, Curator: Fani Zguro
2013 “Oltremare”, Ibrahim Kodra Foundation, Casa Museo Ibrahim Kodra, Milano, Italy
2013 Flash Art Event, Palazzo del Ghiaccio, Milano, Italy
2012 13th International Architecture Venice Biennale, “In Heritage”, Albanian Pavilon, Palazzo Zorzi,
Venezia, Italy
2012 “Make It Easy, Make It Porn”, Curator Fani Zguro. Gallery On The Move in collaboration with Isola
Art Center. Isola Libri. Other artists: Kajsa Dahlberg, Regina José Galindo, Thomas Hirschhorn, Steve Piccolo,
Pipilotti Rist, Anri Sala, Santiago Sierra, Dafna Maimon, Nick Zedd & Richard Kern. Milano, Italy
2012 Hosted in Athens BEST-OFF / Vlorë, Blightman Bofiliou / Berlin, Daily Lazy Projects / Athens,
Greece
2012 Fild’ altamarpollença, festival interdisciplinari ludic, Pollença Mallorca Illes Balleares, Spain
2012 Sala Gagliardi, Il Giardino Della Bellezza, Noto, Italy
2011 National Museum of Malta, Valletta, Malta
2011 National Museum of Romania, Cluj, Romania
2011 “A History Out of Context”, Curator Alberto Zanchetta, Promenade Gallery, Vlorë, Albania
2010 Mobilnale 2, Tina B, Prague, Czech Republic
2010 Casa Masaccio, Contemporary Art, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy
2010 “Who Is Afraid of Red, Yellow and Green”, Promenade Gallery, Vlora, Albania
2010 “Lottery of the Sea”, Battaglie Gallery, Brescia, Italy
2010 “Sulle Tracce di Luca Giordano”, Villa Bruno, San Giorgio a Cremano, Italy
2010 “The Berlin Wall”, Petro Marko Theatre, Vlora, Albania
2009 Mulliqi Prize, Kosova National Gallery of Art, Prishtina, Kosova. Curated by Michele Robecchi (Phaidon
London).
2009 Prague Biennale 4, Curators Helena Kontova and Giancarlo Politi, Prague, Czech Republic
2009 Venice Biennale - 53. Editions, “Krossing / Oltre I Confini Tra I Territori, Oltre I Confini Tra Artista e
Spettatore”, Forte Marghera, Venezia, Italy
2008 “Lallazioni Lavabili Live 01 & Sconfinamenti”, Alexander Alvares Gallery, Alessandria, Italy
2007 National Gallery of Macedonia, Čifte Amam, Skopje, Macedonia
2007 Limonaia of Castle Museum, Limone sul Garda, Italy
2007 “Processo Grottesco”, Zenit Gallery, Tirana, Albania
2007 Luzzati Museum, Porta Siberi, Genova, Italy
2006 “Experiment in Terror”, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, 12th International Onufri Prize, Tirana,
Albania
2006 Hippocampe Gallery, ‘Still Song’, Saint. Jean Cap Ferrat, France
2005 Sound Check, Collegio Fratelli Cairoli, Pavia, Italy
2005 Henry Bronne Gallery, Monte-Carlo, Monaco
2004 Group Show, National Gallery of Arts, Curator Edi Muka, Tirana, Albania
2004 Mäster Olofsgården, Stockholm, Sweden
2004 Sabir Festival of Mediterranee, Scicli Ragusa, Italy
2004 The National Library, Firenze, Italy
2004 Palazzo Pallavicini, Mombaruzzo Asti, Italy
2003 “Albanie Collection Printemps Eternité”, Galerie Montaigne, Paris, France
2003 “Extraordinary Visions”, Bocconi University, Milano, Italy
2003 Palazzo Ceriana Mayneri, Torino, Italy
2003 Dieffe Gallery Contemporart Art, Torino, Italy
2003 NEUF Gallery, Dijon, France
2002 The Foundation Palazzo Bricherasio, Historical Rooms, Torino, Italy
2002 Auditorium del Massimo, Week of Albanian Culture, Rome, Italy
2002 Pohjanmaan museo/Österbottens Museum, Vaasa, Finland
2002 La Place Gallery, Calvisson, France
2001 “Amour Erotisme Pornographie”, ORigiNalgAlleRy, Nice, France
2001 Palazzo delle Azzarie, Savona, Italy
2000 Palazzo Bruno, Mondovì Piazza Cuneo, Italy
2000 Mark Peet Visser Gallery, Heusden, Netherlands
2000 Museo della Permanente, Milano, Italy
2000 Torre della Filande, Rivoli, Italy
1999 International Salon of Fine Art, Roquebrune Cap Martin, France
1999 Artissima International Fair of Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy
1999 Salon Monaco Artistes, Monte Carlo
1998 Artissima International Fair of Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy
1998 Mediateque St. Jean Cap Ferrat, France
1998 Henry Bronne Gallery, Monte Carlo
1998 “Presentation”, Victoria Gallery, Cannes, France
1997 Promotrice Belle Arti, Torino, Italy
1996 Hippocampe Gallery, St. Jean-Cap Ferrat, France
1996 Palazzo Scaglia di Verrua, Torino, Italy
1992 “Eureka”, Castello Ducale De Monti, Corigliano d’Otranto, Lecce, Italy
1988 City Gallery of Arts, Vlora, Albania
