Erzen shkololli biography for kids
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ERZEN SHKOLOLLI
Erzen Shkololli was born in Pejë, Kosovo, in and lives and works in Prishtina. Through his work, Shkololli strives to re-enact traditional ceremonies and utilize local rituals and folklore to draw attention to socio-political situations, while insinuating contemporary symbols and disillusion. Shkololli is also well known as an active mediator and organizer of the inter- and intra-cultural dialogue between Kosovo and the international art world, as well as within Kosovo itself. Since he has been a member of the European Cultural Parliament. Shkololli’s work has appeared in exhibitions at significant European museums such as the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Tate Modern in London and MUMOK, Vienna. He was awarded the DAAD Fellowship in Berlin /09 and Premio Michetti Prize of the Fondazion Michetti di Francavilla al Mare in Shkolollli has been commissioned to create new works for the Folkestone Triennial curated by Andrea Schlieker
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Erzen Shkololli (born , Pejë, Kosovë) is an artist, curator and co-founder of EXIT Contemporary Art Institute in Pejë. His art practice utilizes local rituals and folklore to draw attention to socio-political situations. Through his work, Shkololli acts as a sort of instinctive and biased anthropologist, re-enacting traditional ceremonies, while insinuating contemporary symbols and disillusion. This interplay of past and present typifies a certain generation of art practice throughout the Balkans, locating Shkololli within this broad cultural context. Shkololli has curated numerous international exhibitions of contemporary art in addition to programs and exhibitions at EXIT Contemporary Art Institute. He is currently working on a project featuring the work of artists from Israel, Palestine and the region of ex- Yugoslavia, which will be presented at the Israeli Centre for Digital Art, Holon, Israel in
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Van Abbemuseum
ERZEN SHKOLOLLI
Pejë, Kosovo,
6 April - 23 June
Erzen Shkololli created the work 'Pejë, Kosovo, ' when he was 22 years old during the time of the Kosovo war. Shkololli, a young artist at the time, was in hiding for three months with his family in Pejë, during the horrific period of ethnic cleansing of the war. In order to keep active, he did what he could beneath the circumstances with whatever was around - material from his father’s bespoke sewing shop and his mother’s home sewing machine. As a result, he made a series of colourful patchworks, one that was 22 meter long and comprised of eight banners. Now fifteen years later, the work is on public display for the second time in two years. In the intervening years, the work was kept in storage, first in Kosovo and later in Berlin.
Artist Talk, 6 April, pm
During the opening there will be a conversation between Charles Esche and Erzen Shkololli. The conversation will focus on his work within the context of