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Abert Heta (1974) was born and lives Prishtina, Kosova.
Solo exhibitions, public projects and interventions include: It’s Time To Go Visiting: No Visa Required (2003), public intervention on British Airways Billboards in Prishtina, Happiness- Independence Day: 1 Minute (2001), the appropriation of the speech of the UN Administrator of Kosova aired on public television of Kosova in 2001; Kosovar Pavilion Venice Biennale 2005, La Biennale di Venezia 51 and Embassy of the Republic of Kosova, Cetinje, SCG (2004), 5th Biennial of Cetinje.
Albert Heta is the co-founder of Stacion Center for Contemporary Art, Prishtina.
| Solo Exhibitions, Public Projects and Interventions |
| 2005 | Santa Fe, USA: HOMESICK |
| Appropriation of the Santa Fe Art Institute |
| Building, Santa Fe, Mew Mexico, USA. |
| 3 - 21 August, 2005. |
| 2005 | Venice , Italy: KOSOVAR PAVILION VENICE BIENNALE 2005 | SISLEJ XHAFA |
| Vernissage 9 - 11 June 2005 |
| 12 June - 6 November 2005 |
| La Biennale di Venezia 51. International Art Exhibition |
| distributed by e-flux: www.e-flux.com. |
| 2005 | Prague , Czech Republic: EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF KOSOVA, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC |
| public media intervention; official notice on DNES Daily Newspaper, 11.02.2005. |
| 2004 | Cetinje, SCG: EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF KOSOVA, CETINJE, SCG |
| 5th Biennial of Cetinje |
| public installation; vandalized and removed after 3 days. |
| 2003 | 15.12.2003 - 15.01.2004 | Berlin, Germany: WELCOME - botschaft der republik kosovo, berlin, bundesrepublik deutschland; |
| Galerie 35. |
| 2003 | Prishtina, Kosova: IT'S TIME TO GO VISITING: NO VISA REQUIRED |
| public intervention on British Airways billboards; |
| removed after 11 hours. |
| 2001 | Prishtina, Kosova: HAPPINESS - INDEPENDENCE DAY: 1 MINUTE |
| public media intervention; |
| official declaration of independence of Kosova declared on Kosovar Public TV - RTK, by Hans Haekkerup (Denmark) - Special Representative of the Secretary-General and the head of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK); 14.06.2001, 20.30 CET. |
| Selected Group Exhibitions |
9.2. - 20.5.2007 | ENTRE FRONTERAS, curated by Carolina Grau, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain. 26.2 - 19.3.2007 | ¼ HUNGARIAN, curated by Bea Hock, Franciska Zólyom, Liget Galeria, Budapest & Institute for Contemporary Art, Dunaujvaros, Hungary. 16.11.2005 - 2.12.2006 | CZECHPOINT, curated by Tamar Moyzes, C2C Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic. 22.05.2005 - 15.06.2006 | ARCHITECTURE OF TODAY?, curatorial by Vangelis Vlahos and Despina Zefkili, Kosova Art Gallery, Prishtina, Kosova. 07.12.2005 - 21.01.2006 | ARCHITECTURE OF TODAY?, curatorial by Vangelis Vlahos and Despina Zefkili, Els Hanappe Underground, Athens, Greece. 18.11.2005 - 28.11.2005 | BIENAL DE VIDEO Y NUEVOS MEDIOS DE SANTIAGO, Museo de Arte Conteporaneo, Santiago de Chile, Chile. 30.09.2005 - 06.10.2005 | 2. BERLINER KUNSTSALON 2005, program curated by Spunk Seipel, Berlin, Germany. 10. 02. 2005 - 6. 03. 2005 | KOSOVA.EXE, The Brno House of Arts, Prague - Brno, Czech Republic. 01. 12. 2004 – 31. 1. 2005 | A NEW PAST, curated by Jee-sook Beck, Insa Art Space & Marronnier Art Center, Seul, Korea. 28.08.2004 - 19.09.2004 | LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT, 5TH BIENNALE OF CETINJE, curated by Rene Block and Natasa Ilic, Dubrovnik - Cetinje - Tirana. 15.05.2004 - 10.06.2004 | I NEED A RADICAL CHANGE, curated by WHW, Galerija Nova, Zagreb, Croatia. 30.08.2003 - 23.11.2003 | IN THE GORGES OF THE BALKANS, curated by Rene Block, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany. 14.11.2003 - 24.11.2003 | COMPILER//01 "Was ist Kunst, Marinela Koželj?" , Press to Exit Gallery. Skopje, Macedonia. 16.11.2001 - 8/12.2001 | Berlin, Germany: NOW: PRISHTINË - BERLIN, Thacheles New Gallery. 17.07.2001 - 26.08.2001 | CHAOS & COMMUNICATION - 10TH BIENNIAL OF YOUNG ARTISTS FROM EUROPE AND MEDITERRANEAN, SARAJEVO 2001, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina. 15.2.2001 - 17.4.2001 | OUR WORLD TODAY, London Print Studio, London, UK. 06.04.2000 - 29.04.2000 | CARNIVAL IN THE EYE OF THE STORM - KOSOV@: ART; NEW TECHNOLOGIES, curated by Trebor Scholz, PNCA Philip Feldman Gallery, Portland, USA. 15.03.2001 - 30.03.2001 | TURN, Post War Art in Kosova, Mimar Sinan Sniversitesi, Osman Hamdi Bey Balonu, Istanbul, Tyrkey. 10.10.1999 - 14.10.1999 | PEJA OLD MARKET HAPPENING, Peja, Kosova. 01.07.1998 - 1.09.1998 | PERSPEKTIVA 98, Dodona Galery, Prishtina, Kosova. |
| Awards and Fellowships |
CEC Arts Link Fellowship; LMCC - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, 2006. Lannan Foundation Fellowship; SFAI, Santa Fe, 2005/06. Nordic Council of Ministers Fellowship; HIAP, Helsinki, 2005. Szpilman Award 2005, Berlin.
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| Videos |
FREEDOM, color video, NTSC, 30.00 min, 2005. DO IT AGAIN, color video, NTSC, 3.08 min, 2005. SUNDAY, color video, NTSC, 3.01 min, 2005 (with Maria Jose Rojas). SOMETHING ELSE , color video, NTSC, 4 X 1.00 min, 2005 (with Maria Jose Rojas). PLANE, color video, NTSC, 0.39 min, 2005 (with Maria Jose Rojas). HOMESICK, color video, NTSC, 22.15 min, 2005. THE PRINCE OF KOSOVA, color video, PAL, 25.34 min, 2005. BELGRADE TALK, color video, PAL, 17.21 min, 2005. BANG! BANG!, color video, PAL, 2.20 min, 2003. HAPPINESS - INDEPENDENCE DAY: 1 MINUTE, color video, PAL, 1.46 min, 2001. DESIRE, double color video, PAL, 3.10 min, 2000. |
| Selected Bibliography |
| 2003 - 2005 |
| In the Gorges of the Balkans A Report , exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, 2003/4, Love it or leave it, 5 th Biennial of Cetinje , exhibition catalogue, Dubrovnik - Cetinje – Tirana, 2004; If all the works would provoke such reactions, art would have a much greater importance, Montenegro Daily “Vjesnik”, 2004; Andrej Nikolaidis, Albanian artist unites Montenegrins: Forbidden reality , Montenegro Independent Weekly “Monitor”; Kosova Daily “Koha”, Kosova Weekly “Java”, 2004; Branimir Stojanovic, The Joke, and it's relation toward the state , Kosova Daily “Koha”, Kosova Weekly “Java”, 2004; Shkelzen Maliqi, Art and Politics, Kosova Weekly “Java”, 2004; The Prince shocked, the Embassy stay, Daily newspaper “Vecernje Novosti”, 2004; Block: The work should be understood only as art , Montenegro Daily “Vjesnik”, 2004; Art of Provocation in Cetinje: Rugova's Embassy, Daily newspaper “Politika”, 2004; Changes on the building of Ex-Serbian Embassy in Cetinje: Albanian insignia removed, Daily newspaper “Politika”, 2004; Ana Devic, CETINJE BIENNIAL 2004 Love It Or Leave It: Bringing Balkan Back to the Balkans, International Art Fairs, www.artfairsinternational.com; Petrit Hoxha, Scandal at the Fifth Cetinje Biennial, "Umelec" Contemporary art and Culture Magazine, 2004 ; Jiri Ptacek, A report from a country that doesn't exist, "Umelec" Contemporary art and Culture Magazine, 2004; A New Past, exhibition catalogue, Marronnier Art Center & Insa Art Space, Seoul, Korea, 2004/5; Albert Heta interviewed by Branislav Dimitrievic, ON NORMALITY, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contamporary Art Belgrade, 2005; Albert Heta by Vesa Sahatciu, East Art Map, publisher Afterall London, distributed by MIT Press, 2006. |
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