Petrit Halilaj
PETRIT HALILAJ (b. 1986 in Kostërrc, Kosovo) understands exhibitions as a way to alter the course of personal and collective histories, creating complex worlds that claim space for freedom, desire, intimacy, and identity. His work is deeply connected to the recent history of his native country Kosovo and the consequences of cultural and political tensions in the region, which he often takes as a starting point for igniting countercurrent poetics for the future. Rooted in his biography, the projects encompass a variety of media, including sculpture, drawing, painting, text, and...Read more
Works

Exhibition view, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2024

Exhibition view, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, 2023

Exhibition view, NGV International, Melbourne, 2023

Exhibition view, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva, 2023

Exhibition view, Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, 2023

Exhibition view, Bally Foundation, Lugano, 2023

2nd of December 2015 (Palm seeds), 2020

Exhibition view, Lundskonsthall, 2021

Exhibition view, Autostrada Biennale, National Library, Prishtina, 2021

Exhibition view, Art Quadriennale, Rome, 2020

Exhibition view, Palacio de Cristal, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2020

Bird Feeding stations, 2020

Exhibition view, Palacio de Cristal, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2020

Exhibition view, Lyon Biennale, 2019

With Alvaro Urbano, 27th of March 2012 (Forsythias), 2020

Exhibition view, Fondazione Merz, Turin, 2018

Exhibition view, Palacio de Cristal, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2020

Moth #2, 2017

Exhibition view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2018

Exhibition view, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 2015

Exhibition view, Pinault Collection, Punta Della Dogana, Venice, 2015

Exhibition view, Fondazione Merz, Turin, 2017

Poisoned by men in need of some love (Anas platyrhynchos), 2013

Exhibition view, Venice Biennale, 2017

Do you realise there is a rainbow even if it’s night!? (white), 2017

Abetare (Big star with I love u), 2015

Abetare (Heart), 2015

Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2014

Exhibition view, Fondazione Merz, Turin, 2018

Exhibition view, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 2015
Exhibitions & News

Petrit Halilaj, Lunar ensemble for uprising seas
Current exhibition
11 October 2024 — 12 January 2025
MACBA, Barcelone

Hicham Berrada, Claire Fontaine, Petrit Halilaj, Alicja Kwade, The Way We Are
Current exhibition
30 September 2023 — 30 August 2026
Weserburg Museum for Modern Art, Bremen

Petrit Halilaj, The Roof Garden Commission
Past exhibition
30 April — 27 October 2024
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Group show, Glimpse of Light
Past exhibition
6 June — 25 September 2024
Mennour, 5 rue du Pont de Lodi, Paris 6

Petrit Halilaj, Performer and Participant
Past exhibition
15 July — 15 September 2024
Tate Modern, London

Petrit Halilaj, Alicja Kwade, & Álvaro Urbano, Nationalgalerie: A Collection for the 21st Century
Past exhibition
16 June 2023 — 16 June 2024
Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin

Petrit Halilaj, & Álvaro Urbano, 24th Biennale of Sydney
Past exhibition
9 March — 10 June 2024
White Bay Power Station, Sydney

Petrit Halilaj, RUNIK
Past exhibition
23 November 2023 — 7 April 2024
Museo Tamayo, Mexico City

Petrit Halilaj, NGV Triennial
Past exhibition
3 December 2023 — 7 April 2024
NGV International, Melbourne

Petrit Halilaj, with Álvaro Urbano and Simone Fattal, Thus waves come in pairs
Past exhibition
22 April — 5 November 2023
Ocean Space, Venice

Petrit Halilaj, Tadashi Kawamata, Au hasard des oiseaux
Past exhibition
3 June — 1 October 2023
Saint-Paul de Vence

Petrit Halilaj, & Álvaro Urbano, Un Lac Inconnu
Past exhibition
20 April — 24 September 2023
Bally Foundation, Lugano

Petrit Halilaj, Very volcanic over this green feather
Past exhibition
25 May — 17 September 2023
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva