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Alban Muja

(b. 1980, Mitrovica, Kosovo)

Alban Muja (b. 1980, Mitrovica, Kosovo) is a Kosovar contemporary artist and filmmaker based in Berlin and Prishtina. Influenced primarily by the processes of social, political, and economic transformation in the wider region and its surroundings, he investigates history and socio-political themes, linking them to his position in Kosovo today. In 2019, Muja represented the Republic of Kosovo Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale with his three-channel moving image project Family Album. Selected exhibitions: 75th Berlinale (Forum Expanded); Manifesta Biennale 14, Prishtina; Ludwig Museum, Budapest; MAXXI Museum, Rome; MOMus Experimental Center for the Arts, Thessaloniki; Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn; Guangdong Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje; James Gallery, New York; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka; Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana; National Gallery of Kosovo; Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills; Slovak National Gallery; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden; 28th Ljubljana Graphic Biennale; nGbK, Berlin; National Gallery of Arts, Tirana; among others.