{"id":2553,"date":"2025-04-25T11:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T11:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/artist\/petrit-halilaj\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T07:32:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T07:32:26","slug":"petrit-halilaj","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/artist\/petrit-halilaj\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrit Halilaj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Petrit Halilaj (b. 1986, Kost\u00ebrrc, Kosovo) lives and works between Germany, Kosovo, and Italy. His work explores personal and collective histories, creating spaces for freedom, intimacy, and identity. Deeply connected to the recent history of Kosovo, Halilaj often uses the region\u2019s cultural and political tensions to initiate counter-narratives for the future. His projects encompass sculpture, drawing, painting, text, and performance, frequently incorporating materials from Kosovo in large-scale installations. Halilaj\u2019s practice resists oppressive politics and celebrates connection and freedom. He represented Kosovo at the 55<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Venice Biennale (2013) and had a solo exhibition at Tate St Ives (2021). Other exhibitions include the New Museum, Fondazione Merz, Hammer Museum, and Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen. Halilaj\u2019s work has received awards including the Kunstpreis Berlin (2023) and the Mario Merz Prize (2017). He teaches at the \u00c9cole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/>\u00a9 Petrit Halilaj<br \/>\nCourtesy of the artist and Mennour, Paris<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petrit Halilaj (b. 1986, Kost\u00ebrrc, Kosovo) lives and works between Germany, Kosovo, and Italy. His work explores personal and collective histories, creating spaces for freedom, intimacy, and identity. Deeply connected to the recent history of Kosovo, Halilaj often uses the region\u2019s cultural and political tensions to initiate counter-narratives for the future. His projects encompass sculpture, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"bienala":[22],"class_list":["post-2553","artist","type-artist","status-publish","hentry","bienala-biennial-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/2553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bienala","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bienala?post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}