Nikolin Bujari
Slogans, installation, dimensions flexible
Albania experienced one of the most brutal dictatorships in Europe, with the country totally isolated on every front. The Communist system made ideological visual images omnipresent using slogans that were placed on central and cultural spaces: »Albania is a granite stronghold«, »Glory to PPSH«, »Glory to Marxism and Leninism«, »Agriculture is an issue for all«, »Eight hours of work not eight hours at work« etc. After the 1990s the desire to be European was uncontrollable. Among some of the more powerful slogans of the time were: »Freedom and Democracy«,»We want Albania to be like all of Europe«, and the more recent ones being »Bush, great friend of the Albanians«, »Albania in NATO«, »Albania in the EU«, »Albania is changing«, etc. Nikolin Bujari will install some of these slogans from both periods in various places, shapes, and sizes in the spaces of the Hotel Dajti.
Nikolin Bujari
Born in 1984 in Tirana, Albania. Lives and works in Tirana.
Education:
1998–02 »Prenke Jakova« Art High School in Shkodra,
Albania 2002–06 Academy of Fine Arts, Tirana (Prof.
Edi Hila) 2006-07 guest student at HfG, Karlsruhe,
Germany (Prof. Mischa Kuball)
Selected exhibitions:
2008 my space 01. Tirana–Berlin, Gallery of the Academy
of Fine Arts, Tirana ››› my space 03. Tirana–Berlin, Haus
am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany 2007 Pa(varesia), National
Gallery of Arts, Tirana ››› Hila-Kuball, National Gallery
of Arts, Tirana ››› International MitOst-Festival, Görlitz,
Germany ››› Media art exhibition 1234567, HfG, Karlsruhe,
Germany ››› Video installation of 1A18 Plattform, lothringer
13/Spiegel, Munich, Germany 2006 AMC prize for contemporary
art, Tirana ››› Urban action »Bus-stop«, 1-60 insurgentspace,
Tirana ››› Tirana Transfer, Badischer Kunstverein,
Karlsruhe, Germany ››› Ap 1+1, private apartment,
Tirana ››› Searching the videoart, Galeria e vogël, Tirana
2005 Tirana Bienale 3, in collaboration with Andreja Kuluncic,
Tirana ››› Performance with Salvadore Falci, Skenderbeu
square, Tirana ››› Exhibition at Kunsthochschule
Kassel, Germany ››› One minute video exhibition, Piramida,
Tirana ››› The sight does not let the things unchanghed, art
Gallery, Shkodra, Albania
Awards/Workshops
2008 Residency at , Graz, Austria 2007
Gueststudent at Badischer Kunstverein/HfG, Karlsruhe
2006 Cross Kick, Tirana-Transfer, Tirana, Albania
››› First prize for contemporary art, Albania (AMC prize)
