Artan Shabani
A R T A N S H A B A N I
Born 1969 in Vlore Albania. Lives and works in Venice, Italy
WORK EXPERIENCE
2009 curators at Prague Biennial 4, Albania & Kosovo pavilon. Praha Czech Republic,
2008 projekt director "Tran-sforma-Jonio",exibitions at promenade gallery in Vlora Albania
2007 projekt director e sponsored indipendent day off italy in Valona with albanian and italian artist
2006 ''Il lazzio tra europa e Mediterraneo''Sotto l'Alto patronato del Presidente della Republica Italiana e ministero degli affari Esteri.
2005 organized ''balkanica'' in Porto Venere-Spezia Italy group exhibitions with yang balkan artist.
2003 curated project with consulate general of albania in Milan .albanian yang artist. Bocconi University.Milan (Italy)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Parallel Worlds,The Promenade Gallery. Vlore (Albania)
2008 Foreigners ma non troppo, curated by Holta Vrioni. Mavi Kum Gallery, Istanbul (Turkey)
2008 The Labyrinth of Memory, Ghetto Palace of Chieri (Italy)
2007 Jozef Gallery. Curated by Andi Tepelena. Durres (Albania)
2006 Visage d'Albanie, curated by Honorary Consulate of Albania in Monaco and the Monegasque Commission UNESCO. Monte-Carlo
2006 Balkan Metamorphosis, THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ARTS. Tirana (Albania)
2006 Delfi dorme e dove risuona il grande Destino, Micra Gallery.Torino (Italy)
2006 DORIA PAMPHILI PALACE. San Martino al Cimino.Viterbo (Italy)
2005 Caruso Bellosguardo Palace, Lastra a Signa. Florence (Italy)
2005 Via Egnatia" THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AUTOMOBILE, Turin (Italy)
2005 Koiné Gallery, curated by Mavi Marino. Scicli (Italy)
2004 Entroterra.VILLA STROZZI. Florence (Italy)
2004 Consructe Realities. PALACE OF EUROPEAN CONCILS - Strasbourg (France)
2004 Palace of the Venetian Prisons, curated by Andi Tepelena and Andrea Bonifacio, Venice (Italy)
2004 Artan Shabani. THE SALMATORIS PALACE, Cherasco-Cuneo (Italy)
2004 History Portraits, Palace of the Captain. Bagno di Romagna (Italy)
2004 Artan Shabani, THE DUCAL CASTLE of Corigliano Calabro (Italy)
2003 POHJANMAAN MUSEO. Osterbottens museum Vaasa (Finland)
2003 Still Life, Serbelloni Palace, Milan (Italy)
2003 Dieffe Gallery Contemporary Art, Torino (Italy)
2003 Sala Ex Upim-Museo Civico. Treviglio (Italy)
2002 Artan Shabani, THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ARTS. Tirana (Albania)
2002 Volti della folla, Palazzo Alfieri.Courtesy Aimeri - Mecenas, Cuneo (Italy)
2002 Artan Shabani, BARBERINI PALACE. Rome (Italy)
2002 Imagen Gallery, La Coruña (España)
2001 Below The Light, curated by Vanina Dolla, Art Gallery Antibes (France)
2001 Artan Shabani in Portovenere. (Italy)
2001 Lenka Tresnak Gallery. Bruneck South Tyrol (Italy)
2000 ''Night After Night'',Congress Hall, Limone sul Garda, (Italy)
2000 ''Memory Space'', Manini Gallery.Torino (Italy)
2000 Palazzo Bruno in Mondovi Piazza, Mondovi (Italy)
2000 Olmo Gallery, Sesto Calende. Varese (Italy)
1999 ''Spectacular Optical'', Metropole Contemporary Art Monte-Carlo (Monaco)
1999 ''The Matter of Things'', Fondamenta di San Pietro, Porto Venere (Italy)
1999 ''Municipal Hall ''Deux Freres", Roquebrune Cap Martin (France)
1998 ''Faces and Figures''. Scaglia di Verrua's Palace.Torino (Italy)
1997 ''Extraordinary Visions", Fundamentals of San Pietro, Portovenere (Italy)
1993 The DUCAL CASTLE of Corigliano d'Otranto Lecce (Italy)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 PRAGUE BIENNAL 4, Albania&Kosovo pavilion.curator Artan Shabani, director and general curators Helena Kontovà and Giancarlo Politi. general editor & curatorial advisor Nicola Trezzi. Praha (Czech Republic)
2009 VENICE BIENNALE – 53. Editions,“Krossing/Oltre I Confini Tra I Territori, Oltre I Confini Tra Artista e Spettatore”, curators Riccardo Caldura, Andrea Bonifacio e Orsola Casagrande, evento collaterale, 53rd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennal, Forte Marghera, Venice
2009 Memories & Dreams, Bashtova Castle. A cura di Art Kontakt. (Albania)
2009 00130 Gallery, curated by Carolina Lio. Helsinki (Finland)
2009 Art FairVerona. courtesy Galleria Carini Donatini.Verona (Italy)
2009 ADRIATICA, Mari e Monti Gallery, Civitanova Marche (Italy)
2008 Lallazioni lavabili live 01 & Scofinamenti. Alexander Alvares Gallery. Alessandria (Italy)
2008 Migrazioni Mediterranee atto secondo Koiné Gallery and Tadini, Milano (Italy)
2007 THE NATIONAL GALLERY of Macedonia Čifte Amam, Scopie (Macedonia)
2007 THE NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM - Tirana (Albania)
2007 Ali Pasha CASTLE, curated by ArtKontakt. Porto Palermo.Qeparo (Albania)
2007 Limonaia of CASTLE Museum, Limone sul Garda (Italy)
2007 ''Processo Grottesco'', Zenit Gallery, Tirana (Albania)
2007 The Luzzati MUSEUM, Porta Siberia. Genova (Italy)
2007 Petro Marko Theater, Vlore. (Albania)
2007 Fine Arts Gallery, Vlore, (Albania)
2006''Onufri'',THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ARTS. curated by Leni Laperi, Tirana (Albania)
2006 works from a Private Collection. Iris Gallery. Shkoder (Albania)
2006 Victoria Gallery. Cannes (France)
2005 ''No Manifesto'', Hippocampe Gallery, Saint. Jean Cap Ferrat (France)
2005 ''Sound Check'' , Collegio Fratelli Cairoli, curated by Marta Casati, Pavia (Italy)
2005 ''BK New Contemporaries'', Porto Venere La Spezia (Italy)
2005 Henry Bronne Gallery, Monte-Carlo (Monaco)
2004 ''Colours of Albania'', THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ARTS. Tirana. Curator Edi Muka. (Albania)
2004 Master Olofsgarden, curated by Lalage Florio, Stockholm (Sweden)
2004 ForGen, THE NATIONAL LIBRARY, Florence (Italy)
2004 PALLAVICINI PALACE. Mombaruzzo. (Italy)
2003 Albanie Collection Printemps-Eternite, Montaigne Gallery, curated by Holta Vrioni, Paris
2003 ''Extraordinary Visions" BOCCONI UNIVERSITY, Milan (Italy)
2003 Circolo della Stampa, Ceriana-Mayneri Palace. Torino (Italy)
2003 "Visioni di la dal mare" - Cascina Grande, Rozzano (italy)
2003 New Horizons. NEUF _ Gallery, Dijon (France)
2002 Point of View, works from a Private Collection” Congress Hall, Limone sul Garda, Italy
2002 The Salzburg World Fine Art Fair.courtesy Galerie Lenka Tresnak. (Austria)
2002 The Fondation Palazzo Bricherasio, Historical Rooms, Torino (Italy)
2002 Auditorium del Massimo, Week of Albanian Culture, Rome (Italy)
2002 La Place Gallery, curated by Holta Vrioni, Calvisson (France)
2001 POHJANMAAN MUSEO - Osterbottens museum Vaasa (Finland)
2001''Amour Erotisme Pornographie'', Original Gallery, Nice (France)
2001 Americas Society.Pacedo Gallery, Nice (France)
2001 Azzarie Palace, Santuario. Savona (Italy)
2000 Hippocampe Gallery, Saint. Jean Cap Ferrat (France)
2000 Mark Peet Visser Gallery, Heusden (Netherland)
2000 Permanente Palace Museum. Milan (Italy)
1999 International Salon of Fine Art, Roquebrune Cap Martin (France)
1999 Salon 99: Monaco Artistes, Monte-Carlo (Monaco)
1998 ARTISSIMA International Fair of Contemporary Art, Turin (Italy)
1998 Project Room, Mediateque, St. Jean Cap Ferrat (France)
1998 Henry Bronne Gallery, Monte-Carlo (Monaco)
1998 Bertrand Kass Gallery, Innsbruck. (Austria)
1997 Promoter of the Arts Museum, Torino (Italy)
1996 Hippocampe Gallery, curated by Pierro Giachinno, St. Jean-Cap Ferrat (France)
1995 Extraordinary People, Lanterna Gallery, Moncalieri (Italy)
1992 THE DUCAL CASTLE of Corigliano d'Otranto - Lecce (Italy)
1988 FINE ARTS GALLERY, Vlore (Albania)
FAIRS
2009 Art FairVerona.Verona (Italy) 2008 Genoa Art Fair 2006 Tirana Art Fair 2004 Saluzzo Art Fair
2002 Padova Art Fair 2002 The Salzburg World Fine Art Fair (Austria) 2002 Parma Art Fair
2004 Saluzzo Art Fair 1997-98 ARTISSIMA International Fair of Contemporary Art, Turin (Italy)
FESTIVALS
2009 Memories&Dreams, Bashtova Castle. Kavaja (Albania)
2007 Ali Pasha Castle. curated by ArtKontakt. Porto Palermo, Qeparo (Albania)
2004 Sabir festival of Mediterranee Scicli Ragusa (Italy)
2004 Contaminazioni dal paese delle aquille, Celestini Palace Lecce (Italy)
CATALOGUES
2009 Prague Biennale 4 Catalogue 2009 Venice Biennale 53.Editions. Forte Marghera Venezia.(Italy)
2009 ONE &Scofinamenti Aleandro Alvares Gallery. Alessandria 2005 Villa Caruso Bellosguardio catalogues. Firenze
2004 Colours of Albania National Gallery Tirana 1998 Monographie curated by Paolo Levi
2004 Un alfabetto lontano Mondovi 2003 Sguardo ad'Est Cherasco 1997 Manini Arte.Torino
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Pohjanmaan Museum, Vaasa, Finlandia. Ernesto e Teresa della Torre Museum, Treviglio. Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo. Fondations. Ambasciata della Repubblica d'Albania, Roma,Madrid
Consolato onorario d'Albania a Monte Carlo MC. Retoratto Bocconi University. Milano. Palazzo Congressi, Limone sul Garda. Pinacoteca d'arte Cherasco Cuneo
Institutto dei salesiani,Vaticano Roma. Museo Limonaia del Castel Limone sul Garda. Albania-American Enterprise Fund Tirana. Franco Carlo Aimeri collections Mondovi
Francesco Federico Cerruti collections. Torino. Carlo Gabriele Gribaudo collections Torino
Born 1969 in Vlore Albania. Lives and works in Venice, Italy
WORK EXPERIENCE
2009 curators at Prague Biennial 4, Albania & Kosovo pavilon. Praha Czech Republic,
2008 projekt director "Tran-sforma-Jonio",exibitions at promenade gallery in Vlora Albania
2007 projekt director e sponsored indipendent day off italy in Valona with albanian and italian artist
2006 ''Il lazzio tra europa e Mediterraneo''Sotto l'Alto patronato del Presidente della Republica Italiana e ministero degli affari Esteri.
2005 organized ''balkanica'' in Porto Venere-Spezia Italy group exhibitions with yang balkan artist.
2003 curated project with consulate general of albania in Milan .albanian yang artist. Bocconi University.Milan (Italy)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Parallel Worlds,The Promenade Gallery. Vlore (Albania)
2008 Foreigners ma non troppo, curated by Holta Vrioni. Mavi Kum Gallery, Istanbul (Turkey)
2008 The Labyrinth of Memory, Ghetto Palace of Chieri (Italy)
2007 Jozef Gallery. Curated by Andi Tepelena. Durres (Albania)
2006 Visage d'Albanie, curated by Honorary Consulate of Albania in Monaco and the Monegasque Commission UNESCO. Monte-Carlo
2006 Balkan Metamorphosis, THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ARTS. Tirana (Albania)
2006 Delfi dorme e dove risuona il grande Destino, Micra Gallery.Torino (Italy)
2006 DORIA PAMPHILI PALACE. San Martino al Cimino.Viterbo (Italy)
2005 Caruso Bellosguardo Palace, Lastra a Signa. Florence (Italy)
2005 Via Egnatia" THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AUTOMOBILE, Turin (Italy)
2005 Koiné Gallery, curated by Mavi Marino. Scicli (Italy)
2004 Entroterra.VILLA STROZZI. Florence (Italy)
2004 Consructe Realities. PALACE OF EUROPEAN CONCILS - Strasbourg (France)
2004 Palace of the Venetian Prisons, curated by Andi Tepelena and Andrea Bonifacio, Venice (Italy)
2004 Artan Shabani. THE SALMATORIS PALACE, Cherasco-Cuneo (Italy)
2004 History Portraits, Palace of the Captain. Bagno di Romagna (Italy)
2004 Artan Shabani, THE DUCAL CASTLE of Corigliano Calabro (Italy)
2003 POHJANMAAN MUSEO. Osterbottens museum Vaasa (Finland)
2003 Still Life, Serbelloni Palace, Milan (Italy)
2003 Dieffe Gallery Contemporary Art, Torino (Italy)
2003 Sala Ex Upim-Museo Civico. Treviglio (Italy)
2002 Artan Shabani, THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ARTS. Tirana (Albania)
2002 Volti della folla, Palazzo Alfieri.Courtesy Aimeri - Mecenas, Cuneo (Italy)
2002 Artan Shabani, BARBERINI PALACE. Rome (Italy)
2002 Imagen Gallery, La Coruña (España)
2001 Below The Light, curated by Vanina Dolla, Art Gallery Antibes (France)
2001 Artan Shabani in Portovenere. (Italy)
2001 Lenka Tresnak Gallery. Bruneck South Tyrol (Italy)
2000 ''Night After Night'',Congress Hall, Limone sul Garda, (Italy)
2000 ''Memory Space'', Manini Gallery.Torino (Italy)
2000 Palazzo Bruno in Mondovi Piazza, Mondovi (Italy)
2000 Olmo Gallery, Sesto Calende. Varese (Italy)
1999 ''Spectacular Optical'', Metropole Contemporary Art Monte-Carlo (Monaco)
1999 ''The Matter of Things'', Fondamenta di San Pietro, Porto Venere (Italy)
1999 ''Municipal Hall ''Deux Freres", Roquebrune Cap Martin (France)
1998 ''Faces and Figures''. Scaglia di Verrua's Palace.Torino (Italy)
1997 ''Extraordinary Visions", Fundamentals of San Pietro, Portovenere (Italy)
1993 The DUCAL CASTLE of Corigliano d'Otranto Lecce (Italy)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 PRAGUE BIENNAL 4, Albania&Kosovo pavilion.curator Artan Shabani, director and general curators Helena Kontovà and Giancarlo Politi. general editor & curatorial advisor Nicola Trezzi. Praha (Czech Republic)
2009 VENICE BIENNALE – 53. Editions,“Krossing/Oltre I Confini Tra I Territori, Oltre I Confini Tra Artista e Spettatore”, curators Riccardo Caldura, Andrea Bonifacio e Orsola Casagrande, evento collaterale, 53rd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennal, Forte Marghera, Venice
2009 Memories & Dreams, Bashtova Castle. A cura di Art Kontakt. (Albania)
2009 00130 Gallery, curated by Carolina Lio. Helsinki (Finland)
2009 Art FairVerona. courtesy Galleria Carini Donatini.Verona (Italy)
2009 ADRIATICA, Mari e Monti Gallery, Civitanova Marche (Italy)
2008 Lallazioni lavabili live 01 & Scofinamenti. Alexander Alvares Gallery. Alessandria (Italy)
2008 Migrazioni Mediterranee atto secondo Koiné Gallery and Tadini, Milano (Italy)
2007 THE NATIONAL GALLERY of Macedonia Čifte Amam, Scopie (Macedonia)
2007 THE NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM - Tirana (Albania)
2007 Ali Pasha CASTLE, curated by ArtKontakt. Porto Palermo.Qeparo (Albania)
2007 Limonaia of CASTLE Museum, Limone sul Garda (Italy)
2007 ''Processo Grottesco'', Zenit Gallery, Tirana (Albania)
2007 The Luzzati MUSEUM, Porta Siberia. Genova (Italy)
2007 Petro Marko Theater, Vlore. (Albania)
2007 Fine Arts Gallery, Vlore, (Albania)
2006''Onufri'',THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ARTS. curated by Leni Laperi, Tirana (Albania)
2006 works from a Private Collection. Iris Gallery. Shkoder (Albania)
2006 Victoria Gallery. Cannes (France)
2005 ''No Manifesto'', Hippocampe Gallery, Saint. Jean Cap Ferrat (France)
2005 ''Sound Check'' , Collegio Fratelli Cairoli, curated by Marta Casati, Pavia (Italy)
2005 ''BK New Contemporaries'', Porto Venere La Spezia (Italy)
2005 Henry Bronne Gallery, Monte-Carlo (Monaco)
2004 ''Colours of Albania'', THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ARTS. Tirana. Curator Edi Muka. (Albania)
2004 Master Olofsgarden, curated by Lalage Florio, Stockholm (Sweden)
2004 ForGen, THE NATIONAL LIBRARY, Florence (Italy)
2004 PALLAVICINI PALACE. Mombaruzzo. (Italy)
2003 Albanie Collection Printemps-Eternite, Montaigne Gallery, curated by Holta Vrioni, Paris
2003 ''Extraordinary Visions" BOCCONI UNIVERSITY, Milan (Italy)
2003 Circolo della Stampa, Ceriana-Mayneri Palace. Torino (Italy)
2003 "Visioni di la dal mare" - Cascina Grande, Rozzano (italy)
2003 New Horizons. NEUF _ Gallery, Dijon (France)
2002 Point of View, works from a Private Collection” Congress Hall, Limone sul Garda, Italy
2002 The Salzburg World Fine Art Fair.courtesy Galerie Lenka Tresnak. (Austria)
2002 The Fondation Palazzo Bricherasio, Historical Rooms, Torino (Italy)
2002 Auditorium del Massimo, Week of Albanian Culture, Rome (Italy)
2002 La Place Gallery, curated by Holta Vrioni, Calvisson (France)
2001 POHJANMAAN MUSEO - Osterbottens museum Vaasa (Finland)
2001''Amour Erotisme Pornographie'', Original Gallery, Nice (France)
2001 Americas Society.Pacedo Gallery, Nice (France)
2001 Azzarie Palace, Santuario. Savona (Italy)
2000 Hippocampe Gallery, Saint. Jean Cap Ferrat (France)
2000 Mark Peet Visser Gallery, Heusden (Netherland)
2000 Permanente Palace Museum. Milan (Italy)
1999 International Salon of Fine Art, Roquebrune Cap Martin (France)
1999 Salon 99: Monaco Artistes, Monte-Carlo (Monaco)
1998 ARTISSIMA International Fair of Contemporary Art, Turin (Italy)
1998 Project Room, Mediateque, St. Jean Cap Ferrat (France)
1998 Henry Bronne Gallery, Monte-Carlo (Monaco)
1998 Bertrand Kass Gallery, Innsbruck. (Austria)
1997 Promoter of the Arts Museum, Torino (Italy)
1996 Hippocampe Gallery, curated by Pierro Giachinno, St. Jean-Cap Ferrat (France)
1995 Extraordinary People, Lanterna Gallery, Moncalieri (Italy)
1992 THE DUCAL CASTLE of Corigliano d'Otranto - Lecce (Italy)
1988 FINE ARTS GALLERY, Vlore (Albania)
FAIRS
2009 Art FairVerona.Verona (Italy) 2008 Genoa Art Fair 2006 Tirana Art Fair 2004 Saluzzo Art Fair
2002 Padova Art Fair 2002 The Salzburg World Fine Art Fair (Austria) 2002 Parma Art Fair
2004 Saluzzo Art Fair 1997-98 ARTISSIMA International Fair of Contemporary Art, Turin (Italy)
FESTIVALS
2009 Memories&Dreams, Bashtova Castle. Kavaja (Albania)
2007 Ali Pasha Castle. curated by ArtKontakt. Porto Palermo, Qeparo (Albania)
2004 Sabir festival of Mediterranee Scicli Ragusa (Italy)
2004 Contaminazioni dal paese delle aquille, Celestini Palace Lecce (Italy)
CATALOGUES
2009 Prague Biennale 4 Catalogue 2009 Venice Biennale 53.Editions. Forte Marghera Venezia.(Italy)
2009 ONE &Scofinamenti Aleandro Alvares Gallery. Alessandria 2005 Villa Caruso Bellosguardio catalogues. Firenze
2004 Colours of Albania National Gallery Tirana 1998 Monographie curated by Paolo Levi
2004 Un alfabetto lontano Mondovi 2003 Sguardo ad'Est Cherasco 1997 Manini Arte.Torino
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Pohjanmaan Museum, Vaasa, Finlandia. Ernesto e Teresa della Torre Museum, Treviglio. Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo. Fondations. Ambasciata della Repubblica d'Albania, Roma,Madrid
Consolato onorario d'Albania a Monte Carlo MC. Retoratto Bocconi University. Milano. Palazzo Congressi, Limone sul Garda. Pinacoteca d'arte Cherasco Cuneo
Institutto dei salesiani,Vaticano Roma. Museo Limonaia del Castel Limone sul Garda. Albania-American Enterprise Fund Tirana. Franco Carlo Aimeri collections Mondovi
Francesco Federico Cerruti collections. Torino. Carlo Gabriele Gribaudo collections Torino
