ANILA RUBIKU
per Chiusano
Anila Rubiku nasce a Durazzo, Albania. Vive e lavora fra Milano, Toronto (Canada) e Tirana (Albania).
Solo Exhibitions
2016 T’Ain’t Nobody’s Business if I Do, Zygote Press Gallery, Cleveland (OH). USA.
2014 Fearful Intentions, Josza Gallery, Brussels. Belgium.
2011 About translation, Galerie IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna. Austria. (Curated by Karin Perggener)
2010 Laws, Lies, Traditions & Convictions, Josza Gallery, Brussels. Belgium.
2009 Imagine the possibilities, Gallery Alessandro Bagnai. Florence, Italy. (Curated by James Putnam)
2008 Panoramic Landscapes, Herzliya Museum Israel The 16 Ways, Gallery Braverman By Art Projects. Tel Aviv, Israel
2006 Something in common Gallery Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany
Getting lost in Venice it’s wonderful Gallery Traghetto. Venice, Italy
2005 Object of Desire, Gallery The Flat – Massimo Carasi. Milan, Italy. (Curated by Gabi Scardi)
2004 Viaggio/Trip Studioventicinque, Milan, Italy
Group Exhibitions
2017 No Place like Home. Israeli Museum, Jerusalem. Israel. (Curated byAdina Kamien-Kazhdan)
Drawing Biennale 2017. Drawing Room, London, England.
2016 The Pleasure of Love. Тhe 56th October Salon,Belgrade, Serbia. Yugoslavia. (Curated by David Elliott)
The Consequences of Love. Georgia Scherman gallery, Toronto, Canada. (Curated by Magda Gonzales-Mora)
2015 Between the Pessimism of the Intellect and the Optimism of the Will. The 5th Thessaloniki Biennial, Thessaloniki, Greece. (Curated by Katerina Gregos)
Drawing Biennial 2015. The Drawing Room, London. England.
2014 Under Erasure. Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel. (Curated by Irith Hadar)
Histoires de je. (Part1) Galerie Dix9, Paris, France. (Curated by Azad Asifovich &Hélène Lacharmoise)
ART IN PORT – Coexistence: for a new Adriatic koinè. Piramida, Tirana, Albania. /National Art Gallery Cetinje, Montenegro/. Muzej Moderne, Rijeka, Croatia/ Magazzino del Sale, Venice/ Pino Pascali Foundation, Polignano a Mare, Italy.
Transmutation. Gallery Catherine Jozsa. Brussels, Belgium.
L’oeuvre au noir. Opus magnum. Gallery Catherine Jozsa. Brussels, Belgium.
Effacing Memory. Online Gallery The Drawing Center. NY, USA.
2013 What do you make of this? Gallery FAB Tirana, Albania.
Human Nature. Gallery Braverman. Tel Aviv, Israel. 2012 KAMA.
Sesso e Design. Triennale Design Museum, Milano, Italy. (Curated by Silvana Annicchiarico).
The best of times, the worst of times. Rebirth and apocalypse in contemporary art. The 1st Kiev International Biennale of Contemporary Art. Kiev, Ukraine. (Curated by David Elliott).
Dress/id, the language of the self/ le langage de moi, Centre D’Art Passerelle, Brest. France. (Curated by Ulrike Kremeier).
2011 Magic Lantern: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art at Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
7th Triennial of Contemporary Art, Tournai, Belgium.
Kunst–Stoff. Textilien in der Kunst seit 1960 at Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Germany.
Das Textile als Medium der zeitgenössischen Kunst at Kunst Archiv Darmstadt,Germany.
Geopathies, 54th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale – Albanian Pavilion.
The five continents, International Triennial of Contemporary textile Arts of Tournai, Belgium.
Nach Strich und Faden, Fruehsorge Contemporary Drawing Gallery, Berlin. Germany.
Explore the potential of new technologies and alternative sourses @ Bloomberg, London. UK (Curated by Sigrid Wilkinson) Arts Co and commissioned by Bloomberg.
2010 Nove artisti per “Napoli milionaria” al Palazzo Ducale Martina Franca (TA) (a cura di Lia De Venere e Fabrizio Vona).
Edition 5 Erstfeld at the Haus für Kunst, Altdorf, Switzerland. Säen und Jäten –Volkskultur in der zeitgenössischen Kunst. Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany.
Non totalmente immemori, né completamente nudi, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone. Italy. (Curated by Andrea Bruciati, Eva Comuzzi)
2009 Fragile, fields of empathy, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon. South Korea.
Marvellous Reality Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India.
The Symbolic Efficiency of the Frame, 4th Tirana International Biennial, Albania. (Curatored by Joa Ljundberg & Edi Muka)
Säen und Jäten –Volkskultur in der zeitgenössischen Kunst. Städtische Galerie Ravensburg, Germany. (Curated by Dr. Nicole Fritz)
Threads, National Queer Arts Festival 2009, at SOMARTS Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA (Curated by Pamela Peniston & Courtney Dailey)
Fragile, fields of empathy, Museum of Sant Etiene. France Windows onto the Sea, Strasbourg. France
Fuorisalone 2009, Plusdesign Gallery, Milan, Italy Dritto Rovescio, Triennale Museum, Milan, Italy
2008 One Night Only at Taliesin West – Frank Lloyd Wright’s Foundation, Scottsdale – in collaboration with ASU Art Museum, Arizona, U.S.A. (Curated by John Spiak)
Micro narratives, Museum of Sant Etiene. France (Curated by Lorand Hegyi)
Mediations Biennale. Un voyage sentimentale 1st Poznan Biennial, Poland The Bearable Lightness of being.
The metaphor of the space, Palazzo Pesaro Papafava.
11th International Architecture Biennale Venice, Italy
Emergenze Creative MAR Museo d’Arte della Città di Ravenna, Italy
The thread as the line: Contemporary sewn art, Ellipse Arts Centre, Arlington, Virginia, USA (Curated by Cynthia Connolly)
Women’s Images/Frauenbilder, Kunsthalle Lingen, Germany. (Curated by Dr. Heiner Schepers)
2007 48th October Art Salon Belgrade, Serbia. Yugoslavia
Just in Time, Gallery Riccardo Crespi, Milan. Italy
2006 L’immagine sottile, Galleria Communale d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone. Monfalcone, Italy
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2006, Japan
Das Pferd erzählen, Kunsthalle, Göppingen. Germany
Travelling Light. Nothing to lose, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA (Curated by Julia Draganovic)
2004 Place for the Self, Apexart, New York, USA (Curated by Amnon Barzel)
Colours of Albania, National Gallery, Tirana, Albania. (Curated by Edi Muka)
2000 Noi amiamo l’Italia, l’Italia ama noi Mostra a latere del 51° Premio Michetti Palazzo Arnese, Ortona, Italy. (Curated by Edi Muka)
Travelling exhibition Junge Kunst Aus Italien: Kassel/ Documenta Halle, Magdeburg/Johanneskirche, Suermondt – Ludwig Museum, AachenPostdam/Kulturhaus Altes Rathaus, Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein. (Curated by Dr. Ulrich Schneider)
Host Home Gallery 5020 Salzburg, Austria. (Curated by Peter Weiermaier and Amnon Barzel)
Special Projects
2013 – Artist-Led workshops in collaboration with psychologist Jeffrey Adams held at the Women Prison 325, Ali Demi, in Tirana, Albania directed by curator – Edi Muka. Artist-Led workshops held at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California directed by curator – Ali Subotnik.
2010 – Paper Therapy a community project held in London at Maggie’s Centre in Hammersmith at Charing Cross Hospital & Bloomberg employs at their offices in London. UK, in collaboration with Arts Co and commissioned by Bloomberg, London. Directed by – Sigrid Wilkinson – Arts Co.
2008 – One Night Only the U.S. Taliesin West – Frank Lloyd Wright’s Foundation, Scottsdale in collaboration with ASU Art Museum, Arizona, U.S.A Directed by John Spiak.
2007 – The Ethiopian Embroiderers workshop in collaboration with Jerusalem Centre for Visual Arts (JCVA), Tel Aviv, Israel. Directed by Nirith Nelson.
2006 – Taipei Contemporary Ink Painting Biennal. Taipei, Taiwan. Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2006, Two weeks workshop in Japan
Yellow Stickers: Urban intervention project in simultaneously with the 51st Venice Biennale.
Selected Awards and Residencies
2016 The Cleveland Foundation: Creative Fusion International Artist in Residence Program.
2013 Artist in Residence TICA Art LAB, Tirana. Albania.
Artist in Residence Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. USA.
2011 Artist-in-Residence Krems, Austria. 2010 Residence International Aux Recollets, Paris, France. 2008 CEC ArtsLink Residency October- November
2008 NY, @ ASU Museum Arizona. (USA).
2007 Artist in residence at Jerusalem Center for the Visual Arts, Jerusalem, Israel.
2006 Targetti Light Art Award 2005 @ Artefiera 2006, Bologna, Italy.
1999 Mercedes Benz Prize Centro d’Arte la Loggia, Montefiridolfi, (FI). Italy.
Public & Private Collections
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. USA
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. USA
Israeli Museum Collection, Jerusalem, IL.
Mint Museum Collection, Charlotte, NC. USA
Deutsche Bank Collection, London, UK.
Collection of Peggy Scott and David Teplitzky, Asia.
Targetti Art Light Collection, Florence, Italy.
Collection of Galleria Comunale dell’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monfalcone, Italy.
Collection of Anthony and Heather Podesta, Washington, DC. USA
Edition5 Collection, Erstfeld, Switzerland