"Future Greats", Art Review Issue 57, March 2012. Text by Giovanni Carmine Download Text here: artRewiew_2012
March 20, 2012
Petrit Halilaj – Art Review
March 20, 2012
Petrit Halilaj – 30 Künstler 30 Räume
Petrit Halilaj - 30 Künstler 30 Räume Exhibition Catalogue Published by Verlag für Moderne Kunst Text by Kathleen Rahn download PDF text here: 30K30R_Katalogue
January 7, 2012
Petrit Halilaj – Kostërrc
Petrit Halilaj
Kostërrc
2011
pigment print on rag paper
42 x 60 cm
Edition of 10 plus 5 AP
€ 500
Kostërrc (CH), 2011 consists of a hole (600 x 400 x 230 cm high)
made in the Kostërrc hill in Kosovo. This hill is property of
the Halilaj family and the original location of the house where
the artist was born.
The soil taken from the hole is transported to Basel, to nearly
fill the booth at the fair. This “land for sale” relates both
to many personal and intimate questions which are integral to
the artist’s research, as well as to social and cultural
problematics linked to the newborn state of Kosovo and its
migration phenomena (with a particular relation to Switzerland).
The huge effort required to move the soil also becomes a symbol
of the difficulties of migration and integration, of the strong
attachment to a culture which may become a self-detriment when
preserved in another culture. With the gesture of bringing a
piece of Kosovo to Switzerland, a country where one of the
larger foreign community is actually from Kosovo, the artist not
only tries to move its land into other surroundings – following
the dream of many of its inhabitants – but he also brings the
Kosovo community in Switzerland a little piece of their land.
The process shows all the difficulties related to migration, and
the near-impossibility of preserving an integrity from one
context to another.
December 7, 2011
Petrit Halilaj
Monographic catalogue published by Kunstraum Innsbruck and Chert Berlin/Innsbruck November 2011 With a text by Veit Loers € 12.00
November 23, 2011
Petrit Halilaj – Struktur & Organismus
Struktur & Organismus. Max Frey, Tue Greenfort, Petrit Halilaj, Rita Vitorelli Exhibition catalogue published by art:phalanx, Vienna 2011 with texts by Stefan Tasch and Sokol Ferizi 48pages Read Text English: Text S&O Englisch Read Text German: Text S&O Deutsch
November 18, 2011
Petrit Halilaj – Standard 11.10.11
Petrit Halilaj "Die Zeit zurückdrehen" article by Dorothea Nikolussi-Salzer, review for Petrit Halilaj solo exhibition at Kunstraum Innsbruck. download article here: Standard Halilaj 111011
September 15, 2011
Petrit Halilaj – Ostalgia
catalogue of the exhibition July 14 - September 25. 2011 published by New Museum, New York
August 15, 2011
Petrit Halilaj – Kultur Spiegel
August 2011 Heft 8 Loch der Erinnerung by Ingeborg Wiensowski PDF article here: Petrit Halilaj_Spiegel
July 13, 2011
Kasia Fudakowski & Petrit Halilaj – Based in Berlin, exhibition catalogue, June 2011
exhibition catalogue of "based in berlin"
200 pages
214 illustrations
bilingual: german/english
June 15, 2011
Petrit Halilaj – Art Agenda Art Basel 2011
review by Quinn Latimer http://www.art-agenda.com/reviews/art-basel/ download PDF Here: Art Basel | Art Agenda
June 15, 2011
Petrit Halilaj – Kostërrc (CH)
Brochure for the project "Kostërrc (CH)", Petrit Halilaj presented at Art Basel Statements, 2011 wit Chert, Berlin published by Chert & Bonner Kunstverein June 2011
June 15, 2011
Petrit Halilaj – Metropolis M
Metropolis M n. 03 - 2011 Petrit Halilaj - scouting article by Johan Lund
December 29, 2010
Petrit Halilaj – Berlin Ballkan
Petrit Halilaj - Berlin Biennale 2010 article about the bb6 patecipation of albanian artists Download PDF article - Albanian Only Berlin Ballkan_ Pula, një kalë e një kokë - Artistët Shqiptarë në Berlin Biennale 2010
October 7, 2010
Alejandro Almanza Pereda – Petrit Halilaj – Value, LDWN special issue
LDWN Value Issue 002 Published by Lodown Magazine, Berlin lodownmagazine.com
August 28, 2010
Petrit Halilaj – Domus 939 September 2010
Petrit Halilaj "Where is Petrit´s real Hause?" by Vincenzo Latronico, in Domus n. 939, September 2010Download Article PDF: Domus_Petrit Halilaj_Sept.2010
August 16, 2010
Petrit Halilaj – Blau Orange 2010
Blau Orange 2010 - shortlist
Simon Denny, Petrit Halilaj, Klara Liden, Nora Schultz
Published by BVR, National Association of German Cooperative Banks
July 5, 2010
Drinnen & Draussen exhibition catalogue. Chert/Motto
“Drinnen & Draussen” a group exhibition with Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Lucy Coggle, Jérémie Gindre, Petrit Halilaj, Karin Hueber, Hannah James, Heike Kabisch, Valerie Krause, Roseline Rannoch, Heiko Räpple, Vanessa Safavi, Carla Scott Fullerton, John Spiteri, Philippe van Wolputte. 26 June - 26 August, 2010 Chert / Motto Skalitzerstr. 68 10997 Berlin The show invites 14 artists from various countries including Germany, Australia, Belgium, Switzerland, Great Britain, Mexico and Kosovo. The different works are situated both inside the gallery space and outside of it, using part of the courtyard where Chert and Motto are located. In this way, the attentionis moving between the ideas of precariousness and delicacy, creating a different approach to the public in respect ofthe artwork, focusing on the differences between a traditional gallery context and an extemporaneous placement. 58 pages With texts by Katharina Jörder, Dagmar Heppner, Olga Lewicka, Michele Robecchi, Anke Volkmer Design: Sam de Groot Printed by Nina Reisinger Published by Chert & Motto € 13
June 30, 2010
Petrit Halilaj – 6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
Exhibition catalogue.
What is waiting out there, curated by Kathrin Rhomberg.
Published by DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne.
Idea and concept: Thomas Locher, Yvonne Quirmbach.
Graphic design: Yvonne Quirmbach.
ISBN: 976-3-8321-9338-6
June 14, 2010
Petrit Halilaj – Liste 2010 catalogue
Liste 15 - the young art fair in Basel, Catalogue Artist´s textDownload PDF ListeKatalog
June 8, 2010
Petrit Halilaj DU Magazine, June 2010, Kunst im 21. Jahrhundert, kuratiert von Hans Ulrich Obrist
Petrit Halilaj DU Magazine, June 2010, Kunst im 21. Jahrhundert, kuratiert von Hans Ulrich Obrist. German. With: Adrian Villar Rojas, Shilpa Gupta, Luke Fowler, Mark Boulos, Petrit Halilaj, Ziad Antar,Simon Fujiwara, Erika Vogt, Karen Cytter, Emily Wardill, Cyprien Gaillard, Tris Vonna-Michell, Cao Fei, Aaron Koblin, Aaron Flint Jamison, Josh Smith, Pamela Rosenkranz, Vincent Vulsma, Kerstin Brätsch, Tobias Madison, Klara Liden, Tino Sehgal, Alexandre Singh, Sophia Al-Maria, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Terence Koh, Etienne Chambaud, Elad Lassry, Taryn Simon.Download pdf article: DU_June2010_Petrit_Halilaj
