BIOGRAPHY

Selmani approaches the idea of perceived reality by deconstructing formations of social, political, and cultural topics that have been embodied around him. At a young age, he was told to worship a country that no longer existed, which caused him to form a basis of skepticism towards any supposedly given reality. He later used this as a beneficial tool to reconstruct his beliefs into visual artifacts. In 1999, old simulacra were replaced by new simulacra; the ornaments of a previous space were refurbished to unfold with new meanings but also new uncertainties. Selmani confronts himself as a spectator of this “ongoing event”, and positions himself as an actor, enacting his performances based on his personal histories, beliefs, and doubts.


DOWNLOAD PORTFOLIOAlternate Text

CV

EDUCATION

2011—2012, Arts University Bournemouth, MFA Bournemouth, UK

2007—2010, BA Graphic Design at AAB Faculty of Arts, Pristina

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2020 Culture Hub Croatia, Split Croatia

2018 Artist Village Eindhoven Contemporary Art Platform WARP Beeldenstorm, Eindhoven

2015 School of Engagement Art, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Berlin, DE

2012 CEC Artslink New York, USA

2011 Cultural City Network, Graz, Austria

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025

Reflecting On Time, The Museums Quartier / MQ

Vienna, Austria


2024

How To Tilt Time?, Tillt Radio, Prishtina, Kosovo

Everything We Do Is Really, Really Brilliant, Kahan Art Space,

Budapest, Hungary


2023

Prallë, Apiece Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania

Everything We Do Is Really, Really Brilliant, Kahan Art Space,

Vienna, Austria


2022

The Barking Of The Dogs Will Not Hurt The Clouds,

Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, North Macedonia

Depart to Somewhere Else, Salon Galic, Split, Croatia

This Is An Exhibition by Driton Selmani. The Title Of This

Exhibition Is: Rush Silently, Tillt Radio, Prishtina, Kosovo


2021

The Grave Is Better Than Not Knowing, Palace of Youth, Prishtina

Screenshots Of Now, Muzeji i Galerije Podgorica, Montenegro

Beyond, Beyond, Dotršcina Monument Park /Virtualni muzej

Dotršcina, Zagreb, Croatia


2020

Love Letters, Ta·da, Copenhagen, Denmark

Two Jokes Make One Truth, Corridor Project Space, Amsterdam,

The Netherlands

Artists in Quarantine, National Gallery, Prishtina, Kosovo


2019

More And More Thoughts About Other Thoughts,

U10 Belgrade, Serbia

Places We Leave Behind, Writers Association

The Noise, Skanderbeg Square, Prishtina, Kosovo

First Day of Spring, SKulpturgarten | Margareten, Vienna, Austria


2016

My country on my back – Exchiesetta, Polignano a Mare, Italy


2015

Panorama, Tulla Culture Center, Tirana, Albania


2014

Strange things happening in the Neighborhood

Hotel Gracanica, Kosovo

Daf, Def, Deaf – AfG, Vienna, Austria


2010

Right turn, turn right, Trac Gallery, Prishtina, Kosovo


2009

Open Call 3+4, Stacion Center For Contemporary Art, Prishtina,


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

Broken Time. And The World Is Made Again By What It Forgets

Acquisitions—Donations 2022—2023, MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje

Sonja S. Memorial, Nadežda Petrovic Art Gallery, Cacak

Fabric Of Life, Triënnale Beaufort, Blankenberge Belgium

The Event of a Thread. Global Narratives in Textiles, National Gallery, Prishtina, Kosovo

Sounds Like a Whisper (Poetically Political) Sofia City Art Gallery


2023

The Other. Re-Imagine the Future, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria

Public Announcements, Museum Of Contemporary Art Roskilde, Denmark

Exploitation of the "alive", Museum of Fine Arts, Osijek, Croatia

Flag Is My Middle Name, 019, Ghent, Belgium


2022

SIT carpet-meeting-place-exhibition,

LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina, Kosovo

Ecomythologies, 44th Montenegrin Art Salon, Cetinje, Montenegro

Upplysa 7th edition — Gamla Skofabriken, Knislinge, Sweden

It Matters What Worlds World Worlds. How To Tell Stories

Otherwise, Manifesta 14, Prishtina, Kosovo

HAPU / Art In Public Spaces, Prishtina, Kosovo

The Revolution of the City around its Dream,

Boulevard-Art & Media Institute, Tirana, Albania

Tallinn Print Triennial 18th Edition: Warm. Checking Temperature

In Three Acts, Tallinn, Estonia


2021

Back & Forth, HayArt Cultural Center, Yerevan, Armenia

Future Ecologies: Isle of Thorns, Galeria e Bregdetit, Vlorë, Albania

Bigger than Myself: Heroic Voices from ex Yugoslavia,

Maxxi Museum, Rome, Italy

OSTRALE Biennale O21: Breathturn, Dresden, Germany

Memory Of The Fallen Trees, GFA - Prishtina, Kosovo

Wanderlust, XIII Biennial Of Young Artists,

Museum of Contemporary Art – Skopje, North Macedonia

The Manifest of Survival, Tulla Culture Center Tirana, Albania


2020

Double Wall Of Silence, ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia &

Hestia Exhibitions Bureau, Belgrade, Serbia

Almissa Open Art Festival, Omiš, Croatia


2019

Long-Distance Relationship, Espace Témoin, Geneva,

Switzerland & Motrat Prishtina, Kosovo

6–Chome-30-3 Higashi-Ogu, Tokyo, Japan

We’re Not Like Them, Museum of Modern and Contemporary

Art - MMSU Rijeka, Croatia

Open City - Nuit Blanche Prizren, Prizren, Kosovo

From Anywhere to Anywhere, La Maison des Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Norrköping Light Festival, Norrköping, Sweden


2019

Mundane, Eugster || Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

Fog, National Gallery - Mala Stanica Skopje, North Macedonia


2018

Are our Memories History? Muslim Mulliqi Prize,

National Gallery, Prishtina, Kosovo

The Map Is The Territory – Bregenz Biennale, Bregenz, Austria

Fog, National Gallery, Prishtina, Kosovo


2017

Existential, Amsterdam Light Festival, 6th Edition,

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

So Close So Far – Center for Cultural Decontamination,

Belgrade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Serbia

Belgrade Institute of Philosophical and Social Studies,

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Historical Museum of BiH, Sarajevo:

Cultural and Social Repair Center, Banja Luka, CCI Observatory

Balcani Caucasus Transeuropa and Boccanera Gallery, Trento

Boem, Vienna, Institute for Studies In Southeastern Europe

Regensburg, Germany


2016

Bregenz Biennale, Bregenz Austria

The whale that was a Submarine – Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary

Young art from Kosovo – Galerie Lukas Feichtner, Vienna, Austria


2015

Parallel Sprawl – Modelariumi i Arkitekturës, Prishtina, Kosovo

Nationless – Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art,

Thessaloniki, Greece

A new round of cultural dialogue, Culture Re product Odžaci, Serbia

Actual art, a rupture within the antagonism, MKC Youth Cultural

Centre Skopje, Macedonia

Diëerent Worlds – Photon – Centre for Contemporary

Photography Ljubljana, Slovenia


2014

Let us start from the middle – Tirana Art Lab – Tirana, Albania

Here Now Where? A participatory project of sonic ambulation in

Marrakesh’s taxis 5th, Marrakesh Biennial, Marrakesh, Morocco

Zoo Art 14 – Giardini Fresia, Cuneo, Italy

Sculpture Me – Kunstraum Niederosterreich, Vienna Austria

Anonymous lives – Batman Universitesi, Batman, Turkey

Praise of Doubt – Onufri Prize XX, National Art Gallery,

Tirana, Albania


2013

Alternative Nomadi, Fabbrica del Vapore Milan, Italy

EX – Ordinary No Borders No Nations, Collegium artisticum

Sarajevo, Kontrapunkt Skopje, Slobodne veze Zagreb, Photon

Ljubljana, U10 Beograd, Center of Contemporary Art Podgorica

Monumental Sculptures from Yugoslavia in Kosovo, Artifacts

between Memory and Neglect, Stacion Center for Contemporary

Art, Prishtina Kosovo

Errors Allowed, Mediterranea 16 Young Artists Biennial, Ancona, Italy


2012

Sex Lives of the Poor and Unknown, Polymer Culture Factory,

Tallinn, Estonia

Dust, The Gallery, Arts University Bournemouth, United Kingdom

I am what I used to be, Northern Studios, Bournemouth, United King


2011

Aberto para Re – Forma, Casa Contemporanea São Paulo, Brasil

Polip, Manipulation Center TETRIS, Prishtina, Kosovo

Buzz’n’Buss, Urban Trac Center, Prishtina, Kosovo


2010

Onufri Prize, National Art Gallery, Tirana, Albania

Artists of Tomorrow Prize, National Art Gallery, Pristina, Kosovo

Muslim Mulliqi Prize, National Art Gallery, Prishtina, Kosovo


2009

3+4 - A Working Module, Stacion Center For Contemporary Art,

Prishtina, Kosovo

Personally Political, Contemporary Sensation, Kunsthaus

Tachels, Berlin, Germany