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.
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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, Tra c 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 Tra c 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