Sislej Xhafa – Thoughts
Sislej Xhafa, for THOUGHTS, a HARABEL Contemporary project.
Sislej Xhafa (b, in 1970) in Pejë, Kosova. Sislej Xhafa lives and works in New York. Xhafa has exhibited widely including at the Galleria Continua, France and Italy (2012, 2016); ZAC, Palermo (2017); MAXXI Museum, Rome (2016); BWA Sokol Contemporary fine art Gallery, Nowy Sacz (2016); François Pinault Foundation, The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi, Venice; Hardau metropolis Park, Y, Zurich; MADRE Museum of Contemporary fine art Donna Regina, Still Untitled, Napoli; The Power Plant Contemporary fine art Gallery, Rearview Mirror, Toronto (2011); PRISM Misericordia, West Hollywood, California; MAXXI Spazio. Dalle collezioni di arte e architettura, Roma; Il Museo Privato. La passione per l’arte contemporanea nelle collezioni bergamasche, GAMeC, Bergamo; Röda Sten, 2705 Baci…, Göteborg (2010), MART Rovereto Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Language and Experimentations; PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Ibrido. Genetica delle forme, Milano; DEPO, Indefinite Destinations, Istanbul; MADRE Museum of Contemporary fine art Donna Regina, Barock, Napoli (2009); Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba; Modern fine art Oxford Transmission Interrupted; Biennale of Gwangju, Gwangju, Korea; MOCAD Museum of Contemporary fine art of Detroit, business concern As Usual; Schirn Kunsthalle, All-Inclusive. A Tourist World, Frankfurt (2008); Istanbul Museum Of Modern fine art Time Present, Time Past, Istanbul; Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary fine art Rethinking Dissent, Göteborg, Sweden; Mori fine art Museum, All About Laughter Humor in Contemporary fine art, Tokyo (2007); PERFORMA05, performance biennial, New York (2005); I Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Fundación BIACS, La alegria de mis sueños, Monasterio la Cartuja de Santa María de las Cuervas, Sevilla; The Renaissance Society, New Video, New Europe, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary fine art, St.Louis; Tate Modern, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, North Dakota Museum of fine art, Grand Forks; Fundació ‘la Caixa’ la Sala Montcada, Barcelona; Haifa Museum of fine art, Israel (2004), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2003), Gwangju Biennial, Pause, Gwangju, (2002); Istanbul Biennial, Egofugal, Istanbul; S.M.A.K., Italy Casino, Gent; PS1, Uniform, New York (2001); Manifesta III, Ljubljana, Slovenia, S.M.A.K., Over the Edges, Gent (2000); Fondazione Olivetti, Rome (2000) and the Venice Biennale (1997,1999, 2005, 2013, 2017).