Sislej Xhafa

Elegant Sick Bus at Modern Art Oxford

Xhafa has exhibited widely, including:

• Italian Pavilion of the 55th Venice Biennale Vice Versa Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
• 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa Borderline: Collection Exhibition II, Kanazawa, Japan (2013)
• MADRE Museum of Contemporary Art Donna Reggina Still Untitled, Naples, Italy (2012)
• François Pinault Foundation The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
• Hardau City Park Y, Zürich, Switzerland
• The Power Plant Rearview Mirror, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (2011)
• PRISM Misericordia, West Hollywood, California, United States
• MAXXI Spazio. Dalle collezioni di arte e architettura, Rome, Italy
• Il Museo Privato. La passione per l'arte contemporanea nelle collezioni bergamasche GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy
• 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, Milano Ibrido. Genetica delle forme
• DEPO Indefinite Destinations, Istanbul, Turkey
• MADRE Barock, Naples, Italy (2009)
• Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
• Modern Art Oxford Transmission Interrupted, Oxford, England
• Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
• Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit Business As Usual, Detroit, Michigan, United States
• Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt All-Inclusive. A Tourist World, Frankfurt, Germany (2008)
• Istanbul Museum of Modern Art Time Present, Time Past, Istanbul, Turkey
• Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art Rethinking Dissent, Gothenburg, Sweden
• Mori Art Museum All About Laughter Humor in Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (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, Seville, Spain
• The Renaissance Society, New Video, New Europe, Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St.Louis, Missouri, United States
• Tate Modern, London, England
• Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States
• Fundació 'la Caixa' la Sala Montcada, Barcelona, Spain
• Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel (2004)
• Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2003)
• Gwangju Biennale, Pause, Gwangju, South Korea (2002)
• Istanbul Biennial, Egofugal, Istanbul, Turkey
• Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Casino, Ghent, Belgium
• PS1, Uniform, Queens, New York City, New York, United States (2001)
• Manifesta III, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Over the Edges, Ghent, Belgium (2000)
• Venice Biennale (1997, 1999 and 2005)

• Hardau City Park Y, Zürich; Supported by City of Zürich, ZHDK and IFCAR 2009-2011
• "Axis of Silence" in collaboration with Contemporary Art Fund of the City and Canton of Geneva (Fmac and FCAC) Plaine de Plainpalais; Geneva 2008
• Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella 2001
• Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Premio Querini- Furla per l'Arte, Venice 2000
• Onufri National Gallery, Tirana 1999

• "Biennale 2013: Sislej Xhafa", Vogue Italia.
• "Italian Pavilion in the 55th International Art Exposition of the Venice Biennale - Vice versa - The Exhibition Project", 1F mediaproject
• Urs Steiner, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2 July 2012.
• Adi Kälin, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 24 September 2011.
• http://www.albinfo.ch/sq/node/81790%5B%5D
• "The most expensive key I’ve ever owned opens the doors to a world of trash (not that I’m complaining)", Time Out Istanbul, June 12, 2012.
• http://www.darsmagazine.it/gormley-buren-xhafa-galleria-continua/
• http://artforum.com/picks/section=eu&mode=past#picks31076
• http://frieze-magazin.de/archiv/kritik/sislej-xhafa/?lang=en%5B%5D
• http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/zuerich/stadt/Wie-ein-Kosovare-Zuerich-bereichern-will/story/28637795
• http://blog.frieze.com/in-the-public-realm-sislej-xhafa/%5B%5D
• Smith, Roberta, "Performance Art Gets Its Biennial", The New York Times, November 4, 2005.
• Povoledo, Elisabetta, "Contemporary work has unlikely home", The New York Times, February 21, 2006.
• GENOCCHIO, BENJAMIN. The New York Times, August 3, 2007. "Theater of Cruelty"
• The Free Library by Farlex. Artforum International, May 1, 2001. Openings Sislej Xhafa.
• Povoledo, Elisabetta, "Contemporary work has unlikely home", International Herald Tribune, Tuesday, February 21, 2006.

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