Deborah Schamoni

Flaka Haliti’s artistic practice includes mixed media, sculpture and spatial installation with a decidedly site-specific approach. Appropriation and re-arrangement are continuous lines in her works, whereby new aesthetic patterns are created. Haliti emphasizes altered perceptions on a visual level, as well as in conceptual methods to engage in political reflections and geopolitical preoccupations. Mediated by the sensory and by visual fields, territorial boundaries and powers such as national borders or the dispositions of associations like the UN or the European Union, are brought to negotiation. Importantly, her works steadily confront languages of identity in order to transcend its categorizations of gender or nationality. Occupying in-between states, Haliti furthermore challenges humanist perspectives and its authority over representation and abstraction.

Flaka Haliti (b. 1982 in Pristina, lives in Berlin) represented her home country Kosovo at the Venice Biennale in 2015. She was a scholarship holder of the Villa Romana in Florence in 2017 and is the recipient of the Ars Viva Prize. She completed her studies at the College of Fine Arts, Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Flaka Haliti was in 2023 resident of the Art Explora – Cité internationale des arts Residency, Paris, France. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Deborah Schamoni (2024); Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany (2023); Cukrarna, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2023); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2021); Deborah Schamoni (2020); Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria (2016); mumok – Museum Moderne Kunst, Vienna, Austria (2014).