Flaka Haliti / Metahaven
Crossing #9 - (The Wheel of Fortune)
15. 8. 22, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
The Making of the Discourse Bar
A conversation between artist Flaka Haliti and the artist collective Metahaven moderated by Sophie Goltz
In this conversation, Flaka Haliti and Metahaven will discuss their collaboration towards thinking and building a social space for art, The Discourse Bar. They all share similar ideas on the expansion of categories such as art, design and architecture into hybrid forms of artistic engagement, in both theory and practice. Featuring symbolic imagery, such as military camouflage patterns, which is in tune with the times of conflicts and unforeseen hazards, The Discourse Bar is a space for open and unformed encounters, in which exchanged stories fall like cascades of an unfinished transformation – in other words, a space to reflect on and think about collective and entangled life forms.
All events are in English language. Free admission. You can find the live stream on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/YudlhzsbE5E
Information
- Venue
- Galerie Kunst im Traklhaus
- Date
- 15. 8. 22, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Flaka Haliti
Flaka Haliti’s artistic practice includes mixed media, sculpture, and spatial installation with a decidedly site-specific approach. Appropriation and rearrangement 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 reflection 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 the languages of identity-construction in order to transcend its categorisations of gender or nationality while introducing detour as a game-plan of resistance. Occupying in-between states, Haliti furthermore challenges humanist perspectives and authority, over-representation and abstraction – not only on a visual level, but also in a conceptual approach through political strategies. Her practice operates as a dialogue between the notions of abrogation and appropriation – the one rejecting the standard and demands of systematic order, and the other making an adaptation of it. The result is the opening of a field for counter-poetics as an ongoing "in-betweenness" inside a dialectical performative space.
Education
Since 2013 PhD in Practice Program at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
2012-2013 Meisterschülerin, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main (DE).
2008-2012 Städelschule, Prof. Judith Hopf, Frankfurt am Main (DE).
2002-2006 Bachelor in Graphic at the Faculty of Arts Pristina University, Pristina.
Teaching experience
2021 Spatial Hijacks by Sculpture, course at: Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2021 Flaka Haliti, Kunstverein Friedrichshafen, Friedrichshafen (DE). WIND, Opernatelier, commissioned by Kunsthaus Bregenz and Bregenzer Festspiele, Bregenz (AT). Billboard Kunstinsel Lenbachplatz, commissioned by the Culture Department of the City of Munich, Munich (DE). 2020 Watchu expect me to do when I lose my cool, Deborah Schamoni, Munich. 2018 Here – or Rather There, Is Over There, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg (DE); Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen (DE); National Gallery of Arts, Tirana. 2016 My Gravity Slipped Away, S.A.L.T.S., Kunstverein Birsfelden, Basel (CH); 2015, Pavilion of Kosovo, 56. La Biennale die Venezia, Venice (IT). 2014 See a Face. Do You See A Face., mumok, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna.
Group exhibitions
2022 BREATHLESS, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (CA) (upcoming). 2021 Endless Express, EUROPALIA International, Brussels (upcoming). What If a Journey..., Autostrada Biennale, Prizren, Kosovo. The Endless Frontier, Baltic Triennial, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius. 2020 HURRICANES AND OTHER CATASTROPHES. Museum Lenbachhaus Munich. The clouds and the cloud, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen (DE). 2019 Shortlist exhibition of the Preis der Nationalgalerie 2019, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin. HERE AND NOW, Transcorporealities, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (DE). 40,000, Small Sculpture Triennial, Fellbach (DE). 2018 Busan Biennale, Busan (KR). Symptoms of Society I, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong (CN); Zhejiang (CN). 2016 Political Populism, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna. 2015 HOW TO GATHER?, 6th Moscow Biennale, Moscow.
Metahaven
Metahaven's work consists of film-making, writing, textile art and design. Films by Metahaven include Chaos Theory(2021), Hometown (2018), and Information Skies (2016), nominated for the European Film Awards 2017. A forthcoming film is Capture (2022). Metahaven has participated in group exhibitions including at Artists Space, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, the Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, the Busan Biennale, Busan, the Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, and MHKA, Antwerp, and has held solo exhibitions including at MoMA PS1, New York, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Izolyatsia, Kyiv, ICA London, e-flux, New York, and State of Concept Athens. Their work is in collections including the Sharjah Art Foundation, the National Gallery of Victoria, MUHKA, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Recent books include Digital Tarkovsky (2018).