Blerta Hashani

Hashani Hënë e Diell në Shkëmb
Blerta Hashani
2022
Oil paint n board glue mounted on jute
40 x 40 cm

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Mirëmengjesi
Blerta Hashani
2024
Oil paint, pencil, paper, spray, wood board and organic glue on jute
40 x 40 cm

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Tani e di si është të shoh nga dritarja e fluturimit (Now I know what It’s like to lookout the flight window)
Blerta Hashani
2024
Oil paint, wood board and organic glue on jute
40 x 40 cm

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Milvus
Blerta Hashani
2025
Oil paint, spray, wood board and organic glue on jute
40 x 40 cm

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Biography

EDUCATION

2015–2020 University of Pristina, Faculty of Arts — Prishtina

RESIDENCIES

2024 Milvus Artistic Research Center — Knislinge, Sweden

2024 residency.ch, Kulturzentrum PROGR — Bern

SOLO SHOWS

2025 ARKIV — The Institute of Contemporary Art, Peja (upcoming)

2024 Memorizonim — LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina

2024 Known/Unknown Worlds — Kulturpunkt PROGR, Bern

2024 A Story upon the Green, in collaboration with Alex Fisher — Old Mill, Mirash / Kosovo

2023 feel more — LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS, Brussels

2022 Ambient — LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina

GROUP SHOWS

2025 Autostrada Biennale, Prizren (upcoming)

2025 Silent Threads Resounding Kosova — Galleria Continua, Paris

2025 Sans titre invites LambdaLambdaLambda — Sans titre, Paris

2025 Perceive, Record, Imagine — Foundation 17, Prishtina

2024 Jahresgaben — Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn

2024 Tools for Conviviality — Am Schwarzenbergplatz, Vienna

2023 Au hasard Balthazar — Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille

2023 It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Dust — GROVE, London

2022 New Grand, Manifesta 14, Prishtina

2022 Nothing like home II — LambdaLambdaLambda2, Prishtina

2022 Internal — Room Five Studio, Palace of Youth and Sports, Prishtina

2022 Pavilion — The Green Market, Varg e Vi, Gjilan

2021 Future Ecologies / The Great Smog of 2021 — National Gallery of Kosovo, Prishtina

2021 Nothing like home — LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina

2021 Green Line — Qahili Gallery, Prishtina

2021 Happy Holidays — LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS, Brussels

2019 Bridge with three Arches — Faculty of Arts, Tirana

2019 International Biennale of Drawing — Ferizaj Art Gallery, Ferizaj

2018 Bridge with three Arches — Faculty of Arts, Tetovo

2018 Gursel Sylejmani Award — Ferizaj Art Gallery, Ferizaj

2018 Emerge — with HAP collective, Gallery of Destil, Tirana

2017 Emerge — with HAP collective, Faculty of Arts, Prishtina

Description

Blerta Hashani is an emerging artist from Kosovo whose work is shaped by the landscapes and rural life of her origins. Working across painting, drawing, and photography, she develops a poetic visual language that combines figurative motifs such as animals, plants, and everyday objects with abstract, intuitive forms. Central themes in her work include memory, place, and belonging.

After completing her studies at the Faculty of Arts in Pristina (2015–2020), Hashani established an independent artistic position with predominantly small-scale, intimate paintings. These are characterized by a reduced yet atmospherically dense visual world in which simple motifs unfold a quiet, almost ritualistic effect.

Her practice received important impulses through international residencies in Sweden and Switzerland (2024), where she deepened her engagement with site-specific work and collective processes. Her first publication, A Story upon the Green, documents a work in public space and underscores her interest in the connection between landscape and history.

Hashani’s works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Kosovo and internationally, including in Pristina, Peja, Bern, Paris, and Bonn. Earlier presentations, such as her participation in Manifesta 14 (2022), as well as recent exhibitions in renowned institutions and galleries, have solidified her position within contemporary painting.

Gaining increasing international recognition, Hashani was included in Art Basel’s list of “10 Newcomers to Discover.” Her work exemplifies a new generation of painters who are advancing the medium through sensitive, reduced, yet highly evocative visual worlds.