Alban Muja: In spite of everything, there is a wall

Soft Opening: Dienstag | Tuesday, 08.06.2021, 11 - 7 p.m.

Working across a wide range of media including drawing, painting, photograph, video installation and performance, Alban Muja (b.1980, Kosovo) investigates through single artistic acts the complex history and the socio-political transformation of his native Kosovo and the surrounding region. In Muja’s work, the thoughts and subjectivities of arts are indiscissable to politics. The exhibition In spite of everything, there is a wall, the first presentation of the artist’s work at Charim Gallery, Vienna, includes a selection of recent and older works. Exploring geopolitical, social and economical issues, Muja poetically–sometimes ironically–enquires funding ties between gender, family, territory and ultimately the State. Is art defined by ideology forces maintained by a nation?

Excerpt from the exhibition text by Attilia Fattori Franchini