• Source: Jakup Ferri (artist)

Jakup Ferri (born 1981) is a contemporary artist from Amsterdam, Netherlands and Pristina, Kosovo. He is a professor at Pristina Art Academy and guest advisor at Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Ferri's work has been shown at international exhibitions in museums and galleries, festivals and biennials, including Venice Biennale, Istanbul Biennial, Prague Biennale, Cetinje Biennale and Manifesta Biennale, Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Art.




Education and residencies


Ferri studied at Pristina Art Academy and Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. He has been an artist-in-residence at numerous places, including the International Studio and Curatorial Program New York in 2004 and the Kultur Kontakt Austria in 2005.




Work


Ferri is best known for his figurative paintings and embroideries, who have been characterized as "poetic interactions between people, creatures and objects" (Alisa Goiani Berisha, Curator at the National Museum of Kosovo). Eveline Suter (Curator at Museum of Art Lucerne, Switzerland) describes his visual world as colorful and full of happy creatures. Ferri draws inspiration from microorganisms, folk art, arts and crafts, art brut, and the pixel world of computer games.




Prizes and awards


In 2006 he received a prestigious award Kunstpreis Europas Zukunft (The Future of Europe), Museum of Contemporary Art (GfZK) Leipzig. In 2008 he received the Buning Brongers Award in Amsterdam and in 2003 the Muslim Mulliqi Prize and the Artists of Tomorrow Award. In 2020, Ferri was awarded the Gjelosh Gjokaj Prize.




Selected exhibitions






= Solo

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2024 We We, curated by Thomas Niemeyer, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Germany
2023 Funk your Funk, Ferda Art Platform, Istanbul, Turkey
2023 We, We or Me, curated by Eveline Suter, Kunstmuseum Luzerne, Switzerland
2022 The Monumentality of the Everyday, Pavilion of Republic of Kosovo, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2021 Sunray Acrobat, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
2021 Tintirinti, Andriesse-Eyck Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018 Muscle Memory, The Horse Hospital, London, United Kingdom
2016 Muscle Memory, Bradwolff Projects, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2013 Cold Water Boils Faster, Van Zijll Langhout / Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2011 Laughing Lessons, Weingrüll, Karlsruhe, Germany
2010 Paper Vegetables, De Hallen, Haarlem, Netherlands




= Group

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2022 Manifesta 14, Pristina, Kosovo
2009 Coalesce:Happenstance, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2006 Ethnic Marketing, Azad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2003 In den Schluchten des Balkan, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany




Publications


2023 Art Textile Kunst, editors: Cathérine Hug and Bernhard Stadelmann, AS Verlag
2022 Jakup Ferri – The Monumentality of the Everyday, Verlag Kettler




Press


2023, Im Kunstmuseum Luzern erzählen fantastische Wesen ihre Geschichten auf bunten Stickereien, Luzerner Zeitung, Switzerland
2023, Glückliche Menschen, Tiere und Mischwesen – Jakup Ferris Kosmos voller Geschichten im Kunstmuseum Luzern, Arttv.ch, Switzerland
2022, The Art World Came to Kosovo. What Happens When It Leaves?, The New York Times, United States
2022, The Exhibition At Venice Biennale Revelling In The Joy Of The Everyday, Service95, United Kingdom
2022, Biennale Arte 2022: 10 pavillons to see, Interni, italy
2021, Jakup Ferri: farbenfrohe Leichtigkeit des Seins, Kronen Zeitung, Austria




References

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• Jakup Ferri (artist)
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• List of Albanians in Montenegro
• Istanbul Biennial
• National Gallery of Kosovo
• List of national pavilions at the 59th Venice Biennale
• Buning Brongers Award
• 59th Venice Biennale
• Horse Hospital
• Cathérine Hug