About this Event
Flaka Haliti's artistic practice encompasses mixed media, sculpture, and spatial painting and installations, all with a distinctly site-conscious and site-responsive approach. Appropriation and re-arrangement are continuous threads in her body of work, producing a hybrid practice as negation between Abstraction and Representation. In an effort to bridge the gap between micro and macro scales, she addresses various themes such as belonging, subjectivity, displacement, the human-animal relationship, migration, territorial boundaries, and the demilitarization of aesthetics. Haliti challenges the connection between aesthetics and warfare by examining how this intersection continues to shape influence societies today. She presents an alternative artistic perspective as a means of generating counter-narratives to the violent stories of our time, contemplating what types of myths, political structures, visuals, aesthetics, and linguistic expressions we need to revive and create to ensure a collective future. Charles Stankievech, Associate Professor of Visual Studies at Daniels, will moderate a discussion following the talk.
Artist Bio:
Flaka Haliti's work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at major international biennials and institutions, including the Venice Biennale, Busan Biennale, Manifesta 14, Moscow Biennale, steirischer herbst ’22, and Baltic Triennial 14, as well as at museums and institutions such as mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Lenbachhaus, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Museum Ludwig, Lehmbruck Museum, and the National Gallery of Arts of Albania in Tirana, among others. She was shortlisted for the Preis der Nationalgalerie (2019) at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin and is a recipient of the Ars Viva Prize (2015/16), the Ludwig Gies Prize (2019), and the Henkel Art.Award (2014) mumok, among others. Since 2021, Flaka Haliti has been actively engaged in pedagogical practice, teaching as a guest professor at several renowned art academies and universities, including: Städelschule – Frankfurt, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg, Academy of Fine Arts Munich. Haliti is a guest lecturer and artist-in-residence in Visual Studies at Daniels for Fall 2026.
Image Credits: 01) Under the Sun – Explain What Happened, 2022, Manifesta 14th Prishtina. Outdoor artistic Intervention, Photo: Ivan Erofeev. 02) Under the Sun – Explain What Happened, 2022, Manifesta 14th Prishtina. Outdoor artistic Intervention, Photo: Leart Rama & Camilo Brau
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John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, 1 Spadina Crescent, Toronto, Canada
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