Jakup Ferri (born 1981) is a contemporary artist from Amsterdam, Netherlands and Pristina, Kosovo.[1][2] He is a professor at Pristina Art Academy[3] and guest advisor at Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.[4] Ferri's work has been shown at international exhibitions in museums and galleries, festivals and biennials, including Venice Biennale,[5][6] Istanbul Biennial,[7] Prague Biennale, Cetinje Biennale and Manifesta Biennale, Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Art.[8]
Education and residencies
Ferri studied at Pristina Art Academy and Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.[9] He has been an artist-in-residence at numerous places, including the International Studio and Curatorial Program New York in 2004[10] and the Kultur Kontakt Austria in 2005.[11]
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).[12] Eveline Suter (Curator at Museum of Art Lucerne, Switzerland) describes his visual world as colorful and full of happy creatures.[13] Ferri draws inspiration from microorganisms, folk art, arts and crafts, art brut, and the pixel world of computer games.[14]
Prizes and awards
In 2006 he received a prestigious award Kunstpreis Europas Zukunft (The Future of Europe), Museum of Contemporary Art (GfZK) Leipzig.[15] 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.[16]
Selected exhibitions
Solo
2024 We We, curated by Thomas Niemeyer, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Germany[17]
2023 Funk your Funk, Ferda Art Platform, Istanbul, Turkey[18]
2023 We, We or Me, curated by Eveline Suter, Kunstmuseum Luzerne, Switzerland[19]
2022 The Monumentality of the Everyday, Pavilion of Republic of Kosovo, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy[20]
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