SEAD KAZANXHIU
CV
EDUCATION
2018 – 2019 Albanian School of Political Studies
2006 – 2010 Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting), University of Arts, Tirana, Albania
2011 – 2012 Roma English Language Program, Central European University, Budapest
ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES
2023 Residency Unlimited New York
2018 TICA Residency Tirana (Albania)
2017 RICHTER GALLERY (Den Helder Netherlands)
2012 – 2013 OSF Roma Initiatives Fellowship, Tirana (Albania)
2011 Jaw Dikh Art Colony, Czarna Góra (Poland)
2010 Jaw Dikh Art Colony, Czarna Góra (Poland)
Exhibitions
SELECTED SOLO SHOW
2020 “Paramisa Othe Sastipe Akate”. Studio Capitol Tirana Albania
2019 Dislocation, Coordinated by Aida Prljaca, Regional Cooperation Council, and Roma Integration 2020, Venue Swissotel Sarajevo
2018 NEXT TO MY CHIMNEY \ NË OXHAKUN TIM, Zeta Gallery, Tirane ( Curated by Marko Stamenkoviq)
2016 PERPETUUM MOBILE, Tulla Culture Center, Tirana [curated by Stefano Romano]
2014 MY PLACE (VENDIIM), National Historical Museum, Tirana [curated by Matilda Odobashi]
2014 MODEL, The European Parliament Main Hall, Brussels
2013 OPEN STUDIO, Tirana [curated by Vladimir Myrtezai]
2012 MODEL, Central European University, Budapest
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Acquisitions – Donations 2022- 2023 Group Exhibition Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje North Macedonia
2023 an instinct to change things...Curated byAlexis Mendoza organized by Residency Unlimited at Troter&Sholer Gallery New York
2023 Chronic desire—Sete cronică, Timișoara 2023 European Capital of Culture, Curated by Cosmina Goagea, Corina Oprea and Brîndușa Tudor
2022 “ All that we have in common”, organizet at the Museum of Contemporary art in Skopje as part of the parallellel program of Manifesta 14 Bienial in Skopje
2022 "The Other Side of the Image" Svilara Cultural Station and Serbian National Theatre, Novi Sad, Curator Vladan Jeremić
2022 Documenta fifteen exhibition, "One day we shall celebrate again" OFF Biennale Budapest – RomaMoMA Fridericianum Museum Kassel Germany
2022 “ardhje award” Tirana Institute of Contemporary art and Zeta Gallery
2022 Manifesta 14 Pristina Parallel event “All the birds are praying for our children” Belgrade, Serbia
2022 “Out of sight”, Galerie za Galerií, Hradec Králové, Curator Tamara Moyzes, Czech Republic.
2021 “Out of sight”, Artivist Lab, Curator ,Tamara Moyzes Prague, Czech Republic
2021 “ardhje award ” Tirana Institute of Contemporary art and Zeta Gallery
2021 The 2nd Roma Biennale, “WE ARE HERE!”, Curators, Delaine Le Bas and Hamze Bytyqi
2020 “South by the sea” Curate Elian Stefa Galeria Bregdetit.
2019 KERES KULTURA! / WE CREATE CULTURE! (Contemporary Art and Roma Identity) Curators: Emília Rigová, Petra Hanáková, The Central Slovak Gallery in cooperation with the Slovak National Gallery and the Banská Bystrica Slovakia
2019 "1000 Years Roma History", "You are not like them you are like us" Curated by Xhenson Cela. Art Turbina, Tirana
2018 "Uniting Peripheries", curated by Timea Junghaus and Zsofia Bihari. European Roma Intitute for Arts and Culture, Berlin
2018 "The Roma Spring: Art as Resistance" European Roma Intitute for Arts and Culture, Berlin (curated by Anna Mirga )
2017 MOCAfest (Marketplace of Creative Arts) International Art Festival, Borneo Convention Centre Kuching, Sarawak,Malaysia (Curated by Zuraini Anuar )
2017 The Future of Borders, Autostrada Biennale, Prizren Kosovo ( curated by Manray Hsu)
2017 Transgressing the Past Shaping the Future, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin [ curated by Timea Junghaus]
2017 Home, Mediterranea 18 Young Artists Biennale, Tirana Albania [curated by Maja Ćirić]
2017 Under Chaotic Silence, Richter Gallery, Den Helder Netherlands
2016 (Re)Conceptualizing Roma Resistance, Goethe-Institut, Prague [curated by Timea Junghaus]
2016 (Re)Conceptualizing Roma Resistance, HELLERAU - European Centre for the Arts, Drezden
2015 SiO2 – The Reason of Fragility: Contemporary Artists Facing Glass, ONUFRI Prize XXI, National Gallery, Tirana [curated by VestAndPage]
2015 Gipsy Under Erasure, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art - GIBCA Extended, Göteborg [curated by Timea Junghaus & Jesper Eng]
2014 Erasure, National Historical Muzeum of Albania, Tirana [curated by Romeo Kodra]
PUBLICATIONS
2020 “Paramisa Othe Sastipe Akate, “ Graphic Novels with Rromani Fairy Tales and Legends, Sead Kazanxhiu
2020 “Pase me Oxhaqeste”
2015 “Sead Kazanxhiu”
2014 “My Place “
2013 “MODEL”