Benutzer:Florian Paul Koenig/Jakup Ferri (Artist)

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

Education and residencies

Ferri studied at Prishtina 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.

Jakup Ferri zooms in to the details of everyday life, shifting our focus away from “big” topics to create an imaginary world inspired by the immediacy of life, both in intimate and collective spaces. The artworks that emerge in various media from paintings to drawings, paper mosaics, embroideries, carpets and videos are vibrant with detail, with the “small” and the common—the places that life explodes, despite the surrounding capitalist destruction and crisis. Humans, creatures and animals catch sunrays and rain drops, play music, dance, perform acrobatics, rest and regenerate. In between the lines, a different world is imagined.

Ferri’s vivid portrayals of city life and leisure connect to folk elements and rituals where the urban space merges with nature, and where humans and animals act as equals, like in cartoons and comics or indigenous and vernacular imagery. The artist highlights the abundant power of everyday human experience as a survival strategy. His work shows the joyful sides of life, even when circumstances take a turn for the worse (as in post-war societies, transition or migration). The witty and humorous messages conveyed sometimes point to the absurd and other times to surreal aspects of life. Representation (of success and wealth) is rendered irrelevant, as animals watch TV, fantastical creatures partake in community festivities, and, generally, when life is a beach. However, these are not frivolous and playful performances of a privileged artist. They are a clear no – a rejection of the state of things.

Many of Jakup Ferri’s drawings, paintings and embroideries depart from his experiences in life, intimate moments of being a family, creating a safe home, observations of public space, reflections on accessible housing especially in the “West”, working with students, transformations of space due to the pandemic, but also from his fascination and care for animals. Human and human-animal relations are sometimes conceptualized as a network of gazes that offer hints for storytelling in his works. Furthermore, performing arts are a recurring motif. Staging becomes a painterly practice of setting up a scene and its performers within the painting.

(Text by Ivana Marjanović, Catalogue, The Monumentality of the Everyday, La Biennale di Venezia, Kosovo Pavillon)

Prizes

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. 2020 Gjelosh Gjokaj Prize.

Solo Exhibitions (Selection)

• 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
• 2020 National Gallery of Kosovo, Prishtina, Kosovo
• 2018 Aero Zim, La Bellevilloise, Paris, France
• 2018 Muscle Memory, The Horse Hospital, London, United Kingdom
• 2018 Op Op, Tulla – Cultural Center, Tirana, Albania
• 2016 Muscle Memory, Bradwolff Projects, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 2015 Transparent Hula Hoop, Andriesse-Eyck Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 2013 Cold Water Boils Faster, Van Zijll Langhout / Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 2011 Outside the Circle, Tetris - Hapsira Manipuluese, Pristina, Kosovo
• 2011 Laughing Lessons, Weingrüll, Karlsruhe, Germany
• 2010 Paper Vegetables, De Hallen, Haarlem, Netherlands
• 2010 Cekirdek Instead of Leblebi, Outlet, Istanbul, Turkey
• 2010 Pocket Drawings in the Frame, Van Zijll Langhout, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 2009 Works on Paper, Galerie De Expeditie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 2009 MASA, Garajistanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
• 2009 Galerie De Meerse, Hoofddorp, Netherlands
• 2009 Today in History, with Ahmet Ogüt, Centre for Visual Introspection, Bucharest, Romania
• 2009 Two Virgins,with Lulzim Zeqiri, Weingrüll, Karlsruhe, Germany
• 2006 Fainting, with Bujar Sylejmani, Stacion, Prishtina, Kosovo
• 2006 Three Virgins, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Group Exhibitions (Selection)

• 2022 Manifesta 14, Prishtina, Kosovo
• 2016 Hannah Ryggen Triennial 2016, Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Norway
• 2016 The Whale That Was a Submarine, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
• 2015 Tembe fu Libi, Moengo Festival of Visual Arts, Suriname
• 2013 His master’s voice, HMKV, Dortmund & Montpellier, Germany and France
• 2012 Genius without Talent, de Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 2010 Niet Normaal, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 2010 Xenoglossia, The Center for Historical Reenactment, Johannesburg, South Africa
• 2010 Anticipation Time, Bat Yam Museum of Contemporary Art, Bat Yam, Israel
• 2010 This Story is Not Ready for its Footnotes, Ex Elettrofonica, Roma, Italy
• 2009 Coalesce:Happenstance, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 2008 Quartett - Vier Biennalen im Spiegel grafischer Blatter, Tanas, Berlin, Germany
• 2008 U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2008 The Use of Every Sunbeam, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany
• 2007 PAWNSHOP, e-flux, New York, United States
• 2007 Glocal & Outsiders, Prague Biennale 3, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2007 A forest and a tree, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
• 2006 Ethnic Marketing, Azad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
• 2005 e-flux Video Rental, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
• 2004 Arte Contemporanea, MACRO al Mattatoio, Rome, Italy
• 2004 Biennale of young artist, National Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
• 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

Artworks in Public Collections

• Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary

Press (Selection)

• 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