Biography

1970
born in Durres (AL) Lives and works in Milan.

2000
Graduation from the Academy of Brera, Milan / I

1998
Corso Superiore di Arte Visiva, Fondazione Ratti, Como - visiting professor Hamish Fulton

1994
Graduation from the Academy of Fine Arts, Tirana / AL


Selected Awards

2005
2nd Prize in the category "Light Sculptures", Targetti Light Art Award 2005, Florence / I

1999
Mercedes Benz Prize Centro d’Arte la Loggia, Montefiridolfi, (FI) / I

Collections ( a selection)

Targetti Art Light Collection, Florence /IT
Collection Deustche Bank, London /UK
Collection of Galleria Comunale dell´Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monfalcone /IT
Collection of Heather and Anthony Podesta, Washington DC /USA
Collection of Edition5, Ersteld, S

Artist Statement

Figures of women, active and uninhibited, domestic settings made up of superfluous flooring, chairs and designer objects that fill interiors. Walls of houses containing the signs of everydayness. Tables covered with lace doilies and red shoes forgotten in a corner. Women resting upon the backs of horses as if to tame them. People in search of a better place. Mother and daughter performing together in an art space. Architectural projects and city maps joined with pornography, creating new maps and a new work - Urban Pornitecture. These are some of the things that appear in my works.

I am struggling now to translate aspects of daily life into my work, and am exploring the spaces and language of women, as well as stories of travelling - as opposed to emigration; then there's sex and pornography, and architecture and urban developments, seen from a global angle, but represented in a very individual way. (Anila Rubiku)