Jakup Ferri (1981, Pristina, Kosovo, based in Pristina and Den Haag) is a contemporary artist and professor at Pristina Art Academy. He studied at Pristina Art Academy and Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. In 2003 he received two prestigious awards in Pristina: the Muslim Mulliqi Prize and the Artists of Tomorrow Award. In 2008 he received the Buning Brongers Award in Amsterdam. He has been an artist-in-residence at numerous places, including the International Studio and Curatorial Program New York, Kultur Kontakt Austria. In addition to private collections, his work is also part of the collection of Ludwig Museum, Cologne Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 The Monumentality of Everyday, 59th Biennale di Venezia, National 2023 Pavillon of Kosovo, Venice, Italy [IT]
2023 ‘’We We’’, Stadtischen Galerie, Nordhorn, Germany [DE]
2023 Funk Your Funk, Ferda Art Platform, İstanbul, Turkey [TR]
2023 We We or Me, Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland [CH]
2011 Weingrüll, Karlsruhe [DE]
2010 Paper Vegtables, De Hallen, Haarlem [NL]
2010 Taipei Biennal, Taipei [NL]
2010 The Center for Hisorical Reenactment, Johannesburg, South Africa [ZA]
2010 International Centre of Graphic Arts , Ljublijana [SI]
2010 Village Green, Southend on Sea, UK [UK]
2010 Schijnheilig, Amsterdam [NL]
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Why Look At Animals? A Case for the Rights of Non-Human Lives,
Museum for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece [GR]
2025 Textile Art Biennial, Kranj, Slovenia [SI]
2023 Create/Elevate, third Harewood Biennial, Harewood Biennale, Leeds [UK]
2022 Manifesta 14, National Pavillon of Kosovo, Venice, Italy [IT]
2022 The Monumentality of the Everyday, Pavilion of the Republic of Kosovo, La BIennale di Venezia, Venice, [IT]
2021 Tintirinti, andriesse ~ eyck galerie, Amsterdam, [NL]
2021 SUNRAY ACROBAT, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, [AT]
2020 MAXIMUM CALM, Online exhibition, andriesse eyck galerie
2019 Autostrada Biennale, Prizren, Kosovo [XK]
2019 Tomb of the Ordinary Man, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Den Haag [NL]
2018 Muscle Memory, The Horse Hospital, London [UK]
2017 Drawing & More, andriesse eyck galerie
2017 Muscle Memory, Albanische Kulturwochen, Wenen [AT]
2017 Muscle Memory, AMC Brummelkamp galerie, Amsterdam [NL]
2016 We live upon a star, The Hannah Ryggen
2016 Triennial, Nordenfjeldske
2016 Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim [NO]
2016 THE WHALE THAT WAS A SUBMARINE – Contemporary Positions from Albania and Kosovo, Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest [BUD]
2016 Muscle Memory, Bradwolff Projects, Amsterdam [NL]
2016 Art Rotterdam, projections: Muscle Memory, andriesse eyck galerie, Amsterdam [NL]
2015 TRANSPARENT HULA HOOP, andriesse eyck galerie, Amsterdam [NL]
2013 Amsterdam Art Drawing, Amsterdam [NL]
2009 Art Brussel, Galerie de Expeditie STANDprojects
2009 Outline, Amsterdam [NL]
2009 Coalesce:Happenstance, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam [NL]
2009 Art Rotterdam, Galerie de Expeditie [NL]
2009 Standard of living - Ressources - Solidarity, Graz [AT]
2009 28th Graphic Bienalle, International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana [SI]
2009 Niet Normaal, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam [NL]
2008 Buning Brongers Prijzen, Arti Et Amicitiale, Amsterdam [NL]
2008 U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen [DK]
2008 Open Ateliers, The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam [NL]
2008 Quartett - Vier Biennalen im Spiegel grafischer Blatter, Tanas, Berlin [DE]
2008 29th Youth salon, Salon of the Revolution, HDLU, Zagreb [HR]
2008 What about power Relations, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana [SI]
2008 Dis-Ease, Bank Gallery, Durban [ZA]
2008 The Use of Every Sunbeam, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart [DE]
2008 SPAPORT, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Banja Luka [BA]
2008 For now we are here, Villa Romana, Florence Mutatis Mutandis,
2008 The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh [UK]
2008 Return of the art dead, Divus Unit 30, London Plazma, Siemens_artLab, Vienna [AT]
2008 Alpha 2000 - The "Europe's Future" art prize, GfZK, Leipzig [DE]
2008 Absence Recorded, Galerie Vaclava Spaly, Prague [CZ]
2008 Exception, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad [XS]
2008 Exception, Kontekst Gallery, Belgrade [HR]
2008 Carte Blancher: Freundliche Feinder, GfZK, Leipzig [DE]
2006 Artists Space, New York Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main 1.60insurgent space, Tirana [AL]