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Jakup Ferri (artist)
Jakup Ferri (born 1981) is a contemporary artist from Amsterdam, Netherlands and Pristina, Kosovo. He is a professor at Pristina Art Academy and guest advisor at Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Ferri's work has been shown at international exhibitions in museums and galleries, festivals and biennials, including Venice Biennale, Istanbul Biennial, Prague Biennale, Cetinje Biennale and Manifesta Biennale, Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Art. Education and residencies Ferri studied at Pristina 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, Switzerla ...
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Region of Amsterdam, urban area and 2,480,394 in the Amsterdam metropolitan area, metropolitan area. Located in the Provinces of the Netherlands, Dutch province of North Holland, Amsterdam is colloquially referred to as the "Venice of the North", for its canals of Amsterdam, large number of canals, now a World Heritage Site, UNESCO World Heritage Site. Amsterdam was founded at the mouth of the Amstel River, which was dammed to control flooding. Originally a small fishing village in the 12th century, Amsterdam became a major world port during the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century, when the Netherlands was an economic powerhouse. Amsterdam was the leading centre for finance and trade, as well as a hub of secular art production. In the 19th ...
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Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Netherlands consists of Provinces of the Netherlands, twelve provinces; it borders Germany to the east and Belgium to the south, with a North Sea coastline to the north and west. It shares Maritime boundary, maritime borders with the United Kingdom, Germany, and Belgium. The official language is Dutch language, Dutch, with West Frisian language, West Frisian as a secondary official language in the province of Friesland. Dutch, English_language, English, and Papiamento are official in the Caribbean Netherlands, Caribbean territories. The people who are from the Netherlands is often referred to as Dutch people, Dutch Ethnicity, Ethnicity group, not to be confused by the language. ''Netherlands'' literally means "lower countries" i ...
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Pristina
Pristina or Prishtina ( , ), . is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. It is the administrative center of the eponymous municipality and District of Pristina, district. In antiquity, the area of Pristina was part of the Dardanian Kingdom. The heritage of the classical era is represented by the settlement of Ulpiana. After the Roman Empire was divided into a western and an eastern half, the area remained within the Byzantine Empire between the 5th and 9th centuries. In the middle of the 9th century, it was ceded to the First Bulgarian Empire, before falling again under Byzantine occupation in the early 11th century and then in the late 11th century to the Second Bulgarian Empire. The growing Kingdom of Serbia (medieval), Kingdom of Serbia annexed the area in the 13th century and it remained under the Serbian Empire in the 14th century up to the start of the Ottoman era (1389–1455). The next centuries would be characterized by Ottoman Empire, Ottoman rule. During this per ...
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Kosovo
Kosovo, officially the Republic of Kosovo, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe with International recognition of Kosovo, partial diplomatic recognition. It is bordered by Albania to the southwest, Montenegro to the west, Serbia to the north and east, and North Macedonia to the southeast. It covers an area of and has a population of approximately 1.6 million. Kosovo has a varied terrain, with high plains along with rolling hills and List of mountains in Kosovo, mountains, some of which have an altitude over . Its climate is mainly Continental climate, continental with some Mediterranean climate, Mediterranean and Alpine climate, alpine influences. Kosovo's capital and List of cities and towns in Kosovo#List, most populous city is Pristina; other major cities and urban areas include Prizren, Ferizaj, Gjilan and Peja. Kosovo formed the core territory of the Dardani, an ancient Paleo-Balkanic languages, Paleo-Balkanic people attested in classical sources from the 4th cent ...
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E-flux
e-flux is a publishing platform and archive, artist project, curatorial platform, and e-mail service founded in 1998. The arts news digests, events, exhibitions, schools, journal, books, and art projects produced and/or disseminated by e-flux describe strains of critical discourse surrounding contemporary art, culture, and theory internationally. Its monthly publication, '' e-flux journal'', has produced essays commissioned since 2008 about cultural, political, and structural paradigms that inform contemporary artistic production. History In November 1998, curators Regine Basha and Christoph Gerozissis, along with artist Anton Vidokle organized the group exhibition ''The Best Surprise is No Surprise'' at the Holiday Inn in Chinatown, Manhattan. Basha, Gerozissis, and Vidokle used e-mail, then a new communication technology, to disseminate the press release for the 12-hour, all-night exhibition. The exhibition featured works by Tomoko Takahashi, Michel Auder, and Carsten Ni ...
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University For Business And Technology
University for Business and Technology (UBT) is a private university located in Kosovo. About UBT is an established and innovative institution of higher education in Kosovo which combines the advantages of internationally recognized universities. The university offers: * Contemporary study programs based on international quality standards * Distinguished academics and experts * Partnerships with renowned universities and institutions which offer the possibility for study exchange and external professional experience * Modern infrastructure and modern management (in accordance with ISO 9001) * Direct links with the economy, academic and international research projects, and transfer of tech knowledge * Highly motivated students and personnel All of these components make UBT not only an important educational institution for the future of Kosovo, but a modern institution in Europe. With the visions of “Top Education for Top Students” and “Succeed with Quality”, UBT is cont ...
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Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten
The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (State Academy of Fine Arts) was founded in 1870 in Amsterdam. It is a classical academy, a place where philosophers, academics and artists meet to test and exchange ideas and knowledge. The school supports visual artists with a two-year curriculum. The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten was the home of Amsterdam Impressionism, part of the international impressionist movement, and is known as the School of Allebé by art historians; August Allebé became the school's director in 1880. In French, the school was called "l'Académie Royale des Beaux Arts d'Amsterdam". Among its pioneers here were George Breitner, Jan Toorop, Piet Mondrian, Jacques Witjens and Willem Arnoldus Witsen. Other artists connected with the academy were Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Willem Wiegmans, Constant Nieuwenhuijs, Karel Appel, Corneille, Ger Lataster, Willem Hofhuizen, and Jaap Min. The school provides an education academically comparable with a university. Ther ...
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Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale ( ; ) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy. There are two main components of the festival, known as the Art Biennale () and the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Architecture Biennale (), which are held in alternating years (hence the name). There are also four additional components, each usually held on an annual basis, comprising , , Venice Film Festival, and Venice Dance Biennale. Between them they cover contemporary art, architecture, music, theatre, film, and contemporary dance. The main exhibition is held in Castello, Venice, Castello and has around 30 permanent pavilions built by different countries. The Biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of its kind. Since 2021, the Art Biennale has taken place in even years and the Architecture Biennale in odd years. History 1895–1947 On 19 April 1893, the Venetian City Council passed a resolution to set up an biennial exhibition of I ...
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The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ...
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Graphic Arts
A category of fine art, graphic art covers a broad range of visual artistic expression, typically two-dimensional graphics, i.e. produced on a flat surface,Graphic art
''Encyclopædia Britannica''. Britannica.com. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
today normally paper or a screen on various electronic devices. The term usually refers to the arts that rely more on line, color or tone, especially drawing and the various forms of engraving;"Graphic art." ''The Oxford Dictionary of Art''. 3rd ed. Ed. Ian Chilvers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. p. 309. it is sometimes understood to refer specifically to drawing and the various
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Gjelosh Gjokaj
Gjelosh Gjokaj (July 25, 1933 - September 26, 2016) was an artist from Montenegro. An ethnic Albanians, Albanian, he was born in the village of Gornji Milješ (Albanian language, Alb: Gornji Milesh) in Tuzi. After receiving his fine arts degree from the University of Arts in Belgrade in 1963, he proceeded to become part of the faculty until 1969. He later immigrated to Rome, Italy, where he lived and worked until 1983. He was able to leave his mark worldwide with over 45 international solo exhibits and well over 70 group shows. In 1983, he made Augsburg, Germany his primary residence until his death in 2016. He is referred as "father of graphic arts of Kosovo". Gallery File:Gjelosh Gjokaj, Chicken, 1985 oil on canvas, 120 x 80 cm.JPG File:Gjelosh Gjokaj, Composition, 1997 oil on paper, 70 x 100 cm.JPG Further reading *''Fenomenologjia artistike : Vështrim esencial mbi veprën e Gjelosh Gjokajt'', Suzana Varvarica, Prishtina, Kosovo: Akademia e Shkencave dhe e Arteve e Kosovës, ...
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