KUB Billboards
Flaka Haliti
16 | 02 – 22 | 04 | 2018
2018 sind vier junge Künstlerinnen eingeladen, die sieben Billboards an der Bregenzer Seestraße mit einer Bildserie zu bespielen. Den Anfang macht Flaka Haliti, geboren 1982 in Pristina, Kosovo.
Flaka Haliti beschäftigt sich mit romantischen Chiffren wie Wolken, Monden und Liebesbriefen im Zeitalter der digitalen Bilder. Haliti gibt ihren Bildern keine schwere, sondern eine sehnsuchtsvolle, linkische Note. Gefühle, Liebesbotschaften im digitalen Zeitalter, getarnt im Medium der kindhaften Zeichnung, gehören zu ihren Themen.
Die Künstlerin Flaka Haliti über ihre Arbeiten:
»When I had my solo show – in 2014 at the National Gallery in Pristina – I painted some walls gray in the exhibition space. And at a certain point – hours before the opening – there was a blurry spot on the wall which at first I thought was paint that hadn’t dried or not been well painted, looking closer I realized – weirdly enough – that light reflection had somehow broken through, quite a distance from the left glass entry door, projecting a spot of uncanny rainbow colors of about 5 cm x 10 cm. I photographed how it looked. Then I mixed these images in two and reproduced them as lenticular prints, so when the viewer moves, the rainbow animates itself, moving too, or disappearing... I like the idea of bringing an image of the rainbow which once was spotted on a wall somewhere in a south-east European architectural setting, to a public wall, a billboard on a busy thoroughfare.... From east to west, as Austria is considered the first western border to the east... right? So, in this case, the rainbow becomes a kind of traveling ghost. It's very abstract on many levels and I think it's visually quite obscure as well... but it will definitely work within the concrete frame of the billboards. I consider billboards to be commercial publicity, consumed mostly through vernacular imagery – however, I would like to do the opposite – certainly something more opaque, a format and aesthetic that perhaps doesn't appear that often in a street in such a manner, but nevertheless as an aesthetic constitutes a common sense within a shared space, a sensibility that can be apprehended by everybody, because ultimately it remains just an abstract rainbow.«
Flaka Haliti im E-Mailaustausch mit KUB Direktor Thomas D. Trummer
Biografie
Flaka Haliti lebt und arbeitet in München. Sie studierte an der Universität von Pristina und an der Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Aktuell arbeitet Flaka Haliti an ihrem Ph.D. an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Wien.
Haliti war mit ihren Arbeiten am mumok, Wien, an der Kunsthalle Wien, auf der 6. Biennale in Moskau, an der Kunsthalle Lingen, an der Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, an der Kosovo Art Gallery, Pristina, am ZKM, Karlsruhe, am Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, und am Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, vertreten. 2016 wurde ihr der Ars Viva Preis verliehen. Zudem repräsentierte sie den Kosovo Pavillon bei der 56. Biennale 2015 in Venedig.