Petrit Halilaj: RU

Petrit Halilaj (b. 1986, Kostërrc, Skenderaj-Kosovo) will present a major new project that begins in Runik, the city in which he was born and the site of one of the earliest Neolithic settlements in the region. An archaeological dig there uncovered 505 objects that comprise part of the country’s most significant material history from the period. Now spread across several countries as the result of the Kosovo War in the 1990s, the most valuable of these objects currently reside in storage at the Natural History Museum in Belgrade. In Petrit Halilaj: RU, Halilaj presents a number of new video works, several large fabric sculptures, and an extensive environment, with the artist’s real and imagined narratives beginning from recollections by Runik’s own inhabitants of discoveries from this site.

The exhibition is curated by Helga Christoffersen, Assistant Curator.