Monday 27.05.2019

Fani Zguro at Accademia di Brera

U TURN
Fani Zguro
In conversation with Bruno Muzzolini
Accademia di Brera
28-29 May 2019

Accademia di Brera is pleased to present a conversation between Bruno Muzzolini and Fani Zguro at Digital Video Course from 28 to 29 May 2019. During the conversation will be shown the Fani Zguro´s videos 'U Turn' (2006), 'Pushing An Elephant Upwards' (2007), 'Street by Street' (2007), 'Broken Threads' (2007), 'In A Blind Of An Eye' (2008), 'Fireflies' (2011), 'A.C.A.S.' (2011) and 'Fire Operation' (2019). This presentation is open for the public.

Fani Zguro was born in 1977 in Tirana. Lives and works in Milan. Zguro graduated at the Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera in Milan (1998-2007). In 2007 he won the International Onufri Prize assigned by the National Gallery of Arts in Tirana; in 2016 the International Mulliqi Prize of the National Gallery of Kosovo in Pristina and the Best Video-Art award at TIFF Tirana. Zguro was part of the AiR program for 2017 at Q21, Museumsquartier, Vienna. His work has been shown at Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest, Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Mediterranée Marseille, Photo Museum Braunschweig, 2nd Tirana Biennale, 3rd Mardin Biennial, 4th Young Artists Biennial of Bucharest, 6th Çanakkale Biennial, 13th Cairo Biennale, Belvedere 21 - Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst Vienna, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Palais Populaire Berlin, New York Public Library and Centre Pompidou Paris.