I have always considered my work to be a continues research on interpersonal relationships between different people that share common spaces (both physical and metaphysical) and the intimacy of a relationship entangled amid the (in)ability to adapt and their coexistence within this spaces.
But my research unfolds in different layers. While the idea of the human figure and its relation to ‘the other’ represents the base of my work, I lay a critical perspective on the rules and the norms that are imposed to us by the society or/and by the state institutions, thus rethinking notions such as authority and disobedience.
Contact
matilda_odobashi@hotmail.com
Solo / Two Shows
2018 – Two exhibition, Size Matters, Vienna (AT)
2016 – The passenger, Traklhaus auf der Festung, Salzburg (AT) – WHITE, Two exhibition, Zeta Art Center / Gallery, Tirana (AL)
2014 – The Chronic, Two exhibition, Zeta Art Center / Gallery, Tirana (AL)
2012 – Open Studio, Tirana (AL)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 – Ambitions, National Gallery of Arts, Pristina (KS)
2021 – Ambitions, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana (AL)
2019 – Ardhje Award 2019, T.I.C.A – Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art, Zeta Art Center/ Gallery (AL)
2018 – Muslim Mulliqi Price, National Art Gallery, Prishtina (KS) – Artist Presentation, TICA Air program, Zeta Art Center / Gallery, Tirana (AL)
2017 – Maeutics, FLUC, Vienna (AT) – It looks like…, Zeta Art Center / Gallery, Tirana (AL)
2016 – The whale which was a submarine – Contemporary Art in Albania and Kosovo, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Arts, Budapest (HU) – Work Presentation of Artist in Residence, Austrian Federal Chancellery in cooperation with KulturKontakt Austria, Concordia Platz, Vienna (AT) – Le Smanie Per La Villeggiatura – Suppiej & Zanato Summer Studio, Venice (IT)
2015 – Der albanische Weg: Sammulung der Nationalen Kunstgalerie und Zietgenossische Kunstler, Landtag NRW, Dusseldorf (DE) – Art Market Budapest, Budapest (HU) – Parallel Vienna, Vienna (AT) – A day like any other…, Zeta Art Center / Gallery, Tirana (AL) –Tirana Open 1- Pamur, FAB Gallery, Tirana (AL)
2014 – Udhët 4 – Professor’s exhibition of the Faculty of Fine Arts – FAB Gallery, Tirana (AL) – Let us start from the middle, Tirana Art Lab Center for Contemporary Art, Tirana (AL)
2013 – Jaw Dick Chodz Zobacz, Sztuki Jatki Gallery in Nowym Targu (PL) –100 km Art- Tirana Shkodra Public Art Paracours, National Road Tirana- Shkodra, Tirana Art Lab – Center for Contemporary Art, (AL) – Udhët 3 – Professor exhibition of the Faculty of Fine Arts – FAB Gallery, Tirana, Albania – Ardhje Award 2013, T.I.C.A – Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art, Tirana Ekspres, Tirana (AL) – Idromeno Award, National Gallery of Shkodra, Shkodra (AL)
2012 – Udhët 2- Professor exhibition of the Faculty of Fine Arts – FAB Gallery, Tirana (AL) –100 years self-dependence, Online Publication, Tirana Art Lab – Center for Contemporary Art, http://100vjetvetevaresi.wordpress.com – Udha, Metropol Theater, Tirana (AL) 2011 – Onufri XVII- I am ART-ist, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana (AL) – Squat the city, Tirana Art Lab – Center for Contemporary Art, Tirana (AL)
2010 – Boje Granica, King Nicole Castle, Bar (ME) – AMC Price, FAB gallery, Tirana (AL) – Glaxo Smith Kline Price, Tirana (AL)
Residencies/Workshops
2018 – TICA (Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art) Air Program, Tirana (AL)
2016 – KulturKontakt Austria, Austrian Federal Chancellery in cooperation with KulturKontakt Austria, Vienna (AT) – Artist talk, Academy of Fine Arts and KulturKontakt Austria, Vienna (AT) – Exhibition Installation Course, British Council and the Museum of Contemporary Arts, Banja Luka (BA)
2015 – Sumer School as School, Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art, Prishtina (KS) 2014 – Free Home University, AIR program, Loop House and Musagetes, Lecce (IT) (2nd session ) – Salzburg Künstlerhaus studio, Land of Salzburg (AT)
2013 – Free Home University, AIR program, Loop House and Musagetes, Lecce (IT) (1st session) – Daw Dikh, Zakopane (PL) – Polifoni (pa fustanellë), Freudian Circle and Albanian Lacanian Circle, Academy of Arts, Tirana (AL) (http://nyjelakim.net/read/?p=776) – Balkan Express Caravan – Art in the Balkans, Fabrica de Pensule, Cluj-Napoca (RO)
2010 – Due mari, un popolo, un amicizia, Vlora Municipality and FORMA Milano, Vlora (AL)
Scholarships/Awards
2018 – Finalist at Ardhje Award, TICA – Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art and Zeta Art Center / Gallery, Tirana, Albania
2016 – KKA Residence Fellowship, KulturKontakt Austria and The Federal Chancellery, Vienna (AT)
2013 – Finalist at Ardhje Award, TICA – Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art, Tirana (AL)
2010 – Third place, Glaxo Smith Kline Price, Tirana (AL)
Work experiences & projects
2019 – …. – Ergo-therapist at Child & Family Unit Nyjelakim, Tirana (AL)
2018 – …. – Secretary of Group du Champ freudien en Albanie, Tirana (AL) (official web site: rrethilakanianshqiptar.com)
2018 – 2021 – Professor for Visual Arts, Ecole Française Internationale de Tirana (AL)
2018 – Pavillion K, Curator of the solo show of artist Maksud Vezgishi, National Gallery of Kosovo, Prishtina (KS)
2017 – “Turp/Trup”, Curator, group exhibition within the frame of the month against homophobia, in collaboration with The Alliance Against LGBT Discrimination, Kapanoni, Tirana (AL)
2016 – Parallel Vienna Fair, International curator, Vienna (AT)
2014 – 2016 – Project coordinator, board member at Zeta Art Center / Gallery, Tirana (AL)
2014 – 2016 – Artistic coordinator, Alliance Against LGBT Discrimination, Tirana (AL)
2011 – 2015 – Adjunct professor at the University of Arts, Department of Visual Arts, Tirana (AL)
2014 – Home, Curator of the solo show Sead Kazanxhiu, National Museum, Tirana (AL)
2012 – Andata- Ritorno, Curator, Group exhibition, FAB Gallery, Tirana (AL)
2011- 2013 – AIR Program Coordinator, Tirana Art Lab – Center for Contemporary Art, Tirana (AL)
Education
2018 – … Formation in psychoanalysis, with the support of Fondation du Champ Freudien, Paris (FR)
2012 – 2015 MA in Cultural Anthropology, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Art Studies, Tirana (AL) (not completed)
2006 – 2010 Diploma of Fine Arts, University of Arts, Tirana (AL)