Bio & Curriculum Vitæ

Bio

Shpresa Faqi was born in Yugoslavia in 1984 and has lived in Germany since 1990. She studied Arts and English at the UNESCO project school "Oberstufen-Kolleg" at Bielefeld University and Fine Arts at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in the classes of documenta artist Prof. Urs Lüthi, as well as Prof. Florian Slotawa and Prof. Johannes Spehr.

Selected Art Works & Exhibitions

2025
Collage of pencil drawings on paper and smartphone photographies I made in Brazil in 2023.
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2024 
Bergpark Leuchten, international light art festival, Kassel (D)
with Miki Lazar
Neue Galerie, Kasseler Museumsnacht (D)
Lebewesen zeichnen Lebewesen Workshop
2023 
Art Project: Aqui estou eu, São Paulo (BR)
2022 
Solo   femalefaction, Karnak, Kassel (D)
2021   
Kolonia e Artit, Fellbachhaus, Suhareka (RKS)
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Kasseler Atelierrundgang, Kassel (D)

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Synime, National Gallery of the Republic of Kosovo, Prishtina (RKS)

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Synime, National Gallery of Albania, Tirana (AL)
2020
Password (with Feinmechanik), Kunsttempel, Kassel (D)

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2019   
4th Drawing Biennial, Galeria e Arteve, Ferizaj (RKS)
Heimotop (with Brigit Edelmann), Gasometer, Friesen (FL)

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10th anniversary of Netzwerk Hammerschmiede, Henschel-Anlage, Kassel (D) 

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Kasseler Atelierrundgang, Kassel (D)

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2018   
Solo   driving... to, Embassy of Republic of Kosovo, Berlin (D) 
Ditët e Kulturës, Galeria e Arteve Ferizaj (RKS)
Solo   driving, National Gallery of the Republic of Kosovo, Prishtina (RKS)
driving, International Museum Day in Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo (BIH)
Solo   driving, Meštrovic Pavilion HDLU, Zagreb (HR)
Solo   driving, Galerija Alkatraz, Ljubljana (SLO)
Solo   driving, Kollegienkirche Salzburg (A)
Solo   driving, Artists Unlimited and Kunstverein Bielefeld (D)
Solo   driving, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel (D)
2017 
Solo   Shpresa Faqi as herself, Lage, Kassel (D)
Frohe P´Ostern, Lage, Kassel (D)
2016 
Isolation 387, Kulturbahnhof Südflügel, Kassel (D)
Solo   Tent City-Projection - dokKa dokumentary festival, Karlsruhe (D)
Kunstpreis Kassel, Kasseler Kunstverein (D)
2015 
Weihnachts(k)lage Lage, Kassel (D)
Solo   Tent City-Projection, Regierungspräsidium, Kassel (D)
Meisterschüler: Tent City - Projection Art Academy Kassel Exam exhibition documentaHalle, Kassel (D)
Manifesto of the Wall, Fringe Arts Bath (UK)
Annual exhibition, class Johannes Spehr - Art Academy Kassel (D)
2014
Solo   Paradigm Change, Henschel-Anlage, Kassel (D)
Annual exhibition, class Florian Slotawa - Art Academy Kassel (D)
Exam, documentaHalle, documentaHalle, Kassel (D) 
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2014
Solo   Paradigm Change, treppenhausgalerie & AKW, Bielefeld (D) 
Urs Lüth zeigt: NoPression, Kasseler Kunstverein Kassel (D) 
Feucht durchgewischt, Castle of Dringenberg, Bad Driburg (D) 
Annual exhibition, class Florian Slotawa - Art Academy Kassel (D) 

2013 
Jour Fixe - class Lüthi, Art Academy Kassel (D) 
Annual exhibition, class Urs Lüthi - Art Academy Kassel (D) 

 2012
Annual exhibition, class Urs Lüthi - Art Academy Kassel (D) 
Kolonia e Artit, Fellbachhaus, Suhareka (RKS) 

2011
Little Monuments - Urs Lüthi & Students exhibit, Herrmannshof, Völksen-Hannover (D) 
Annual exhibition, class Urs Lüthi - Art Academy Kassel (D) 
Kolonia e Artit, Fellbachhaus, Suhareka (RKS)

 2010
Annual exhibition, class Urs Lüthi, - Art Academy Kassel (D) 

2009
20 Year anniversary Fall of the Wall, Alter Schlachthof, Karlsruhe (D) 
Annual exhibition, class Stefan Demary, Kulturbahnhof Südflügel, Kassel (D)

grants & acknowledgements

2021
grant, Living Creatures draw Living Creatures in jail, Hessische Kulturstiftung (D)
grant, Living Creatures draw Living Creatures, verdi Nordhessen (D)

2020
grant, Women draw Women, Hessische Kulturstiftung (D)
grant, Torrey Pine, Hessische Kulturstiftung (D)

2018 
grant, driving, documenta-Stadt Kassel (D)
grant, driving, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Kosovo (RKS) 
winner, driving, National Gallery of the Republic of Kosovo (RKS)
grant, driving, documenta-Stadt Kassel (D)
grant, driving, Hessian Ministry for Science and Art (D)
grant, driving, IMPULSE für Kassel Stiftung (D)
artist residency, driving, Kollegienkirche Salzburg (A)
honorary membership, Artists Association Ferizaj (RKS)

2016 
art collection, Tent City, Dr. Wolfgang Zippel Stiftung, Kassel (D)
winner fine arts award, Tent City, dokKa-documentary festival, Karlsruhe (D)

2011-2013
studentship, Freie Lebensstudien Gemeinschaft gem. GmbH, Altenburg (D)

collections

public collections
Artothek Kassel (D)
National Gallery of Kosovo, Prishtina (RKS)
Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo (BIH) 
Ethnologjcal Museum of Theranda, Suhareka (RKS)

private collections
Bath (U.K.), Berlin (D), Bielefeld (D), Cottbus (D), Ferizaj (RKS), Freiburg (D), Kassel (D), Leipzig (D), Ljubljana (SLO), London (U.K.), München (D), New York (U.S.A), Oerlinghausen (D), Prishtina (RKS), Sarajewo (BIH), St. Gallen (CH), Suhareka (RKS), Trento (I), Werther Westf. (D), Wien (A), Zagreb (HR), Zürich (CH)
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