Gazmend Leka

Gazmend Leka
(Albanian, born in 1953) was graduated in Academy of Fine Arts, in Tirana, in Painting and Graphic in 1978. In the ’80, Leka worked as interior designer for several important museum like Gj. K. Skënderbeu, in Kruja, and the E. Hoxha Museum in Tirana. He also was the head of the department of animated movies from 1982 until 1991, and author of several movies, wining international prices. Since 1988 he is one of the most known professors in the University of Arts, teaching painting and theory of colors. From the same period he is one the most active artist in the country, counting more then 180 exhibition in and outside the country, wining several prices, for his career and art.
During this period the chosen medium of Leka is painting, but he is also author of thousands of drawings, graphics, and work on wood, installation and performance. But his main product is painting in canvas, were his symbolic language express his self in a wide specter. Build in a strong metaphysical landscape, Leka’s figure usually rise as a manifest of a symbolic world, timeless, were contemporarity is searching for his roots, and understanding. Faithful to his background, a semantic multilayer symbolic language, Leka is one of the most know artist in the country, in an abroad.

Selected Exhibitions

1987 – “Illustration”, group exhibition, Centre Pompidu, Paris, France
1992 – Personal Exhibitions, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania
1993 – “Albanian Contemporary artists”, “James Gat” Gallery, New York, USA
1993 – “New Albanian Contemporary artists”, “Corner Club” Gallery, New York, USA
1999 – “Nostradamus” Personal Exhibition National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania 2014 – “Ikarus”. Personal Exhibition, Zeta Gallery, Tirana, Albania
2014 – “Simbolon” Personal Exhibition National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania
2015 – Personal Exhibition, Galerie Municipal, Paris 5, France

Artworks