HASAN NALLBANI

(Albanian born in 1934)has his degree in Painting in the Academy of fine arts in Tirana, 1960 – 1964. He begins working at the Institute of Cultural Monuments as a Director of the Art department. In the same period participates in many exhibitions organized by the state as he is very active with writings on medieval art. In 1987 Nallbani is appointed head of the Department of painting and sculpture in the Academy of Arts in Tirana. After 1990 he proposes new themes as well as the aesthetic treatments of figures, for an increasingly expressive gesture of social topics devoted to the transition of Albanian society. Nallbani would be proposed as a few of his most dynamic generation even after 2000s, addressing topics such as exodus or strong social contrasts that arose with time transofrmations. In 2017 he was awarded by the President of Albania the price ” Grand Master”.

Selected Exhibitions

1984 – Group exhibition , Bienal of Alexandria, egypt
1986 – 1988 -Group exhibition, Bienal of Ankara, Turkey
1992 – Group exhibition, Adge, france
1994 – Personal exhibition, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania.
1998 – Group exhibition, “Magazin” and “Mediterra – nea” Bari, Italy
2005 – Personal exhibition, National Gallery of Arts, Prishtina, Kosovo.
2009 – Personal exhibition, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania.
2014 – Personal exhibition, national gallery of Arts Skopje, republic of Macedonia.
2016 – Personal exhibition at Polis University Tirana

Artworks