Shpëtim Kërçova

Shpëtim Kërçova
(Albanian, born in 1968) he studied panting and textile in the Academy of fine Arts in Tirana, graduating in 1991. Very active in many exhibition in and outside the country, Kërçova at his beginnings experimented in different medium such as installation, and mix media, but soon he found him self in oil painting, usually proposed in series. From the 2000 he is one of the important contemporary artist in the country, and a lector of Theory of the field, in the University of Arts in Tirana. His works usually analyse the human condition in the urban space, their relationship with nature and globalization topics. At his last personal exhibition his curator A. Kurrizo stated that “The collection of Shpëtim Kërçova’s paintings is an acute -angled journey through space, but so much expanded in time that the shades of objects and subjects steer us to different seasons.”

Selected Exhibitions

2015 – A landscape without horizon” personal Exhibition, Zeta Gallery, Tirana
2014 – Zeta Art Center & Gallery at SUPERMARKET 2014 – Stockholm Independent Art Fair
2010 – Personal Exhibition, Zeta Gallery, Tirana
2009 – “Cosi vicina cosi lontana”, group exhibition, Villa croce Genova. Italy.
2008 – “My space”, Hause am Lutzowplatz, Berlin, Germany
2007 – “Virtualbania”, Pavel Haus, Austria
2005 – “New paintigs in Ballkan”, Sofia, Bullgari
2002 – ‘03 – ‘11 “Onufri” International Competition, National Gallery of Fine Arts, Tirana

Artworks