Iva Lulashi
Iva Lulashi (b. 1988, Tirana) is an artist who lives and works in Milan. In 2016, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice.
Her work develops from found traces, stills or frames that reflect the visual language of an Albanian history that she has never consciously lived. From there, she incorporates erotic footage, blurring the line between the stills of communist propaganda in films, sex scenes, and healthy outdoor activities.
Iva Lulashi will represent the Albanian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale. Lulashi's work has been exhibited, in particular, in the solo shows: “Prey To Some Beast”, double solo show with Christine Rebhuhn, Swivel Gallery (New York, 2023); “Alchemies of bodies & other entities”, NAAN Gallery (Tirana, 2023); “Where I end and you begin”, Prometeo Gallery (Milan, 2023); “Passione Cola Passione Scorre”, Prometeo Gallery (Milan, 2021); “Libere e Desideranti”, Oratorio dei Disciplinati di Santa Caterina (Corniglia, 2021); “Vicino Altrove”, double solo show with Regina José Galindo, Prometeo Gallery (Milan, 2020); “Love as a glass of water”, Salzburger Kunstverein (Salzburg, 2018); “Eroticommunism”, Prometeo Gallery (Milan, 2018); “Frames”, Villa Rondinelli (Fiesole, 2017); “Where I feel there I am”, Trart (Trieste, 2016).
Amongst the collective exhibitions: “Hot Summer”, Swivel Gallery (Paris, New York, 2023); “Pittura italiana oggi”, Triennale (Milan, 2023); “Così mi vedi?”, Club dei Mille (Milan, 2023); “Progetto Genesi. Arte e Diritti Umani”, Triennale (Milan, 2023); “Eccentric Spaces”, The Artist Room (London, 2023); “Pleasures”, Bazament (Tirana, 2022); “Giardino all’Italiana”, Match Gallery (Ljubljana, 2022); “Segni di me: il corpo, un palcoscenico”, Casa Testori (Milan, 2022); “La Collezione Impermanente 3.0”, GAMeC (Bergamo, 2022); “Interaction”, Made in Cloister (Napoli, 2022); “Danae Revisited”, Villa Brandolini (Treviso, 2021); “Italian Twist”, Gallerie delle Prigioni (Treviso, 2021); “Our Other Us”, Art Encounters Biennial (Timisoara, 2021); “Synime”, National Galley of Contemporary Arts (Tirana, 2021), National Gallery of Arts (Prishtina, 2021); “Ti Bergamo”, GAMeC (Bergamo, 2020); “Ciò che vedo. Nuova figurazione in Italia”, Galleria Civica Trento (Trento, 2020); “Libere tutte”, Casa Testori (Milan, 2019); “Passing”, Prometeo Gallery (Miami, 2019); “BienNoLo” (Milan, 2019); “Collezione San Patrignano”, Palazzo Vecchio (Florence, 2019); “Revolution is Us”, Autostrada Biennale (Prizren, 2018); “Ex Gratia”, Collezione Giuseppe Iannaccone (Milan, 2018); “Mediterranean Biennial”, Galeria Kombtare and Arteve (Tirana, 2017); “Combat Prize”, Giovanni Fattori (Livorno, 2016); “Premio Francesco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee”, Villa Brandolini (Treviso, 2016). She has also participated in workshops in Venice (Forte Marghera), Bruges (Het Entrepot), Salzburg (Nata Wien), Shkoder (Arthouse) and Milan (Viafarini in residence).