Aghim Muka

Painting
Born 1965
Italy

Muka is a versatile artistic figure and not easy to classify. His self-expression is not limited to painting alone. The media of his artistic research ranges from installations to video, sculpture and performance.
He breaks with the traditional norms. Never repetitive, each work expresses his poetic art with an explosive force, whatever the expressive means utilised, this being merely functional to Muka‘s need to narrate which he feels to be compelling, vital and categoric.

Being Albanian, he loves Albania and describes it with natural materials, cloth, silk, cotton, sand, wood and acrylic. His latest works see him making use of embroidery, sculpture, sewing, cooking, burning, drawing his inspiration from India, creating his work as though it was a great universal puzzle to be solved.

He studied Fine Art at the school of Art in Valona, Albania, where he taught afterwards for some years.
Since 1995 he lives and works in Milan, Italy.

2004 “Fuori e Dentro”, Milan, Italy “Isola senza confini”, International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Cagliari

2003 4th Padova Exhibition in the section „Young artists from the Academies: Tirana, Verona, Venice

2002 Participate in the VI edition of the Prize National City of Monza, Italy

Most important awards/ symposiums

2006 European Artists Symposium, Essen, Germany

2005 Intern. Artists Symposium „Reconstruction of the New“, World Art Delft, NL

2003 Arte - Grafia - Scritture, Verbania, Italy; “Intersezioni”, Varallo Sesia, Italy

2002 Documentation Film about Aghim Muka,  Director Takeshi Kitano

1999 Bice Bugatti painting review,1st Prize

2001 41st Suzzara Prize

2004 Giovanni Segantini, 1st Prize; Vogogna in Art, 3rd Prize Recent Solo Exhibitions