BRILANT MILAZIMI
BRILANT MILAZIMI
Brilant Milazimi, Should I tell you something, 2023, Oil on canvas, 208 × 270 cm
Brilant Milazimi’s (*1994, Gjilan/Kosovo, lives and works in Prishtina) translates his perception of the world that surrounds him into images that are bitter, funny, tender, and weird all at the same time. Driven by the machinery of the unconscious, and inspired by the imaginaries of fictional universes, he finds expressions both sinister and poetical for an approach to the society he lives in: the exaggerated physiognomies and the highlighted symbolism of the teeth or the features of the animals are visual manifestations that point to the present and its conflicts.
Brilant Milazimi studied visual arts at the University of Prishtina, Kosovo.
His recent solo exhibitions include Kosovo Pavilion, 61st Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2026); Brownie Project Gallery, Shanghai (two-person exhibition) (2025); Storefront Viewing Room, Kurimanzutto, New York (2025); Stacion - Center for Contemporary Art, Prishtina (2024; 2020); LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina (2023; 2019); Paul Soto, Los Angeles (2023); LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS, Brussels (2022); Ermes-Ermes, Rome (2021).
He participated in group exhibitions at MO.CO, Montpellier (upcoming); Paul Soto Gallery, New York (2026); Kunstverein Braunschweig (2025); 5th Autostrada Biennale, Prizren (2025); Cité internationale des arts, Paris (2025); Sans titre (with LambdaLambdaLambda), Paris (2025); Galleria Continua, Paris (2025); Am Schwarzenbergplatz, Vienna (2024); Tuttacità (with Ermes-Ermes), Rome (2023); Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv (2023); Manifesta 14, Prishtina (2022); Telekom Collection, Berlin (2022); Rezistence, Gjilan (2022); LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina (2021); Ludwig Museum Budapest, Budapest (2020); National Gallery of Kosovo, Prishtina (2020); Termokis, Motrat and LambdaLambdaLambda (curated by Elise Lammer and Petrit Halilaj), Prishtina (2019); National Gallery of Kosovo, Prishtina (2019) and Gallery of Arts, Gjilan (2014).
In 2020, he received the Young Visual Artist Award in Kosovo.
He was a resident at Art Explora Foundation, in collaboration with the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris in 2024.
He is representing the Republic of Kosovo at the 61st Biennale di Venezia in 2026.
NEWS
CURENT
Hard Teeth (solo show)
Pavilion of the Republic of Kosovo
06.05. - 22.11.2026
61st Venice Biennale, Venice
SELECTED PRESS
Venice Biennale 2026: Kosovo’s Brilant Milazimi on his monumental tableau, Art Forum, May 2026
Brilant Milazimi au pavillon du Kosovo, Le Quotidien de l’Art, January 2026