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Petrit Halilaj presents his first major institutional solo exhibition in Berlin at the Hamburger Bahnhof – National Gallery of Contemporary Art. The focus is on the artist’s first opera, Syrigana, which explores the possibilities of collective dreaming to create open and emancipatory worlds. In addition to this new, site-specific work, the exhibition features sculptures, installations and video works from various creative phases. It is the second exhibition in the Rieckhallen, which reopened in 2024, and takes place during Berlin Art Week.
For his exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof – National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Petrit Halilaj is developing an opera in collaboration with the Kosovo Philharmonic Orchestra. Founded in 2000 after the end of the Kosovo War, it is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. The opera is set in the legendary village of Syrigana, a three-thousand-year-old village near Halilaj’s hometown of Runik. Since 2016, Syrigana has been a protected archaeological site of early history, late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The opera, whose plot was developed with Amy Zion and Doruntina Basha, is based on a …
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Image above: Petrit Halilaj, Yes but the sea is attached to the earth and it never floats around in space. The stars would turn off and what about my planet?, 2014. Earth, branches, fallen leaves, stones, soap, mild steel, chickenwire, clay, wool. Installed dimensions variable. Image courtesy the artist and Mennour, Paris. Photo by Fabrice Seixas.
