Flaka Haliti was born in 1982 in Prishtina (Kosovo), she lives in Munich and Pristina. Her artistic practice includes mixed media, and spatial site-specific installation. Appropriation and abrogation are continuous lines whereby a new aesthetics as a hybrid state of in-between is created as a new agency that challenges humanist perspectives and their authority over representation and abstraction.
Flaka Haliti represented Kosovo at the Venice Biennale in 2015. Her work has been shown in numerous institutions including mumok - Museum Moderne Kunst in Vienna (Austria, 2014), Museum Ludwig (Germany,2019), Hamburger Bahnhof (Germany, 2019), Museum Lenbachhaus (Munich 2021, 6th Moscow Biennale (2015), Busan Biennale (2018), Baltic Triennial (Vilnius 2021, Manifesta 14, (Prishtina, 2022).
For her project Whose Bones?, Flaka stages the animal representations in a sculpture series comprises lifesize skeletons composed of the bones of two different animals—an imaginary hybrid, or a political metaphor. It thus alludes to an in-betweenness as a new form of agency, which is deemed crucial to our times in which qualities that used to distinguish seeming opposites can no longer absolutely apply when it comes to the politics of representation. During her residency, Flaka Haliti intends to expand on this line by collaborating with le Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris.
Flaka Haliti intends to research the sculptural aspects of specimens of cohabitation, survival, hunting, taxonomy and aesthetics through both contemporary art and heritage collections.