Driton Selmani – This Must Be The Place (2025)

If this were really the place, it would not need to keep proving it.

Nobody Saw This Coming, 2025

Driton Selmani’s Planted Trachycarpus fortunei, brings an unexpected intervention:
a solitary, unwavering palm tree appears as a surprise manifestation on the land of
On Top Residency, Prishtina.
Text by: Alex F. Koenig

Reflecting on Time:

A Conversation with Driton Selmani 22.12.2024–21.04.2025

Hidden in Plain Sight

42—59 / Lora Sariaslan

A BIOGRAPHY OF SELF AND THINGS / 60—71

Nita Luci & Linda Gusia

The Other Re-Imagine the Future

Kunsthaus Graz
28.09.2023–18.02.2024

“The Non-Places Are the Places”: Manifesta 14’s Uneasy Presence in Kosovo

Ryan Ferko | MOMUS
12.02.2023

Are You Gonna Bark All Day, Little Cloud? On the paradox of being both inside and outside

Vladimir Janchevski | MoCA Skopje
04/11/ 2022 – 25/02/ 2023

Driton Selmani: Everything We Do Is Really, Really Brilliant

Curated by Hana Ostan Ožbolt
Eva Kahan Art Space Vienna,
07.06—27.08.2023

MODIFYING BRILLIANCE: DRITON SELMANI AT KAHÁN ART SPACE

ALEX FISHER | Kajet Digital July 2023

Prrallë

apiece | Vilnius
Milena Černiakaitė and Aušra Trakšelytė
16.09.2023–16.10.2023

The Grave Is Better Than Not Knowing

Blerta Hoçia / BLOKMAGAZINE
25 February 2022

At Manifesta 14, Stars Reach Down to Earth

Mirela Baciak | Ocula Magazine
Prishtina, 7 September 2022

The Rebellious Concrete — And The Art

Susanne Altmann | Art, Das Kunstmagazin
August, 2022

Five Balkan Artists to Watch at Manifesta 14

Kimerly Bradley in Opinion | Frieze
August, 2022

Superpositional transitoriness On Manifesta 14 Prishtina

Róna Kopeczky | Új Művészet
August, 2022

A journey to an imaginary place

Jasmina Šarić / SALON GALIĆ
31.08—17.09.2022

CRITICS’ PICKS

Driton Selmani
Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje (MoCA)
November 4, 2022 - February 25, 2023
Erëmirë Krasniqi | Artforum

Sometimes, we exist offline

Ana Ivanović
Galerija Art, Podgorica
20.07—30.09.2021

Reading The Forest

Saša Šimpraga
Vizkultura / 13-09-2021

FUTURE ECOLOGIES
~ The Isle of Thorns ~

Curated by Elian Stefa
GALERiA e BREGDETiT
July 7 - August 3, 2021

Marking The Marks

Lujo Parežanin
Vizkultura / 13-10-2021

In Between Two Worlds

Dritan Dragusha / S’bunker
08.12.2021

Double Wall of Silence

Anja Obradović & Hana Ostan Ožbolt
Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana
19. 12. 2019 —16. 1. 2020

EMERGENCY

NELI RUŽIĆ,
ALMISSA OPEN ART 112
21.08.—26.08.2020 / OMIŠ

Mundane

Natalija Paunić
Eugster || Belgrade
08/03 - 11/04/2019

We’re Not Like Them

Ksenija Orelj, Sabina Salamon
Museum of Modern and
Contemporary Art, Rijeka
4/10—10/11/2019

Long Distance Relationship

Gabrielle Boder and Tadeo Kohan
ET-Espace Témoin, Geneva
November 14 – December 1, 2019

Conceptual artist Driton Selmani is taking his work to the streets of Kosovo

Camilla Caraccio Calvert Journal
23 January 2019

PLACES WE LEAVE BEHIND

Hana Ostan Ožbolt / TZVETNIK
June 2019

More and More Thoughts about Other Thoughts

Lora Sariaslan / U10, Belgrade
September 26th – October 26th

LOVE LETTERS

Lora Sariaslan
Ta·da, København
08/03 - 11/04/2019

FOG

Avi Lubin
National Gallery of Kosovo
17.05.2018—17.06.2018

DRITON SELMANI: IN OUR REGION THE ROLE OF THE ARTIST IS TO TRY TO TOUCH A NERVE

Cristina Marí - Kosovo 2.0.
19/06/2018

Panorama

Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei

You are one in a Melon: Consumable Myths Hitting The Ground With A Splat In The Work Of Driton Selmani

Rachel Pafe

Non Existance as Fata Morgana

Kálmán Borbála
Ludwig Múzeum, Curated by: Julia
Fabényi, Budapest 2016

Behind Our Backs

Roberto Lacarbonara
Exchiesetta – Polignano a Mare
7.10.—6.11.2016

Equilibrium, Driton Selmani

Laura Perrone
FlashArt no. 330
Italian Edition, Year 49 2016/2017

Praise of Doubt

Claudio Cravero ONUFRI XX, 2015
National Gallery, Albania

Archeology of Capitalsim

Miha Colner, Different Worlds – Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana