SERHAT EMRULAI: We Are Moving to a New Location

On September 5, at 20:00 hours, solo exhibitions will be opened at the Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art of the young artists Serhat Emrulai and Nađa Kračunović, winners of the “Most Successful Author and Work” award, awarded to them last year at the 14th International Biennial of Young Artists entitled as “Awakenings”.

The curators of these exhibitions are Iva Dimovski, Bojana Janeva and Nikola Uzunovski.

This award is in fact a solo exhibition at the Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art awarded to two authors for their works.

The young artist Emrulai won the last year’s Biennial with his installation “In-Between”, while the young artist Kračunović is the winner of the award for her video performance “Hydra”.

On September 5, Serhat Emrulai will present himself with the installation “We Are Moving to a New Location”.

He skillfully integrates the museum’s unique architecture into a personal author’s narrative, turning the space into a key artistic experience component. Thus, visitors are drawn into a carefully traced path via spacious design, thoughtful lighting and symbolic materials, in order to provoke visitors’ deep engagement on topics such as gender roles, economic turmoil and demographic changes.

Emrulai (Germany, Kiel, 1989) studied fine arts pedagogy at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tetovo until 2013. In 2016, he moved to Italy and enrolled in the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, where he first graduated painting, and then completed his master studies in painting at the same academy. So far, he has realized several solo and group exhibitions, workshops and auctions in Italy, Germany, Albania and this country. In 2022, he had a solo exhibition in Shkodër, Albania, and in the same year, at the invitation of VizART, he participated in a collective exhibition held at the National History Museum of Tirana, where he was awarded as “the best contemporary artist”.

The exhibition is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of N. Macedonia and MoCA’s long-time friend, Tikveš.