Eltjon Valle was born in Kuçova (Albania) in 1984. In 2000 he moved to Italy to study at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, obtaining a specialist degree in 2009. In Milan he became one of the best known artists of his generation. He is part of the new trend of conceptual artists.
The beginnings of his artistic practice are linked to his city of origin, which was an oil industrial base under the communist regime. Oil was in fact the first element with which Valle painted since he was a child and is still today the distinctive element of his most important cycles of works. Some of his most representative works are the “Land Pieces”, real pieces of polluted land, on which delicate butterflies rest.
His work, using this extra-pictorial medium, develops from painting to installation which involves the physical use of the find, extrapolated from the territory, transformed and redeveloped as a work of art, there to self-represent itself, to self- denounce themselves and to put the observer in contact with the tragic reality from which they come.
Eltjon Valle, like an archaeologist of modernity, ventured into specific oil areas, extrapolating from these polluted lands and carrying out a deep, fine and elegant work, despite the character of denunciation and the delicacy of the subject. No less important are the anthropological meanings that this project presents, linked to a specific place, but which are a model on a global scale. Oil is one of the major factors of global change as regards development and at the same time pollution, for this reason the artist, through his work, continues to investigate the positive and negative effects of this exploitation in the life of every day, as well as its consequences in the perception of the modern landscape.
Valle has participated in exhibitions such as: The 54th Venice Biennale, Bevilaqua Foundation Venice, Micro Museum New York, National center for Contemporary Moscow, The National Gallery of Arts Tirana, The National Gallery of Arts Prishtina, Taller Siete Medellin, Parco del Contemporaneo Forte Marghera and Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art Genoa.
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Mixed media on canvas - cm. 120 x 120
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Mixed media on canvas - cm. 120 x 100
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Mixed media on canvas - cm. 120 x 100
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Mixed media on canvas - cm. 80 x 75
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Mixed media on canvas - cm. 80 x 75
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Mixed media on canvas - cm. 60 x 60
Missing Earth 85
Mixed media on canvas - cm. 60 x 60
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Mixed media on canvas - cm. 120 x 100
Missing Earth 76
Mixed media on canvas - cm. 120 x 100
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Mixed media on triangular canvas - cm. 103 x 120
Missing Earth 84
Mixed media on triangular canvas - cm. 103 x 120
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Mixed media on canvas - cm. 100 x 80
Missing Earth
Mixed media on canvas - cm. 100 x 80
Missing Earth 55
Mixed media on canvas - cm. 120 x 100
Missing Earth 55
Mixed media on canvas - cm. 120 x 100
2023
Siena (Italia), “IgnoteTerre”, curated by Elena Violetti, Violetti Arte Contemporanea.
2022
Milano (Italia), “The dissolution of power”, curated by Klod Dedja, Nuova Galleria Morone.
Durazzo (Albania), “Sour Sweet Soil”, Archeologial Museum of Durrës.
2020
Tirana (Albania), “Open Door”, curated by Klodian Dedja.
2019
Milano (Italia), “Compexity”, curated by Klodian Dedja, A’nica Gallery.
2018
Milano (Italia), “The subjective of re-doing”, curated by Klodian Dedja, Nuova Galleria Morone. (Italia), “The subjective of re-doing”, curated by Klodian Dedja, Nuova Galleria Morone.
2015
Milano (Italia), “Missing Earth”, Maurizio Caldirola Arte Contemporanea.
2013
Milano (Italia), “There Will Be Oil”, curated by Francesco Poli, Nuova Galleria Morone.
2010
Parigi (Francia), “Talking About”, with Artan Shabani, La Generale en Manufacture, Sèvres.
2008
Tirana (Albania), “Marinz”, curator Francesco Poli, Rubens Shima, The National Gallery of Arts.
2006
Milano (Italia), “People & Places”, Leonardo Milan Gallery.
2005
Milano (Italia), “On Petrol”, Galleria Movimento d’Arte Contemporanea.
2023
Milano (Italia), “22° Premio Cairo”, finalist artist edition 2023, Museo della Permanente.
2020
Brindisi (Italia), “Artes meets Art”, curated by Diego Viapiana, Masseria Polambara, Oria.
2019
Milano (Italia), “Superfici Eloquenti”, curated by Angela,Madesani Nuova Galleria Morone.
2018
Milano (Italia), “Sub-track, Argenterie Reali della Reggia di Monza.
Veneto (Italia), “Prova d’orchestra”, Villa Farsetti Di Santa Maria di Sala.
2017
Cosenza (Italia), Maca (Museo contemporanea Acri).
Veneto (Italia), “Colore del fuoco”, Dolomiti Contemporeanee, Casa Monte Ricco.
2016
Miami (USA), Miami Art week, Untitled Art fair.
2015
Dusseldorf (Germania), Parlamento di Dusseldorf.
Monza (Italia), “Vertical limits: research on post-human”, M.Ar.C.O Monza Arte Contemporanea, curated by M.Ar.C.O in collaboration with Maurizio Caldirola Arte.
Verona (Italia), “Ad Naturam”, Museo Civico di Soria Naturale di Verona (Italy), curated by Angela Madesani.
2014
Verona (Italia), “Studio la Città De Rerum Natura”, curated by da Angela Madesani, con la collaborazione di Andrea Lerda.
Instanbul (Turchia), “All About These… Ladies and Gentlemen”, curated by Fani Zguro, Gallery on The Move in collaboration with Co-Pilot.
Colonia (Germania), “New Contemporaries”, Gallery On The Move, Art Cologne.
Milano (Italia), “Main Section”, Main Gallery, MiArt.
Colonia (Germania), “All About These… Ladies and Gentlemen”, curated by Fani Zguro, Gallery on The Move in collaboration with Film Cologne.
Milano (Italia), “Milano Gallerie – Dalle parti della pittura e della scultura”, curated by Francesco Poli, Triennale di Milan.
2013
Vienna (Austria), “Bridge Country”, Gallery On The Move, ViennaFair
Milano (Italia), “Established”, Gallery On The Move, MiArt.
Torino (Italia), “New Entries”, Gallery On The Move, Artissima.
Medellin (Colombia), “Make It Easy Make It Porn”, curated by Fani Zguro, Gallery On The Move in collaboration with Casa Tres Patios.
Miami (USA), “The Ice Palace”, Nuova Galleria Morone, Pulse.
Monza (Italia), “WonderfulW”, Galleria Maurizio Caldirola.
2012
Belluno (Italia), “Dolomiti Contemporane DC NEXT”, Blocco di Taibon Fabbrica EX Visibilia. Secondo Ciclo Espositivo, Taibon Agordino.
Milano (Italia), “Io Cerco Orizonte Lontano”, Fondazione Kodra.
Venezia (Italia), “Forte Marghera _ Parco del Contemporanio”, curated by Riccardo Caldura, Udine (Italy), “Italianitudine”, curator Paolo Toffolutti, Villa di Toppo Florio.
2011
Venezia (Italia), “Geopathies”, Commissioner Parid Teferici, curator Riccardo Caldura, Albanian Pavilion, The 54th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia.
Venezia (Italia), “Talk”, Fondazione Bevilaqua di Massa.
2010
Vlora (Albania), “The Berlin Wall”, The Promenade Gallery.
2009
Genova (Italia), “Così vicina. Così lontana. Arte in Albania Prima e Dopo il 1990”, curators Matteo Fochessati, Rubens Shima, Sandra Solimano, Museo D’Arte Contemporanea, Villa Croce.
Mosca (Russia), “Video Art-It’s Liquid”, NCCA.
Trieste (Italia), “Catodica 4”, curator Maria Campitelli.
Teramo (Italia), “Qui e altrove”, curator Francesco Poli, Francesca Referza, Castelbasso.
2008
New York (USA), “Do you know where the paradoxes blossow”, curator Riccardo Caldura, The 15th International Onufri Prize, “Video Art & Architecture”, Micro Museum.
Prishtina (Kosovo), “Milli”, The 2nd International Photo Prize, The National Gallery of Arts.
Trieste (Italia), “Festival 404”, curator Maria Campitelli.
Teramo (Italia), “PanGea”, curator Diego Esposito, Palazzo Re, Giulianova.
Bari (Italia), “Petrol Pax”, La biennale del Mediterraneo.
Torino (Italia), “Albania 1 e 1000-Il laboratorio”, Arte Giovani.
Saranda (Albania), “Frafotischenderdick”, Art Kontakt Festival.
Medellin (Colombia), “Fata Morgana”, Taller Siete.