When meeting Reshat Ameti’s pictures, the first impression you get is a feeling of freedom; freedom of colors and forms, an interweaving of geometric forms with a contagious spirit.
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Biography
Reshat Ameti
He currently works as Professor of paintings, Faculty of Art at “State University of Tetova” – Tetovo, North Macedonia.
President of Association of Fine Arts of Macedonia “DRAUDACUM”.
Born on 16 May 1964 in Gostivar, Republic of North Macedonia.
Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje in the class of Prof. Ana Temkova, while completed postgraduate studies in 2002 at the Faculty of Arts in Prishtina, in the class of Prof. Rexhep Ferri.
Reshat Ameti is celebrity artist, holding Lifetime Achievement Award in Art and Culture. His artworks are property of many museums, cultural institutions and private collections of world-famous personalities like Nobel Prize winners, world famous writers, Presidents of the States, etc.
Major awards and recognitions
2013 – Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia, Award “11 October” for life’s achievement in art and culture
2021 – Honorary Member of the Board of Iliria College. Prishtina
2018 – “National Image” Award 16th festival organized by Forum for Image and Media. Academy of Sciences in Tirana
2018 – “Painter of 2018” award, “Year of Skanderbeg” (for Macedonia). Association “Pegasus”, historical museum in Tirana
2018 – International Award “Certificate of Excellence”. For a presented work in the art competition of “29 artavita online”.
2011 – Municipality of Gostivar, “Contribution to culture
2010 – “Johnnie Walker Man of the Year”, Skopje
2009 – DLUM Award for painting: “Lazar Lichenovski”
2009 – DLUG: “Gnjilanski Salon”
2006 – “Weltoffen” Forum, Vienna, Austria
2006 – Association “Tirana”, Award: “As a tribute to his works with a high artistic level in national and international appreciation”, Tirana
2006 -“Draudatsum” Association, November Award, Gostivar…
Selected Solo exhibitions:
2023- Roma, Embassy of the Republic of North Macedonia to the Holy See and with the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
2023 – Graz, “Ursula Stross Gallery”
2022 -Vekika Gorica, Galerija “Galženica“
2022- Osijek,Grattska i sveucilisna knjiznica Osijek
2022 – Graz, “Ursula Stross Gallery”
2021- Istanbul, Gallery “Kedhi Hamam”
2020 – Skopje, “30 Year of Art”, National Gallery of North Macedonia – “Daut Pasha Hamam”
2019 – New York City, MC Gallery
2017 – Zagreb, Museum “Mimara”
2017 – Skopje, National Gallery – “Chifte Hamam”
2016 – Beijing, Museum of Fine Arts “Songzhuang”
2016 – Skopje, Macedonian Academy of Science and Arts
2015 – Berlin, Museum “Steglitz”
2015 – Hamburg, Gallery “Mytoro”
2015 – New York City, “TAI exhibit”
2013 – New York City, MC Gallery
2013 – New York City, Fadil Berisha Studio
2012 – Manheim, Bohner Galerie
2012 – Zurich, Keller Galerie
2011 – Bruxelles, Wallonie – Bruxelles International
2011 – Sofia, National Gallery of Bulgaria
2010 – Prishtina, “Art Gallery of Kosova”
2010 – Skopje, National Gallery – “Daut Pasha Hamam”
2009 – New York, MS Gallery
2008 – Nurnberg, Ehrenhalle des Rathauses
2007 – Skopje, Museum of Contemporary Art
2005 – Tirana, National Gallery
2004 – New York, Macedonian Cultural Center
2004 – Paris, International Cite des ARTS
2003 – Skopje, City Museum
1998 – New York, Gallery TAI
1997 – New York, Gallery TAI
1996 – Prizren, Gallery “Rada”
1994 – Skopje, “KIC”- “Skopje Summer Festival”
Participant in many group Exhibitions (over 300) both local and international. Selected Group Exhibitions
-“Beijing Biannale”, Beijing, 2022
– “Viena International“, Viena, 2022
– Internationale exhibition “Satelite”, Seul, 2019
– “Arte Binningen”, Basel, 2019
– Internationale group exhibition “MC Galery ”, NYC, 2019
– “DunaAr” Galeru MAMU, Budapest 2018
– “Arte Binningen”, Basel, 2018
– “Let Us Give Chance to Solidarity”. Museum of Comparative Art. Skopje 2016
– “From Collection of Museum of City of Skopje. 2016
– “Gost Fest”. National Center for Culture. Gostivar. 2016
– “World of love poetry and paintings”. National Gallery. Skopje. 2016
– “Salon des Artistes”. Dijon. France 2015
– “The annual exhibition of DLUM”. National Gallery. Skopje .2015
– “Art on the Danube” Samorin. Slovakia. 2015
– “Catalog”. The annual DLUM Exhibition. National Gallery.Skopje. 2015
– “The November Price” National Center of Culture- Gostivar.2015
– “For the Glory of the Art”. National Gallery – Skopje. 2015
– “Apollonia”. Fier. Albania. 2015
– “Collective Exhibition”. Gallery of Arts. Pristina. Kosovo ’2014
– “Salon des Artistes”. Dijon. France. 2015
– “Art on the Danube”. Samorin, Slovakia.
– “Salon des Artistes”. Dijon. France. 2014
– “Inter Salon” .Passau. Germany. 2013
– “Salon des Artistes” .Dijon, France. 2013
-“Art on the Danube”. Samorin, Slovakia.2013
– “The Modern Albanian Painting”. Iliria University.Prishtina. Kosovo.2013
– “Art on the Danube” .Samorin, Slovakia.2013
– “International Art Colony Kicevo 2013” .KIC. Skopje.2013
– “Salon des Artistes” .Dijon.France. 2012
– “100”. National Gallery. Skopje 2012
– “Exhibition of Arts Professors of SUT” National Gallery. Skopje 2012
– “Freedom”. Therandë. Kosovo.
– “Donations, Buying”. Museum of Contemporary Art. Skopje.2011
– “Exhibition of Arts Professors of SUT” National Gallery. Skopje 201
– “Donations, Buying”. Museum of Contemporary Art – Skopje.2011
– “EUROART 2011” .Art Gallery. Pogradec. Albania. 2011
– “Universal Theory of Creativity”. Skopje. 2011
– “Winter Days in Pogradec ‘Art Gallery. Pogradec. Albania 2011
– “The November Price”. The National Center for Culture. Gostivar.2011
– “The Magic of Vevcani”. KIC. Skoje.2011
– “The 4 July”. The National Center for Culture.Tetovo. 2010
– “Winter Salon”. Museum of Contemporary Art. Skopje .2010
– “Small Format”. KIC .Skopje. 2010
– “Balkan Spirit”. Museum of the City of Skopje. 2009
– “Lear”. Art Gallery. Berat. Albania 2009
– “Artists of Macedonia in Sofia” Gallery “NDK” .Sofia. Bulgaria. 2009
– “Salon of Gnjilane”. Gallery of Art .Gjilan.Kosova. 2009
– “Group Exhibition” .Museum of the City of Skopje. – “Collective Exhibition”. Trakia University. Edirne. Turkey. 2009
– “DLUM Landscape”. House of Army. Skopje.2008…
Art criticism
Luan Starova
Albanian writer
The man is a part of natural universe faced up to the mystery of infinity. The painting as one of the artistic codes is a witness to the metamorphoses in the world and the eternal setting and changing the limits of the horizons.
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Iva Körbler
Author
The painter ReshatAmeti is not unknown to the Zagreb public, moreover, he has had a steady circle of followers since his exhibition at the Mimara Museum in 2017. An artist with a significant international career, this painter who lives inMacedonia developed a very profiled and recognisable style on the trail of lyrical, gestural and colouristic abstraction.
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Kadri Metaj
Philosopher and Aesthetician
When the art of Reshat Ahmeti, distinguished by its internal coherence, is observed in retrospective, the first things that come to mind are its completeness and excellence, and the artist’s adoration of permanence.
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Ana Frangovska
Art Curator
When meeting Reshat Ameti’s pictures, the first impression you get is a feeling of freedom; freedom of colors and forms, an interweaving of geometric forms with a contagious spirit. The earth and the sky, the substance and spirit, the achievable and the highest, are not to be divided in art.
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