Artan Shalsi
Two suspended pale works from the 2% immanence and impermanence installation
2% immanence | impermanence Galleria d'Arte Niccoli, Parma, 2023 · Courtesy Galleria Niccoli

Sculpture / Installation / Drawing

Artan Shalsi

Selected works, 2009–2025

Matter becomes
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Position 01

Images and language held at the threshold of visibility.

Matter, stripped of the superfluous, becomes a silent and disciplined language.

Across changing bodies of work, Artan Shalsi uses subtraction and reduction to slow the gaze and make the viewer an active participant. In the current 2% cycle, portraits and texts appear, withdraw and return as light, distance and position change. Across sculpture, installation and drawing, industrial materials become carriers of memory, duration and spatial experience.

Current gallery collaborations / Italy
Galleria d'Arte Niccoli, Parma
ARTEA Gallery, Milan
Galleria Il Ponte, Florence
Recent recognition
Overall Winner / ARTEAM Cup 2024
Institutional context
Italian Pavilion
17th Venice Architecture Biennale / 2021
Representation
Open to representation and exhibition projects / Germany & DACH
Selected works 02

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Central body of work

2% immanence /
impermanence

2021–2024

Portrait and language emerge only as light, distance and the viewer's position change.

2% / Film / 04:06

Portrait, memory, place and the visual sources behind the current body of work.

Italian / Italian subtitles · Sound available

Looking becomes a duration.

The work is completed in the encounter: as light changes and the viewer moves, what was absent becomes briefly legible.

Process film / 00:49

Language made visible by removal.

Drawing, transfer and abrasion are not preparatory gestures. They determine how little of an image can remain while still being perceived.

Studio process / sound available

2% / Recognition

Overall Winner
ARTEAM Cup 2024

Graphite, plexiglass, dibond and iron
97 × 90 cm

02

Matter / fold / pressure

2015–2025

Industrial materials retain the forces applied to them. A fold, break or cut becomes both construction and record.

Folded under mechanical pressure, the steel records force while continually altering the light around it.

03

Space / horizon

2009–2021

The work does not enter a neutral room. It makes a new spatial condition and asks the viewer to inhabit it.

Selected public works / commissions

The work enters the landscape.

2009–2022

P_L_BA_AIS_CO_09_66

A curved double plane places a pristine mirrored surface beside weathering Cor-Ten steel. The reflection draws the landscape and the viewer into the sculpture, while the oxidized skin records exposure and time. The surrounding park is no longer a background: it becomes part of the work.

Materials
Mirror, stainless steel, Cor-Ten steel
Dimensions
300 × 210 × 30 cm
Location
MACA Sculpture Park, Maldonado, Uruguay
Collection
MACA — Fundación Pablo Atchugarry

Site-specific installation / mirror stainless steel and iron / Montebello sul Sangro

Site-specific installation / glass and stainless steel / 322 × 172 × 100 cm

Cor-Ten steel / 4500 × 3200 × 2300 cm

04

Works on paper

Line as accumulation, pressure and spatial fold.

Selected individual work / 05

Time / order / system

A familiar system is held in place while its order is quietly displaced.

Work
P_S_FE_EN_ELT_23_327, 2023
Materials
Iron, enamel, electronic mechanism
Dimensions
40 × 40 × 3 cm
Biography / exhibitions 03

Artan Shalsi

Artan Shalsi (b. 1970, Berat, Albania) is an Albanian-born Italian artist who lives and works in Parma. He studied at the Xhindolli School of Art in Berat from 1984 to 1988 and moved permanently to Italy in 2003. He currently collaborates with Galleria d'Arte Niccoli, Parma, Galleria Il Ponte, Florence, and ARTEA Gallery, Milan, while remaining open to gallery representation and exhibition projects in Germany and the DACH region.

His practice encompasses sculpture, installation and drawing. His work has been presented in galleries, museums, public spaces and sculpture parks in Italy and internationally.

Portrait of Artan Shalsi

Selected solo exhibitions

  1. Nel respiro del tempo, Fortezza del Priamàr, Savona, Italy
  2. 2% immanence | impermanence, Galleria d'Arte Niccoli, Parma, Italy
  3. Waiting to board the plane, CRAC Gallery, Terni, Italy
  4. Artan Shalsi, Artea Gallery, Milan, Italy
  5. Pensieri e Materie, De Primi Fine Art, Lugano, Switzerland
  6. Morbida 120, Galleria d'Arte Niccoli, Parma, Italy
  7. Un Orizzonte, Galleria Il Ponte, Florence, Italy

Selected exhibitions / projects

  1. Feelings, Palazzo Oldofredi Tadini Botti, Torre Pallavicina, Italy
  2. Utopiche Seduzioni, Fondazione Dino Zoli, Forlì, Italy
  3. I Rossori dell'Arte, Ronchini Gallery, London, UK
  4. Italian Pavilion, 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
  5. Attraverso le Avanguardie, APE Parma Museo, Parma, Italy
  6. Sculpture Park, MACA — Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, Uruguay
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Contact

For exhibitions, projects and representation.

Email

studio@artanshalsi.com

+39 388 388 5600

Studio

Parma, Italy

Available for Germany / DACH

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