Visar Mulliqi

Visar Mulliqi was born and raised in Pristina, Former Republic of Yugoslavia.

Visar’s art is in line with gestural abstraction, with strong color accents. His work is characterized by abstractness and use of color contrast that easily attracts attention. His paintings often transmit optimism, leaving the viewer intrigued by the structure, texture and the combination of color.

Visar is strongly present in the cultural life of his environment and inspired by a certain expressionist tradition (most distinguished, his father Muslim Mulliqi, one of the greatest painters of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia at the time).

Visar Mulliqi’s gesturalism comes from the figurative experience that evolved in autonomy of signs that move through pictorial field more and more independent of the surface on which they appear. The complementary element of the appeared structure is obviously color, especially in its primary shades, with their intensities and optical volumes, which absorb the gaze as a membrane between the impression and imagination. In this sense, Visar avoids symbolic connotations and highlights the concept of pictorial self-reflection by act of the painting itself. Beyond all allusive meanings, his paintings focus on the ph...

Visar Mulliqi studied Painting at the Faculty of Arts, University of Pristina and graduated in 1990. He then continued the post-graduate studies and obtained the master's degree at the Faculty of Arts in 1997.

Personal exhibitions:


La Maison d’Albanie, Paris (2016)
Galerie Nicolas Deman, Paris (2015)
Galeria FAB, Tirana (2012)
Galeria Nacionale, Tetovo (2012)
Galeria Kult, Gostivar (2012)
Kosovo Museum, Pristina (2011)
Galeria Vizioni+, Gjakova (2002)
Pallati i Rinise Gallery, Pristina (2001)
Cafe Gallery Hani i 2 Roberteve, Pristina (1998)
Leechgasse Gallery, Graz (1998 and 1999)
Cafe Gallery Dodona, Pristina (1996 and 1997)
Cafe Gallery Roma, Pristina (1995)

Collective exhibitions:

Visar Mulliqi held 100+ collective exhibitions in: Austria, Japan, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Albania, Kosovo. One of the most renowned being in Vienna, Austria (1999) - at the Museum of Applied Arts.