YELLOW SPOTS IN THE BLACK BOX

ALKAN NALLBANI

Solo exhibition
Curated by: Ardian Isufi & Elton Koritari

18 December 2025 – February 2026
Opening ceremony: 22 December 2025 – 18:00

OPEN ART GALLERY
Prishtina (KS)

You are invited to the opening of the solo exhibition of the renowned Albanian artist Alkan Nallbani at Open Art Gallery, Prishtina, Kosovo. This exhibition has been conceived especially for the gallery’s second anniversary and places the emphasis on the search for light within the dark layers of perception and temporal experience.

“Yellow Spots in the Black Box” is inspired by a poetic tension: spots of light that appear within a dark, enclosed and elusive space. Alkan Nallbani uses pictorial stigmata as signs of life, memory, energy and revelation, while the black box becomes a metaphorical “pinhole” object that emerges as a subject within the human interior — for hidden realities, for universes that exist beyond immediate sight.

Born in Albania in 1971, Alkan Nallbani graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Albania, continuing his education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy, and at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C.

Among the finest Albanian artists of his generation, his long CV notably includes participation in the Harnett Biennial in 2010 and the Prague Biennial in 2009, the Mulliqi Prize in 2016, participation in the 7th International Biennial of Visual Arts at Villa Farsetti, and more. Alkan Nallbani has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions across Europe and the United States.

The artist lives and works in Princeton, New Jersey / Florence, Italy / Berat, Albania.