Anita Muçolli (Swiss-born Kosovar artist based in Basel, Switzerland) explores the psychological impact of objects, buildings, and spaces. In doing so, she starts from what already exists and places it into a new constellation, a new material, or a new, smoothed formal language. This method of alienation and distillation enables a focused examination of the expressive qualities of spaces and objects, as well as the social and political intentions behind their design. Muçolli takes aim at the Western belief in progress, which is measured by the conviction that all of humanity’s problems can be solved through ever-new technologies. What presents itself on the one hand as sleek, efficiency-driven design reveals, on the other hand, an increasingly blatant loss of the spiritual, emotional, or ethical. This mixture of optimism, performance-oriented thinking, but also fear, manifests in ambivalent abstract forms that Muçolli investigates, addressing the disappearance of human dimensions in our societies as the price paid for technological perfection. —Kathleen Bühler, Chief Curator Kunstmuseum Bern
Anita Muçolli has exhibited in various group shows including at ifa Gallery, Berlin, Autostrada Biennale, Prizren, Kosovo, Kunsthaus Baselland, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Museo Villa dei Cedri, Bellinzona, The National Gallery of Kosovo, Pristina, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Gallery Von Bartha, Basel, Kunst- und Kulturzentrum Montabaur, Germany, and the Swiss Art Awards, Basel. Her first solo show was held at Sattelkammer, Bern, followed by Liste Art Fair, Basel, Kulturfolger, Zurich, and the Centre d'Art Contemporain Yverdon.
She was awarded the Manor Art Prize 2026 of the Canton of Bern, the Helvetia Art Prize 2021, is amongst the laureates of the Kiefer │ Hablitzel Göhner Art Prize 2022 and was nominated for the Swiss Art Award 2024 and the Shizuko Yoshikawa Award 2024.
She completed both her BA (2020) and MA (2022) studies at the Basel Academy of Art & Design FHNW.
Upcoming
01.2026 Prix Mobilière, group show, Art Genève
02.2026 Navigating Estrangement, solo show, Manor Art Prize 2026 Canton Bern, Kunsthaus Biel
2020 Life, Love, Justice, Graduation Show BA & MA Fine Arts, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz, CH
2020 WE SAID WE NEEDED SPACE, Der Tank, Basel, CH
2019 Greetings From Paradise, Dock, Basel, CH
2019 13. Jungkunst, Halle 53, Winterthur, CH
Prizes & Nominations
2026 Winner of the Manor Art Prize, Canton of Bern
2024 Nominee for the Shizuko Yoshikawa Award
2024 Nominee for the Swiss Art Award
2022 Winner of the Kiefer Hablitzel | Göhner Kunstpreis
2021 Winner of the Helvetia Art Prize
2020 Nominee for the Kiefer Hablitzel│Göhner Kunstpreis
Due to the pandemic the Kiefer Hablitzel Göhner Kunstpreis 2020 could not take place in its usual setting at the Basel Art Fair.
The prize money was therefore equally shared between the 17 participants. In addition, every nominated artist was granted to be part of the exhibition, which took place at Kunsthaus Langenthal from 3 March 2021 - 20 June 2021.