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MUSEUM,PEKING, CHINA - SHEFQET AVDUSH EMINI / KOSOVO / NEDERLAND.

PEKIN, KINE - SHEFQET AVDUSH EMINI / KOSOVO / HOLAND.

Shefqet Avdush Emini, an international recognized artist, was born in Davidovc in Kosovo on 2 June 1957.He studied Visual Arts as a young man at the Art Academy in Pristina (Kosovo) and worked, after finishing his education, as an artist and art teacher in several towns in Kosovo. As an artist and art teacher he was able to live and work all over the world, though he always will be connected with his roots to Kosovo. In several works of his hand you will be able to discover these roots and his mixed feelings of living abroad.
Shefqet Avdush Emini is an academically educated artist who developed his own style, his own ‘signature’, which made him famous. The list of exhibitions of his artworks in museums and art galleries worldwide is long. Sweden, Denmark, Turkey, Morocco, Egypt, China, Austria, Nederland, Germany, Italy, Grot Britannia, Spain, Portugal, France (Louver) Belgium, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Albania, Brazil, Washington, Kuwait, Slovakia, Oman, Russia, Palestina,Canada, Algeria, Azerbaijan.
Besides, he is regular invited to join art symposia where local and international artist do come together to create art and get inspired. Shefqet is also connected to the Filarski Academy, a private Academy in The Netherlands founded by the artist Marian Filarski, as a teacher for master classes in painting.
In 2015,he participated in the first exhibition and opening ceremony of the “Silk Journey To Art" World Tour Exhibition hosted by Beijing IPU culture Co., Ltd. in Beijing, China.

UNTITLED
Oil on canvas
50cm×50cm
2015

My painting belong to permanent colection in museum Beijing,China

https://www.ipuculture.com/en/class2/453.html

UNTITLED
Oil on canvas
370cm×180cm
2015

Expat Artist in the Netherlands: Shefqet Avdush Emini

Expat Artist in the Netherlands: Shefqet Avdush Emini

Originally from Kosovo, Shefqet Avdush Emini came to the Netherlands when war broke out in Kosovo. He feels different living abroad: "quieter, sadder... Those emotions you can see in my artwork."

Name: Shefqet Avdush Emini
Nationality:The Netherlandse (Born in Davidovc – Kosovo and graduated from the Fine Art Academy in Prishtina, Kosovo).
City of residence: Arnhem
Reason for moving to the Netherlands: There was war in Kosovo.

Can you describe what you wish to communicate through your art work?
I want to show my emotions.

Which medium do you work in?
Oil on canvas, Acryl, watercolour, drawings. The Artist describes my work as “figurative abstract expressionism” and incorporates a vibrant palette and a-layering of colour. I use oil on canvas to create my expressive pieces that blur abstraction with figurative elements.

Oil painting on canvas 54x54

How has living abroad influenced your work as an artist?
I feel different: quieter, sadder... Those emotions you can see in my artwork.

Which famous local artist(s) inspire you?
Rembrandt.

Which up and coming local artists do you find worth mentioning?
Corneille.

Oil painting on canvas 54x54

How easy or difficult is it to mix with the local artistic community?
Not difficult at all.

Can you offer some advice to people wishing to break into the local art scene?
These last years I am busier with the international scene.

What kind of financial support is available for artists working in the Netherlands?
Nothing, I am working with my own budget

How would you describe the art scene in the Netherlands; for instance is it thriving or not going too well?

There are many possibilities, galleries, art projects, but without financial support from the government.

Oil painting on canvas 54x54

Would you like to add anything?
I also work as a lecturer but have always been occupied by my painting and sculpture, I now work as a professional artist. I have exhibited in Sweden, Denmark, Austria, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Louver France, Belgium, Romania, Croatia, Servie, Bosnia and Kosovo in both group and solo exhibitions.

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