Brilant Milazimi (b. 1994) lives and works in Gjilan.
The sleeping fighters (2025)
Behind the white mask (2024)
Who talks first? (2024)
Father (2024)
I don’t need me anymore (2024)
Wash ur hands (2020)
Untitled (2024)
Untitled (2025)
Loading (2023-2025)
Anatomy of the step (2025)
Untitled (2024)
Small house – big family (2024)
Untitled (2024)

Brilant Milazimi’s paintings exist in a shadowy underworld, carving out space for reflections on memory, trauma, hope, and freedom. The Gjilan-based artist’s work is filled with toothy, tentacular connections and surreal creatures. Milazimi’s symbolic imagery subtly hints at the tensions beneath the surface of everyday experiences. As part of his contribution to the 5th edition of the Autostrada Biennale, Milazimi spent a month at the Autostrada Hangar in Prizren, where he created two large-scale works. These pieces, developed in close dialogue with the site’s architectural potential and social context, will be unveiled at the Biennale in 2025.

Milazimi translates his perception of the world that surrounds him into images that are bitter, funny, tender, and weird all at the same time. In 2020, he was awarded the Young Visual Artist Award “Artist of Tomorrow”, Prishtina. In 2022, he participated in the international residency program “Residency Unlimited”, New York.

Recent solo exhibitions include:
Storefront Viewing Room, Kurimanzutto, New York, USA (2025);
Permanence in the Ephemeral Displaced, Stacion, Prishtina, Kosovo (2024);
One ball for all, LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina, Kosovo (2023).

Recent group exhibitions include:
D’ici 60 ans : relayer, Cité internationale des art, Paris, France (2025);
Silent Threads Resounding Kosova, Galleria Continua, Paris, France (2025);
Camera Obscura, Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine (2024)

Commissioned by: Autostrada Biennale
The sleeping fighters (2025)
Anatomy of the step (2025)