Bulgaria’s National Gallery to present video installation solo exhibition by Albania’s Zeneli
A solo exhibition by Albania’s Driant Zeneli, a video installation entitled ” If I Don’t Know What Will Happen Tomorrow, It Could Be Wonderful” opens at the National Gallery’s Kvadrat 500 on February 5 and continues until March 29 2026.
The gallery said that the video installation “approaches uncertainty not as a lack or failure, but as an active position and a space for imagination”.
The exhibition includes four video works produced between 2011 and 2023, each originating from a different trilogy in the artist’s practice, the gallery said.
“Rather than forming a retrospective, the selection traces a consistent artistic method in which attempts are undertaken with full awareness of their likely failure,” it said.
“Preparation, anticipation and collective projection occupy more space than resolution, while meaning emerges through sustained engagement with limits.”
Zeneli’s films unfold within industrial ruins, modernist architecture and sites marked by interrupted utopias and historical weight.
“Presented in Hall 19 of the National Gallery – Kvadrat 500, defined by monumental stone clad architecture and an excavated Roman tomb from the fourth century, the exhibition enters into an active dialogue with the space, considering history not as a completed past, but as an ongoing condition.”
Zeneli, born in 1983 in Shkoder, Albania, lives and works between Turin and Tirana.
He represented Albania at the Venice Biennale of Art in 2011 as part of the group exhibition of the 54th International Art Exhibition and in 2019 with a solo presentation at the 58th edition.
His work has been presented at major international institutions and biennials, including: MSU – Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; EMST – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; Sharjah Biennial; Bienal de La Habana; MAXXI, Rome; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; Manifesta 14, Prishtina; Centre Pompidou, Paris; MuCEM, Marseille; and ZKM, Karlsruhe, among others.
