Alban Muja
National Gallery of Kosovo
Produced over the span of a decade, the fifteen works on display in Alban Muja’s solo show “Whatever Happens, We Will Be Prepared,” curated by Maria Isserlis, surveyed the lasting effects of war and political transition in Kosovo. The exhibition’s title is a phrase heard in the three-channel video installation Family Album, 2019, which was originally shown in the Pavilion of the Republic of Kosovo at the Fifty-Eighth Venice Biennale. To create this work, Muja tracked down and interviewed children from iconic war photographs that circulated in global media during the 1998–99 Kosovo War. Now