Shefqet Avdush Emini is an internationally recognized artist born in Kosovo in 1957. He studied visual arts in Pristina and worked as an artist and art teacher in Kosovo. For the past two decades, since the war in Kosovo, he has lived in the Netherlands with his family. As an artist, he is able to work around the world but remains connected to his roots in Kosovo, which are often reflected in his works. Emini has had his art exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, and regularly participates in art symposia. He also teaches painting masterclasses at the private Filarski Academy in the Netherlands.

1. Shefqet Avdush Emini
Biography
Shefqet Avdush Emini, an international recognized artist, is 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. Since two decennia, when war broke out in Kosovo,
Shefqet Avdush Emini is living in the Netherlands, together with his family. As an artist
and art teacher he is 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. 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.
Ina Eskes MA of Art history