If I Don’t Know What Will Happen Tomorrow, It Could Be Wonderful – Driant Zeneli

National Gallery – Kvadrat 500 / 5.02.2026 – 29.03.2026

DRIANT ZENELI IF I DON’T KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN TOMORROW, IT COULD BE WONDERFUL 5/02/2026 - 29/03/2026 Kvadrat 500 Curators: Martina Yordanova and Vasil Vladimirov Opening on Thursday, 5 February, 6 p.m. The National Gallery presents the solo exhibition by Driant Zeneli ‘If I Don’t Know What Will Happen Tomorrow, It Could Be Wonderful’, a video installation that approaches uncertainty not as a lack or failure, but as an active position and a space for imagination. The exhibition brings together four video works produced between 2011 and 2023, each originating from a different trilogy in the artist’s practice. Rather than forming a retrospective, the selection traces a consistent artistic method in which attempts are undertaken with full awareness of their likely failure. 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. Throughout the exhibition, flight appears not as a solution, but as a gesture, a temporary suspension of certainty and a way of thinking from within gravity rather than against it. About Driant Zeneli: Driant Zeneli (b. 1983, 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. Media partner: BTA / Bulgarian News Agency. Project No. № BG-RRP-11.016-0060-C02 “The valley of the uncanny lovers” funded under Procedure No. BG-RRP-11.016 – Scheme for non-repayable assistance “Presentation to the Bulgarian audience of contemporary European products from the ICT sector” with financial support from the European Union – NextGenerationEU through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.