Artist Name: Amela Rasi
Residency Dates: August – October 2025
Born: 1986
Hometown: Saarbrücken
Lives & Works: Munich
URL: amelarasi.com | Instagram @rasiamela
Gallery: Gallery Amélie du Chalard and Escat Gallery
Education:
2018 – Diploma in Sociology, Universität Trier
Bio/Statement:
Amela Rasi explores human vulnerabilities, which are often revealed in unfiltered interpersonal interactions. Drawing from personal experiences, observations, and literature, she examines complexities like loss, narcissism, inner conflict, indecision, powerlessness, and loneliness within changing social contexts. Amela captures these insights through writing, poetry, and sketches, which inform her abstract canvas work. The figures she depicts, often circular, reflect emotion and human experience. In her future works, Amela plans to explore the impact of technology and “digital love” on human interactions, using materials such as fiberglass, clay, and stone to contrast the digital and human realms.
Amela Rasi showed “Exhibition of Time Work” at Escat Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2024). She has participated in group exhibitions such as SHELTER, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark (2025); BIG NATURE IS WATCHING YOU, Tobogan, Brussels, Belgium (2025); Ode to Painting, REDAN Gallery, Malmö, Sweden (2022). She has produced commissioned bodies of work for EQT Munich (in collaboration with Artiq) (2025), Amélie Maison d’Art (2024), and a series of four paintings, “Embraces”, for Tokyo PM (2023). In 2024, Amela Rasi participated in a print collaboration with Expanded Art Berlin.
