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"Welcome Greatest Skenderbeu!" is Sokol Beqiri’s contribution to Leap into the City, the book by "relations."

About Sokol Beqiri:

Sokol Beqiri was born in Peja, Kosova, in 1964. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts at Prishtina University, Department of Graphics, he specialized in graphic art at University of Ljubljana. Since 1987 he has participated in numerous international exhibitions, among them the International Biennial of Graphic Art (Ljubljana), Premio Internationale Biela (Italy), "Onufri’98" and "Onufri 2002" (Tirana), Cetinje Biennial (Serbia-Montenegro, 1997, 2002, 2004), "Devenirs (Becomings): Contemporary Art in South Eastern Europe" (Tirana, Belgrade, Prishtina, Ljubljana, Paris, 2001–03), "U-topos" (Tirana Biennial, 2003), "In the Gorges of the Balkans" (Kassel, 2003), "Bitter/Sweet Harmony" (Holon, Israel, 2003), the Locarno Filmfestival (2003), "Blood & Honey/Future’s in the Balkans" (Vienna 2003), "The Failure of the Beauty, Beauty of the Failure" (Barcelona, 2004), "The Joy of My Dreams" (Seville Biennial, 2004), and many more. Since 2003 he has been leading the Missing Identity project within the framework of "relations."