Petrit Halilaj began drawing at the age of 13 at a refugee camp in Albania, his family having fled Kosovo during the war in the late 1990s. Now best known for his large-scale hanging installations, which often meditate on the history and culture of the country of his birth, Halilaj has had a number of high-profile exhibitions in recent years. Last year, for the Roof Garden commission at the Met, he created several sprawling, wiry sculptures inspired by the drawings children made in notebooks or inscribed on desks that survived the Kosovo conflict; this year, Syrigana, a five-act opera he co-wrote with the curator Amy Zion and the playwright Doruntina Basha, began a nine-month run at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, accompanied by sculptures, installations and video work from across his career.