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Anri Sala is a contemporary Albanian artist born in Tirana in 1974. He studied art at the Albanian Academy of Arts from 1992 - 1996. He has also studied video at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Decoratifs, Paris and film directory in Le Fresnoy-Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing. He lives and works in Paris, France.

His video installation called "Dammi i colori" ("Give me the colors") is on display at Tate Modern in London. The installation reflects on Tirana's transformation in 2003 by means of colors. The installation includes a conversation with Tirana's mayor, Mr. Edi Rama, a personal friend of the artist's and the force behind this transformation.

Work

Individual exhibitions :

2005

- Dammi I Colori, DAAD-Galerie, Berlin - Videos, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

2004

- Alfonso Artiaco, Neapel - Anri Sala - Wo sich Fuchs und Hase gute Nacht sagen, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg

2003

- Blindfold, Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Köln - Kunsthalle Wien - Castello di Rivoli

2002

- Programa, Mexico City - OPA (artist run space), Guadalajara, Mexiko

2000

- De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam - Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Köln (zusammen mit Martin Boyce) - Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, München (zusammen mit Torsten Slama)

2001

- Galerie Chantal Croussel, Paris

2002

- Hauser & Wirth, Zürich

Group exhibitions :

2003

- Witness, The Curve, Barbican Centre, London

2002

- In Search of Balcania, Graz - The mind Is a Horse, Bloomberg Space, London - Geschichte(n), Salzburger Kunstverein - ‚el aire es azul – the air is blue’, Casa Museo Luis Barragán - Haunted by Details, DeAppel, Amsterdam - Cardinales, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo

2001

- Berlin Biennale - Yokohama Biennale, Japan - Believe, Westfälischer Kunstverin Münster

2000

- Media City Seoul 2000, Seoul Metropolitan Museum, Seoul - Geographies: Darren Almond – Graham Gussin – Anri Sala, Galerie Chantal Croussel, Paris - voilà- le monde dans la tête, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris - Manifesta 3, Ljubiana, Slowenien - The world in mind, ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - Wie Weg - Disappeared < rotor >, Association for Contemporary Art, Graz - Wider Bild Gegen Wart- Positions to a political discours, Raum Aktueller Kunst, Wien - Man muss ganz schön viel lernen, um hier zu funktionieren, Frankfurter Kunstverein

1999

- After the wall, Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm - Albanischer Pavillon, 47. Biennale Venedig

1997

- Ostrenanije-97, Video Festival, Bauhaus, Dessau

1995

- Tunnel 95, National Gallery, Tirana - Spring 95, First Prize, National Gallery, Tirana - Symposium Kultur Kontakt, Kunsthaus Horn, Österreich Group exhibitions :

2005

- Situated Self ,Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrad, Belgrade

2004

- Delay, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam - SITUATIONS CONSTRUITES, attitudes espace d'arts contemporains, Genève - utopia station: auf dem weg nach porto alegre, Haus der Kunst, Munich - Time Zones: Recent Film and Video, Tate Modern, Londres - Point of View - An Anthology of the Moving Image, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA - Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

2003

- Fast Forward , ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe - In den Schluchten des Balkan - Eine Reportage, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Cassel - Dreams and Conflicts:The Dictatorship of the Viewer, La Biennale di Venezia, Venise - Die Erfindung der Vergangenheit, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich - Hardcore - vers un nouvel activisme / towards a new activism, Palais de Tokyo, Paris - Witness, The Curve, Barbican Centre, London

2002

-Missing Landscape, Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Köln - In Search of Balcania, Graz - The mind Is a Horse, Bloomberg Space, London - Geschichte(n), Salzburger Kunstverein - ‚el aire es azul – the air is blue’, Casa Museo Luis Barragán - Haunted by Details, DeAppel, Amsterdam - Cardinales, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo

2001

- Berlin Biennale - Yokohama Biennale, Japan - Believe, Westfälischer Kunstverin Münster

2000

- Media City Seoul 2000, Seoul Metropolitan Museum, Seoul - Geographies: Darren Almond – Graham Gussin – Anri Sala, Galerie Chantal Croussel, Paris - voilà- le monde dans la tête, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris - Manifesta 3, Ljubiana, Slowenien - The world in mind, ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - Wie Weg - Disappeared < rotor >, Association for Contemporary Art, Graz - Wider Bild Gegen Wart- Positions to a political discours, Raum Aktueller Kunst, Wien - Man muss ganz schön viel lernen, um hier zu funktionieren, Frankfurter Kunstverein

1999

- After the wall, Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm - Albanischer Pavillon, 47. Biennale Venedig

1997

- Ostrenanije-97, Video Festival, Bauhaus, Dessau

1995

- Tunnel 95, National Gallery, Tirana - Spring 95, First Prize, National Gallery, Tirana - Symposium Kultur Kontakt, Kunsthaus Horn, Österreich Short films :'

1999

- QUELLE HISTOIRE ? (Mirage Illimité), Paris - NOCTURNES (Le Fresnoy), Tourcoing, Frankreich, ausgewählt bei den Rencontres cinématographiques,Tourcoing (1999) ; ausgewählt beim Short Film Festival, Clermont Ferrand (2000)

1998

- INTERVISTA - finding the words (Ideale Audience, ENSAD), Paris,

Best Film Award, Estavar Video Festival, Estavar, Best Documentary Film Award, Entrevues Festival, Belfort Best Short Film Award, Amascultura Festival, Portugal Best Documentary Film Award, International Documentary Film Festival, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (1999) Best Documentary Film Award, Filmfest 2000, Tirana

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