Anri Sala (born 1974) is an Albanian contemporary artist whose primary medium is video.

Life and career

Sala studied art at the Albanian Academy of Arts from 1992 to 1996. He also studied video at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs,

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and film direction in Le Fresnoy-Studio National des Arts Contemporains,

Tourcoing Tourcoing (; nl, Toerkonje ; vls, Terkoeje; pcd, Tourco) is a city in northern France on the Belgian border. It is designated municipally as a Communes of France, commune within the Departments of France, department of Nord (French department), ...

. He lives and works in Paris. Sala's video installation ''Dammi i colori'' ("Give me the colors") was on display at

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in London. The installation reflects on the transformation of Tirana in 2003 by means of colors. The installation includes a conversation with Tirana's mayor,

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, a personal friend of the artist's and the force behind this transformation. Sala will participate in ROUNDTABLE: The 9th

Gwangju Biennale The Gwangju Biennale is a contemporary art biennale founded in September 1995 in Gwangju, South Jeolla province, South Korea. The Gwangju Biennale is hosted by the Gwangju Biennale Foundation and the city of Gwangju. The Gwangju Biennale Founda ...

(2012). ''Answer Me'' (2008) was filmed in a

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-inspired geodesic dome in Berlin, a former

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surveillance tower, which was constructed on the

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(Devil's Mountain). He represented France at the

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

in 2013. Sala presented ''Le Clash'' (2010), ''Tlatelolco Clash'' (2011) and ''Doldrum'' (2014) as a mixed installation in

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag The Kunstmuseum Den Haag is an art museum in The Hague in the Netherlands, founded in 1866 as the Museum voor Moderne Kunst. Later, until 1998, it was known as Haags Gemeentemuseum, and until the end of September 2019 as Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. I ...

, and in November 2014 h
won
the Vincent Award. He is in a relationship with

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Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2016 * ''Anri Sala: Answer Me'',

New Museum The New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is a museum in New York City at 235 Bowery, on Manhattan's Lower East Side. History The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-named New Sc ...

, New York 2013 * ''Ravel-Ravel-unRavel'', French Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia 2011 * ''No Formula One No Cry'', The Promenade Gallery, Vlora * ''Anri Sala'',

Serpentine Galleries The Serpentine Galleries are two contemporary art galleries in Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, Central London. Recently rebranded to just Serpentine, the organisation is split across Serpentine South, previously known as the Serpentine Gallery, ...

, London 2005 * ''Dammi i Colori'', DAAD-Galerie,

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

* Videos, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen,

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* ''Long Sorrow'',

Nicola Trussardi Foundation The Nicola Trussardi Foundation is a non-profit institution for the promotion of contemporary art and culture. Created in 1996, the Nicola Trussardi Foundation ran its own exhibiting space in Piazza della Scala in Milan. From autumn 2003, under the ...

, Milan 2004 * Alfonso Artiaco, Neapel * Anri Sala - ''Wo sich Fuchs und Hase gute Nacht sagen'',

Deichtorhallen The Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Germany, is one of Europe's largest art centers for contemporary art and photography. The two historical buildings dating from 1911 to 1913 are iconic in style, with their open steel-and-glass structures. Their archi ...

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2003 * ''Blindfold'', Galerie Johnen and Schöttle,

Köln Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 million ...

* Kunsthalle Wien, Wien * Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italien 2002 * Programa, Mexico City * OPA (

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2000 * De Appel Foundation,

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...

* Galerie Johnen and Schöttle, Cologne (with Martin Boyce) * Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle,

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(with Torsten Slama) 2001 * Galerie Chantal Croussel, Paris 2002 * Hauser & Wirth, Zürich

Group exhibitions

2009 * "Closer",

Beirut Art Center Beirut Art Center is a space for exhibiting contemporary art in Beirut, Lebanon History Beirut Art Center opened to public in January 2009. It is managed as a non-profit organization whose founders and executive board members were Sandra Daghe ...

2005 * ''Situated Self'', Museum of Contemporary Art,

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2004 * ''Delay'', Museum Boijmans van Beuningen,

* ''Situations construites, attitudes espace d'arts contemporains'',

Geneva Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaki ...

* ''utopia station: auf dem weg nach porto alegre'', Haus der Kunst,

* ''Time Zones: Recent Film and Video'',

, London * ''Point of View - An Anthology of the Moving Image'',

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* Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image,

New Museum of Contemporary Art The New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is a museum in New York City at 235 Bowery, on Manhattan's Lower East Side. History The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-named New Scho ...

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* Terminal 5 In 2004, the dormant Saarinen-designed TWA Flight Center (now Jetblue Terminal 5) at

JFK Airport John F. Kennedy International Airport (colloquially referred to as JFK Airport, Kennedy Airport, New York-JFK, or simply JFK) is the main international airport serving New York City. The airport is the busiest of the seven airports in the Avia ...

briefly hosted an art exhibition called Terminal 5 curated by Rachel K. Ward and featuring the work of 18 artists including Anri Sala. The show featured work, lectures and temporary installations drawing inspiration from the idea of travel — and the terminal's architecture. The show was to run from October 1, 2004 to January 31, 2005 — though it closed abruptly after the building itself was vandalized during the opening party. 2003 * ''Fast Forward'', ZKM , Museum für Neue Kunst,

Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...

* ''In den Schluchten des Balkan - Eine Reportage'', Kunsthalle Fridericianum,

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* ''Dreams and Conflicts: the Dictatorship of the Viewer'', Venice Biennale * ''Die Erfindung der Vergangenheit'',

Pinakothek der Moderne The Pinakothek der Moderne (, '' Pinakothek of the Modern'') is a modern art museum, situated in central Munich's ''Kunstareal''. Locals sometimes refer to it as the ''Dritte'' ("third") ''Pinakothek'' after the Old and New. It is one of the world' ...

* ''Hardcore - vers un nouvel activisme/towards a new activism'',

Palais de Tokyo The Palais de Tokyo (''Tokyo Palace'') is a building dedicated to modern and contemporary art, located at 13 avenue du Président-Wilson, facing the Trocadéro, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The eastern wing of the building belongs to ...

, Paris * ''Witness'', The Curve,

Barbican Centre The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London and the largest of its kind in Europe. The centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhi ...

, London 2002 * ''el aire es azul – the air is blue'', Casa Museo Luis Barragán * ''Missing Landscape'', Galerie Johnen and Schöttle, Cologne * ''In Search of Balcania'', Graz * ''The mind is a horse'', Bloomberg Space, London * ''Geschichte(n)'', Salzburger Kunstverein * ''Haunted by Details'', DeAppel,

* ''Cardinales'', Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo,

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2001 *

Berlin Biennale The Berlin Biennale (full name: Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art) is a contemporary art exhibition, which has been held at various locations in Berlin, Germany, every two to three years since 1998. T ...

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Biennale,

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* ''Believe'', Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster * Tirana Biennale, Albania 2000 * ''Media City Seoul 2000'', Seoul Metropolitan Museum,

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* ''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'',

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* ''The world in mind'', ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris * ''Wie Weg - Disappeared'', Association for Contemporary Art,

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* ''Wider Bild Gegen Wart- Positions to a political discours'', Raum Aktueller Kunst,

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* ''Man muss ganz schön viel lernen, um hier zu funktionieren'', Frankfurter Kunstverein 1999 * ''After the wall'',

Moderna Museet Moderna Museet ("the Museum of Modern Art"), Stockholm, Sweden, is a state museum for modern and contemporary art located on the island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, opened in 1958. In 2009, the museum opened a new branch in Malmö in t ...

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* ''Albanischer Pavillon'', 47.

1997 * Ostrenanije-97, Video Festival, Bauhaus,

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1995 * Tunnel 95, National Gallery, Tirana * Spring 95, First Prize, National Gallery, Tirana * Symposium Kultur Kontakt, Kunsthaus Horn,

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Short films

1999 * ''Quelle histoire?'' (Mirage Illimité), Paris * ''Nocturnes'' (Le Fresnoy), Tourcoing. Selected at the Rencontres cinématographiques, Tourcoing (1999); selected at the Short Film Festival,

Clermont Ferrand Clermont-Ferrand (, ; ; oc, label=Auvergnat, Clarmont-Ferrand or Clharmou ; la, Augustonemetum) is a city and commune of France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, with a population of 146,734 (2018). Its metropolitan area (''aire d'attract ...

(2000) 1998 * ''Intervista - finding the words'' (Ideale Audience, ENSAD), Paris. Best Film Award, Estavar Video Festival,

Estavar Estavar (; ca, Estavar) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Geography Estavar is located in the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes and in the arrondissement of Prades. Estavar station has rail connections t ...

. Best Documentary Film Award, Entrevues Festival,

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. Best Short Film Award, Amascultura Festival,

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

. Best Documentary Film Award, International Documentary Film Festival,

Santiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain. The city has its origin in the shrine of Saint James the Great, now the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, as the destination of the Way of St ...

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(1999). Best Documentary Film Award, Filmfest 2000, Tirana

Recognition and awards

Vincent Award The Vincent Award is a Dutch prize awarded to a European artist whose works are deemed highly relevant in contemporary art. The award is held every two years in the Netherlands. Five artists are nominated for the award, and are exhibited at the St ...

(2014) * Absolut Art Award (2011) * Young Artist Prize at the

49th Venice Biennale The 49th Venice Biennale, held in 2001, was an exhibition of international contemporary art, with 65 participating nations. The Venice Biennale takes place biennially in Venice, Italy. Prizewinners of the 49th Biennale included: Richard Serra a ...

(2001) * Prix Gilles Dusein, Paris (2000) * Best Documentary Film Award from the Filmfest in Tirana (2000) * International Film Festival in Santiago de Compostela (1999).Anri Sala

Marian Goodman Gallery Marian may refer to: People * Mari people, a Finno-Ugric ethnic group in Russia * Marian (given name), a list of people with the given name * Marian (surname), a list of people so named Places *Marian, Iran (disambiguation) * Marian, Queensland, ...

. *

Hugo Boss Prize The Hugo Boss Prize was an award given every other year to an artist (or group of artists) working in any medium, anywhere in the world. Upon its establishment in 1996, it distinguished itself from other art awards because it has no restrictions on ...

(2002)

Essential bibliography

* Mark Godfrey, "1000 words: Anri Sala", ''Artforum'', New York, April (2015) *

Christine Macel Christine Macel (born 1969) is a French curator. She was the director of the 2017 Venice Biennale, and is chief curator at the Centre Pompidou. Early life Christine Macel was born in Paris in 1969. Career Macel is a contributor to several m ...

, "Anri Sala - Ravel Ravel Unravel",

(2013) * Christopher Mooney, "Anri Sala", ''Art Review'', London, Summer (2013) *

Michael Fried Michael Martin Fried (born April 12, 1939 in New York City) is a modernist art critic and art historian. He studied at Princeton University and Harvard University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford. He is the J.R. Herbert Boone Pr ...

Joshua Simon Joshua Simon (born 1979, Tel Aviv), is a curator, writer, publisher, cultural critic, poet, filmmaker and public intellectual. He currently lives in Philadelphia, PA. Simon curated exhibitions in museums and art spaces in Tel Aviv-Yafo, NYC, Mel ...

, "Anri Sala", Serpentine Gallery, London (2011) *

Hans Ulrich Obrist Hans Ulrich Obrist (born 1968) is a Swiss art curator, critic, and historian of art. He is artistic director at the Serpentine Galleries, London. Obrist is the author of ''The Interview Project'', an extensive ongoing project of interviews. He is ...

, Mark Godfrey,

Liam Gillick Liam Gillick (born 1964, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire) is a British artist who lives and works in New York City.

, "Anri Sala", Phaidon, London (2006) *

Lynne Cooke Lynne Cooke is an Australian-born art scholar. Since August 2014 she has been the Senior Curator, Special Projects in Modern Art, at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Early life and education Born in Geelong, Australia, Cooke receive ...

, Mark Godfrey, Jan Verwoert, "Anri Sala", ''Parkett'', Zurich (2005) *

Massimiliano Gioni Massimiliano Gioni (born 1973) is an Italian curator and contemporary art critic based in New York City, and Artistic Director at the New Museum. He is the Artistic Director of the Nicola Trussardi Foundation in Milan as well as the Artistic Dire ...

, Michele Robecchi, "Anri Sala: Unfinished Histories", ''Flash Art'', Milan, no. 219, July–September (2001) * Laurence Bosse,

, "Anri Sala: When the Night Calls", Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1999)

References

External links

An Award Winning Clash (11/2015)No Formula One No Cry at The Promenade Gallery: Anri SalaHauser & Wirth: Anri Sala''frieze'' review (04/2008)''Artforum'' review (06/2004)ArticleAnri Sala
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Video Data BankICP: Anri Sala (01/2008)Anri Sala: A Spurious Emission / MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
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ANRI SALA on re-title.comAnri Sala at Fondazione Nicola TrussardiAnri Sala at Johnen Galerie, BerlinAnri Sala at culturebase.net''Brooklyn Rail'' article (11/2011)Music before language. An interview with Anri Sala
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