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,

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Si ...

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 commune within the department of Nord. Located to the north-northeast of Lille, adjacent to Roubaix, ...

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

Tate Modern Tate Modern is an art gallery located in London. It houses the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art, and forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It ...

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,

Edi Rama Edi Rama (born Edvin Kristaq Rama, 4 July 1964) is an Albanian politician, painter, writer, former university lecturer, publicist and former basketball player, who has served as the 33rd and current Prime Minister of Albania since 2013 and chairm ...

, 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 Found ...

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

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-inspired geodesic dome in Berlin, a former

NSA The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collec ...

surveillance tower, which was constructed on the

Teufelsberg Teufelsberg (; German for ''Devil's Mountain'') is a non-natural hill in Berlin, Germany, in the Grunewald locality of former West Berlin. It rises about above the surrounding Teltow plateau and above the sea level, in the north of Berlin' ...

(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. ...

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

Rosario, Princess of Preslav María del Rosario Nadal y Fuster de Puigdórfila (born 22 October 1968), also known as the Princess of Preslav, is a Spanish consultant, art director, and former model. A former muse for Valentino, she works as an independent adviser to priva ...

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 Sch ...

, 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 constitu ...

* 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,

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...

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 (

artist-run space An artist-run space or artist-run centre (Canada) is a gallery or other facility operated or directed by artists, frequently circumventing the structures of public art centers, museums, or commercial galleries and allowing for a more experimental ...

Guadalajara Guadalajara ( , ) is a metropolis in western Mexico and the capital of the state of Jalisco. According to the 2020 census, the city has a population of 1,385,629 people, making it the 7th largest city by population in Mexico, while the Guadalaj ...

Mexico Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country in the southern portion of North America. It is borders of Mexico, bordered to the north by the United States; to the so ...

2000 * De Appel Foundation,

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar ...

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

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and ...

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

Group exhibitions

2009 * "Closer", Beirut Art Center 2005 * ''Situated Self'', Museum of Contemporary Art,

Belgrade Belgrade ( , ;, ; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. Nearly 1,166,763 mi ...

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 second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situa ...

* ''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'', UCLA Hammer Museum,

Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world ...

* 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 Sch ...

New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States New York may also refer to: Film and television * '' ...

* 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 New ...

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, Cassel * ''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, 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 exhib ...

, 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,

Vigo Vigo ( , , , ) is a city and municipality in the province of Pontevedra, within the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain. Located in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, it sits on the southern shore of an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, the ...

2001 * Berlin Biennale *

Yokohama is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of T ...

Biennale,

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the n ...

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

Seoul Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the Capital city, capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the North Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea ...

* ''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'',

Ljubljana Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center. During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the ar ...

Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, and ...

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

Graz Graz (; sl, Gradec) is the capital city of the Austrian state of Styria and second-largest city in Austria after Vienna. As of 1 January 2021, it had a population of 331,562 (294,236 of whom had principal-residence status). In 2018, the popula ...

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

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

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

Stockholm Stockholm () is the capital and largest city of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people live in the municipality, with 1.6 million in the urban area, and 2.4 million in the metropo ...

* ''Albanischer Pavillon'', 47.

1997 * Ostrenanije-97, Video Festival, Bauhaus,

Dessau Dessau is a town and former municipality in Germany at the confluence of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the '' Bundesland'' (Federal State) of Saxony-Anhalt. Since 1 July 2007, it has been part of the newly created municipality of Dessau-Roßl ...

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

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

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'attracti ...

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

Belfort Belfort (; archaic german: Beffert/Beffort) is a city in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in Northeastern France, situated between Lyon and Strasbourg, approximately from the France–Switzerland border. It is the prefecture of the Terri ...

. 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 th ...

. 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 S ...

Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = '' Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , ...

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

Recognition and awards

* Vincent Award (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, Queensl ...

. * Hugo Boss Prize (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 ...

, "Anri Sala - Ravel Ravel Unravel",

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

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, Mark Godfrey, Liam Gillick, "Anri Sala", Phaidon, London (2006) * Lynne Cooke, Mark Godfrey, Jan Verwoert, "Anri Sala", ''Parkett'', Zurich (2005) * Massimiliano Gioni, Michele Robecchi, "Anri Sala: Unfinished Histories", ''Flash Art'', Milan, no. 219, July–September (2001) * Laurence Bosse, Hans Ulrich Obrist, "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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