Anri Sala

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Anri Sala (born 1974, Tirana, Albania) is a contemporary artist. 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 primary medium is that of video.

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 Exhibition s

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

External links

*http://www.undo.net/cgi-bin/openframe.pl?x=/cgi-bin/undo/magazines/magazines.pl%3Fid%3D979933483%26riv%3Dflashint%26home%3D
* [http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?SALAA Anri Sala] in the [http://www.vdb.org/ Video Data Bank]