Overview

Adrian Paci left his native country of Albania in 1997 during the turbulent times of political uncertainty and instability. Since then, his self-referential work unfolds the narrative of displacement and loss; often reflecting on the migrant’s trauma of separation and nostalgia.

From the innocence of childhood towards the social initiation and down to a mature voice of a political resonance, Paci paints the landscape of an ethical subject at the moment of becoming and transition.
 
His oeuvre is an anatomy of political desire: from an account of dispossession and exile through a ritual of belonging and identification down to the mechanics of self-empowerment and emancipation. His films, drawings and paintings often overlap imagination and fantasy with the cruelty of political reality and the harshness of everyday life.
 
Adrian Paci was part of the group exhibition at the Albanian Pavilion in the 1999 Venice Biennale, he also participated in the international exhibition of the 2005 Venice Biennale and represented Albania at the Venice biennale of architecture in 2014. Adrian Paci’s works have been presented in numerous solo exhibitions internationally (selection): Haifa Musuem of Art, Israel (2022); Kunsthalle Krems, Austria (2019); National Gallery of Art, Tirana (2019); Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (2019); Museo Novecento, Florence (2018); MAXXI, Rome (2015); Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal (2014); Galeries Nationales du Jeu de Paume, Paris, (2013); Kunsthaus Zurich (2010), Kunstverein, Hannover (2008) or CCA, Tel Aviv (2008). Adrian Paci’s work is part of the following collections (selection): Solomon Guggenheim Foundation, New York; MoMA, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Fundaciò La Caixa, Barcelona; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, among others.
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