TIRANA, Sept. 22 – Eleven Albanian contemporary artists will be showcased at Marseilles Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations in an exhibition named “Albania 1,207 km East.”
Albanian-French artist Anri Sala, Endri Dani, Yllka Gjollesha, Fani Zguro, Enkelejd Zonja are some of the artists that have been selected to participate in the exhibition named after the distance between Tirana and Marseille.
The selected artists explore the links between art, power, image, history and propaganda in Albania twenty-five years after the fall of communism.
The selection process was carried out in Tirana by an independent jury of art professionals which included Christine Macel, the chief curator of the Centre Pompidou, Alicia Knock, the curator for the Centre Pompidou and Saadane Afif, a French artist.
“This selection reflects the liveliness and diversity of the Albanian artistic scene, and all media and techniques are present, from painting to drawing, from installation to video and film,” said the jury.
The Albanian Contemporary Artist Salon, an initiative of the Albanian Culture Ministry and the French embassy in Tirana, targets promoting the work of a selection of Albanian emerging contemporary artists and curators in Albania, in France and at an international level, by organizing a two-weeks event in Tirana and inviting international professionals to experience the artworks of contemporary Albanian artists and curators during the Salon.
“By highlighting Albanian emerging artists and their works during the Albanian Contemporary Artist Exhibition in 2015, and with the exhibition of two French and Albanian curators in Paris in 2016, our mutual goal is to show at an international level the contemporary and modern Albania, its youth and strengths, in order to fight the stereotypes and to give the Albanian art stage the place and the image it deserves,” organizers say.
The exhibition at the Marseilles Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations will be open from September 24 to January 2017.
