Anri Sala opens “Present moment” exhibition in Munich

TIRANA, Oct. 30 – Paris-based, Albanian contemporary artist Anri Sala has opened a solo exhibition in Munich showcasing a multichannel sound and video installation. With “The Present Moment”, a work designed for the Haus der Kunst’s Middle Hall space, Anri Sala continues his exploration of musical compositions in the existing architecture of exhibition spaces, most recently demonstrated in the French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2013. For his installation in Haus der Kunst’s central Middle Hall, he devotes his attention to the genre of chamber music, an intimate format that – for the artist – stands in dynamic contrast to the public nature of the work presented in the expansive spaces of Haus der Kunst.
Sala’s installation revolves around the question of the immediate present in an art form bound to concepts of temporality and transience. The exhibition will be open from October 18 to September 20, 2015.
Albanian-born, Paris-based artist Anri Sala represented France at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013.
Predominantly a video artist, philosopher Jacques Ranciere describes Sala’s visuals as “At the heart of all of Anri Sala’s films, including those that touch most on political issues and tend to documentary form, the same question lurks. A formal one for some, and yet it is the most profound, also in a way the most political. What is it that we see?”
Born in Tirana (Albania) in 1974, Sala first studied arts at the Albanian Academy of Art before continuing her studies at the ʣole Nationale des Arts D꤯ratifs in Paris in 1996, and finally moved to Le Fresnoy in Tourcoing.