Edi Hila (left) and Anri Sala (right), 2025 Photo: Gerta Kordalli and Albe Hamiti
Edi Hila meets Anri Sala
Two artists in conversation
8.11 2025
Malmö
Date: 8 November
Time: at 14.30
Location: Floor 2
Language: Albanian and English
Tickets: Included in the admission fee. No pre-registration required. Free admission for those 25 and under.
The internationally acclaimed artist Anri Sala studied with Edi Hila at the Academy of Arts in Tirana. Over the years, they have maintained a close dialogue and developed deep insight into each other’s practices.
Both Edi Hila and Anri Sala participated in the exhibition After the Wall, Art and Culture in post-communist Europe, held at Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 1999.
Edi Hila is widely regarded as one of Albania’s most significant artists. His paintings have captured Albania’s far-reaching societal transformation while reflecting the shifting conditions of the world we share. In his hands, fragments of reality have become timeless poetry – making the invisible visible: moods, relationships, and changing values.
Anri Sala constructs transformative, time-based works through relationships between image, architecture, and sound – elements he employs to fold, capsize, and question experience. His works investigate ruptures in language, syntax, and music, inviting creative dislocations and generating less explicit, more nuanced interpretations of history.
About Edi Hila
Born in 1944 in Shkodër, Edi Hila lives and works in Tirana, Albania. His work reached a wider international audience with Albania’s inaugural national pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1997. Since then, he has been the subject of major solo exhibitions in Vienna, Milan, Florence, Warsaw, Paris, and his hometown of Tirana. A landmark presentation at documenta 14 – in both Athens and Kassel – consolidated his position as a central voice in international contemporary art
About Anri Sala
Anri Sala constructs transformative, time-based works through relationships between image, architecture, and sound – elements he employs to fold, capsize, and question experience. His works investigate ruptures in language, syntax, and music, inviting creative dislocations and generating less explicit, more nuanced interpretations of history.
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