Adrian Paci
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1969 in Shkoder, Albania.
Lives and works in Milan, Italy.
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
MAXXI, Rome
Jerusalem Museum, Jerusalem
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Fundacio “La Caixa”, Barcelona
Kunsthaus, Zurich
GAMeC, Bergamo
Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York
Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris
FNAC - Fonds national d'art contemporain, Puteaux, France
Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
Moderna Galerija – Ljubljana, Ljubljana
National Gallery of Art - Tirana, Tirana
MAGA, Gallarate, Italy
Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italy
Unicredit Collection, Milan
Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt
PRIZES
2008
Quadriennale di Roma
Premio Pino Pascali
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
PAC, Milan, Italy
2013
La Conservera, Murcia, Spain
Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Galeries nationals du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France, curated by Marta Gili
2012
She, kaufmann repetto, Milan, Italy
Adrian Paci: Per Speculum, curated by Max Delany, Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield East, Australia
2011
The Encounter, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
Adrian Paci, Back Home, Galeria e Arteve Shkoder, Albania
2010
Gestures Peter Blum Gallery Chelsea, New York, NY
Gestures Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy
Adrian Paci, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Precarious Life Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey, curated by Paolo Colombo
COMMA 28, Bloomberg Space, London, England
Gesturesi, Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy
Motion Pictures, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland curated by Mirjam Varadinis
2009
Centro di Permanenza temporanea, Outlet Project Room, Istanbul, curated by Azra Tuzunoglu
2008
Subjects in Transit, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, curated by Edna Moshenson
Kunstverein Hannover, Germany, curated by Stephan Berg, Martin Engler,
Bonnier Konsthall, Stockholm
Kunstverein Stuk, Leuven, Belgium, curated by Eva Wittocox
2007
Premio Pino Pascali 2007, Museo Pino Pascali-Polignano a Mare, Italy
Passages, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
Centro de Permanenza Temporanea, Smith-Stewart Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
Museum Am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
Per Speculum, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
Transculture, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland
2006
Per Speculum, Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan
Adrian Paci (curated by Angela Vettese), Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italy
Adrian Paci, Basis Voor Actuele Kunst, Utrecht
Modern Times, MAN, Nuoro, Italy
2005
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center / MoMA, New York
Home to Go Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Perspective 147: Adrian Paci, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
MC projects, Los Angeles
Secondo Pasolini, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
The 1st at Moderna, Adrian Paci: Turn on, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Exit Gallery, Kosovo
2004
Slowly, Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan
Turn On, Viafarini, Milan
2003
A Toll on Rituals, Baltic Art Center, Gotland
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
2002
Sorella Morte, Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan
Galleria Irida, Sofia, Bulgaria
Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea [GAMeC], Bergamo, Italy
Adrian Paci (curated by Angela Vettese), Claudio Poleschi, Lucca, Italy
2001
Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden
Fondazione Lanfranco Baldi, Florence
Home Sweet Home, Artopia, Milan
1996
National Gallery of Art, Tirana
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
4 Films, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York, NY
The Praise of Folly, Fundación Chirivella Soriano, Valencia, Spain
Gli Artisti Italiani della Collezione ACACIA, curated by Gemma De Angelis Testa and Giorgio Verzotti, Palazzo Reale, Milano
It doesn’t have to be beautiful, unless it’s beautiful, curated by Charles Esche and Galit Eliat, Galleria Nazionale, Pristina, Kosovo
Dialoghi Est/Ovest, curated by Rosalba Branà, Mariapaola Spinelli and Antonio Frugis, Museo Nazionale del Montenegro and Atelier Dado, Cetinjie, Montenegro
Beyond Memory, curated by Raphie Etgar, Museum of the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
At Your Service, curated by Christiane Erharter and Silvia Eiblmayr, Technischen Museum, Vienna, Austria
Keeping up Appearance, Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
Compassion, Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, Austria
Unfinished Journeys, curated by Andrea Kroksnes and Sabrina van der Ley, The National Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway
The Mediterranean Approach, curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg and Thierry Ollat, MAC,
Marseille, France
Da Zero a Cento, le Nuove Età della Vita, curated by Giovanni Carrada and Cristiana Perrella,
Triennale di Milano, Milan
Singolarità Mobili che Abitano uno Spazio Nomade, curated by Collettivo Curatoriale Gruntumolani, Casa dei Teatri, Rome
One Sixth of the Earth (Ecologies of Image), curated by Mark Nash, MUSAC, Leon, Spain
Premio Italia 2012, MAXXI Rome
2011
I just want to be loved, curated by Gabi Scardi and Ruth Cats, MAGA, Gallarate, Italy Stati d'animo. Quelli che restano, curated by MimmoDi Marzio, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy Synthetic Rituals, Pitzer Art Gallery, Claremont, USA, curated by Gabi Scardi and Ciara Ennis.
Bodily Choreography, Zacheta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
The Global Contemporary. Art Worlds After 1989, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
The Impossible Community, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, Lisbon
Internationale Comtemporary Art Biennale of Melle, Melle, France, curated by Dominique Truco
Fayum Portraits + Adrian Paci: No Visible Future, Photoespana 2011, XIV International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts, National Archelogy Museum, Madrid
The Mediterranean Approach, Palazzo Zenobio, Venice, curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg
I Miss My Enemies, Collateral Event of the 54th International Art Exhibition – Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy, curated by Oxana Maleeva
Pino Pascali. Ritorno a Venezia, Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali, Palazzo Bianchi Michiel, Canal Grande, Ca'D'Oro, Collateral Events of 54a Biennale di Venezia, curated by Rosalba Braná
Staging Documentary, lothringer13_halle, Munich
II confine evanescente. Immagini italiane dalla pittura al digitale, MAXXI, Rome
10th Annual Nuit Blanche, Paris, France
Artprojx Cinema (in association with Armory 2011), New York, New York
2010
Museo delle arti, Catanzaro
Audience as Subject, Part , Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Human Condition, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria, cur. Adam Budak
i mutanti, Villa Medici, Academie de France a Rome, Rome, Italy
Internation Biennale of Contemporary Art, Poznan, Poland, cur. Ryszard Kluszczynski
Artes Mundi, National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff
The Library of Babel/In and Out of Place, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK, cur. Anna-Catharina Gebbers
ATOPIA – Art and the City in the 21st Century, Centro de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, cur. Josep Raoneda, Ivan de la Nuez
It is it, Espacio 1414, Santurce, Puerto Rico, cur. Maria Ines Rodriguez
…on the eastern front, The Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary, cur. Rita Kalman, Tijana Stepanovic
Suspended Spaces No 1 – from Famagusta, La Maison de la Culture D’Amiens, Amiens, France
2009
The Spectacle of the Everyday, Biennal de Lyon
Los de arriba y los de abajo, Sala de Arte Publico Siqueros, Mexico City, Mexico
Post-American L.A., 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
Processing a Mirage, curated by Emanuela Nobile Mino, Futura, Prague
History, Memory, Identity, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Modena, Italy
FUORI CENTRO, curated by Chiara Bertola, Hangar Bicocca, Milan
Evento immobile, Lo sguardo ostinato, curated by Saretto Cincinelli e Cristiana Collu, Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy
Heaven, 2nd Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece
Labyrinth:Freiheit, Forte Asburgico di Fortezza, Fortezza, Italy
On Rituals of Homecoming, curated by Adam Budak, Lodz, Poland
The Symbolic Efficiency of the Frame, Tirana Biennal, Tirana, Albania
The World Is Yours – Contemporary Art, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (upcoming)
Turn on Contemporary Italian Art, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Canada
Windows Upon Oceans - 8th Baltic Biennial of Contemporary Art, National Musuem Szczecin
10th Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba
Panoramica, Museo Tamayo, Mexico Overview, Museo Tamayo, Mexico
Video Europa, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France Video Europe, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France
Let Us Be Us, Emil Filla Gallery, Labem, Czech Rep
The Storytellers, curated by iCI, New York
Panoràmica, Museo Tamayo, Mexico, curated by Magnolia de la Garza and Daniela Perez
Liquid Frontiers, Tri Postal, Lille, curated by Iara Boubnova
2008
ARTTLV_08, Tel Aviv Biennale, curated by Andrew Renton
Moving Horizons: The UBS Art Collection, 1960s to the present day", National Museum of Fine Art, Beijing, China
Unstern. Sinistre. Disastro, ACC Galerie Weimar, Weimar, Germany
Ich Will/ I will, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
Home?, Galerie Villa des Tourelles, Nanterre
Mediterranean, Villa Rufolo/Perna Foundation, Ravello, Italy
Eurasia, MART, Rovereto, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva
XV Quadriennale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
The Way Things Are… Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Center of Contemporary Art “Znaki Czasu”, Torun, Poland
Too Early for Vacation, Limerick, Ireland, curated by Hou Hanru
Street & Studio in Urban History of Photography, Tate Modern, London, curated by Ute Eskildsen
Borderland, Brussels Biennale I, Bozar, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Memories for Tomorrow: Works from The UBS Art Collection, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai,
China
Peripheral Vision and Collective Body, Museion, Bozen, Italy, curated by Corinne Diserens
Shifting Identities, Kunsthaus Zürich, curated by Mirjam Varadinis
Mind the Gap, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland
Every Story is a Travel Story, Candid Arts Trust, London
Rumore: un buco nel silenzio, Spazio Oberdan, Milan
Dopo la Sicilia, Galleria Credito Siciliano, Acireale
Re-Reading the Future, International Triennale of Contemporary Arts, National Gallery, Prague
Lost Paradise – The Angel’s Gaze, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
2007
Land of Human Rights,
Senso Unico, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center / MoMA, New York, curated by Alanna Heiss
Six Feet Under - Autopsy of our Dealing with the Dead, Deutsches Hygiene_museum, Dresden, Germany
Borderland, Brussels Biennale I, Brussels Belgium
Revolution is not a Garden Party, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, Croatia
The Screen Eye of the New Image, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Auto Emotion, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto
Prague Biennale 3, Prague
Transculture, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow
Inbetweeness (Balcani: metafore di cambiamento), San Michele a Ripa, Rome
Collectors 1, Cesac – Centro Sperimentale per le ArtiContemporanee, Caraglio
2006
Legal Aliens, Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Exposed Memory, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest Hungary
Wherever we go, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco,
Confini, MAN, Nuoro, Italy
Fremd bin ich eingezogen, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
Exposed Memory, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest
Nothing stands still, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
Bin beschäftigt, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
The End - Neverending Cinema Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporeana, Trenta, Italy
On Air: video in onda dall’Italia, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Italy
The Grand Promenade, National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Aten
Of the one and the many, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey
Busan Biennale 2006, Busan, Korea
Zones of contact, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Australia
Venice-Istanbul, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul
Again for Tomorrow, Royal College Art Galleries, London, UK
Mixed with pain, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
Painting as a way of living (curated by Rosa Martinez), Istanbul Modern, Istanbul
Ecce Uomo (33+1 artisti contemporanei da collezioni private), Spazio Oberdan, Milan
A scuola con gli artisti, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento, Italy
60 Minutes Well Spent, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
This is not America, Braverman ByArtProject, Tel Aviv
Heavy Food, Festival Time in Jazz, Berchidda, Italy
Equal and less equal, Museum of the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
Biennale cuvée, World Selection of Contemporary Art, O.K Centrum, Linz
ARS 06, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki
2005
Sempre un po’ più lontano - Always a Little Further (curated by Rosa Martinez), Arsenale, 51st Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Berlin Photography Festival, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
More Than This, Biennale of Visual Arts, Goteborg
Il Grande Teatro del Mediterraneo. Atto primo: differenti visioni, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy
Art Film Biennale, Cologne
ADAM, Smart project space, Amsterdam
Projekt Migration, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
Irriducibile: Contemporary Short Form Video, Miami Art Central, Miami
Going public’ 05 (curated by Claudia Zanfi), Contemporary Art Center, Larissa, Greece
2004
Pathos/Gefuhle (curated by Felix Ruhofer), Raumpool Rhein-Main, Frankfurt
Biennale di Cetinje, Montenegro, curated by René Block
Sevilla Biennale (curated by Harald Szeemann), Seville, Spain
Dimensione Follia (curated by Roberto Pinto), Galleria Civica di Trento, Trento, Italy
Triennale di Tallin (curated by Sirje Helme), Talin, Estonia
On air, Galleria Comunale di Monfalcone
I Nuovi Mostri (curated by Massimiliano Gioni), Fondazione Trussardi, Milan,
Exiting Europe (curated by Anton Ledrer), Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
The Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists (curated by Svebor Midzic, Jelena Vesic, Ana Nikitovice & Sinisa Mitrovic), Vrsac
Empowerment/Cantiere Italia (curated by Marco Scotini), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genova, Italy
Z.A.T. Zone Artistiche Tempoanee (curated by Emma Zanella), Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Gallarate, Italy
Se Bashku (curated by Edi Muka), Museum of Contempory Art, Upsala, Sweden
Periplo del Mediterraneo (curated by Maurizio Calvesi e Marisa Vescovo), Loggia di Banchi, Genova, Italy
2003
Looking Awry (curated by What, How and for Whom), Apex Art, New York
Vacio 9 (curated by Peter Kilchmann), Madrid
Gestures (curated by Marta Gilli and Fabienne Fulchéri), Printemps de Septembre, Festival of Contemporary Images, Toulouse
In den Schluchten des Balkan: Kunst aus dem Südosten Europas, Kunsthalle Fridericianeum Kassel, Kassel
Draft, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich
Riflessioni sugli effetti delle guerre, Galleria Milano, Milan
Mille e Una Notte, Stecca degli Artigiani, Milan
Isola (Art) Project Milano, MACMO, Geneva
Blood and Honey (curated by Harald Szeemann), Sammlung Essl, Vienna
Multitudini-Solitudini, Museion, Bolzano
Strangers to Ourselves, Hasting Museum, Hasting
Se Bashku, 2 Tirana Biennal, Tirana
Skin Deep, MART, Rovereto
G2003 (curated by Harald Szeemann), Vira, Switzerland
Bitter / sweet harmony, Digital ArtLab, Holon, Israel
2002
In Search of Balkania, Neue Galerie, Graz
EXit, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
5th Werkleitz Biennial, Berlin
Nuovo Spazio Italiano, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea di Trento, MART, Rovereto
The Horse would Know but the Horse can’t Speak, Premio Furla, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice
It’s ain’t much but it’s home, Binz 39 (with Emanuel Licha), Zurich
Rain, Fotofest, Houston
Videolounge, Fondazione Andriano Olivetti, Rome
Boundless, Belgrad
2001
Short Stories, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan
I Valencia Biennal, Valencia
Premio Michetti, Francavilla al Mare, Italy
I Tirana Biennal, Tirana
Generator, Claudio Poleschi, Lucca, Italy
Le Mois de la Photo à Montreal, Montreal
Beautiful Strangers, Ifa Gallery, Berlin
Ostensiv, Kunstraum Leipzig, Leipzig
A Sense of Wellbeing, Karlovy Vary
Killing me Softly, Bildmuseet Umea, Sweden
Arteast Collection 2000+ , Innsbruck
Viafarini, Milan
2000
Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen
BAN Exhibition, International House, Brussels
Manifesta 3, Lubljiana
Noi amiamo l’Italia Italia ama noi, Pinacoteca Cascella, Ortona, Italy
Arteast Collection 2000+, Museum of Modern Art, Lubljiana
Coast to Coast, Placentia Arte, Piacenza, Italy
In & Out, National Gallery of Art, Tirana
1999
Albanian Pavillion, 48th Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Lost & Found, Center for Electronic Media De Waag, Amsterdam
1998
Permanent Instability, National Gallery of Art, Tirana
SELECTED SCREENINGS AND BROADCASTINGS
2007
Nothing Stands Still, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, Sept 14
2006
Tirana Transfer (curated by Edi Hila), Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, July 22
BAK, Basis voor Actuele Kunst, Utrecht, March 14
2005
Museum of Modern Art, Theater 2, New York, Oct. 16
AstigmaticKino, Astigmatic International Electronic Music Festival, Gdynia, Aug. 7
Naissance et renaissance de l'art vidéo dans les Balkans (curated by diane Amiel), Auditorium du
Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, Apr. 6
New Video / New Europe (curated by Hamza Walker), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Jan. 13
2004
New Video / New Europe (curated by Hamza Walker), Tate Modern, London, Oct. 10, Oct. 17
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2012
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Zimmer, Lori. 'Passage of Time, Fragility of Memory,' ArtSlant, May 13
2010
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Chlumsky, Milan. 'Human Condition im Kunsthaus Graz' Kunst Art Cologne, July/Aug
Pichler, Eva. 'Bedingtes Menschsein in unsicheren Zeiten', Korso Graz, July 19
Schmidt, Colette M. 'Von Abwesenheit und Spierlarten der Moral' Der Standard Vienna, June 21
Huebscher, Urs. 'Videos und Malerei des Kunstlers Adrian Paci', Attika Zurich, June 16
Matzner, Alexandra. 'Adrian Paci: Motion Picture(s)' Eikon, Vienna, June
Boyer, Philippe. 'Adrian Paci: Vertige Des Interstices' ArtPassions, June
Nicolin, Paola. 'Adrian Paci' Artforum Online, April 20
'Critic's Pick' Time Out New York, April, 8-14
2009
Ostolski, Adam, 'Adrian Paci', Krytyka Issue 18
Windows upon Oceans (exhibition catalogue), 8th Baltic Biennial
The World is Yours (exhibition catalogue), Louisiana Museum of Art, Denmark
Pagel, David, 'All Arts All the Time (blog)' Los Angeles Times, August 28
Labyrinth:Freiheit, (exhibition catalogue), Forte Asburgico di Fortezza, edited by Paolo
Bianchi, Bozen, Athesia, 2009
Le spectacle du quotidien, 10th Lyon Biennial, (exhibition catalogue), Lyon, Les presses du
réel
2008
Bernstein, Joanne, Moving Horizons: the UBS art collection, (exhibition catalogue), Namoc,
Beijing
Taggar Danna, International Triennale of Contemporary Art, (exhibition catalogue), National
Gallery of Prague
Engler, Martin et al, Adrian Paci, Kunsteveriein Hannover, (solo exibition catalogue)
Perna Foundation, Mediterraneo 2008, foreword by Achille Bonito Oliva
Moshenson, Edna, Adrian Paci: subjects in transit (exhibition catalogue) The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Richard, Frances, 'Adrian Paci' Artforum, February 2008
2007
Smith, Roberta, 'Adrian Paci: Passages', New York Times, November 30
Weiner, Emily, 'Adrian Paci: Centro di Permanenza Temporanea + Passages', TimeOut New York, November 29 - December 5
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Schwendener, Martha, 'Art History, Italian Style: Blessing or Burden?' New York Times, November 9
Stanely, Michael, Adrian Paci: Per Speculum (exhibition catalogue), Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, England.
Mattirolo, Anna, Apocalittici e Integrati:Utopia Nell’Arte Italiana di Oggi (exhibition catalogue), Electa, Milan
Scotini, Marco, ‘Spazi della ripetizione 2’, Flash Art Italia No. 264 June-July
Robecchi, Michele, ‘Albanian Stories’, Flash Art Italia No. 263 April-May
2006
Pioselli, Alessandra, 'Adrian Paci' Artforum, October
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Rugoff, Ralph, Shoot the Family, iCI, New York.
Equal and Less Equal (exhibition catalogue), Museum of the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
The Grand Promenade (exhibition catalogue), EMST, Aten
Zones of Contact (exhibition catalogue), Biennale of Sydney 2006
Ecce uomo (exhibition catalogue), Spazio Oberdan, Milan
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Ligas Tosi, Marco, Arte e Critica, July – September, pp. 28-29
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De Angelis Testa, Gemma e Risaliti, Sergio, Ecce Uomo, 2006, pp. 102-105
2005
War is over (exhibition catalogue), GAMeC, Bergamo,
Martinez, Rosa, 51st Venice Biennale (exhibition catalogue), Venice
Robecchi, Michele, Boiler, December 2005
Casadio, Mariuccia, ‘My Country’, Vogue Italia, November, pp. 226-231
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2004
Periplo del Mediterraneo (exhibition catalogue), Loggia di Bianchi, Genova
ZAT Zone Artistiche Temporanee (exhibition catalogue), Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Gallarate
Skin Deep, il corpo come luogo del segno artistico (exhibition catalogue), Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto
Vettese, Angela, ‘Pittura fatale’, Vernissage, No. 54, November
Savorelli, Livia, ‘Adrian Paci’, EspoArte, November
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‘Pathos/Gefuhle’, Prinz Frankfurt, November, p. 129
‘Pathos’, Journal Frankfurt, November, p. 60
‘Pathos’, Frankfurter Rundschau, Plan F, No 266, November 13, p. 44
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2003
Risaliti, Sergio. Moltitudini – Solitudini (exhibition catalogue), Museion Bolzano, Maschietto
Tirana biennale 2 (exhibition catalogue), Institute of Tirana Biennale, Tirana
Block, Rene; Glaser, Martin; and Muka, Edi, In the Gorges of the Balkans (exhibition catalogue), Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
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2002
Bertola, Chiara, Toward uncertainty (exhibition catalogue), David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University
In search of Balkania (exhibition catalogue), Neue Galerie Graz, Graz
Adrian Paci (exhibition catalogue), GAMeC, Editions Charta, Bergamo, Italy
Vettese, Angela, Su Adrian Paci: l’errare (exhibition catalogue), Claudio Poleschi, Lucca, Italy
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2001
Robecchi, Michele, 1Tirana Biennial (exhibition catalogue), Tirana, Albania
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Nungesser, Michael, ‘Beautiful Strangers. Albanian Kunst’, Kunstforum, November/December
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2000
Muka, Edi, Borderline Syndrome (exhibition catalogue), Manifesta 3, Lubljiana
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