Adrian Paci
Biography
Born in 1969 in Shkoder, Albania.
Lives and works in Milan, Italy.
Solo Exhibitions
2008
Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Bonnier Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (upcoming)
Stuk, Leuven (upcoming)
2007
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
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
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Perspective 147: Adrian Paci, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
MC projects, Los Angeles
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Exit Gallery, Kosovo
2004
Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan
Viafarini, Milan
2003
Baltic Art Center, Gotland
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
2002
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
2008
Too Early for Vacation (curated by Hou Hanru), ev+a, Limerick, Ireland
Street & Studio (curated by Ute Eskildsen), Tate Modern, London (upcoming)
Borderland, Brussels Biennale I, Bozar, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (upcoming)
Memories for Tomorrow: Works from The UBS Art Collection, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China (upcoming)
Peripheral look and collective body (curated by Corinne Diserens), Museion, Bozen, Italy (upcoming)
2007
Senso Unico (curated by Alanna Heiss), P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center / MoMA, New York
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
2006
Wherever we go, Spazio Oberdan, Milan
Wherever we go, 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
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
Busan Biennale 2006, Busan, Korea
Zones of contact, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Australia
Venice-Istanbul, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul
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
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
Selected Bibliography
2008
Richard, Frances, 'Adrian Paci', Artforum, February
2007
Smith, Roberta, 'Art in Review: Adrian Paci,' The New York Times, November 30
Schwenderer, Martha, 'Art History, Italian Style: Blessing or Burden?', The New York Times, November 9
Weiner, Emily, "Adrian Paci: Centro de Permanenza Temporanea + Passages", Time Out New York, November 29, 2007
"Adrian Paci," The New Yorker, December 10, 2007
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
Vettese, Angela, Adrian Paci (exhibition catalogue), Charta, Milan.
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
Casavecchia, Barbara, La Repubblica, December 2nd.
Ligas Tosi, Marco, Arte e Critica, July – September, pp. 28-29
Casavcchia, Barbara, La Repubblica, 30 june, p. XV
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
Smith, Roberta, The New York Times, November 11th
Lotta, Daniela, Around photography, October
Eichler, Dominic, ‘Strong current’, frieze, October, pp. 184-87
Smith-Stewart, Amy, ‘Adrian Paci’, Contemporary
Vettese, Angela, Adrian Paci. Vernissage. Il giornale dell’ Arte, June
‘Ich-Erzahler der neuen Zeit’, Art-Das Kunstmagazin, No. 1, January
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
Meneguzzo, Marco, ‘Adrian Paci’, Tema Celeste, November/December
‘Frisches Trauerbett’, Frankfurter Rundschau, Feuilleton, No. 277, November 26
‘Pathos/Gefuhle’, Prinz Frankfurt, November, p. 129
‘Pathos’, Journal Frankfurt, November, p. 60
‘Pathos’, Frankfurter Rundschau, Plan F, No 266, November 13, p. 44
Castelli, Stefano, ‘Adrian Paci’, Exibart on paper, November/December
Nicolin, Paola, ‘Adrian Paci racconta la sua Albania’, La Reppublica, October
Quaroni, Ivan, ‘Adrian Paci’, Flash Art, October/November
Costa, Valentina, ‘Adrian Paci’, Arte e Critica, October/December
‘Adrian Paci’, Kult Pocket, October
‘Adrian Paci a Milano’, Arte, September
Vele, Ivanmaria, ‘Abbandonando Godot’, Rodeo Magazine, September
Pasini, Francesca, ‘Piccoli dei e grandi vittime’, Linus Arte, June
Margutti, Flavia Fossa, ‘Giro delle biennali in 15 artisti’, Glamour, April
Hamza, Walzer, ‘First Take: Hamza Walker on Adrian Paci’, Artforum, January
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
Szeemann, Harald, Blood and Honey / Future’s in the Balkans (exhibition catalogue), Edition Sammlung Essl, Wien
Bonami, Francesco, Exit, nuove geografie della creatività italiana (exhibition catalogue), Arnoldo Mondadori Editor, Milan
Perra, Daniele, ‘Blood & honey / Future’s in the balkans’, Tema Celeste No.99, Milan,September/October, p. 97
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
Bertola, Chiara; Di Pietrantonio, Giacinto; and Vettese, Angela, The horse would know, Premio Querini
Arfiero, Michela, ‘Adrian Paci. GAMeC’, Arte e Critica, April-September, p. 45.
Pasini, Francesca, ‘Albanian stories’, Linus, April, pp. 70-74
2001
Robecchi, Michele, 1Tirana Biennial (exhibition catalogue), Tirana, Albania
Lundstrom, Jan-Erik, ‘Interview with Adrian Paci’, Tema Celeste, December/January
Nungesser, Michael, ‘Beautiful Strangers. Albanian Kunst’, Kunstforum, November/December
Pasini, Francesca. ‘Acqua & arte un inedito connubio’, Il Secolo XIX, November 13
Astrologo, Daniele, ‘Adrian Paci’, Collezioni edge, Winter/Spring
Frigerio, Laura, ‘Un mondo d’arte’, Corriere della Sera, March 28
Sandell, Joanna, ‘Flykten fran Albanien som konstprojekt Kultur’, March 10
Robecchi, Michele, ‘Il Muro di Adrian Paci’, Flash Art Italia, February/March
Muka, Edi, ‘Aperto Albania’, Flash Art International, January/February
Qendro, Gezim, ‘The Missing Chorus of the Tradition’, Pamorart
Bruni, Lorenzo, ‘Adrian Paci, A Sense of Wellbeing’, Karlovy Vary
Spagnol, Igor, ‘Adrian Paci, 2000+Arteast collection’, Orangerie Congress-Innsbruck
2000
Muka, Edi, Borderline Syndrome (exhibition catalogue), Manifesta 3, Lubljiana
Robecchi, Michel, A Real Game (exhibition catalogue) Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest, Kassel
Levin, Kim, ‘Border Crossing’, Village Voice 59, 1 August, 2000
Lundstrom, Jan-Erik, ‘Project for a Revolution’, Le Mois de la Photo
Varvarica, Suzana, ‘Adrian Paci’, Pamorart
Smallenburg, Sandra, ‘De haab eb de koe gaan naar Italie’, cultureel suplement NRC, Handelsplad
1999
Kent, Sarah, ‘Light Fantastic’, Time Out, 30 June/7 July
Glavan, Sasa, ‘Permanent Instability, This is your shadow on my wall’, Kluze
Selected Public Collections
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Kunsthaus, Zurich
GAMeC, Bergamo
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami