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It would seem the most exquisite way of saying you are not interested in them. “The first wave,” Rama explains, “was a wave against religion. Web. 13 Dec. 2016. Drawing helped me to listen. Eduardo Secci, Florence, Italy

2016
Edi Rama. It had a chain effect I didn’t imagine. While returning to his father’s funeral, the prime minister at the time was reshuffling his cabinet and looking for a culture minister.

It was at the culture ministry that Rama began doodling, almost without noticing.

Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany

2017
Edi Rama. More than 2,000 churches, Roman chapels and mosques, were blown up with dynamite and 300,000 works of religious art and books were burned in the street. Web. 13 Dec. 2016. “Edi Rama.” Marian Goodman Gallery Website. It was a political action, with colors.

He studied painting at the National Academy of Arts in Tirana, video at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and film directing at Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains in Tourcoing, France. Covering the walls of his office in Tirana are hundreds of drawings: colorful, tightly wound abstractions, with tendrils of color spiraling out from densely packed cores.

Calendar Blossoms, Academy Jao Tsung, Hong Kong, China
Edi Rama. His works have been widely shown internationally, at institutions including MAMCO, Geneva; Dallas Museum of Art; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.

Gallery XXI / Albania

1997
Edi Rama. http://artpapers.org/feature_articles/2016_0304-Albania.html

[7] Farago, Jason. Place de Mediatheque, France

1993
Edi Rama.

EDI RAMA

EDI RAMA

1964 Born in Tirana, Albania
Lives and works in Tirana, Albania

Education

1986 studied art at the Art Academy in Tirana

Professor at Art Academy in Tirana

1994 - 1998 stay in Paris

1998 - 2000 Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports in Albania

2000 - 2011 Mayor of Tirana

Since 2013 Prime Minister of Albania

 

Biennals

2017
57th International Art Exhibition Venice Bienniale, La Biennale di Venice, Venice

2003
50th International Art Exhibition Venice Bienniale , La Biennale di Venice, Venice

1999
48th International Art Exhibition Venice Bienniale, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice

1994
22° Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024
Edi Rama, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France

2023
Edi Rama.

1974, Tirana, Albania) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Many recall the automatic drawing of Max Ernst or André Masson, midcentury surrealists who created flowing, biomorphic patterns without initial planning.

dammi i colori edi rama biography

National Art Gallery of Albania, Tirana, Albania

Selected Group Exhibitions

2017
Viva Arte Viva, 57th Venice Biennale, Italy

2016
30th Anniversary, Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
Answer Me, installation with Anri Sala, The New Museum, New York, USA
Die Spielchen des Freund Hein, Palastgalerie, Berlin, Germany, curated by Gerhard Charles Rump
Not und Spiele, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany

2014
Tell me nothing from the horse, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin, Germany

2013
Creating Space Where There Appears to Be None, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany

2004
Utopia station: auf dem Weg nach porto alegre, Haus der Kunst München, Munich, Germany

1993
Europäer, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria

Left: Untitled (New York), 2016, Archival pigment inkjet print on 11 mil, latex based, nylon reinforced wallpaper
Center: Untitled, 2016, Painted ceramic
Right: Untitled (371), n.d., Mixed media on paper

“If art cannot make politics more sane, politics, with its insanity, can sometimes make art even better”[1] expressed Edi Rama, elected Prime Minister for the Socialist Party since 2013 in Albania.

Born in 1964 in Tirana, Rama followed the artsy-political steps of his sculptor father who also worked as an official when Albania was under the control of Enver Hoxha, a paranoid dictator who suppressed modern art and outside influences.