Adrian Paci

Born:
1969
Residence:
Milan, Italy
Nationality:
Albanian
Trust:
APT London
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  • Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome is hosting an exhibition titled “Time Is Out Of Joint" through April 15, 2018.

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  • The selection of Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) as the Manifesta 12 team for urban studies in Palermo, Sicily, has been followed up by the appointment of an international, interdisciplinary team of four creative mediators.

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  • La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris presents "Airports / city-world" from February 23 through May 21, 2017.

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  • Frith Street Gallery, London, is hosting an exhibition, 'Another Place', with artists Adrian Paci and Giuliana Racco.

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  • A collective fundraising exhibition in aid of Pianoterra onlus.

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  • The La Gaia Collection, created in the 1970s through Bruna and Matteo Viglietta’s passion for art, presents the exhibition “Moving Tales. Video works from the La Gaia Collection”.

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  • The Biennale Gherdëina has returned to the picturesque town of Ortisei in the Northern Italian region of South Tyrol for its 5th edition from July 22 to September 11, 2016.

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  • Once again Val Gardena, its breath-taking nature, rich cultural landscape, unique local art tradition, the dramatic history of its region and contemporary social fabric, serve as a backdrop for a mise en scène of the narratives of longing performed by the artists invited to the 5th Biennale Gherdëina.

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  • The exhibition “Ottomans and Europeans: Pasts and Perspectives” will be held between March 4 and 27 at Istanbul’s Tophane-i Amire Culture and...

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  • If you’re in Hamburg this summer, don’t miss the Triennial of Photography.

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • With more than 150 participating artists and curators realizing their projects in more than 30 venues in and beyond Budapest, the OFF-Biennale is conceived to act as a game-changer in the cultural sector of Hungary.

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  • 10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

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  • The work of eight artists competing for the UK's richest visual arts prize went on display in Wales today– and none could be accused of triviality.

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  • Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev, from Kyrgyzstan, bring to light another alien environment: the barren trails which criss-cross their little

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  • Istanbul Modern is presenting a group exhibition titled “Neighbors -- Contemporary Narratives from Turkey and Beyond” as part of its 10th year celebrations, delving into contemporary art practices in Turkey and its surrounding regions.

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  • Kochi comes alive with a riot of colours as the second edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB), the three-month art jamboree, gets underway

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  • Istanbul Modern is presenting a group exhibition titled “Neighbors -- Contemporary Narratives from Turkey and Beyond” as part of its 10th year celebrations, delving into contemporary art practices in Turkey and its surrounding regions.

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  • The work of eight artists competing for the UK's richest visual arts prize went on display in Wales today– and none could be accused of triviality.

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  • Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev, from Kyrgyzstan, bring to light another alien environment: the barren trails which criss-cross their little

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  • Final post about Artissima, Turin's contemporary art fair. Once again, i'm merely going to format and paste as many photos as i can stomach and add

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  • There were times when we thought we’d never get here,” admits Anna Mattirolo, the director of the art programme at Maxxi, Italy’s first national museum

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  • Hostipitality: Receiving Strangers aims to raise the question of the situation of immigrants, or more broadly, of our relation to strangers.

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  • Audience as Subject, Part I: Medium, the first of a two-part exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, brings together a group of artists

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  • As the title of the two-part show, “Audience as Subject,” suggests, its featured pieces—by seven high-profile international artists ranging

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  • The Madrid Photography Festival's Main Theme Feels, In A Word, So Personal

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BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1969 in Shkoder, Albania, Adrian Paci lives and works in Milan. Originally trained as a classical painter, Paci has evolved a multifaceted body of work using a range of media including installation, photography and video. Informed by his personal experience of exile, his practice often engages with social inequality and migration. Paci’s early pieces explored these conditions using a documentary approach, while his more recent work has increasingly focused on the archetypes, rituals, symbols and allegories that are used to translate such painful and marginalizing experiences. His oeuvre represents exile as a form of spatial and temporal displacement that hinges on a sense of dislocation between an estranged homeland and a country of asylum, a nostalgic recollection of the past and an impossible promise of future idyll. Titled after a refugee camp for illegal immigrants, Paci’s video “Centro di Permanenza Temporanea” (2007) records a group of migrant workers escalating a ramp to board a plane, only to be left behind on the empty runway as the camera recedes, positioning the viewer as a privileged passenger on the departing flight.

His works have been presented in international solo-exhibitions including: Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada (2013); Galeries nationals du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France (2012); Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2010); Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey (2010); Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland (2010); Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (2008); Kunstverein Hannover, Germany (2008).

In 2008 he won the Premio Pino Pascali, Italy. 

Adrian Paci is represented by Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Peter Kilchmann, Zurich and Peter Blum, New York.


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