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

2026
Chrysalizing, Société, Berlin, Germany

2024
Edi Rama, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France

2023
Edi Rama, Edi Rama's solo show Improvisations at Zappeion Megaron, Athens, Greece

2020
Edi Rama, Lavoro, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy

2019
Edi Rama, WORK, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, USA
Edi Rama, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, Germany

2018
Edi Rama, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany

2017
Edi Rama, Eduardo Secci, Florence, Italy

2016
Marian Goodman, New York, USA
Edi Rama, Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli, Italy

2015
Edi-Tions, Tophane-I Amire Culture and Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey
Calendar Blossoms, Academy Jao Tsung, Hong Kong, China
Calendar Flowers, China Institute of Culture, Hong Kong, China
Daily Drawings, Galerie Kampl, Munich, Germany
Les Fleurs du Calendrier, Galerie Micheal Schultz, Berlin, Germany

1999
Gallery XXI / Albania

1997
Palais Jalta, Frankfurt, Germany

1995
Place de Mediatheque, France

1993
Acud, Berlin, Germany
Janos Gallery, New York, USA

1992
National Art Gallery of Albania, Tirana, Albania

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019
On Display IV, Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany

2017
Viva Arte Viva, 57th Venice Biennale, Italy

2016
30th Anniversary, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
Answer Me, installation with Anri Sala, The New Museum, New York, USA
Die Spielchen des Freund Hein, Palastgalerie, Berlin, Germany
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