Anri Sala was born in Tirana in 1974.
He lives and works in Berlin.

Anri Sala’s body of works encompasses video installations, sculptures, photographs, drawings, books, performances and scores.
His transformative, time-based works are constructed through multiple relationships between image, architecture and sound, utilizing these as elements to fold, capsize and question experience. His works investigate ruptures in language, syntax, and music inviting creative dislocations, which generate new interpretations of history, supplanting old fictions and narratives with new, less-explicit and less-duplicitous ones. Sala brings out from the reality details that, poetically transfigured, reveal unusual aspects of the present. Very often, adopting the point of view of minor characters, his videos tell the great themes of existence transforming small narratives into universal stories. Over time, sound and music have become increasingly important in his works and exhibitions, where they mix and reproduce themselves all around the space, like components of an unusual orchestra, offering the visitor an all-round sensory experience. During the last year the artist has started to work with the fresco’s technique. It challenges the artistic production because of its method that constrict in working on the wet lime just one day until it dries without the possibility to rework it.

Sala has received many awards during his career. He won the Vincent Award (2014), the 10th Benesse Prize (2013), the Absolut Art Award (2011) and the Young Artist Prize at the Venice Biennale (2001).
His work is present in many art collections like Pinault Collection, Tate Collection, National Museum of Osaka, The Margulies Collection, MoMA, Art Institute of Chicago, Jardín Botánico Culiacán, Kunsthaus Zürich and others.
Anri Sala has realized solo shows at international institutions and museums such as the Winsing Art Place (Taipei, Taiwan), Bourse de Commerce - Fondation Pinault (Paris, France), GAMeC (Bergamo, Italy), Kunsthaus Bregenz (Bregenz, Austria), MUDAM (Luxembourg), Castello di Rivoli (Turin, Italy), Fundacíon Botín (Santander, Spain), the Garage (Moscow, Russia), Instituto Moreira Salles (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Museo Tamayo (Mexico City, Mexico), The New Museum (New York, United States), Instituto Moreira Salles (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Teshima Seawall House, Benesse Art Site Naoshima (Teshima Island, Japan), Haus der Kunst (Munich, Germany), the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France), The Serpentine Gallery (London, United Kingdom) among other.
He has taken part in many group exhibitions and biennials, including the 12th Havana Biennial (2015), the Sharjah Biennial 11 (2013), representing France at the 55th Venice Biennale, Italy (2013), the 9th Gwangju Biennale (2012), documenta (13) (2012), the 29th São Paulo Biennial (2010), the 2nd Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art (2007), and the 4th Berlin Biennial (2006).