Adela Demetja
07.05. — 16.05.2024
→ Bucharest
Adela Demetja is a curator, culture manager, producer and institution runner from Tirana, active in South East Europe and West Europe. Since 17 years she has been initiating and organising culture projects aiming at fostering regional collaboration in the art and culture sector in South East Europe. As an independent curator and culture manager, through exhibitions, culture events, articles she has been continuously promoting artists and art from SEE region, in Europe and the US.
She holds a master in "Curatorial and Critical Studies" of Städelschule and Goethe University, Frankfurt/ Main. She is the director of Tirana Art Lab – Center for Contemporary Art, which she established in 2010. As an independent curator she has curated numerous international exhibitions and collaborated among others with institutions like National Gallery of Arts Tirana, National Art Gallery of Kosovo, Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art USA, Project Biennale D-0 Ark Underground Konjic, Action Field Kodra Thessaloniki, Lothringer 13 Kunsthalle Munich, Villa Romana Florence, Haus am Lützowplatz Berlin. She curated the Albanian Pavilion at 59th Venice Biennale represented by Lumturi Blloshmi. She is founder and program director of “Curating with Care” alternative educational program in curating taking place in Tirana. She lives and works between Tirana and Frankfurt am Main.