Anri Sala

Born 1974 in Tirana, Albania. Lives and works in Berlin.

Exhibition view: Anri Sala – Transfigured, GAMeC, Bergamo, 2022. Photo © Lorenzo Palmieri

Introduction

Anri Sala’s oeuvre explores the relationships between music and narrative, architecture and film, interleaving qualities of different media in both complex and intuitive ways to produce works in which one medium takes on the qualities of another.

Full biography

Selected works

Gallery Exhibitions

External Exhibitions

1+1 – The relational years

With Pierre Huyghe, Anri Sala, Julia Scher, Angela Bulloch, Philippe Parreno, Liam Gillick and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

A dynamic itinerary transforms the MAXXI into a hub of relationships, conviviality, and interactions. 1+1 The relational years is the first major retrospective dedicated to the Relational Art movement—three decades after its...

October 29, 2025—March 1, 2026

MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome

Copyists. In exceptional collaboration with the Musée du Louvre

With Tauba Auerbach, Rosa Barba, Philippe Parreno and Anri Sala

From 14 June 2025 to 2 February 2026, in an exceptional collaboration with the Musée du Louvre, the Centre Pompidou-Metz will be presenting an unusual exhibition dedicated to the creativity of copyists....

June 14, 2025—February 2, 2026

Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz

Portrait of a Collection. Works from the Pinault Collection

With Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Anri Sala and Anicka Yi

September 4—November 23, 2024

SONGEUN Art and Cultural Foundation

Anri Sala - In the Midst of Old Masters

Anri Sala

Anri Sala – In the Midst of Old Masters Kunstmuseum Basel

April 30—September 15, 2024

Kunstmuseum Basel

A Drawing for Morocco

With Etienne Chambaud, Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe and Anri Sala

An exhibition and sale of contemporary artworks created by nearly one hundred and twenty international artists, entitled A Drawing for Morocco, will take place in the Paris Internationale art fair.

October 17—22, 2023

Paris Internationale

Fragment of an Infinite Discourse

With Rosa Barba, AA Bronson, David Claerbout, Ryan Gander, General Idea, Isa Melsheimer, Prabhavathi Meppayil, Roman Ondak, Anri Sala and Karin Sander

Fragment of an Infinite Discourse is the title of a work of art by Mexican conceptual artist Mario García Torres: three glass rings interlock without touching one another. The work serves as...

June 28, 2023—August 31, 2025

Lenbachhaus, Munich

Out of the Box – 20 Years Schaulager

With David Claerbout, Thomas Demand, Rodney Graham, Martin Honert and Anri Sala

Out of the Box – 20 Years Schaulager with David Claerbout, Thomas Demand, Rodney Graham, Martin Honert and Anri Sala

June 10—November 19, 2023

Schaulager, Münchenstein, Basel

AS YOU GO

Anri Sala

On view at Winsing Art Place December 17, 2022 – March 19, 2023, Anri Sala's solo exhibition AS YOU GO consists of three works —Ravel, Ravel, Take Over, and If and only If.

December 17, 2022—March 19, 2023

文心藝所 Winsing Art Place

Time No Longer

Anri Sala

Opening October 14 and on view through the autumn and winter months, an immersive, cosmic, and nocturnal work by Anri Sala will be presented at Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection. In...

October 14, 2022—January 16, 2023

Rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris

a chair, a record player. a record sleeve with a mans face on it.

something in the air

Rodney Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Anri Sala | Summer Festival with Ari Benjamin Meyers

In September and October, FAHRBEREITSCHAFT in Berlin-Lichtenberg host the event series entitled something in the air.

September 2—October 29, 2022

FAHRBEREITSCHAFT, Berlin

Anri Sala

Kunsthaus Bregenz

From July 17 through October 10, Kunsthaus Bregenz dedicates a major solo exhibition to Anri Sala.

July 17 – October 10, 2021

Kunsthaus Bregenz

Une seconde d’éternité

With Ryan Gander, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Anri Sala and Tino Sehgal

The exhibition Une seconde d'éternité is gradually taking over all the spaces of the Bourse de Commerce. It brings together the works of some twenty artists including Ryan Gander, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Anri Sala and Tino...

June 22, 2022—January 9, 2023

Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection

Transfigured

Anri Sala

For the fifth year in a row, GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo returns to the prestigious Palazzo della Ragione, the beating heart of the old town, with a...

June 10—October 16, 2022

GAMeC, Bergamo

LUMA Arles

With Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Anri Sala, and Tino Sehgal

LUMA Arles, a 27-acre creative campus at the Parc des Ateliers in the city of Arles, opened to the public on June 26.

From June 26, 2021

LUMA Arles

Festival!

A Project by Esther Schipper and Mehdi Chouakri

Angela Bulloch | Gerwald Rockenschaub Isa Melsheimer | N. Dash Anri Sala | Saâdane Afif Ari Benjamin Meyers | Charlotte Posenenske Festival! begins with the friendship of artists and of their two...

June 12—August 6, 2020

Mehdi Chouakri, Mommsenstrasse 4

AS YOU GO (Châteaux en Espagne)

Anri Sala

Centro Botín presents AS YOU GO (Châteaux en Espagne), a new project by Anri Sala. His work explores non-verbal forms of communication with innovative narrative techniques which he builds by means of...

December 14, 2019—May 3, 2020

Centro Botín, Santander

Le Temps Coudé

Anri Sala

Over the past two decades Anri Sala has created an exceptional body of films and installations in which sound, music and the projected image come together to express themes of lived and...

October 11, 2019—January 5, 2020

MUDAM – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg

Intimate distance. Masterpieces from the Ishikawa Collection

with Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe and Anri Sala

Coinciding with the inauguration of the Hôtel des Collections on June 29, 2019, the MO.CO. unveils the first public presentation of masterpieces from the Ishikawa Collection. This outstanding and relatively recent private...

June 29—September 29, 2019

MO.CO. – Montpellier Contemporain, Hôtel des Collections, Montpellier

AS YOU GO

Anri Sala

Anri Sala uses the architectural space to fold together visual, sound and tactile elements in order to generate new interpretations of history and new possibilities within an emancipatory vision of language and...

February 26—June 23, 2019

Castello di Rivoli, Turin

The Last Resort

Anri Sala

For Garage’s sixth Atrium Commission Berlin-based artist Anri Sala presented an installation of sound and sculpture entitled The Last Resort. Responding to the architecture and acoustics of the 9.5-meter high atrium space,...

September 29, 2018—January 27, 2019

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow

Book Launch: Anri Sala, Chapter #1: Skanderbeg Square Tirana, 51N4E

A conversation between Anri Sala and 51N4E on the relation between contemporary art and public space. ‘If I were to imagine public space as a movie, it would be one without script...

June 28, 2018

6 – 8pm, Esther Schipper Bookstore

The Last Resort

Anri Sala

The Last Resort was conceived as site-specific installation for Kaldor Public Art Projects in an outdoor pavilion for a location overlooking the Sydney harbor. The open structure houses 38 especially constructed snare...

October 13—November 5, 2017

Kaldor Public Art Projects, Observatory Hill, Sydney

Anri Sala

For his exhibition at the Museo Tamayo, Anri Sala demonstrates these interests through works in which sound defines both the composition of the images projected and the design of the space they...

September 6, 2017—January 8, 2018

Museo Tamayo, Mexico City

Islands, Constellations and Galapagos

with Prabhavathi Meppayil and Anri Sala

“Islands,” “Constellations,” and “Galapagos” are keywords that connote connectivity and isolation, imagination and creativity, identity and diversity, among others. While the world today is expanding with globalization, it is being shaken to...

August 4—November 5, 2017

Yokohama Triennale

Summer in Shanghai

with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Philippe Parreno, and Anri Sala

New Century Art Foundation is pleased to announce Summer in Shanghai (July 8 – September 6, 2017) at Pond Society, Shanghai, which brings together important works spanning three decades by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster,...

July 8—September 6, 2017

Pond Society, Shanghai

O Momento Presente

Anri Sala

September 10—November 20, 2016

Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro

Answer Me

Anri Sala

Highlighting Sala’s continuing interest in how sound and music can engage architecture and history, Answer Me features extensive multichannel audio and video installations that unfold across the Second, Third, and Fourth Floor...

February 3—April 10, 2016

New Museum, New York

No Names, No Title

Anri Sala

At the entrance to the exhibition space at the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, a new work was built: Holey Wall (Should I Stay or Should I Go) (2014): a concrete...

December 20, 2014—March 21, 2015

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv

The Present Moment

Anri Sala

The commission Der Öffentlichkeit—Von den Freunden Haus der Kunst addresses a generation of artists who have developed a clear and challenging line of artistic inquiry. The annual commission is grounded in the...

October 18, 2014—September 20, 2015

Haus der Kunst, Munich

Anri Sala

The work of Albanian-born artist Anri Sala (b. Tirana, 1974) blends image, sound, and architecture and is characterized by the subtle but profound exploration of all aspects of sound. This installation, designed...

May 3—August 6, 2012

Centre Pompidou, Paris

Anri Sala

October 4—December 11, 2011

The National Museum of Art, Osaka

Anri Sala

Anri Sala is a contemporary artist who came to prominence for videos and films mining his personal experience to reflect on the social and political change taking place in his native Albania....

October 1—November 20, 2011

Serpentine Gallery, London

Anri Sala

An exhibition that can be viewed like a single work of art: that is what visitors will experience at the MAC in this presentation of works by Anri Sala—the artist’s first solo...

February 3—April 25, 2011

Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

Purchase Not By Moonlight

Anri Sala

Debuting during Art Basel 2009, the Museum of Contemporary Art Miami brings to the United States the first major museum showing for Albanian multi-media artist, Anri Sala. Known primarily for his video...

December 3, 2008—March 1, 2009

Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami

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Interview with Anri Sala: Art gives space to the subtle sounds that are overheard in the noise of war

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Anri Sala on taking care of the ambiguity of things — At the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection in Paris, the Albanian-born artist again plays with nuance - Kimberly Bradley for...

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Exhibitions

something in the air, FAHRBEREITSCHAFT

With Rodney Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Ari Benjamin Meyers and Anri Sala

In September and October, FAHRBEREITSCHAFT in Berlin-Lichtenberg will host the event series entitled something in the air, with works by Rodney Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Ari Benjamin Meyers and Anri Sala.

September 2 – October 29, 2022