Adela Demetja

Adela Demetja (born 1984 in Tirana) is an Albanian art curator and author. She studied painting and then curatorial and critical studies. She is the executive director of the Albanian Visual Arts Network, and founded the Tirana Art Lab, a centre for contemporary art in Albania. Demetja has curated exhibitions internationally, including the Albanian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale, in Greece and in Italy.

Education

Demetja was born in 1984 in Tirana, Albania. Demetja trained as a painter and studied fine arts at the Academy of Arts in Tirana from 2002 to 2006, and then at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe. She has a master's degree in curatorial and critical studies from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. In 2010 she established the Tirana Art Lab – Center for Contemporary Art, of which she is director.

She curator exhibitions at the Albanian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale, Vienna Contemporary International Art Fair, at the Action Field Kodra Festival in Thessaloniki, Greece, and in Florence, Italy. 2022 – Lumturi Blloshmi. From Scratch], Albanian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale. 2021 – Ambitions with the curator Erëmirë Krasniqi, National Gallery of Arts Tirana, Albania and the National Gallery of Kosovo, Prishtina. 2020 – A for Unapologetic Vaska Emanouilova Gallery and DOZA Gallery, Sofia Bulgaria, Organized by DOMA Art Foundation. 2019 – NEXUS 1'', time-based exhibition for the stage, Time Based Festival, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon, US. 2016 – Focus: Ex-Yugoslavia and Albania, Vienna Contemporary, Vienna, Austria , works by young and established artists from these countries presented by the institutions: Tirana Art Lab – Center for Contemporary Art, Tirana, Albania. 2016 – Remembering in Form, Gallery Heike Strelow Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 2015 – D-0 Ark Underground, Third Edition of International Project Biennale, Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 2013 – The Aesthetic of the Small Act, Tessaloniki, Greece.