Adela Demetja

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Adela Demetja (born 1984 in Tirana) is an Albanian independent art curator.

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Since 2010, she has been the art director of the Tirana Art Lab – Centre for Contemporary Art, located in Tirana, Albania. Previously, she was working as an art production manager. [1]

Education

Demetja graduated with a Masters in Curatorial and Critical Studies from the Städelschule and the Goethe University Frankfurt, both located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.[ citation needed ]

Demetja is also trained as a painter and studied fine arts at the Academy of Arts in Tirana, located in Tirana, and at the College of Design, located in Karlsruhe, Germany.[ clarification needed ]

Career

As one of the founders of the Tirana Art Lab – Centre for Contemporary Art, she has curated various contemporary art exhibitions in different venues around Tirana.

Since 2014, the organization operates from a multifunctional exhibition space located in the centre of Tirana. The space also hosts an open library of English, Albanian and Italian reference books, artists' catalogues, publications on art theory and criticism, as well as a selection of international art magazines. Access to the library is open to the public.

Activity

Exhibitions

Thematic exhibitions she has curated include:

Personal life

Demetja lives and works between Tirana and Frankfurt am Main.[ citation needed ]

See also

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References

  1. "Adela Demetja". bksh.al.