Interview
First published in: On One Side of the Same Water. Artistic Practices between Tirana and Tangier, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2012
Illumination, 2011, oil on canvas, 113×153 cm
Parliament, 2011, oil on canvas, 90×115 cm
Periferi 1, 2001 oil on canvas, 12.5×139.5 cm
Periferi 2, 2011, oil on canvas, 102.5x 137cm
Periferi 3, 2011, oil on canvas, 125×142 cm
Periferi 4, 2011, oil on canvas, 110x 155.5 cm
Periferi 5, 2011, oil on canvas, 98×132 cm
Periferi 6, 2011, oil on canvas, 140×140 cm
Municipalite de Tirana, 2011, oil on canvas, 105x 175,5
Pyramides, 2011, oil on canvas, 106×155 cm
painting
Edi Hila
Edi Hila, born in Shkoder in 1944 is a painter and lives in Tirana. Since 1991 he has been a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at Tirana Arts Academy (AFA). Hila has developed a painterly practice which reflects the urban and human transitions in recent history. He participated at Venice Biennal (1999), After the Wall Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin (1999), and documenta 14 in Kassel. In 2019 the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw presented his first extensive retrospective, in 2020/2021 the Sezession in Vienna dedicated a solo show to his paintings.
