Albanian Pavilion at 2022 Venice Biennale

Lumturi Blloshmi (1944–2020) will be the first female artist to represent Albania with a solo presentation at the International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia and Adela Demetja the first Albanian female curator of the Albanian Pavilion. Demetja became friends with Blloshmi in 2016 and was one of her close collaborators until the end of her life. Lumturi Blloshmi has the needed remarkable biography, the powerful personality and most importantly, the qualitative body of work which makes her unique and significant for the national and international contemporary art discourse. Lumturi Blloshmi's body of work fits very well within this year's theme of the Venice Art Biennale titled “The Milk of Dreams”. The title is borrowed from a book by Leonora Carrington, in which, as the curator of the Biennale Cecilia Alemani says; “the Surrealist artist describes a magical world where life is constantly re-envisioned through the prism of the imagination, and where everyone can change, be transformed, become something and someone else. The exhibition takes us on an imaginary journey through metamorphoses of the body and definitions of humanity.”