ABOUT THE ARTIST

Genti Korini (1979) lives and works in Tirana, Albania. His recent video installation work A Place in the Sun has been presented in the Albanian Pavilion in the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2026.

Shifting fluidly between painting, sculpture, photography and video, Korini’s imagery often explores the migration and transformation of decontextualized images, forms and symbols, treating them as markers of broader cultural and ideological change, frequently examines how history, identity, ideology, and national narratives are constructed through acts of representation rather than simply recorded. Genti Korini’s artistic world draws from a diverse range of influences, including art history, literature and film.

He uses speculative fiction, and theatrical devices to investigate the mechanisms through which cultural identities are imagined and circulated. His works often blur the boundaries between historical fact and invention, exposing the ambiguities that emerge when collective memory is shaped by political, colonial, and cultural projections rather than lived experience.

Rooted in Albania’s complex relationship to modernity while extending toward broader questions of perception and communication, Korini’s practice treats fiction not as an escape from reality but as a critical tool for rethinking it. By combining disparate visual languages and performative strategies, he constructs works where language breaks down, meanings remain unstable, and inherited narratives become open to reinterpretation. His work invites viewers to inhabit spaces where history, imagination, and ideology converge, revealing identity as an ongoing process of negotiation rather than a fixed condition.


Genti Korini studied at the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca, Romania (1997–2000) and earned his MFA from the University of Arts in Tirana, Albania (2001–2003). He was co-founder of the non-profit art space Bazamet in Tirana (2017–2024).

His work has been exhibited extensively, including Albanian Pavilion -  61st International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia,  with the project A Place in the Sun, curated by Malgorzata Ludwisiak, May 9 - November 22, 2026.

Manifesta 14, with the film, Spider’s Envy, curated by Catherine Nichols (Pristina, Kosovo, 2022)

among others: (Basel Social Club, Basel, Jecza Gallery, 2026 /2025), One Shade the More, One Ray the Less (myGallery, Madrid, 2024), Kindred Visions (Secci Gallery, Florence, 2023), Bright Futures (DoubleQ Gallery, Hong Kong, 2022), Lateral Geometries (IOMO Contemporary, Bucharest, 2021), The Drawing Lesson (Jecza Gallery, Romania, 2019), Notes from the Upperground (Bazament, Tirana, 2019), 'I AM THE MOUTH' ( Museum of Contemporary Art - MSU in Zagreb, Croatia, 2018), PÓŁPRAWDA| HALF–TRUTH (Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture at Królikarnia Palace, Warsaw, 2017), Shape of Time – Future of Nostalgia (MNAC Bucharest, 2016), Art Encounters Biennale (Timisoara, 2016), Fragile Sense of Hope (meCollectors Room, Berlin, 2014), The Object and Its Background (Jecza Gallery, Romania, 2014), and Ephemeral Structures (National Gallery of Albania, 2013).

photo, courtesy of the Artist