Adela Demetja

Adela Demetja (born 1984 in Tirana) is an Albanian art curator. Since 2007, she has initiated and organised culture projects aimed at fostering regional collaboration in the art and culture sector in South East Europe. Through exhibitions, culture events and articles she promotes artists and art from the SEE region in Europe and the United States.

Demetja is also trained as a painter and studied fine arts at the Academy of Arts in Tirana in 2006, and at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe

Since May 2024, Demetja is interim executive director of the Albanian Visual Arts Network.

Thematic exhibitions she has curated include:

• 2023-2024 – Terminal for Tirana, art work in public space by Karolina Halatek in Tirana, Albania.
• 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[1] Vaska Emanouilova Gallery and DOZA Gallery, Sofia Bulgaria, Organized by DOMA Art Foundation.
• 2019 – NEXUS 1'[2]', time-based exhibition for the stage, Time Based Festival, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon, US.
• 2016 – Focus: Ex-Yugoslavia and Albania, ViennaContemporary, Vienna, Austria [3], 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[4], Gallery Heike Strelow Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
• 2015 – D-0 Ark Underground, Third Edition of International Project Biennale[5], Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• 2013 – The Aesthetic of the Small Act[6], Tessaloniki, Greece.

• Albanian art
• List of people from Frankfurt
• List of people from Tirana

• Feedback 1989 exhibition
• labforculture.org
• Labforculture.org Adriatic region in focus
• worldcat.org
• abebooks.co.uk