Adrian Paci, born in Scutari in 1969, lives and works in Milan. The first artist to represent Albania at the Venice Biennale in 1999, he won the Pino Pascali Prize in 2007, and a prize at the Rome Quadriennale in 2008. Paci has had solo exhibition in the most important international institutions, including: Museo Novecento in Florence (2017), Chiostri di Sant’Eustorgio in Milan (2017), MAXXI in Rome (2015), MAC Montréal (2014), Trondheim Kunstmuseum (2014), MAC Milan (2013), Jeu de Paume in Paris (2013). His works are in the collections of major international museums, including MoMA, the Guggenheim, the Pompidou Center, Kunsthaus Zurich, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, MAXXI. In 2015 he founded Art House in his hometown of Scutari where exhibitions, workshops, conversation and residences for artists, curators and intellectuals are held.