Gallery Société Berlin will represent the Albanian prime minister, exhibiting his ceramic sculptures and artworks he has created over the last decade
The Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama is not unknown in the art world. However, the news that Berlin gallery Société is representing him came as a surprise to many,.
“Société is pleased to announce the representation of Edi Rama, the artist and the current prime minister of Albania,” the Berlin gallery’s website reads.
Last year, Marian Goodman exhibited his work in Paris, a series of boldly colored ceramic sculptures that look like they could have been excavated from a coral reef, as well as abstract works on paper—many of which are calendar pages—and wallpaper.
Edi Rama trained as a painter at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana, where he later taught as a professor. After several years working as an artist in Paris, he returned to Albania in 1998 to serve as Minister of Culture and has been Prime Minister since 2013. During meetings and phone calls, he covers official documents with spontaneous, stream-of-consciousness drawings that merge artistic intuition with political life.
Edi Rama (b. 1964) lives and works in Tirana. Recent solo exhibitions include Edi Rama at Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris (2024); Improvisations, Zappeion, Athens (2023); and Work, which travelled from Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany (2018) to the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno (2019). Earlier presentations of his work include the New Museum, New York (2016); the Venice Biennale (2017, 2003); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2004); and the São Paulo Biennial (1994).
Main Image: Edi Rama, Untitled, 2025, glazed ceramic, bronze, coated wood, 42 × 45 × 37 cm // 16 1/2 × 17 1/2 × 14 1/2 in Courtesy Gallery Sociéte