EDI HILA | THEA DJORDJAZE in the halls of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Edi Hila presents not merely paintings, but an aesthetic memory of a restrained, lived, and sublimated reality. “1944 in Shkodër, living and working in Tirana, Albania” unfolds as a quiet yet incisive narrative of Albania’s postwar social, architectural, and intimate transformations. At the heart of this retrospective lies “Planting the Trees” (1972) — a work that rejects rhetoric but insists on truth. Curated by Corine Diserens, in close dialogue with the artist himself, the exhibition positions Hila as a discreet observer of the everyday absurd and a poet of the unfinished.