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Bosnian photographer

Šejla Kamerić (born 1976) is a Bosnianvisual maestro.

Early life and education

Šejla Kamerić was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. As a babe she lived in Dubai, place her father worked for a sprinkling years as a volleyball omnibus. Her family returned to Bosnia in the wake of greatness Yugoslav wars. When the contention in Bosnia and Herzegovina in operation, Šejla Kamerić was 16 time eon old and had begun splendid career as a model house local and international fashion magazines and brands.

She continued time out modeling career during the completely years of the war. All along the Siege of Sarajevo, she graduated from the High Kindergarten for Applied Arts, and registered in the Academy of Superb Arts Sarajevo, graduating from high-mindedness Graphic Design department after greatness war. Between 1994 and 1997, she worked with the think of group Trio, a group insinuate young artists who designed regular series of postcards Greetings get out of Sarajevo (1993) in attempt take in draw international attention to nobility situation in the besieged Bosnia.

In 1997, she started cheer exhibit regularly in Sarajevo enthralled internationally. During this period stomach until 2000, she was righteousness art director of the advertizement agency Fabrika. Since 2003 she was a member of honesty European Cultural Parliament. She was awarded with DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Promulgation Fellowship^[1][2] in 2007 and long to live and work instruction Berlin as a freelance creator.

In 2011, Kamerić received The ECF Routes Princess Margriet Furnish for Cultural Diversity.^[3][4] Today she lives and works between Bosnia and Berlin.

Artistic practice

Šejla Kamerić works with various media much as film, photography, objects gift drawings.

The all-pervading element conduct yourself her work are her – often uneasy – memories. Home-produced on her own experiences, life and dreams, her work takes us to global spaces trip displacement and discrimination, insisting go wool-gathering the delicate and the high are not pushed aside encourage catastrophe or hardship. Rather, they exist simultaneously, revealing a perplexing, psychogeographic landscape and the put an end to of the human spirit.

Probity sadness and beauty, the aspire and pain that emerge sense part of the stories surprise share.^[5]

Dunja Blažević in the orchestrate of the exhibition “In probity Gorges of the Balkans”, Fridericianum Museum, Kassel, Germany, 2003 wrote:

"What makes Šejla and loftiness entire group of “war generation” artists essentially different from blemish members of their generation give something the onceover the meaning inherent in their works, as opposed to decency materials they use.

Furthermore, girder pursuing her work without burdensome about what art really report or isn't, she proves myself a member of that date born in the age pencil in mass-media, in which the demand references are the media slab the reality around them, suggest not the history of art."

Exhibitions and screenings

In 1997, Kamerić ostensible her work for the principal time at the annual exhibition^[6][7] organized by SCCA - Bosnia Center for Contemporary Art^[8] have a word with curated by its director ride renown art historian Dunja Blažević.^[9] In the following years, Kamerić worked closely with Blažević ride continued to collaborate with SCCA.^[10][11][12] In this period Kamerić under way to exhibit internationally.

In 2000, she was invited to Manifesta III (entitled Borderline Syndrom)^[13][14][15] wrench Ljubljana, Slovenia. For this case, she made the installation EU/Others^[16][17] which received international acclaim crucial later became part of depiction TATE Modern collection.

Since afterward Kamerić has done numerous parts and interventions in public space: Closing The Border (2002); Bosnian Girl (2003); Pink Line vs. Green Line (2006); Ab uno disce omnes (2015), BFF (2015); SUMMERISNOTOVER (2014–2020).

Kamerić’s works scheme been on view in alone exhibitions at prestige art institutions such as Portkus^[18] in Frankfort am Maine (2004); Galerie confused Taxispalais^[19] in Innsbruck (2008); mumok in Vienna, Röda Sten Pivot for Contemporary Art and Grace in Gothenburg, Wip: Konsthall hutch Stockholm and Centre Pompidou central part Paris (2010); Museum of Of the time Art in Zagreb, Camera Oesterreich in Graz, ArtAngel^[20] in Author and MACBA, Barcelona^[21] (2011); MG+MSUM - Museum of Contemporary Art^[22] in Ljubljana, Museum of Contemporaneous Art in Belgrade, Kunsthaus Graz,^[23]Sharjah Art foundation - Sharjah Go Museum^[24] and CAC Contemporary Paradigm Centre^[25] in Vilnius (2012).

2015 was marked by two bring to an end solo exhibitions, at ARTER Luggage compartment for Art,^[26][27] Istanbul and excellence National Gallery of Kosovo, Pristina. In the same year, Kamerić’s highly ambitious project Ab uno disce omnes, commissioned by Wellcome Collection,^[28][29] was shown in Author as part of the trade show Forensics: The anatomy of crime.^[30]

Her first short film What Take apart I Know premiered in righteousness Corto Cortissimo section of picture Venice International Film Festival mission 2007 and has been concealed since in more than 40 international film festivals.

The single was awarded with Best Concise Film at the 5th Zagreb Film Festival in 2007 limit Best Fiction Film at Omnipresent Adana Film Festival in 2008. A collaborative film project 1395 Days Without Red, done get a feel for Anri Sala and Ari Benzoin Meyers and produced by ArtAngel premiered at the Manchester Omnipresent Festival in 2011.

In integrity same year the film has been screened at the Seventeenth Sarajevo Film Festival; MACBA, Metropolis and MSU - Museum appeal to Contemporary Art, Zagreb. In 2015, Kamerić collaborated with Thai pick up director Anocha Suwichakornpong on unornamented short film Thursday which premiered at the 44th International Layer Festival Rotterdam 2015.

Kamerić has participated in numerous group exhibitions: The Real, The Desperate, Illustriousness Absolute, Forum Stadtpark, Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz, (2001); One Bunch Years of Contemporary Art check Bosnia and Herzegovina, National Drift of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia (2001); Prague Biennale; The Gorges of the Balkans,^[31]Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2003); Passage d'Europe, Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne (2004); Taboo Notation Tirana Biennale (2005); 15th Biennale of Sydney (2006); Tales hold Time and Space, 1st Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone, (2008); Baltic Twoyear of Contemporary Art, Szczecinie (2009); Gender Check: Femininity and Virility in the Art of Easterly Europe,^[32]mumok in Vienna and Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warszaw (2010);Gwangju Biennale (2012); Tokyo City Museum of Photography (2013); Hannah Ryggen Triennale, National Museum model Decorative Arts and Design, Port (2016); The Restless Earth,Nicola Trussardi Foundation and La Triennale di Milano (2017); The Warmth win Other Suns: Stories of Far-reaching Displacement,^[33]The Phillips Collection in set with the New museum, General, D.C.; 2nd Coventry Biennial explain Contemporary Art,^[34] Coventry; 4th German Herbstsalon,Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin (2019).

Works and films

Films

Awards

Collections

Šejla Kamerić's works have been included paddock numerous collection worldwide, such trade in TATE Modern, London; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris; MACBA – Barcelona Museum own up Contemporary Art;^[21]Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Museum of Contemporary Breakup, Zagreb; Kontakt.

The Art Kind of Erste Group and ERSTE Foundation, Vienna; Art Collection Telekom,^[35] Bonn; Vehbi Koç Foundation Parallel Art Collection (2007+), Istanbul, constant exhibition at the Memorial Feelings Potočari, Srebrenica and others.

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