Šejla Kamerić
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Šejla Kamerić | |
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SFR Yugoslavia | |
Education | Academy of Fine Arts Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Notable work | EU/Other, 2000; Basics, 2001; Bosnian Girl, 2003; Sorrow, 2005; 30 Years After, 2006; What Do I Know, 2007; Gluck, 2010; 1395 Days Without Red, 2011; Ab uno disce omnes, 2015; Embarazada, 2015; Thursday, 2015; Keep Away From Fire, 2018; We Come With a Bow, 2019; Behind The Scenes I, 2019; Behind The Scenes II, 2019 |
Awards | DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program Fellowship, 2007; The ECF Routes Princess Margriet Award for Cultural Diversity, 2011. |
Šejla Kamerić (born 1976) is a Bosnian visual artist.
Early life and education
Šejla Kamerić was born in
Artistic practice
Šejla Kamerić works with various media such as film, photography, objects and drawings. The all-pervading element in her work are her – often uneasy – memories. Based on her own experiences, memories and dreams, her work takes us to global spaces of displacement and discrimination, insisting that the delicate and the sublime are not pushed aside by catastrophe or hardship. Rather, they exist simultaneously, revealing a complex, psychogeographic landscape and the tenacity of the human spirit. The sadness and beauty, the hope and pain that emerge are part of the stories we share.[5]
Dunja Blažević in the catalogue of the exhibition “In the Gorges of the Balkans”, Fridericianum Museum, Kassel, Germany, 2003 wrote:
"What makes Šejla and the entire group of “war generation” artists essentially different from other members of their generation is the meaning inherent in their works, as opposed to the materials they use. Furthermore, in pursuing her work without worrying about what art really is or isn't, she proves herself a member of that generation born in the age of mass-media, in which the main references are the media and the reality around them, and not the history of art."
Exhibitions and screenings
In 1997, Kamerić exhibited her work for the first time at the annual exhibition[6][7] organized by SCCA - Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art[8] and curated by its director and renown art historian Dunja Blažević.[9] In the following years, Kamerić worked closely with Blažević and continued to collaborate with SCCA.[10][11][12] In this period Kamerić started to exhibit internationally. In 2000, she was invited to Manifesta III (entitled Borderline Syndrom)[13][14][15] in Ljubljana, Slovenia. For this occasion, she made the installation EU/Others[16][17] which received international acclaim and later became part of the TATE Modern collection.
Since then Kamerić has done numerous installations 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 have been on view in solo exhibitions at prestige art institutions such as Portkus[18] in Frankfurt am Maine (2004); Galerie im Taxispalais[19] in Innsbruck (2008); mumok in Vienna, Röda Sten Centre for Contemporary Art and Culture in Gothenburg, Wip: Konsthall in Stockholm and Centre Pompidou in Paris (2010); Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Camera Austria in Graz, ArtAngel[20] in London and MACBA, Barcelona[21] (2011); MG+MSUM - Museum of Contemporary Art[22] in Ljubljana, Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Kunsthaus Graz,[23] Sharjah Art foundation - Sharjah Art Museum[24] and CAC Contemporary Art Centre[25] in Vilnius (2012).
2015 was marked by two extensive solo exhibitions, at ARTER Space for Art,[26][27] Istanbul and the 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 London as part of the exhibition Forensics: The anatomy of crime.[30]
Her first short film What Do I Know premiered in the Corto Cortissimo section of the
Kamerić has participated in numerous group exhibitions: The Real, The Desperate, The Absolute, Forum Stadtpark, Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz, (2001); One Hundred Years of Contemporary Art of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Works and films
- 1999 Zauzeto/Occupied
- 2000 EU/Others
- 2001 Basics
- 2002 Closing the Border
- 2002 Dream House
- 2003 Bosnian Girl
- 2004 FREI
- 2004 Imagine
- 2004 Untitled/Daydreaming
- 2005 Pink Line vs Green Line
- 2005 Sorrow
- 2006 30 Years After
- 2006 Pink Line vs. Green Line
- 2008 I Remember I Forgot
- 2009 If I Sleep It Will Be Double
- 2010 - 2012 Hooked
- 2011 - 2012 Red Carpet
- 2012 Ballot Box
- 2012 Measure
- 2013 June Is June Everywhere
- 2013 - 2019 Fragile Sense of Hope (Xglass)
- 2014 SUMMERISNOTOVER
- 2014 Missing
- 2015 Ab uno disce omnes
- 2015 BFF
- 2015 Embarazada
- 2015 Liberty
- 2017 Maze
- 2018 Keep Away From Fire
- 2019 We Come With A Bow
- 2019 Behind the Scenes I
Films
- 2007 What do I know
- 2010 Glück
- 2011 1395 Days Without Red (in collaboration with Anri Sala and Ari Benjamin Meyer)
- 2013 Apollo - The First War Cinema (in collaboration with Almir Palata and Mark Casans)
- 2013 Shifts
- 2015 Thursday (in collaboration with Anocha Suwichakornpong)
Awards
- 2004 ONFURI Award, National Art Galleryin Tirana
- 2004 Sloboda/Freedom Award, International Peace Center (Sarajevo Winter Festival) in Sarajevo
- 2005 Special Award, 46th October Salon in Belgrade (in collaboration with Uroš Đurić for work Parallel Life)
- 2007 Best Short Film Award at the 5th Zagreb Film Festival
- 2007 Best Fiction Film Award at the 15th International Adana Film Festival
- 2007 DAAD-Berlin Artist Residency Fellowship[1][2]
- 2011 The ECF Routes Princess Margriet Award for Cultural Diversity[3][4]
Collections
Šejla Kamerić's works have been included in numerous collection worldwide, such as
References
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- ^ a b "Berliner Künstlerprogramm | Biography: Kamerić, Šejla". www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
- ^ a b "2011 ECF Princess Margriet Award". European Cultural Foundation. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
- ^ a b Sejla Kameric, ECF Routes Princess Margriet Award laureate, February 2011, retrieved 21 September 2019
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- ^ "#129 Šejla Kamerić: Others and Dreams - Portikus Frankfurt". www.portikus.de. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
- ^ "Galerie im Taxispalais - Sejla Kameric". www.galerieimtaxispalais.at. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
- ^ "1395 Days Without Red". www.artangel.org.uk. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
- ^ a b "MACBA Collection. Šejla Kamerić and Anri Sala". www.macba.cat. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
- ^ "ŠEJLA KAMERIĆ: 1395 Days Without Red - MG+MSUM". www.mg-lj.si. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
- ^ "1395 Days without Red - The exceptional circumstances of Sarajevo's besieging in film - Event | Kunsthaus Graz". www.museum-joanneum.at. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
- ^ "1395-days-without-red - Sharjah Art Foundation". sharjahart.org. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
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- ^ "Šejla Kamerić: When the Heart Goes Bing Bam Boom - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
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- ^ "Šejla Kamerić | Ab uno disce omnes | Wellcome Collection - Wellcome Trust". prev.wellcomecollection.org. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
- ^ "Šejla Kamerić at the Wellcome Collection". Art Collection Telekom. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
- ^ "Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime". Wellcome Collection. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
- ^ "In the Gorges of the Balkans". Fridericianum. 30 August – 23 November 2003. Archived from the original on 10 October 2010. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
- ^ "Gender Check". www.mumok.at. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
- ^ "The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement". www.phillipscollection.org. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
- ^ "Coventry Biennial 2019: 4 October – 24 November". Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art 2019. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
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