Šejla Kamerić

born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
lives and works in Sarajevo and Berlin

completed studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo

Solo Exhibitions, Public Projects and Interventions (Selection)

1395 Days Without Red, with Anri Sala and in collaboration
with Art Benjamin Meyers, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

1395 Days Without Red, Whitworth Art Gallery (as part of the Manchester
International Festival), Manchester, England
1395 Days Without Red, with Anri Sala and in collaboration with
Art Benjamin Meyers, London, England, MACBA, Spain
1395 Days Without Red, 17th Sarajevo Film Festival
Retrospective, The Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb and Zagreb Film
Festival, Zagreb
Glück, Villa Elisabeth, Berlin
Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
Camera Austria, Graz (with Tatiana Lecomte)

Prospectif cinéma, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Glück, Anhalter Bahnhof, DAAD, Berlin
Šejla Kamerić, Röda Sten Centre for Contemporary Art and Culture, Göteborg
If I sleep it will be double, Wip: Konsthall, Stockholm
Šejla Kamerić, Krobath, Vienna

What Do I Know, FILMHUIS DEN HAAG, Den Haag, Amsterdam

Šejla Kamerić, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
Particle or more, Moria Gallery, Hvar
Is it rain or is it a hurricane, Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem
What Do I Know, DAAD Gallery, Berlin

Mit tudok / What Do I Know, Trafo - House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest
What Do I Know, O.K Center for Contemporary Art, CROSSING EUROPE - Film Festival, Linz
Bosnian Girl / Sejla Kameric, Literaturhaus, Salzburg
Sometime, Never, May·be, public project, Sarajevo / Berlin / Geneva

Brand New, Contemporary Art Institute EXIT, National Art Gallery Pristine, Kosovo
The Final Sale, Karver, Podgorica, Montenegro

Sejla Kameric (Another Expo - Beyond the Nation-States), Gallery SOAP, Kitakyushu, Japan
Untitled, solo exhibition, Gandy Gallery, Bratislava
Close, solo exhibition, National Gallery of BH, Sarajevo

Others and Dreams, solo exhibition, Portikus Frankfurt am Main
FREI, public intervention; club transmediale 0.4 – (fly utopia!); festival for electronic music and related visual art, Berlin

Bosnian Girl, public project (posters, billboards, magazine ads, postcards)
WARRANT, public intervention; exhibition “Myths of Memory” curated by Ong Keng Sen; Schauspielhaus, Vienna

Closing the Border (Welcome to the ancient land of freedom), public intervention; border crossing between San Marino and Italy

homeSICK, public intervention (work in progress, started in 2001)
Fortune Teller, public intervention; Sarajevo

Before Beginning, video projection; Obala Meeting Point, Sarajevo
For My Sake, installation; in front of the Academy of Fine Arts, Sarajevo

Plug, installation; Obala Meeting Point, Sarajevo

Group Exhibitions and Film Festivals (Selection)

Berliner Zimmer, MNAC / Goethe Institut Bucuresti
Time Machine Biennale of Contemporary Art, D-O ARK Underground, Sarajevo
‘Phantasie an die Macht – Politik im Künstlerplakat’, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
‘Berliner Zimmer - Artists from Southeastern Europe living in Berlin’, Berlin Passage – Artists from Southeastern Europe living in Berlin, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Ar / Goethe Institut, Thessaloniki

Architektur und Körper - Katrina Daschner, Maria Hahnenkamp, Šejla Kamerić, Dorit Margreiter, Ursula Mayer, Esther Stocker, Krobath Berlin
Aktuelle Editionen - 3 → ∞, Edition Block, Berlin
Die Tür geht nach Innen auf, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin
Starter - Vehbi Koc Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, ARTER Istanbul
A Pair of Left Shoes - Reality Check in Eastern Europe, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Squatting. erinnern, vergessen, besetzen, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
NO MORE DAUGHTER AND HEROES, Aram Art Gallery, Goyang Cultural Foundation, Ilsandong-gu, Seoul
Quartet–Four Biennials Reflected in Prints at International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana
Glueck happens, Staedtische Galerie, Erlangen
On the Eastern Front - video art from central and Eastern Europe 1989–2009, Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
The Past Is a Foreign Country, Center of Contemporary Art 'Znaki Czasu', Torun, Poland
20th anniversary of KulturKontakt Austria, Gallery ArtPoint, Vienna
Projected Visions, Apollonia, Strasbourg

Gender Check Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe, Museum of Modern Art (MUMOK), Vienna
ZEIGEN. An Audio Tour Through Berlin, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
Access All Areas, a drawing exhibition; Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Pièces de résistance: Forms of resistance in contemporary art, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun
MONSTER, Motorenhalle - Project Center of Contemporary Art, Dresden
A Pair of Left Shoes, Museum Bochum, Bochum
Rohkunkunstbau XVI, ATLANTIS I - Hidden Histories - New Identities, Schloss Marquardt, Postdam
Windows upon Oceans – 8. Baltic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, Szczecin, Poland
Tri Postal: SCÈNES CENTRALES, Lille3000, Lille
Who killed the painting? Works from the Block Collection, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
10 YEARS OF < rotor >, Rotor Gallery, Graz
Nichtorte, Orte. Collection Exhibition, gfzk - Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig, Leipzig
Transitland, The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate Sofia
Land of Human Rights, Rotor Gallery, Graz

Cutting Realities Gender Strategies in Art, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
Tales of Time and Space, 1st Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone
(15th) Adana Altın Koza Film Festival, Mediterranean Short Film Competition, Best Fiction Film Award
TIEFENRAUSCH (RAPTURE OF THE DEEP), O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz
(30th) Clermont – Ferrand Short Film Festival, In competition, Labo, France
Cabinet of Imaginations, Netwerk – Center for contemporary art, Aalst, Belgium
You & Me, Sometimes..., Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
BIENNALE CUVÉE - WORLD SELECTION OF CENTEMPORARY ART, O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz
VIDEOFORMES vidéo et nouveaux médias dans l'art contemporain, Clermont – Ferrand, France

Schengen Women, Moderna Gallery hosted by SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana
(64th) Venezia Corto Cortissimo, competition of the 64th Mostra Internazionale, D‘Arte Cinematografica, Venice
There is no border...., Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
(5th) Zgreb Film Festiva, Short Film Programme, Zagreb
ARTE MARE festival, Short Films competition, Bastia, France
History Started Playing With My Life, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
La Nuit des Musées, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, La Fée Electricité by R. Dufy, Paris
L‘enfer, C‘est les Autres / 'Hell is... other people', Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam
THIS IS NOT A FAIRY TALE, Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art, Tirana, Albania
Hell is... other people, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam
INBETWEENESS, Ex Carceri del Complesso di San Michele a Ripa, Rome
FREI, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen
La Nuit des Musées, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, La Fée Electricité by R. Dufy, Paris
Between Borders, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Vocal Verbal, Gallery SC, Zagreb
Sarajevo - Memory and Communication, Shiga Art creation hall, Shiga-pref, Shin-bi, Kyoto

Zones of Contact, 15th Biennale of Sydney 2006, Sydney
Sweet Taboos: A Mini Tirana Biennial in NYC, Apexart, New York
8372 NISU DOŠLI, Mimara Museum, Zagreb
NORMALIZATION, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö
Kontakt, The Art Collection of Erste Bank-Group at the Museum of Modern Art (MUMOK) in Vienna and at the transit workshops in Bratislava
On Difference #2, Stuttgart Kunstverien, Stuttgart
PERSONAL STORIES, An exhibition in the framework of the European Forum Alpbach, High School, Alpbach, Tyrol

CONFLICT: Perspectives, Positions, Realities in Central European Art, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia
TABOO / Tirana Biennale, Tirana, Albania
Displaced, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK), Berlin
Another Expo - Beyond the Nation-States, Gallery Level1, Kitakyushu, Japan
Gallery White Box, New York
GUARDAMI. Percezioni del video, Palazzo delle Papesse, Sienna
Migrations of Energies, Part 1: Clouding Europe, Gandy Gallery, Bratislava
La actualidad revisada (News Revisited), La Tabacalera, San Sebastian
Leaps of Faith Nicosia, Cyprus
Norway 2005 - Andre/Others, Sørlandet Art Museum, Kristiansand, Norway
The Giving Person, Palazzo Roccella, Napoli
Fear, Artandgallery, Milan

Cosmopolis1: Microcosmos X Macrocosmos, State Museum of Contemporary Art and Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
ONUFRI, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania
FIAC, Paris Expo-Foire de l’Art Contemporain; presented by Gandy Gallery
Passage d'Europe, Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France
I am here and you are there, GALERIE FÜR ZEITGENÖSSISCHE KUNST, Leipzig
TRADING PLACES, Pump House Gallery, London
HOT DESTINATION/MARGINAL DESTINY, House of Art Brno, Brno

IDENTIKIT, Galeria e Arteve te Kosoves, Pristina
Borderlining, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Balkan Konzulat: Sarajevo, , Graz
The Gorges of the Balkans, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
Peripheries Become the Center, PRAGUE BIENNALE, Prague
Cultural Territories, GALERIE FÜR ZEITGENÖSSISCHE KUNST, Leipzig

No Border, S. Maria delle Croci, Museo d’Arte della Citta, Ravenna
KUNSTEXPEDITIONEN2002/OSTEUROPA, Sony Center and Art Forum, Berlin
City of Women, International Festival of Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana
The Promised Land, O' artoteca, Milano
Quattro Venti, exhibition project in Manciano, province of Grosseto, Tuscany
Bound/less Borders, traveling billboard exhibition, starting point in Belgrade, Yugoslavia
HOME, Collegium Artisticum Gallery, Sarajevo

One Hundred Years of Contemporary Art of BH, National Gallery of BH, Sarajevo
The Real, The Desperate, The Absolute, Forum Stadtpark, Steirischer Herbst Festival; Graz
Rendez – Vous Ars Aevi, Sarajevo
Icograda – International Council of Graphic Design Association, Zagreb
26 th Youth Salon, Zagreb
Freedom and Violence, Królikarnia Gallery, Warsawa

Tandem Project, DCAC, Signal 66; Washington D.C.
MANIFESTA 3, European Biennial of Contemporary Art; Ljubljana
What am I doing here?, Galerija Škuc, Ljubljana

SCCA Third Annual Exhibition – Under Construction, Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art, Sarajevo
Visitors, Galerija Škuc, Ljubljana
Environment on the Eve of the III Millennium, Perejaslavi-Zalesskij, Russia
SCCA Second Annual Exhibition – Beyond the Mirror, Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art, Sarajevo
Arte in Guerra, Palazzo Reale, Napoli

SCCA First Annual Exhibition – Meeting Point, Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art, Sarajevo

Theater Projects

Art Director: The Suicides, documentary-feature play, directed by Gojko Bijelac; Sarajevo, 2003.
Art Director: Romeo and Juliet; directed by Haris Pašović; Sarajevo, 2002.
Concept and Direction (with Haris Pašović): Opsada kolekcija ‘92-‘95 / The Siege Collection ‘92-’95; Sarajevo, 2002.

Scholarships and awards

Routes Princess Margriet Award

Best Fiction Film Award, 15th Adana Film Festival

DAAD Artist in Residency Fellowship, Berlin
Best Short Film Award, 5th Zagreb Film Festival

Special Award, 46th October Salon, Belgrade

ONUFRI award, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana

Selected Bibliography

TWO WORDS / DEUX MOTS, Book of Sejla Kameric works, (engl./fr.); La Baconnière/Arts, Genève, 2009
ŠEJLA KAMERIĆ – BRATISLAVA, Catalogue; text by Michal Kolecek, (engl.); Gandy Gallery – Bratislava; 2005
OTHERS AND DREAMS, Artist's book; (engl.); Portikus Frankfurt am Main; 2004
Spike, 03-2005; “Šejla Kamerić Sarajevo. Mon amur” by Anselm Wagner
"10+1" October, 2004 issue36 "Expo and the Nation-State: For the exhibition 'Another Expo - Beyond the Nation-State" by Shinya Watanabe
Within, Alongside, and Between Spaces; Revolver book, 2004; Kunstverein Wolfsburg, by Doris Berger
Liberation, “Un chantier très ouvert Un jeu de correpondances” by Armelle HÉLIOT
Il Sole 24 Ore, 30 June 2002; “Nozze etniche, passaporto per l’Ue” by Manuela Gandini.
Umelec 02/2001; “Šejla Kamerić, or Filling the Unfillable” by Nebojša Jovanović.
annual 2000, “Just Pass” by Lejla Hodžić.
Camera Austria, 73/2001; review.
Zivot Umjetnosti, 105/01; “Šejla Kamerić, ili ispunjavanje neispunjivog” by Nebojša Jovanović.
The New York Times, 27 July 2000; “A Roving Show Fixates on Europe’s Border Obsession”
by Josephine Schmidh.
Art in America, No.11 (November 2000); “Manifesta 3: Diagnosing Europe” by Susan Snodgrass.
Flash Art, vol. XXXIII, No. 214 (October 2000); review by Heather Felty.
Kleine Zeitung, 6. Sept. 2000; “Perspektivische Erweiterung” by Von Herwig Holler.
Liberation, 11 September 2000; “Manifesta, passeport pour Ljubljana” by Alain Dreyfus.

Selected magazines and newspapers which published Bosnian Girl

"10+1" (October, 2004 issue 36)
The Financial Times Magazine, special issue (March 27 2004, issue NO. 48)
Kunstforum (Bd. 169, Marz - April 2004)
DER STANDARD, daily newspaper (11 December 2003)
Zarez (11.09.2003, g.V, br. 111-112)
Mladina (28 / 2003)
DANI, BH news magazine, (11.7.2003, br.317)
Start, BH magazine, (15.7.2003, br. 120)
Urban BUG (august 2003, issue 16)
Bosnian Girl - art work of the month in the International Contemporary Art Networks http://ican.artnet.org/ican/