Selma Selman
CV
CV
Education
2021 – 2023
Rijksakademie von Beeldende Kunsten | Amsterdam
2015 – 2018
MFA Transmedia, Visual and Performing Arts | Syracuse University, NY
2014 – 2015
Central European University (no-degree program) | Budapest
2010 – 2014
Academy of Fine Arts | University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka
Awards
2022
Bildrecht SOLO Award | viennacontemporary, Vienna (AUT)
2019
Finalist of the Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize, Berlin
Power of Excellence Award by Association of Business Women in BiH and again Grazia, Sarajevo
White Aphroid Award for outstanding artistic achievement, Maribor
The Jury Award for the best short film at 60 seconds Film Festival, Copenhagen
2017
Young European Artist Trieste Contemporanea Award, Triest
2015 – 2016
Commendation of the Cultural Center for "Outstanding Achievements in Art, Bihac
2014
"The ZVONO Award" for the best young artist in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Best Painter Award | Academy of Arts, Banja Luka
Best Graphic Designer Award | Academy of Arts, Banja Luka
2013
Best Intermedia Artist Award | Academy of Arts, Banja Luka
Solo exhibitions
2022
The Most Dangerous Woman in the World | Kunstraum Innsbruck (AUT)
2021
Don't Look Into My Eyes | Kasseler Kunstverein Museum Fridericanum, Kassel (GER)
Selma Selman | National Gallery, Sarajevo (BIH)
Superposition | KUK Gallery, Cologne (GER)
2020
NO SPACE | Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje (MAK)
NO SPACE | Youth Center, Belgrade (SRB)
2019
Evropa Boss Light | Robot Pole, Pula (CR)
2018
I Will Buy My Freedom When | act Attachment, Budapest (HU)
I Will Buy My Freedom When | Studio Tommaseo, Triest (IT)
I Will Buy My Freedom When | SU Art Gallery, Syracuse (USA)
2017
AEG vampyr 1400 | cab Attachment, Budapest (HU)
You Have No Idea | agnès b. Galerie Boutique, New York (USA)
2016
I Exist | Gallery Schleifmühlgasse 12-14, Vienna (AUT)
I Exist | Gallery Dreamland, Buffalos, New York (USA)
2015
You Have No Idea | Gallery Epeka, Maribor (SLO)
Group Exhibitions
2023
Nationalgalerie: A Collection of the 21st Century | Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (GER)
Invisible Until It's Broken | Künstlerhaus Dortmun, Dortmund (GER)
Unruly Kinships | Temporary Gallery-Center of Contemporary Art, Cologne (GER)
2022
Protozone9: Week.End.Opera | Shedhalle, Zurich (CH)
Manifest Biennal | Pristina (XK)
documenta 15 | Kassel (GER)
Emplotment | Ludwig Museum-Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest (HU)
2021
EVROVIZION Crossing Stories and Spaces | touring exhibition by ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), Art Encounters biennale, Timisoara (ROU=
Mediterranea 19 Young Artists Biennale School of Waters | San Marino
THE ART OF RESISTANCE | Rautenstrauch-Joest Musuem, Cologne (GER)
2020
Corners Stories | Skuc Gallery, Ljublijana (SLO)
FUTUROMA | Villa Romana, Firenze (ITA)
From what will we reassemble ourselves | Framer Framed, Amsterdam (NL)
...of Bread, Wine, Cars, Security and Peace | Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (AUT)
Measured Confluence | Down Gallery, Cortland, New York (USA)
2019
FutuRoma | 58th Venice Biennale, Fondamenta Zattere Allo Spirito Santo, Venice (ITA)
Briser le 4e mur | L'Onde Center for Art, Paris (FR)
WE WOMEN* ARE GOING TO INSIST ON FIGHTING | Guerilla of Enlightenment 3, Rotor, Graz (AUT)
2018
In der Kubatur des Kabinetts | Gallery Fluck, Vienna (AUT)
Her New East | Gallery Galeznica, Zagreb (CR)
Pin me up-Turn me around | Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna (AUT)
Gypsyism Balkanism-Uniting Peripheries | ERIAC, Berlin (GER)
Personal | KID Kiel Gallery, Maribor (SLO)
My Art is My Reality | Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka (CR)
Industrial Art Biennale | Labin, Rijeka (CR)
Cordial Points | Gallery Schleifmühlgasse 12-14, Vienna (AUT)
Hiding in Plain Sight: MFA Thesis Exhibit | Art Helix Gallery, New York (USA)
Proof of Existence: An Exhibit of Work by Contemporary Artists of Bosnian and Balkan Origin, University Gallery, Kentucky (USA)
2017
3.Berlin Herbesalon | Maxim Gorki Theater, Palais im Festungsgraben, Kronprinzenpalais, Berlin (GER)
AS FAR AS I CAN GO - radical movements | Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna (AUT)
Identification - Field Exercises After Katalin Ladin | acb Gallery, Budapest (HU)
Horsecross Collection of Contemporary Art | Threshold art space, Scotland
2016
Contemporary Thesaurus | Museum of Contemporary Art in Vojvodina, Novi Sad (SRB)
Contemporary Thesaurus | Museum of Contemporary Art, Banja Luka (BIH)
The Works Art and Design Festival | Edmont, Alberta (CAN)
Conquer the Beauty | New Children Gallery, New Orleans (USA)
Hero Mother curated by Bojan Pejić and Dr. Rachel Rits-Volloch | Kunstquartier Bethanien, at MOMENTUM & Studio 1 in Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin (GER)
2015
ZVONO exhibition of the finalists and winner | Gallery Duplex Sarajevo (BIH)
Biennale of Contemporary Art D-O ARK, Sarajevo (BIH)
2014
We Want You | The 10th Berlin International Directors Lounge, Berlin (GER)
Calling Cards | Gallery 8, Budapest (HU)
Performances
2020
Measured Confluence | Down Gallery, Cortland, New York (USA)
2019
Krass Festival | Hamburg (GER)
Villa Romana | Firenze (ITA)
Venice Biennale | Venice (ITA)
Briser le 4e mur | L'Onde Center for Arts, Paris (FRA)
2018
Studio Tommaseo | Trieste (ITA)
Sziget Festival | Budapest (HU)
2017
7a*md8 Live Stream | Toronto (CAN)
3. Berlin Herbesalon | Maxim Gorki Theatre, Palais Festungsgraben, Kronprinzenpalais, Berlin (GER)
2016
7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art | Toronto (CAN)
Conquer the Beauty | New Children Gallery, New Orleans (USA)
Hero Mother | Kunstquatier Bethanien, Berlin (GER)
Mikser Festival | Belgrade (SRB)
Summer School as School | Pristina (KOS)
2015
Spark Performance Vol. 6 "A Few Other Nows" | New York (USA)
15. Art Performance Festival "to be continued=to be | Osijek (CR)
Body in Danger | Dreamland, Buffalo, New York (USA)
2014
International Festival of Performing Arts "My Country, Staglinec" | Staglinec (CR)
International Festival of Performing Arts "Week of live art" | Dubrovnik (CR)
2013
Feminist Cultural Festival "Be-Fem" | Belgrade (SR)
Residencies
2019
Kultur Kontakt Austria | Vienna (AUT)
2018
Art in Residency | Artreach India, Patna (IND)
2017
DANUBE ART LAB | Donumenta, Regensburg (GER)
2016
Summer School as School | Pristina (KOS)
2015
Residency at ISCP center, New York (USA)
2014
Project "BAUHAUS Goes South East Europe, 1914/2014" | Sarajevo (BIH)
Festivals and Screenings
2020
Sarajevo Film Festival | Sarajevo (BIH)
26th International Festival of Contemporary Arts - City of Women | Ljubljana (SLO)
2019
Queens Museum | New York (USA)
Krass Festival | Hamburg (GER)
The Creative Time Summit | Miami (USA)
2017 – 2018
FIAC International Art Fair, Paris (FR)
Open Screen - "Modernity-Loved, hated or ignored" | Luxembourg City Film Festival (LX)
Public Open Studio Com Art NY (USA)
2015
Pitch Wise Festival | Sarajevo (BIH)
Workshop at Moderna Museet | Malmö (SW)
2014
Video Art Festival Miden | Sarajevo (BIH)
Multimedia Art Project, 1st video edition | Museum of Contemporary Art, Banja Luka (BIH)
2013
International Land Art Festival " Straw" | Osijek (CR)
International Congress of Contemporary Art and Theory "FORMER WEST" | Berlin (GER)