Selma Selman

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)

Enquiry