/ Sejla Dream; Kyoto, 2005
EDUCATION
1999 Completed studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, Department of Graphic Design.
1994-1997 Worked with the design group TRIO Sarajevo.
1997-2000 Worked as Art Director in the creative team FABRIKA Sarajevo.
FELOWSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES
2007 DAAD Artist in Residency Fellowship, Berlin, Germany
MEMBERSHIPS
Site 2003 Member of the European Cultural Parliament.
Site 2005 Member of Young Global Leaders Forum
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS/ PUBLIC PROJECTS AND INTERVENTIONS
2007
What Do I Know, O.K Center for Contemporary Art, CROSSING EUROPE - Film
Festival, Linz, Austria, curated by Martin Sturm
Bosnian Girl / Sejla Kameric, Literaturhaus, Salzburg, Austria
Sometime, Never, May·be, public project, Sarajevo / Berlin / Geneva
2006
Brand New, Contemporary Art Institute EXIT, National Art Gallery Pristine, Kosove, curated by Erzen Shkololli
The Final Sale, Karver, Podgorica, Montenegro, curated by Dunja Blažević
2005
Sejla Kameric (Another Expo - Beyond the Nation-States), Gallery SOAP, Kitakyushu, Japan; curated by Shinya Watanabe
Untitled, solo exhibition, Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, Czech Republic; curated by Michal Kolecek
Close, solo exhibition, National Gallery of BH, Sarajevo, BH.
2004
Others and Dreams, solo exhibition, Portikus Frankfurt am Miane, Germany; curated by Nikola Dietrich
FREI, public intervention; club transmediale 0.4 – (fly utopia!); festival for electronic music and related visual art, Berlin, Germany.
2003
Bosnian Girl, public project (posters, billboards, magazine ads, postcards)
WARRANT, public intervention; exhibition “Myths of Memory” curated by Ong Keng Sen; Schauspielhaus, Vienna, Austria.
2002
Closing the Border (Welcome to the ancient land of freedom), public intervention; border crossing between San Marino and Italy.
2001
homeSICK, public intervention (work in progress, started in 2001)
Fortune Teller, public intervention; Sarajevo, BH.
1999
Before Beginning, video projection; Obala Meeting Point, Sarajevo, BH.
For My Sake, installation; in front of the Academy of Fine Arts, Sarajevo, BH.
1998
Plug, installation; Obala Meeting Point, Sarajevo, BH.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
'Hell is... other people', Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Nederland, curated by Nathalie Zonnenberg
INBETWEENESS, Ex Carceri del Complesso di San Michele a Ripa, Rome, Italy, curated by Dobrila Denegri and Ludovico Pratesi
FREI, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark, curated by Rene Blok
La Nuit des Musées, Musée d¹Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, La Fée Electricité by R. Dufy, Paris, France
Between Borders, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain, curated by Carolina Grau
Vocal Verbal, Gallery SC, Zagreb, Croatia, curated by Lala Rascic
Sarajevo - Memory and Communication, Shiga Art creation hall, Shiga-pref, Shin-bi, Kyoto, Japan
2006
Zones of Contact, 15th Biennale of Sydney 2006, Sydney, Australia; curated by Charles Merewether
Sweet Taboos: A Mini Tirana Biennial in NYC, Apexart, New York, USA; curated by Edi Muka
8372 NISU DOŠLI, Mimara Museum, Zagreb, Croatia
NORMALIZATION, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Schweden
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, Germany; curated by Alenka Gregorić
PERSONAL STORIES, An exhibition in the framework of the European Forum
Alpbach, High School, Alpbach, Tyrol, Austria
2005
"CONFLICT: Perspectives, Positions, Realities in Central European Art", Slought Foundation, curated by Lorand Hegyi
TABOO / Tirana Biennale, Tirana, Albania; curated by Edi Muka
Displaced, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK), Berlin, Germany; curated by Kathrin Becker
Another Expo - Beyond the Nation-States, June 2005: Gallery Level1, Kitakyushu, Japan
September 2005: Gallery White Box, New York, USA; curated by Shinya Watanabe
GUARDAMI. Percezioni del video, Palazzo delle Papesse, Sienna, Italy; curated by Dr. Lorenzo Fusi and Dr. Marco Pierini
Migrations of Energies, Part 1: Clouding Europe, Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
La actualidad revisada (News Revisited), La Tabacalera, San Sebastian, Spain; video exhibition curated by Aline Pujo
Leaps of Faith Nicosia, Cyprus; curated by Katerina Gregos and Erden Kosova
Norway 2005 - Andre/Others, Sørlandet Art Museum, Kristiansand, Norway; curated by Frank Falch
The Giving Person, Palazzo Roccella, Napoli, Italy; curated by Lorand Hegyi
Fear, Artandgallery, Milan, Italy; curated by Manuela Gandini Philadelphia, USA;
2004
Cosmopolis1: Microcosmos X Macrocosmos, State Museum of Contemporary Art and Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, curated by Magda Carneci
ONUFRI, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania, curated by Erzen Shkololli
FIAC, Paris Expo-Foire de l’Art Contemporain, Paris, France; presented by Gandy Gallery
Passage d'Europe, Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France; curated by Lorand Hegyi
I am here and you are there, GALERIE FÜR ZEITGENÖSSISCHE KUNST, Leipzig, Germany; curated by Barbara Steiner.
TRADING PLACES, Pump House Gallery, London, UK, curated by B+B
HOT DESTINATION/MARGINAL DESTINY, House of Art Brno, Czech Republic, curated by Michal Kolecek
2003
IDENTIKIT, Galeria e Arteve te Kosoves, Pristina, Kosovo; curated by Nadja Zgonik and Gani Llalloshi.
Borderlining, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany; curated by Doris Berger.
Balkan Konzulat: Sarajevo,
The Gorges of the Balkans, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany; curated by René
Block.
Peripheries Become the Center, PRAGUE BIENNALE, Prague, Czech Republic; curated by Michal Kolecek.
Cultural Territories, GALERIE FÜR ZEITGENÖSSISCHE KUNST, Leipzig, Germany; curator for BH: Lejla Hodžić.
2002
No Border, S. Maria delle Croci, Museo d’Arte della Citta, Ravenna, Italy; curated by Serena Simoni.
KUNSTEXPEDITIONEN2002/OSTEUROPA, Sony Center and Art Forum, Berlin, Germany; curated by Sabrina van der Ley.
City of Women, International Festival of Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia; curated by Aleksandra Vajd.
The Promised Land, O' artoteca, Milano, Italy; curated by Marco Scotini.
Quattro Venti, exhibition project in Manciano (province of Grosseto, Tuscany), Italy; curated by Letizia Ragaglia.
Bound/less Borders, traveling billboard exhibition (starting point in Belgrade, Yugoslavia); curator for BH: Dunja Blažević.
HOME, Collegium Artisticum Gallery, Sarajevo, BH; curated by Dunja Blažević.
2001
One Hundred Years of Contemporary Art of BH, National Gallery of BH, Sarajevo, BH.
The Real, The Desperate, The Absolute, Forum Stadtpark, Steirischer Herbst Festival; Graz, Austria; curated by Marina Grzinić.
Rendez – Vous Ars Aevi, Sarajevo, BH; curated by Zdenka Badovinec.
Icograda – International Council of Graphic Design Association, Zagreb, Croatia.
26 th Youth Salon, Zagreb, Croatia; curated by Slaven Tolj.
Freedom and Violence, Królikarnia Gallery, Warsawa, Poland; curator for BH: Dunja Blažević.
2000
Tandem Project, DCAC, Signal 66; Washington D.C., USA.
MANIFESTA 3, European Biennial of Contemporary Art; Ljubljana, Slovenia; curated by Francesco Bonami, Ole Bouman,
Maria Hlavajeva and Kathrine Rhomberg.
What am I doing here?, Galerija Škuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia; curated by Lejla Hodžić.
1999
SCCA Third Annual Exhibition – Under Construction, Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art,
Visitors, Galerija Škuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Environment on the Eve of the III Millennium, Perejaslavi-Zalesskij, Russia.
SCCA Second Annual Exhibition – Beyond the Mirror, Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art,
Arte in Guerra, Palazzo Reale, Napoli, Italy. Sarajevo, BH Sarajevo, BH
1997
SCCA First Annual Exhibition – Meeting Point, Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art, Sarajevo, BH
THEATER PROJECTS
The Suicides, documentary-feature play; Sarajevo, BH, 2003. Art Director
Romeo and Juliet; Sarajevo, BH, 2002. Art Director
Opsada kolekcija ‘92-‘95 / The Siege Collection ‘92-’95; Sarajevo, BH, 2002. Concept and Direction (with Haris Pašović)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
OTHERS AND DREAMS, Artist's book; (engl.); Portikus Frankfurt am Main...; 2004
"10+1" October, 2004 issue36 "Expo and the Nation-State: For the exhibition 'Another Expo - Beyond the Nation-State" by Shinya Watanabe
Others and Dreams, 2004, Artist Book, Portikus Frankfurt am Miane, Germany.
Within, Alongside, and Between Spaces; Revolver book, 2004; Kunstverein Wolfsburg, by Doris Berger.
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.
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
COLLECTIONS
Curtain, Snow, Peace, Biblioteca Panizzi, Reggio Emila, Italy
What Do I Know, Kontakt, The Art Collection of Erste Bank-Group, Austria
Bosnian Girl, Kontakt, The Art Collection of Erste Bank-Group, Austria
dream house, video, Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, France
dream house, video, collection COFF, San Sebastian, Spain
dream house, video, collection Antoine de Galbert, la maison rouge, Paris, France
EU/Others, public installation; in the collection of University Klagenfurt, Austria
Fortune Teller, photographs of public intervention; in the collection of Ars Aevi Museum,
Sarajevo, BH
ZAUZETO / Occupied, public installation; in the collection of the National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, BH
