Biography

Emir Šehanović was born in 1981 in Tuzla, Bosnia & Herzegovina. Through his practice, Šehanović explores superstition, the occult and symbolic meaning, rooted in the artist’s childhood experiences and the local tradition of his native Bosnia. These themes migrate towards a reflection on our collective unconsciousness, on a broader level. Embracing repetition in his daily life and work, Šehanović uses the exhibition to pursue one-of-a-kind experiences that are meant to be shared between himself and the viewers, each of whom will have their own memories and associations with which to affiliate the artist’s body of work. His works have been shown in New York, Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, Athens, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Vienna, Sofia, Belgrade, Stuttgart, Heilbronn and many places in the south-east European region. Šehanović has recently been selected as part of 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow, to be published by Thames and Hudson.

Solo Exhibitions

2019
The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine, Eugster || Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

2017
09:14, Eugster || Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

2015
Let the evil always pass and never come in!, KM8 Gallery, Belgrada, Serbia

2014
Take Three Deep Breaths, International Gallery of Portrait Tuzla, Tuzla, B&H
Take Three Deep Breaths, L’OV - CAN Centre d’art Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland

2013
Subuhum Kudusum Veruhum, U10 Gallery,Belgrade, Serbia
Rainbow Magic, HipHip Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Trinity, Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Group Exhibitions

2019
Odkuda / form from, Galerija Reflektor, Užice, Serbia

2018
Artikulacije 1, Evangelical Church, Pančevo, Serbia
Acéphale, aqb Project Space, Budapest, Hungary
‘No Where – Now Here’, Ultrastudio, Los Angeles / Las Vegas Desert
Jeune Création #68, Les Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France
That That Lies Beneath, GSL Projekt, Berlin, Germany
The Shape of a Shadow, GSL Projekt, Berlin, Germany

2017
GENODEM1GLS, LAGE EGAL, Berlin, Germany
Heterotopia: The Spaces of Otherness, Serbian House, London, UK

2015
Gallery Weekend, HVW8 Berlin, Berlin,Germany
Re-Contextualizing the Folklore Rituals, POST NORMA, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2014
When It Is Dark Enoug, CES Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
Same Space/New Light, HVW8 Berlin, Berlin, Germany
EUDAIMONIA, Bord de l’eau design factory, Thessaloniki, Greece

2013
ATHENS VIDEO ART FESTIVAL , Athens, Greece
P.O.P. IN PROGRESS (Prevalence Offering Potentialities), GALLERAY, New York, United States

2010
Opušteno - ART OF ASFALT reunion, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
HAT CREW, Joseph Beuys Musieum, Heilbronn, Germany

2008
SPAPORT, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Art Fairs

2019
vienna contemporary, Vienna, Austria
artgenève, Geneva, Switzerland

2018
artgenève, Geneva, Switzerland
PARALLEL VIENNA, Vienna, Austria

2015
LISTE – Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland

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