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We are pleased to announce that Šejla Kamerić will participate in Manifesta 16, the European Nomadic Biennial, opening on 21 June 2026.

Presented across four cities in Germany’s Ruhr region: Bochum, Essen, Duisburg, and Gelsenkirchen, this edition of Manifesta will unfold within 12 decommissioned post-war churches. Curated collaboratively by an artistic team of eight, the biennial brings together 106 participants from 30 countries, including 64 newly commissioned works. Šejla Kamerić is among the artists invited to present a newly commissioned work for this edition. Reimagined as spaces for reflection and exchange, the selected venues will host projects that engage with the development of alternative social models, fostering civic life, physical wellbeing, and community encounter.

“The curatorial concept of Manifesta 16 Ruhr is based on a dialogical approach: art emerges through exchange — between international and local positions, between artistic practice and societal questions, and between existing structures and new forms of use. The invited participants bring together a wide range of artistic methods, disciplines and experiences.”

Gethsemane Kirche, Bochum, one of the 12 venues of Manifesta 16 Ruhr. Photo: Daniel Sadrowski

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Šejla Kamerić (b. 1976, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a visual artist whose practice involves film, photography, objects, drawings and installations. She has received widespread acclaim for the poignant intimacy and social commentary that have become the main elements of her work. Taking up the subjects that arise from non-linear historical narratives, as well as personal histories, Kamerić places her focus on the politics of memory, modes of resistance in human life and consequential idiosyncrasies of women’s struggle. By insisting on empathy as the founding communicative mechanism between herself, her subjects and spectators, Kamerić warns of, and at the same time creates, places of power and political arenas.

Her work is part of several international art collections, such as TATE Modern in London; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Vehbi Koç Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul; MACBA Barcelona; Contemporary art museum in Zagreb; Kontakt Collection in Austria; ArtTelekom in Germany, etc.

Kamerić has exhibited her work at MACBA, Barcelona; MUMOK in Vienna; New Tertyakov Gallery, Moscow; Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana; National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo; National Gallery of Kosovo, Pristina; National Gallery, North Macedonia; Arter Museum, Istanbul; MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow; Centre Pompidou in Paris; Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C; Kunsthaus Graz, Graz; CAC Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius; Röda Sten Centre for Contemporary Art, Gothenburg; Wip: Konsthall in Stockholm, Kunsthaus Dresden; GAK Bremen; Portkus in Frankfurt am Maine; Galerie im Taxispalais in Innsbruck; Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg; European Biennial of Contemporary Art Manifesta (3rd & 14th edition); Sharjah Art foundation – Sharjah Art Museum; Manchester International Festival MFI, Hannah Ryggen Triennale, Trondheim; Coventry Biennial; Berliner Herbstsalon, Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz and Gwangju Biennale as well as other art platforms worldwide.

Her films were screened in more than 40 international film festivals including the Venice International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, International Adana Film Festival and Sarajevo Film Festival.