Going on/coming up:
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I finished my first feature film, Once an Alien, it will be shown during my solo exhibition at Rozenstraat (a rose is a rose is a rose) in Amsterdam from 27th of May till July 30 (opening is the 2nd of June during Amsterdam Art Week).
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If you want to support my practice, I have some stuff for sale (I might add more items later). https://www.semabekirovic.nl/shop/
About:
“Bekirovic’s work is best described as playful conceptualism. Like reality, it’s a universe of temporary constellations wherein objects, people, animals and/or chemical reactions trigger one another into acting out their parts in a play directed by coincidence. Bekirovic creates a field of tension between the parameters she defines and her subject’s personal agenda. She eschews a hands-on, interfering approach, allowing her subject to co-author the work.”
Marcus Bruystens
Semâ Bekirović studied at the Rietveld Academie and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Her work has been exhibited at De Appel (Amsterdam), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Hayward Gallery Project Space (London), Dutch Culture Institute (Shanghai) and on Times Square (NYC).
Media
Short film by Sije Kingma about my work All That Is Solid for Into Nature 2021
Reading by Osmosis, Nature Interprets Us:
Press about Reading by Osmosis can be found here
Art of Encounter, at ICI Berlin. With Michael Marder and Dan Liu.
The book Reading by Osmosis can be ordered at:
https://www.nai010.com/en/publicaties/reading-by-osmosis-nature-interprets-us/245793
Things that blow my mind for various reasons. A selection of research images for Mister Motley Salon
Why did you come to Japan? Me being interviewed for Japanese television on Narita airport, 2020
Kunst is Lang Radio (in Dutch):
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A Selection of Articles
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Arnon Ben-Dror writes about the relation between touch and video art, Close Your Eyes and Touch It (download link, English)
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All That Is Solid by https://sanatkritik.com/yazilar/insan-elinden-cikmayan-sanat-bekirovicin-konak-bedenleri-seker-adam-ve-sinirlar/ (Turkish)
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Into Nature review by Maarten Buser https://www.de-lage-landen.com/article/kunstexpeditie-into-nature-toont-het-drentse-veengebied-als-toverbal (Dutch)
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Metropolis M personal essay about my projects in Chemnitz http://www.metropolism.com/en/features/42144_an_impression_of_the_past_artist_sem_bekirovi_on_the_making_of_uebersetzungen_translations (English)
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Harald Schole Interviewed me for KM Magazine (Dutch)
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Essay from the Reading by Osmosis book https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z1WXDJEZOyQ7ld9HUuW5yCSezgD_kyk9DG8e5tZoG_c/edit?usp=sharing (English)
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Men of Steel, Men of Stone, Mister Motley, 06-2020 https://www.mistermotley.nl/art-everyday-life/staal-steen-en-sop. (Dutch)
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Article by Saskia Isabella, Maria Korsten, Partaker Agency: Entanglement of agencies in artworks by Bekirovic and Abramović. (English)
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Lavallette/ a conversation with (English)
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Metropolis M, by Loes van Beuningen (Dutch)
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The Guardian, by Skye Sherwin (English)
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The Reversibility of Art, Lucretius, Gravity and Semâ Bekirovic’s How to stop falling. Professor Graham Allen, University College Cork, Ireland (English)
Many people and organizations have contributed to my work over the years, I would like to thank :
Marcus Bruystens
Mirza Bekirovic
Tobias Mulders
Peter Moll
Lotte Geeven
Jan Peter Schultz
Emma Diettrich
Matthias Kulutacz
Jan-Pieter Karper
Roos van As
Isabel Cordeiro
Heimo Gratzl
Ton de Vreede
Ben Geraerts
Maureen Ho
Jan van Agteren
AAP LAB
FLIR
Fotolab
Roy Taylor
Paulien Oltheten
Naro Snackey
Ruth Legg
Seb Schneiders
Tudor Bratu
Kerem Ozan Bayraktar
Andrew Wilson
Katja Mater
Stefan Dekker
Inez en Wessel Bezemer
Jorrit Bruinsma
Eskodive
Dijnselburg Zwembad in Zeist
Danny Martherus
Anja Zwaneveld
David Kraaij
Marcel Horck/ BEEZZZZ
Clive Jezard
Michael Marder
Alice Smith
Kees Moeiliker
Mamoru Suzuki
Tomoko Kawachi
Pjotr Boomgaard
Kees Reedijk
Andre Martens
Rogier Maussen
Birds@work
Mondriaanfonds
AFK
Niemeijer Fonds
Gemeente Amsterdam Zuid
Recidency 11:11
Z/KU Berlin
ICI Berlin
Rijksakademie Amsterdam
Coots
Wild boars
Birds
Ants
Snails
and many others