Installation Archives -

Unfixed Galaxies (2018–2024) by Sema Bekirovic consists of analogue photographic prints created using dust collected from the vacuum cleaners at the Stedelijk Museum. The dust, containing traces of visitors, staff, and artworks, was placed on photographic paper, exposed, developed, but left unfixed. Displayed behind red plexiglass to slow the fading process, the images remain light-sensitive and will eventually disappear if exposed to daylight. The work emphasizes the transience of both people and artworks, highlighting the intimate material traces left behind in shared museum spaces.

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Unfixed Galaxies (framed)

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Reading by Osmosis/ Nature interprets Us

All That Is Solid (2021) by Sema Bekirovic is an outdoor installation created for Into Nature Drenthe. The work consists of a 140×140 cm ball made of 2,300 kg of sugar, glucose, and food coloring, tested and approved by Staatsbosbeheer ecologists. Placed in a nature reserve, the sugar ball slowly transforms as it is eroded by rain and consumed by insects. The piece explores impermanence, the interaction between human-made materials and natural processes, and the passage of time in ecological environments.

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All that is Solid

Echoes of the Sun (2022) by Sema Bekirovic and Jan-Pieter Karper — white A2 sheets printed in white ink that reveal a sun image over time when exposed to sunlight.

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Echoes of the Sun

For the Birds (2020) by Sema Bekirovic — installation in which skylights are covered with 200 kg of birdseed, allowing birds to determine how much sunlight enters the exhibition space.

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For the Birds

Übersetzungen 03 (Brecht) (2020) by Sema Bekirovic is a video installation developed during the Dialogfelder residency in Chemnitz, Germany. The work stems from a workshop in which the artist invited passersby to trace figures on a transparent plastic sheet placed over the GDR-era relief Lobgedichte, created by various artists and based on Bertolt Brecht’s praise poems. The act of tracing becomes a gesture of reinterpretation and dialogue—an interaction between past and present, individual and collective memory. The piece is part of a broader series of collaborative works exploring translation, historical continuity, and the reactivation of socialist-era public art.

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Übersetzungen

rifwood by Sema Bekirovic . Driftwood shows the way. Compasses made out of pieces of driftwood

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Driftwood

Sculptures for Ants (2019) by Sema Bekirovic and Jan-Pieter Karper — installation and workshop creating miniature sculptures for ants during the Into The Great Wide Open festival.

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Sculptures for the Ants

Men of Steel, Men of Stone (2017–ongoing) by Sema Bekirovic — 16mm film showing the artist washing and covering statues of Dutch colonial heroes with soap and mud.

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Men of Steel, Men of Stone

Untitled (Honeycombs) (2011) by Sema Bekirovic — household objects placed inside beehives and transformed by bees building honeycomb around them.

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Untitled (Honeycombs)

Silicone cast artwork “Übersetzungen” by Sema Bekirovic, after Johann Belz’s 1976 relief Kampf und Sieg der revolutionären Deutschen Arbeiterklasse in Chemnitz, GDR.

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Übersetzungen (Belz)

In Communion of Goods (2016) by Sema Bekirovic — installation using a compressor and copper tubing that accumulates ice from ambient humidity.

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In Communion of Goods

Organon (2018) by Sema Bekirovic — installation of 60 handmade thermometers forming a shifting line drawing through fluctuating temperature.

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Organon

The International Forest (2014–ongoing) by Sema Bekirovic — collection of branches and leaves transported across borders by mail and air travel as part of a performative exploration of mobility and ecology.

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The International Forest

sema bekirovic flying carpet

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Flying Carpet

Event Horizon HD video, 4 min, 2010. A landscape is gradually engulfed by an approaching black hole.

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Event Horizon

Kubus 02 (2017) by Sema Bekirovic is a 15 × 15 × 15 cm handmade cube constructed from plexiglass and glue, coated with forensic fingerprint powder known as “special gold.” The artist instructed the factory workers who assembled the cube not to wear gloves, preserving their fingerprints and smudges on its surface. By later applying the forensic powder, Bekirovic revealed the cube’s hidden history—the physical traces of those who made it. The work serves both as an homage to unseen labor and a reminder that we inevitably leave traces of ourselves behind.

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Kubus

Every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you (2017) by Sema Bekirovic — wall installation using bone glue illuminated by UV light to reveal natural luminescence

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Every atom belonging to me ….

Unfixed Galaxies (2013–2017) by Sema Bekirovic — unfixed analogue photograms of galaxies displayed in a red-lit, lightproof room.

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Unfixed Galaxies

Snowflake (2012) by sema bekirovic, is a photographic experiment in which an image of a snowflake is developed but intentionally left unfixed, leaving it sensitive to light and time. The image can only be seen by peering beneath a piece of black cloth — an act that paradoxically exposes it to light and initiates its gradual transformation. T

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Snowflake

sema bekirovic

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Untitled (Shelves)

Waterspiegels Mirrors, 300cm x 600 cm, by sema bekirovic, underwater construction A mirrored object is fixed just beneath the water surface. The flow of the water above it makes the object appear to shimmer.

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Waterspiegel

Traces by Sema Bekirovic — found objects treated with forensic powder and illuminated with UV light to reveal fingerprints and smudges.

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Traces

Untitled (Metal Ball) by Sema Bekirovic, 2008. 80×80×80 cm, metal and electronics. A spherical object with a destructive inner mechanism, slowly destroying itself from the inside out.

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Untitled (metal ball)

sema bekirovic

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World Lines

sema bekirovic

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Untitled Object Made Of Dice

art installation with 100 photo camera's, sema bekirovic

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Camerakamer

It’s a god-awful small affair 5 eurocent coins, 2013 Thousands of star-shaped laser-cut coins spread across a floor.

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It’s a god-awful small affair