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until 08.11. | #4658ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tanja Wagner shows from Friday, 02. May 2025 the exhibition In the Darkened Rooms by the artist Šejla Kamerić.
Galerie Tanja Wagner will present the solo exhibition In The Darkened Rooms by Šejla Kamerić during Gallery Weekend Berlin 2025.
The exhibition features a new installation composed of three black crochet objects, handcrafted by women in Sarajevo. These works build upon Kamerić’s previous series Rose Garden and Hooked, the latter of which was shown at Manifesta 14. While crochet is often associated with traditional domestic crafts, Kamerić uses the medium within a contemporary sculptural context.
Her series Thorn (Bitch) (2021/2025), comprised of analog instant photographs, documents close-up images of the artist’s body in contact with thorny branches. The small-format images invite close inspection, while a dark vertical strip of color rises from the floor, visually reminiscent of protective barriers found in public spaces.
The exhibition engages with themes such as bodily representation, intimacy, viewer perception, and the intersection of personal and political narratives. Accompanying the photographs are new brass sculptures, inspired by thorn branches, which expand the installation into three dimensions.
Šejla Kamerić (born 1976 in Sarajevo) works across various media including film, photography, drawing, objects, and installation. Her work has been shown internationally and is part of collections such as the soon-to-open Fenix Museum (Rotterdam), TATE Modern (London), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam), Vehbi Koç Foundation Contemporary Art Collection (Istanbul), MACBA (Barcelona), MMCA – Museum of Contemporary Art (Seoul), Contemporary Art Museum (Zagreb), Kontakt Collection (Austria), and ArtTelekom (Germany).
Selected recent solo exhibitions include:
2025: FC – Francisco Carolinum, Linz
2024: Museum of Contemporary Arts of Montenegro, Podgorica; Cukrarna Gallery, Ljubljana; Campo Santo Stefano, Venice
2023: Contemporary Art Gallery, Subotica
2022: Kunsthaus Dresden Robotron Kantine, Dresden; TATE Modern, London
2021: KRA Center for Contemporary Culture, Bihać; Realstage Association, Sarajevo
2018: Fondazione Adolfo Pini, Milan; Kibla, Maribor; GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
2015: ARTER Space for Art, Istanbul; National Gallery of Kosovo, Prishtina
Opening: 02 May 2025 from 6 to 9 pm
Exhibition dates: Friday, 02 May to Friday, 12 July 2025
Gallery Weekend Berlin: 02 May to 04 May 2025
To the Gallery
Image caption title: Šejla Kamerić, Thorn (bitch), (2021/2025).
Exhibition Šejla Kamerić – Galerie Tanja Wagner | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Galerien Berlin | ART at Berlin
