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My practice is mostly individual as I was academically schooled in painting, although in recent years I developed a more interdisciplinary approach to my artistic endeavors. My latest work is associated with collage making, digital work, sound, and the production of recycled art books. In the past years, I've been working in collaboration with other artists and artistic groups, nationally and internationally, creating experimental zine publications and developing methodologies regarding art in public space. In my visual work I'm always after the idea of how to twist and pervert the mundane, the familiar, hidden, and unnoticeable. I see my work as a voyeuristic pleasure wrapped in humor and fantasy.

Lamija Halilagic (b. 1991) is a visual artist working in painting, collage, video, and installation. Her works are coming from deconstructing and subverting the relations between meaning and imagery. With collage she explores matters of ownership and inclusion, making recycled green books out of discarded materials and waste. Lately, her work expanded into digital realms and sound. Halilagic is interested in the way we perceive reality within different contexts and how the image, digital or not shapes our understanding of memory and intimacy. She has an MA degree in painting and art theory and was rewarded with the Grand Prix for the best young artist in 2018, Sarajevo. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and was published in various art publications (Berlin, Bologna, Panevezys). She's currently working in Belgrade (Serbia).

EDUCATION

2019   SUMMER SCHOOL COURSES, „Ecology of transdisciplinary and contemporary arts“ – Faculty of Media and Communications(FMK), Belgrade, Serbia

2016 - 2018   Master of Fine Arts, (ALU), Painting and Art Theory, Sarajevo, BIH

2017   SUMMER SCHOOL AS SCHOOL, Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, Prishtina, Kosovo

2011 - 2016   Bachelor of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Painting, Sarajevo, BIH

EXHIBITIONS

2025   Tri agregatna stanja, Galerija Manifesto, Sarajevo, BIH (upcoming)

2025   NOVI TALASI 3, Bosanski kulturni centar, Sarajevo, BIH

2023   FRLJANJE JEZIKOM, Remont - nezavisna umetnicka asocijacija, Belgrade, Serbia / ongoing

2022   Goodbye sad world (solo), Ostavinska, Belgrade, Serbia

2022   We are Joseph Beuys, CON-TEMPORARY Art Observatorium, Lavagna, Italy

2022   Postcard show, Šok zadruga @artklinika, Novi Sad, Serbia

2021   Spaces of Togetherness, Cultural Center of Belgrade & FEMKANJE audio online database, Serbia

2020   Other Ways of Watching Together, showroom MaMA, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2019   Three chairs for holes and waste (solo), Galerija Roman Petrovic, Sarajevo, BIH

2019   International Triennial of Extended Media REKONEKCIJA, Paviljon Cvijeta Zuzuric, Belgrade, Serbia

2019   MUSEUM OF DISCARDED OBJECTS. Curated by Jusuf Hadzifejzovic. Charlama Depot gallery, Sarajevo, BIH

2019   Mail Art exhibition, Festival of Serbian underground, Novi Sad, Serbia

2019   Real/Fake show off (duo). Private residence, Belgrade, Serbia

2019   HOT SHOP, Dorcol theater KOSMODROM, Belgrade, Serbia

2018   Love letter (solo), BARAKA, Belgrade, Serbia

2018   Salon mladih, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, BIH

2018   II No Budget Biennale EuroAzia, Charlama Depot gallery, Sarajevo, BIH

2018   Space for error, Ostavinska galerija, Belgrade, Serbia

2018   XVI Internatiolan Painting Plein Air, PANEVEZYS 2018, Gallery XX, Panevezys, Lithuania

2018   A3 – Days of Art Academies. Music Academy Sarajevo, Sarajevo, BIH

2018   Fruit exhibition - frutto proibito. Independend Art Book Fair, Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna, Italy

2018   Painters dialogues, Gallery JU Vitomir Srbljanovic, Pljevlja, Montenegro

2017   Secret room exhibition - blue carpet (solo). GSU Brodac, Sarajevo, BIH

2017   Fine Arts salon – art competition 30x30, Cultural centar Zrenjanin, Zrenjanin, Serbia

2017   Contemporary Refresh #2 – International exhibition of contemporary art. Curated by Mak Hubjer and Pierre Courtin. GSU Brodac, Sarajevo, BIH

2017   MEDIUS PROMISCUUS, galerija ZVONO, Sarajevo, BIH

2017   YEBIHA / Young Emerging BIH Artists. Curated by Sanela Nuhanovic. Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, BIH

2016   3th biennale of small format, International University of Novi Pazar, Novi Pazar, Serbia

2016   NeNe apartment exhibition, Rijeka, Croatia

2016   Life-Death-Dream/SHOW ME YOUR ART. Curated and exhibited. Art House Cinema KRITERION, Sarajevo, BIH

2014   Conceptual disappointment (duo). Curated by Azemina Halilagic. Art House Cinema KRITERION, Sarajevo, BIH

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

2024   Anur Hadziomerspahic award

2018   Grand Prix for best young artist, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, BIH

WORKSHOPS, PROJECTS AND ART RESIDENCIES

2021   Novi Sad EU School of Participation. International workshop (online)

2021   HEKLER Assembly Fall 2021: Infrastructures of Care, online study group

2020   WB Reality Check/Connecting the dots In-between. International joint project, TANDEM Western Balkans

2018   THE ARTIST IN POST CONFLICT SOCIETIES History Museum of BIH, Sarajevo, BiH

2018   XVI INTERNATIONAL PAINTING PLEIN AIR „PANEVEZYS 2018“. TO REMEMBER K.NARUSEVICIUS, Panevezys, Lithuania

2017   HERE AND ELSEWHERE/Nothing to be done. Project of cultural friendship realized by Center for Contemporary Art Graz(Austria), Sarajevo, BIH

ART IN COLLECTION

GALLERY XX, Panevežys, Lithuania

ART.ERIA GALLERY, Mainz, Germany

GSU BRODAC, Sarajevo, BIH

GALLERY CHARLAMA DEPOT, Center of Cultural Activities, Sarajevo, BIH

Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, Sarajevo, BIH

SSST GYMNASIUM, Sarajevo, BIH

H:ART Comunity / Public space, Sarajevo, BIH

CULTURAL CENTAR UDAS, Banja Luka, BIH (Republic of Srpska)

BARAKA, Cultural Center, Belgrade, Serbia

UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD, Academy of Arts, Novi Sad, Serbia

MMC ART GALLERY, Novi Pazar, Serbia

CODEX, Požarevac, Serbia

PUBLICATIONS

2023   Bermude na palme. Illustration for haiku poetry book, Belgrade, Serbia (upcoming)

2022   The Purposeful Mayonnaise. Literary & Art journal, London, Canada

2021   Food&. Experimental publishing project/magazine, Berlin, Germany

2021   WBRC ЖУРНАЛ 1. Collaborative zine. Minipogon (BG) + OffTheGrid (NP_BG) + Inka (Struga)

2018   RAPSODIA. Magazine of arts and literature, selected work RAPSODIA, Bologna, Italy

2017   BONA. Magazine of feminist theory and arts, Sarajevo, BIH

2013   Wall. Illustration for the play, Sarajevo War Theater (SARTR), Sarajevo, BIH

OTHER

2022   Co-founder of independent art association NOETICA

2019   Production Design on the short movie The Ruins, Sarajevo-Columbia