| Dates: | born 1976
| | Biography: | (artist biography as of 2004)
Born 1976, Sarajevo, Bosnia. Lives in
Boston, USA and Graz, Austria
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004 Video as Urban Condition at the
Visual Arts Program of the Austrian
Cultural Forum, London, UK
Noch einen Wunsch, Gallery for
Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany
2003 Participant at the 6th Biennial of
Architecture and Media, Graz,
Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Art Fair Berlin, Germany, presented by
the Gallery for Contemporary Art,
Leipzig, Germany
micro-UTOPIAS. Art & Architecture,
Valencia Biennial, Valencia, Spain
Introducing Sites/Cultural Territories,
Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig,
Germany
2002 Designs for the Real World,
Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
SELECTED COLLABORATIONS AND
PROJECTS
2004 Judge for the international
competition Reinventing Urbanism,
organised by archplus as part of the
Shrinking Cities project in cooperation
with Domus
Curator of Balkan Urbanism at the
Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig,
Germany
Collaboration in institution,
communication and urban design of the
projects XLA and Battersea for Atopia,
New York, USA
2002 Collaboration in research project
Habitat 2000 plus and in editing the
publication In the Boat, Vienna, Austria
2001–2002 Conceptual design with
interdisciplinary research group Su.N
(Spaceunit.Network)
Collaboration with Andreas Mayer on the
project Arizona Road 2001 Collaboration
in editing the publication of European 6
Austria, Vienna, Austria
Organisation and location design for the
final party of the festival Steirischer
Herbst, Graz, Austria
2001 Organisation of the symposium
Perfekte Location, House of
Architecture, Graz, Austria
Organisation of the exhibition The Private
House, House of Architecture, Graz,
Austria
FURTHER EADING
Azra Aksamija, ‘Arizona Road’, in Sabine
Breitwieser (ed.), Designs für die
wirkliche Welt. Designs for the Real
World, Vienna:
Generali Foundation; Cologne: Walther
König, 2002, pp. 36–79
Azra Aksamija, ‘Arizona Road. The
Discovery of the Urban Phenomenon:
Arizona Road in Bosnia’, Artelier –
Contemporary Art Magazine, 8 (2003),
pp. 139–45
Azra Aksamija, ‘The Fallen Angel: The
Building of Oslobodjenje in the Context of
Post-War Reconstruction of Bosnia and
Hercegovina’, Artelier – Contemporary Art
Magazine, 8 (2003), pp. 146–54
| | | Source: | Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, International 04 Festival catalogue | | | Date of source: | 2004 |
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