Emir Šehanović in conversation with Ivan Šuković
Join artist Emir Šehanović in conversation with artist and writer Ivan Šuković on Wednesday, April 24 at 7 PM.
About the artist
Emir Šehanović is interested in today’s world that has gone to pieces as the literal sediment of human activity. He brings objects to an (after)life, or to the point at which they start to resemble life. Much of his work brings together parts of different bodies, different types of hybrids of us and our image. Maintaining that the body is fundamentally plastic and that corporeal identity is constituted by a conspiracy of sensations, he pursues the question of how the body fits, or fails to fit, into its aesthetic environments.
Emir Šehanović (*1981, Tuzla) lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia. Outside of the region, he has exhibited his work at solo and group shows at eastcontemporary, Milan (2023), Space O+A, Tokyo (2023), viennacontemporary (2023), Liste Art Fair Basel (2021), Kunstraum Riehen (2021), Jeune Création, Les Beaux-Arts de Paris (2018), AQB Project Space Budapest (2018), Ultrastudio Los Angeles (2018), Gallery Weekend Berlin (2015), and Athens Video Art Festival (2013), among others. He also took part in Liste Art Fair (2015, 2020, 2021), Vienna Contemporary (2019), Parallel Vienna (2018), and ArtGeneve (2018, 2019). Šehanović has recently been selected as one of the 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow, in a publication by Thames and Hudson.
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Ivan Šuković (1981, Podgorica) earned his PhD from the University of Arts in Belgrade, the Multimedia Art Department, in 2019. He received his Master of Arts degree from the Department of Digital Art and New Media in Belgrade, and his Bachelor of Arts degree in literature from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Montenegro.
He held several solo exhibitions in the period from 2011 to 2021 and presented his work at group exhibitions in Austria, Germany, Great Britain, and Italy, as well as in Montenegro and other countries in the region.
Šuković represented Montenegro at the 59th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2022 – The Art of Holding Hands / As We Break Through the Sedimentary Cloud.
He furthered his art education at the International School – University of Oslo, Norway, in 2009. He participated in a Takt Artist Residency project in Berlin in 2013.
He has received several awards for his work. His work is kept in both museums and private collections.