Artist Talk: Selma Selman

Selman won the 12th ABN AMRO Art Award. As part of the award she made exhibition Sleeping Guards, showcasing work in a variety of media — including performance, drawing, installation, and film — with which Selman compellingly and poetically addresses the position of women while questioning the manner in which society assigns value to labor and materials. 

During this afternoon, Danila Cahen (curator ABN AMRO) will speak with Selma Selman about her exhibition and the large-scale performance Motherboards, which Selman will stage for the first time in the Netherlands on January 29. In it, she and other family members demolish discarded computers in order to extract gold from their motherboards.  

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ABOUT SELMA SELMAN  

Selma Selman is from Bosnia and Herzegovina and lives and works in New York, Amsterdam, and Bihać. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the University of Banja Luka and a master’s degree in visual and performing arts from the University of Syracuse (NY), followed subsequently by a residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Selman’s work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally, including at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt (2024); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2023); Documenta 15, Kassel (2022); Manifesta 14, Pristina (2022); and the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (2022). Selma Selman is the founder of Get the Heck to School, an organization committed to the empowerment of Roma girls from her hometown of Bihać who face poverty and ostracization from society.