ŠTO TE NEMA: Between the Archive and the Living Monument took place in Sarajevo on August 10, 2022 as part of the Spatium Memoriae [ŠTO TE NEMA] exhibition at the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Artist Aida Šehović, art historian Dr. Irfan Hošić, and curator Dr. Claudia Zini [with additional contributions by Dr. Kerry Whigham and Dr. Mišo Kapetanović] participated in a conversation organized by ŠTO TE NEMA, Inc. and Kuma International. 

Spatium Memoriae [ŠTO TE NEMA] exhibition was organized by The Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina and ŠTO TE NEMA, Inc. in partnership with The Srebrenica Memorial Center with the support of Authority Partners, Ideologija, Leda, Unitgroup, Girls Guide and the US Embassy.**

Aida Šehović is a Bosnian born American artist & educator who lives & works between New York & Sarajevo. She is the creator of ŠTO TE NEMA & is one of the founding board members of the org. formed in the U.S. She earned her BA from the Univ. of Vermont & her MFA from Hunter College as a Javits Fellow. Šehović is the recipient of the ArtsLink Award, the Socrates Sculpture Park Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant & the Fellowship for Utopian Practice. She was an artist-in-residence at the Grand Central Art Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Santa Fe Art Institute, & the Vermont Studio Center. Her work was exhibited at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Laumeier Sculpture Park, Queens Museum, & 58th Venice Biennale. Her projects were supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Open Society, & the Vilcek Foundation. // Irfan Hošić holds a PhD from the Dept of Art History, Faculty of Philosophy, Univ. of Zagreb. His field of research is Bosnian art of the 20th & 21st century. He won the BIRN Journalism Award, the Patterns Lectures Award from the Erste Stiftung & the WUS Austria. Hošić was the curator of the Pavilion of Bosnia & Herzegovina at the 55th Venice Biennale. He was a lecturer at the Univ. of Michigan & Florida Gulf Coast Univ. He won the Basileus Scholarship for postdoctoral research at the Univ. of Ghent, the Weiser scholarships for a research project at the Univ. of Michigan, & Green Tech scholarships for research at the Univ. of Paderborn. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Wayne State Univ. in 2019/2020. Hošić currently holds a position of Assoc. Professor at the Univ. of Bihać. // Claudia Zini is an art historian and curator focusing her professional interests on visual arts dealing with the aftermath of war and violence. She is also the founder and director of Kuma International, a center dedicated to visual arts from post-conflict societies based in Sarajevo. She holds a PhD degree from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (2020). In 2019 she was one of the curators of the Pavilion of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Venice Biennale. She is the co-editor of the book “Sarajevo Unfolding” (Buybook 2020) and “Unsafe Goražde” (Kuma international, 2022). In 2022 she produced the documentary film “Unsafe Goražde”. She lives and works in Sarajevo.

** Spatium Memoriae [ŠTO TE NEMA] exhibition was funded in part by a grant from the United States Department of State. The opinions, findings and conclusions stated herein are those of the author[s] and do not necessarily reflect those of the United States Department of State.