Nela Hasanbegović
(Sarajevo, B&H, 1984)
Nela Hasanbegović was born in Sarajevo where she completed primary education, and then secondary education at the School of Applied Arts. Graduated at the Sculpture Department, Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo 2007. MFA studies completed at the same department 2010. She has been working at the Department of Art Education at the Academy of Fine Arts University of Sarajevo since 2012. Currently is PhD candidate at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, and on interdisciplinary doctoral studies at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University in Sarajevo. She exhibited her artworks at 131 international and domestic group exhibitions and realized 21-solo exhibitions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad. Her artworks are included in important museums and private collections. She has given talks at numerous panels and presentations, and held several lectures. She has published several papers and participated in many symposia, artist colonies and residency programs, and she has won several prestigious awards and scholarships. She is a member of the several Associations of Artists in Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad.
Special areas of her research interest include three-dimensional and intermedia arts. Her artistic works include installation, video, photography and performance. She in multifaceted practice uses conceptual and provocative approach – which investigates the relationship between cultural memory and identity, gender, space, architecture, surveillance and control – is translated into works that question the meaning of making art, the ambiguity of language, and the limits and possibilities. Ambiguous, direct, and imbued with historical, political and social references, her art never refrains from establishing a critical connection with the sites where it is exhibited, the materials that comprise it, and the roles of spectator and creator.