SELMA SELMAN

JUNE 20 – SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Selma Selman (b. 1991) advanced confidently and vigorously into the international art world just a few years ago, describing herself as “the world’s most dangerous artist.” Together with her family, she cannibalizes former status symbols like cars by Mercedes-Benz, in order to acquire the few precious metals that are still usable. The spoken performances by this artist with a Romani background are usually loud, for she gives expression to anger and her urge to reverse power relationships. Selman’s art describes impressively, and through a variety of media, autobiographical experiences of discrimination, violence, patriarchy, and sexism.

Selma Selman, Crossing the Blue Bridge, 2024, 27:15 Min, film still, courtesy of the artist

THE SCHIRN IS DEDICATING A MAJOR SOLO EXHIBITION TO SELMA SELMAN, PRESENTING TWO SPECIFICALLY DEVELOPED NEW WORKS

With the poetic title "Flowers of Life" (2024), an installation consisting of orange peel grabs refers to her family’s means of livelihood, since they collect and sell scrap metal. The video work "Crossing the Blue Bridge" (2024) is based on memories of Selman’s mother, who had to cross a bridge in her hometown of Bihać, Bosnia, with her daughter in 1994 during the Bosnian War. Selman takes these experiences as a starting point to situate herself as a feminist-activist artist who today campaigns internationally for her community.

CURATORS

Matthias Ulrich, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

Selma Selman, Crossing the Blue Bridge, 2024, 27:15 Min, film still, courtesy of the artist
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Press information of the exhibition „Selma Selman. Flowers of Life“

25.04.2024 | The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is dedicating a major solo exhibition to the artist from June 20 to September 15, presenting two specially developed new works.

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Selma Selman, her0, Gropius Bau (2023), © Gropius Bau, Photo: Eike Walkenhorst

Selma Selman, Crossing the Blue Bridge, 2024, 27:15 Min, film still, courtesy of the artist

Selma Selman, Crossing the Blue Bridge, 2024, 27:15 Min, film still, courtesy of the artist

Selma Selman, Crossing the Blue Bridge, 2024, 27:15 Min, film still, courtesy of the artist

Selma Selman, Crossing the Blue Bridge, 2024, 27:15 Min, film still, courtesy of the artist

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