Artist

Selma Selman

2026

  • © Marko Ilić, Courtesy de l’artiste et KRASS (Kultur Crash Festival)

Born in 1991 in Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and New York, United States.

Biography

Selma Selman draws on her personal history and Roma heritage to address labour, value, and the structures that govern social and economic life. Through performance, installation and sculpture, she transforms materials drawn from industrial production and waste. Her practice confronts structural inequalities, gender relations, education, and social exclusion, examining how power operates through visible and invisible mechanisms. Positioning herself as an artist of Roma origin rather than a “Romani artist,” she foregrounds a critical approach to identity while developing strategies of resistance and collective emancipation.

With the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and Artprice by Artmarket / Abode of Chaos HQ