Selected Curatorial Projects and Exhibitions
Code of Ethics
Code of Ethics? explores the intersection of aesthetics, ethics, and poetics in the humanitarian context. The project includes critical artistic investigations through participatory action research and transcultural workshops, offering a shared platform for dissemination of questions and critical reflections across cultural and disciplinary borders […]
Design For a Nomadic World
The exhibition explores how art, architecture, and design can address the emotional, cultural, educational, and aesthetic needs of refugees while fostering cross-cultural understanding and social cohesion between refugees and host communities. The exhibition title references Victor Papanek’s seminal book Design for the Real World […]
CULTRUNNERS @ MIT
Two workshops, storytelling symposium, exhibition, public lecture (2014) MIT Program in Art, Culture, Technology, The Cube CULTURUNNERS is an artistic expedition in search of connections across borders (see general project description). Between October 1 and 6, 2014, the MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology (ACT) hosted a three-day […]
Exhibitions and Projects Curated by Azra Akšamija
MIT Artfinity Festival, a campus-wide festival with more than 80 exhibits and events co-curated with Prof. Marcus Thompson, and produced with Arts at MIT, 2025
The MayDay Collection, an exhibition of the participatory artwork with the same title, presented at the Art, Culture, and Technology Program at MIT, 2023
Pandemic Pondering, exhibition of student work from Azra Aksamija's classes, MIT Keller Gallery, 2023
ACT Student Showcase, Public screening of students’ thesis work followed by a Q&A, MIT Museum, 2022
Un/War, exhibition and public program series organized at the Art, Culture and Technology program at MIT, 2022
Code of Ethics – On the Role of Art and Design in the Humanitarian Context, Group exhibition of student work related to FHL work in the refugee camps, MIT Keller Gallery, 2017
Optimism?, group exhibition of SA+P faculty work within the ACADIA 2017, launched as the inaugural exhibition of the SA+P Gallery in Lobby 9, 2017
Design for a Nomadic World, group exhibition at the Amman Design Week, The German-Jordanian University, Amman, JO, 2017
Future Invented Traditions: Fashion Show, MIT Wiesner Building Lobby featuring the work of students from ACT Culture Fabric class, NuVu Studio, and YMCA, 2014
CULTURUNNERS – group exhibition in ACT Cube, within the CULTURUNNERS Storytelling Symposium, co-organized with Edge of Arabia, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, 2014
CULTURUNNERS, group exhibition as a special project at the Armory Fair, New York, NY, US, 2015
INTERIOR VIEW SOUTH-EAST: Investigations of Backyard Mosques, vai Vorarlberg Architecture Institute, Dornbirn, AT (with the curatorial and research team: Margit Greinöcker, Tobias Hagleitner, Gunar Wilhelm), 2013
INTERIOR VIEW SOUTH-EAST: Investigations of Backyard Mosques, afo Architecture Forum Upper-Austria, Linz, AT (with the curatorial and research team: Margit Greinöcker, Tobias Hagleitner, Gunar Wilhelm), 2012
Modes of Modeling, exhibition of student work and fashion show, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (The Cube), co-curated with Gediminas Urbonas, 2012
Night of Provisional Futures, Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi), Rotterdam, NL (Event exhibition co-curated with Stealth and Dubravka Sekulić), 2008
Kunstmoschee, Secession Vienna, public programs, screenings and discussions, Vienna, AT, 2007
Centrala – Foundation for Future Cities, "Lost Highway Expedition," Balkans, 2005-06
The Bosnian Chronicle, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig, DE, 2004
Lost Highway Expedition, project and public program in 9 cities in Western Balkans (co-curated with Ana Džokić, Ivan Kučina, Marc Neelen, Marjetica Potrč, Kyong Park, and Srdjan Jovanović Weiss), Western Balkans, 2004