Solo Shows, Commissions, and Public Art
Stratified Memories (Geschichtete Errinnerungen), Comissioned design for a memorial site for the victims of Nazi medical crimes at the Landesklinikum Mauer-Öhling, as part of an invited limited art competition for art in public space in Lower Austria (winning proposal in construction), Mauer-Öhling, AT, 2024.
Translations, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA, US, 2025.
Sanctuary, Midcareer Retrospective, Kunsthaus Graz, AT, 2024.
Zwischenspiel: Nomadische Moschee, Solo exhibition within the Collection of the Bauhaus Museum, Dessau, DE, 2023.
Owl's Wisdom, Commissioned public art project to critique Arno Breker's Athena Sculpture in Wuppertal, as part of an invited limited art competition (winning proposal in construction), Wuppertal, DE, 2023.
Future To Be Rewritten, Commissioned by the City of Cambridge for a public art project to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment (winning proposal, withdrawn by the artist), Cambridge, MA, US, 2020.
Sanctuary, Exhibition architecture and a special commission of the Process Drawing and Sanctuary Looms for the same show, The Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, CA, 2020.
T-Serai, Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization, Sharjah, UA, 2019.
Kunstpreis der Stadt Graz, Kunsthaus, Graz, AT, 2019.
Hello World. Revisioning a Collection, Commission for nine pavilions for the exhibition Sites of Sustainability: Pavilions, Manifestos, and Crypts featuring the Arteast 2000+ collection (Eastern European postwar avant-gardes, curated by Zdenka Badovinac), commissioned by the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE, 2018.
Mosque Manifesto, Solo show, The Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 2017.
The Heritage of 1989. Case Study: The Second Yugoslav Documents Exhibition, a commission for the conceptualization and design of the overall artistic framing for the reenactment show of the largest exhibition of Yugoslav contemporary art, commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, SI (catalog), 2017.
Memory Matrix – Palmyra Arch, Public space installation within the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the old campus, MIT–Wiesner Building E15, Cambridge, MA, 2016.
Cultural Transfers, Installation within the European Islamophobia Summit, Sarajevo, BA, 2016.
Monument in Waiting, Solo show, Sarajevo Ramadan Festival, Sarajevo, BA, 2015.
Future Heritage Collection, Solo show, JAVA Gallery, The International Festival MESS, Sarajevo, BA, 2014.
Solidarity Works, Politics of Cultural Memory, MIT Wolk Gallery, Cambridge, MA, 2013-14.
Museum Solidarity Lobby, Solo installation at the Dallas Holocaust Museum, at the MAP 2013 Festival, Dallas, TX, 2013.
Wearable Mosques, MIT MediaLab, Cambridge, MA, 2013.
Digesting Dayton, Interactive installation at the American Islamic Congress, Boston, MA, 2012.
aut.raumproduktion. mitnehmen, aut. Architektur und Tirol, Innsbruck, AT, 2010.
Nomadic Mosque, Performance within the International Festival of Contemporary Arts City of Women and the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, SI, 2009.
Three Wearable Mosques, IPC Gallery / Sarajevo Winter Festival, Sarajevo, BA, 2008.
Kunstmoschee, Secession Vienna, AT (catalog), 2007.
Significant Group Shows
Rug Life, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, US, 2026
Rug Life, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, MN, US, 2025
Rug Life, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, US, 2025
Rug Life, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA, US, 2024
Textile Manifeste – von Bauhaus bis Soft Sculpture, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, CH, 2024
Award exhibition of artistic competition "Pallas Athene" by Arno Breker, Wuppertal, DE, 2024
Atmospheres, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY, 2023
Steiermark Schau: Vielfalt des Lebens / Mobiler Pavillon [Regional Exhibition of Styria: Diversity of Life], Schloss Herbertstein, Buchberg bei Herberstein, AT, 2023
Steiermark Schau: Vielfalt des Lebens / Mobiler Pavillon [Regional Exhibition of Styria: Diversity of Life], Heldenplatz, Vienna, AT, 2023
City of Faith: Religion, Activism, and Urban Space, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY, US, 2023
Kunst·Stoff, Kunsthalle Emden, DE, 2023
Kunst·Stoff, Kunsthalle Vogelmann, Heilbronn, DE, 2023
Threads, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA, US, 2022
Adjustable Monuments, Philara Collection, Düsseldorf, DE (catalog), 2022
Showing Styria: What Will Be. Towards a Plurality of Futures, Kunsthaus Graz, AT, 2021
Arts Crafts: Between Tradition, Discourse and Technologies, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, DE, 2020
Arts Crafts: Between Tradition, Discourse and Technologies, Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig, Leipzig, DE, 2020
Arts Crafts: Between Tradition, Discourse and Technologies, Kunsthaus Graz, AT (cat.), 2019.
Faith. Love. Hope. 800 Years of the Graz-Seckau Diocese, Kunsthaus Graz, AT (catalog), 2018.
NSK State-in-Time Pavilion, commissioned as a participant/agent by IRWIN group during the 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, IT, 2017.
Témpano. El problema de lo institucional Cruces entre Europa del Este y el Río de la Plata [ The problem of the institutional Crossings between Eastern Europe and the Rio de la Plata], National Museum for the Visual Arts of Montevideo (MNAV), UY, 2017.
A World Not Ours, Kunsthalle Mulhouse, FR, 2017.
Memories of Stone: Landscapes of Prayer, Death, and Commemoration in Bosnia and 2017 Herzegovina, a three-person show (Azra Akšamija, Amila Buturović, Velibor Božović) at the Ismaili Centre Toronto, Toronto, CA, 2017.
The Present Order, Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig, Leipzig, DE, 2016.
Political Intent, Contemporary Collection Installations, MFA – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, US, 2016.
Naopačke: Udomiti kritiku, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Belgrade, RS (catalog), 2016.
Poesie der Veränderung, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, exhibition of the museum collection, Salzburg, AT, 2016.
Inside Out – Not So White Cub, City Art Gallery, Ljubljana, SI (catalog), 2015.
Austrian Traditional Costumes Through the Ages, Austrian Cultural Forum, Washington, DC, 2015.
New Hamburg Kunstgallerie, within the festival New Hamburg organized by Scahuspielhaus Hamburg in Veddel/Hamburg, DE, 2014.
Sammlungsalphabet, Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig, DE, 2014.
Kunst ist Leben, The Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2013, Vorarlberg Museum Bregenz, AT, 2014.
FACK MSUV – Performing the Museum as a Common, Museum of Contemporary Art of Voivodina, (MSUV) / Ex-Museum of Revolution, Novi Sad, Voivodina, RS, 2014.
Islamopolitan, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, AE, 2014.
Shared Cities, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona, ES, 2014.
Letters to the Mayor, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York City, NY, 2014.
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2013, the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine Paris, FR, 2014.
The Museum of Arte Útil, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL, 2013.
1 : 1, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, SI (catalog), 2013.
Smuggling Anthologies, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, HR (catalog), 2013.
Arte Útil Lab, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, USA, 2013.
Heimatkunde: Eine kosmopolitische Inventur, Jewish Museum Berlin, DE (catalog), 2012.
Cube or Dome. Mosques – New Ways of Building, ifa gallery Berlin (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations), Berlin, DE (catalog), 2012.
Cube or Dome. Mosques – New Ways of Building, ifa gallery Stuttgart (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations), Stuttgart, DE (catalog), 2012.
GSK Contemporary. Aware: Art Fashion Identity, Royal Academy of Arts London, UK (catalog), 2011.
Nichtorte, Orte. Collection Exhibition 2009, Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig, DE, 2010.
SOFT CITY: Azra Aksamija, Pushwagner, Dubravka Sekulić, Stroom, The Hague, NL, 2009.
Since We Last Spoke About Monuments, Stroom, The Hague, NL, 2008.
Art goes Heilgendamm. Art Goes Public, Public art intervention on the occasion of the G8 Summit 2007 in Rostock, DE, 2007.
Grenzräume, exhibition of the German-Israeli-Palestinian collaboration project Liminal Spaces, Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig, DE (catalog), 2006.
Denial is a River, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY, 2006.
Occupying Space – Sammlung Generali Foundation, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL, 2005.
Occupying Space – Sammlung Generali Foundation, Haus der Kunst Munich, DE, 2005.
Occupying Space – Sammlung Generali Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb / Gallery Klovičevi Dvori, Zagreb, HR, 2005.
Designs for The Real World, Generali Foundation, Vienna, AT (catalog), 2002.
Biennials, International Art/Design Festivals
Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective., Arsenale, Architecture Biennale, Venice, IT, 2025.
The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology, Palazzo Diedo, Architecture Biennale, Venice, IT, 2025.
Hope–Who Will Turn the Tide?, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, AT, 2024.
Resonance/Raneen Art Festival, Mutrah, OM, 2024.
State of Fashion Biennale, Arnhem, NL, 2024.
Diriyah Biennale, Riyadh, SA, 2024.
Time. Space. Existence, Collateral Exhibition of the Venice Architecture Biennale, European Cultural Centre, Pallazo Mora, Venice, IT, 2023.
Retroactive, MAAT, Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Lisbon, PT, 2022.
How will we live together?, Arsenale, Architecture Biennale, Venice, IT, 2021.
Palimpsest of '89, Biennale of Western Balkans, Ioannina, GR, 2018.
Diaspora Scroll, Large public space projection on the Mariahilfer Church commissioned by the Kunsthaus Graz for the Klanglicht Festival 4.28-30, 2018, Graz, AT, 2018.
Memory Matrix – Eiffel Tower, Public space installation within the 3rd Qalandiya International This Sea Is Mine, Biennial Foundation, Ramallah, PS, 2016.
Memory Matrix – Jeepney, Public space installation at the MET (Metropolitan Theatre Manila), London Biennale – Manila Pollination, Manila, PH, 2016.
Islamopolitan, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, NL, 2016.
Amman Design Week, The Jordan Museum, Amman, JO, 2016.
CULTURUNNERS, A special project at the Armory Show, New York, NY, 2015.
Islamopolitan, Superstudio, Milan Design Week, Milan, IT, 2015.
Islamopolitan, Istanbul Design Week, Istanbul, TR, 2014.
Penelope’s Labour — Weaving Words and Images, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Collateral exhibition of the 54th Venice Biennale, Italy (catalog), 2011.
Energheia, Miniartextil Como, The 21st International Exhibition of Contemporary Textile Art (catalog), 2011.
manifestation, Manifesta 7, Rovereto, Italy, 2008.
International Exhibition Liverpool Biennial 2004, Tate Gallery Liverpool and public space installation, Liverpool, UK (catalog), 2004.
micro-UTOPIAS, Art & Architecture, Biennale of Valencia, Spain (catalog), 2003.
Other Group Shows
What if History Belonged to us?, Lumbardhi Foundation, Prizren, XK, 2022.
Folklore and Traditions, LoosenArt at Milepani, Rome, IT (catalog), 2021.
Contentious Objects/Ashamed Subjects!, Galleria del Progetto, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, IT (catalog), 2019.
Migrations of Fear, International Multidisciplinary Cooperation Project (Graz – Plovdiv – Slovenj Gradec – Leipzig), Europas Zukunft Gesellschaft zeitgen, Kunst, Leipzig, DE, 2018.
Housing, Center for Advanced Urbanism, Okawa Lobby, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, 2018.
Migrations of Fear, International Multidisciplinary Cooperation Project (Graz – Plovdiv – Slovenj Gradec – Leipzig), Europas Zukunft Gesellschaft zeitgen. Kunst, Leipzig, DE, 2018.
In / On the Way: Migrations of Fear, International Multidisciplinary Cooperation Project (Graz – Plovdiv – Slovenj Gradec – Leipzig), The Gallery of Fine Arts Slovenj Gradec, SI, 2017.
Migrations of Fear, International Multidisciplinary Cooperation Project (Graz – Plovdiv – Slovenj Gradec – Leipzig), Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv, BG, 2017.
A Summer Proposal, Boston City Hall, curated by Paul Ha, Boston, MA, 2017.
Migrations of Fear, International Multidisciplinary Cooperation Project (Graz – Plovdiv – Slovenj Gradec – Leipzig), Forum Stadtpark, Graz, AT, 2017.
The World Monuments Fund Watch Day, Memory Matrix installation at the Boix House event, Manila, PH, 2017.
World Interfaith Harmony Week, Mosque Manifesto exhibited by the International Forum Bosnia, presented by the Center for Cultural Heritage, Sarajevo, BA, 2017.
Body Politic, OPEN Gallery, Boston, MA, 2016.
Transitions: Migration and Travel, Wanted Design Manhattan at Terminal Stores Chelsea, New York, NY, 2016.
Islamopolitan, Nuqat Creative Conference – Contemporary Art Platform Kuwait, KW, 2015.
Islamopolitan, Design Space, Exhibition organized within the Global Islamic Economy Summit, Dubai, AE, 2015.
Building Discourse, group exhibition of MIT Architecture Department faculty members, MIT Work Gallery, Cambridge, MA, 2015.
Yarn-dez-vous performance, within the CULTURUNNERS at MIT Storytelling Symposium, MIT program in Art, Culture and Technology, Camrbidge, MA, 2014.
ZOOM Sarajevo, within the Festival Sta ima? – Literature, Art and Culture from Sarajevo and the former Yugoslavia, Gasteig – Cultural Center Munich, DE, 2014.
Architecture is Life, The Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2013, Aga Khan University Karachi, PK, 2014.
By Invitation Only, InstantHERLEV institute, Herlev, DK, 2014.
Imaginary Archive by Greg Sholette, VCRC: Visual Culture Research Center, Kiev, UA, 2014.
MIITM: MIT Makers in the Making, NADAAA Gallery, Boston, USA, 2013.
Step right in! Step right out! Why people change their religion, Jewish Museum Munich, DE (catalog), 2013.
Measures of Saving the World – part 3, contribution to Imaginary Archive by Greg Sholette, <rotor> center for contemporary art, Graz, AT, 2013.
Cube or Dome. Mosques – New Ways of Building, M:AI Museum for Architecture and Engineering, Gelsenkirchen, DE (catalog), 2013.
Step right in! Step right out! Why people change their religion, Jewish Museum Frankfurt, DE (catalog), 2013.
Cross-Currents: Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Art of the Islamic World, The UNT Art Gallery (University of North Texas), Denton, TX (catalog), 2013.
Step right in! Step right out! Why people change their religion, Jewish Museum Hohenems, AT (catalog), 2012.
Cross-Currents: Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Art of the Islamic World, IDEA (Inter-Disciplinary Experimental Arts) Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO (catalog), 2012.
Who told you so?! #2 Truth vs. Organisation, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL (catalog), 2012.
Tolerabilis, Zeughaus – Toskanische Säulenhalle, Augsburg, DE, 2011.
The Conditional Mosque, Janus Project, Brooklyn, NY, 2011.
Divine Connections, Zeughaus – Toskanische Säulenhalle, Augsburg, DE (catalog), 2010.
Another Way of Looking: Influences from Islam, Art Gallery at the Cleveland State University, Cleveland, USA (catalog), 2010.
Turks in Vienna, Jewish Museum Vienna, AT (catalog), 2010.
Belief Unlimited, in the Theatinerkirche Ander Art Festival 2009, Munich, DE, 2009.
The Culture Industry: Folklore and Cliché, VOX, Athens, GR, 2009.
Belief Unlimited, Räume für zeitgenössische Kunst München, DE (catalog), 2009.
A collaborative project of the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, US, 2008.
Orientierungen, Regionale 08 Steiermark, Gerberhaus Fehring, AT, 2008.
Kits for an Encounter, Western Front Society, Vancouver, CA, 2008.
This is Not an Exhibition Contemporary Art Center Huarte, ES, 2008.
Encounters, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, NL, 2007.
Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator, Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA (catalog), 2007.
Survival, an exhibition within the Festival Assembly #4. Four Days of Design in Graz, Joaneum Graz, AT, 2006.
Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (catalog), 2006.
Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator, University of California Art Museum, 2006 Berkeley, CA (catalog), 2006.
Exhibition of The 2006 Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts Competition, MIT Council for the Arts, Wiesner Student Art Gallery MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2006.
Mind the Gap, Smack Mellon Gallery DUMBO, New York, NY, 2006.
Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL (catalog), 2006.
ORTung 2005, group exhibition of the International Artist Symposium ORTung 2005, Galerie 5020, Salzburg, AT, 2006. (catalog)
ORTung 2005, group exhibition of the International Artist Symposium ORTung 2005, Deutschvilla Stobl, / Wolfgangsee, AT (catalog), 2005.
Introducing Sites/Cultural Territories #3, Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig, DE(catalog), 2005.
Video-Pool as a part of the project Video as Urban Condition, Visual Arts Program of the Austrian Cultural Forum London, UK, 2004.
Noch einen Wunsch Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig, DE, 2004.
6th Biennale of Architecture and Media of Graz, AT, 2003.
Art Fair Berlin, DE presented by the Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig, DE, 2003.
Works in Collections
Arizona Road (2002), Generali Foundation, Vienna, AT
Fallen Angel (2003), Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig, Leipzig, DE
T-Serai (2019), Austrian Federal Chancellery, Vienna, AT