SMArt Talks: Shots for Thought: Art (and) History in Bosnia and Herzegovina from a Postcolonial View
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16 December 2025
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM - Hans Belting Library
Gabriela Seith Shots for Thought: Art (and) History in Bosnia and Herzegovina from a Postcolonial View
Abstract
This lecture traces the echoes of the shot fired at Archduke Franz Ferdinand, usually presented as the event that triggered all the evils of the 20th century, heard in contemporary artworks that challenge such narratives from a postcolonial perspective. What effects is this event said to have provoked, and which ones were forgotten? By revisiting the event as a reaction to the Habsburgs’ colonial activities in Bosnia, the lecture challenges exclusions of Bosnian (art) history from postcolonial discourses.
Gabriela Manda Seith is a researcher and curator. She studied art history at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, cultural education and management at Hochschule Niederrhein, and cultures of the curatorial at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. In 2023, she completed her dissertation Sarajevo's "War Art": On Globalization, Representation and Balkanism at Freie Universität Berlin. She has curated exhibitions and projects at the neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Goethe-Institut Sarajevo, National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Neues Museum Nürnberg, National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo, among others.
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