Smirna Kulenovic is a Bosnian transdisciplinary artist, director, researcher, filmmaker, lecturer, and a PhD candidate at the University of Arts Berlin. Her work spans contemporary performance, theatre, and dance, with notable contributions that explore the intersection of art, ecology, and embodied memory. One of her significant projects, “Our Family Garden” (2021-2022), was a participatory performance and documentary film in Sarajevo that brought together 100 local participants to delve into themes of ecological grief, collective memory, and land-based rituals.
Kulenovic’s artistic versatility extends to documentary film, with both “Our Family Garden” (2021) and “The Test of Maturity” (2012) winning awards in European and American film festivals. She has directed several immersive media art performances at the Ars Electronica Center’s 8K Interactive Scenography DeepSpace, including *Post-Dervish Chant* (2021), *Danu* (2022), and *DJ Quantum* (2023).
Currently collaborating with MIT’s Open Documentary Lab and the Bohemian Pavilion in Venice, she is also engaged in a large-scale project for the European Capital of Culture (Salzkammergut 2024).
Her teaching and research, which span institutions such as Yale, Oxford, Royal Institute of Arts Stockholm and the University of Arts Linz, focus on “Embodied Ecologies”, blending media art, indigenous practices, transgenerational wisdom, and eco-somatics into her work.
