Edina Seleskovic is known as one of the most famous contemporary artists in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the USA. Edina has won numerous awards including the Sculpture Space Fellowship, and Sam and the Adele Golden Foundation Fellowship in New York. She is the winner of the global award for socially engaged visual artists, World Citizen Artists Award 2020. In 2021, installation RSD Sloboda won the gold No Limit award in Sarajevo and her installation Think Freedom received Primio Arbiter Fata Verde SyArt Award by Sorrento Foundation in Sorrento, Italy. Her resume also includes working with NASA, establishing Contemporary Woman Festival, mentoring, rebranding the national basketball team, and more. She is a member of the International Academy of Science and Arts in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

What do you do when you can’t do something, as you imagined?

I believe that every closed door is an opportunity to open another. One dead end is truly an invitation to find another path to your goal.

What do you think would help to make women’s VOICE be more heard?

Connectivity, positivity, and a belief in your own strengths.

Are you planning any „Change“ in 2022?

I am planning to learn from the past in order to continue improving my ideas in the future.

What would you like to read about yourself in the newspaper?

She made small steps to create meaningful change.

Sources of inspiration:

I recommend book Back to Earth written by my friend and an incredible inspiration Nicole Stott.