Adnan Softic

Adnan Softić (* 1975 in Sarajevo , Yugoslavia ) is a visual artist , author and director.

Career

Adnan Softić studied film and aesthetic theory at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg, where he also taught as a visiting professor for film and as a substitute professor for time-related media.

In his works the artist deals with historical and memory-political issues. Adnan Softić works in an interdisciplinary manner, examining the relationships between architecture and violence, narration and exile and dealing with extraterritoriality , invisibility and post-colonial criticism. In his first works he describes his artistic approach as “post-traumatic entertainment”, which aims to bring together irreconcilable perspectives.

Skopje at night, scene from Bigger Than Life - a film by Adnan Softic, 2018

Movies / Videos

1999: So and so - video film, 10 min
1999: Solid tissue or the body is my temple - film, Super 8, 6 min
2002: Nema problema / There is no problem - film, 16 mm, video, 18 min
2004: Luk - Onion - onion - film, super 16 mm / video, 60 min
2009: Ground Control - film, 13 min
2013: Like yesterday's news - film, 10 min
2018: Bigger Than Life - film, 30 min

Installations / exhibitions

"Ships with goods and materials ...", installation at MKG Hamburg, Adnan Softic, 2018

2004: Turbo (v) folk installation
2007: absurd, show yourself! 1 + 2 - audio & video installation
2009: Palestine will be Free - video installation
2013: On Site Photography
2014: ... and people have come - curator
2017: Bigger Than Life - Video Installation
2018: Ships with goods and fabrics from all over the world toast the Bibby Challenge with their waves - installation

Theater / performance

2001-07: Autoput - Performance
2014: Heimatmuseum - theater production, 110 min
2015: Bibby Challenge - theater installation, 60 min
2016: A Better History - Lecture Performance, Video

music

1995–2002: LOMA - music, duo with Jons Vukorep
1998–2000: Music for Theater: Passions and Vermin - Director: Barbara Weber , Der Grüne Kakadu - Director: Angela Richter , Endspiel - Director: Branko Šimić, Blood on the Cat's Neck - Director: Anina La Roche

Book publications

A Better History, book by Adnan Softic, 2017

2008: Subtitles catalog
2011: Posttraumatic Entertainment / Posttraumatic Entertainment - Catalog, Revolver Verlag
2013: On Site - Photo Book, Textem Verlag
2014: Loop and crystal were created from the same print - Buch, Textem Verlag
2017: A Better History - Book, adocs Verlag

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2007: Luk- Onion- Onion , Sies + Höke Gallery, Düsseldorf
2011: Adnan Softić - Post-Traumatic Entertainment - Watermill, Trittau
2014: On Site , Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg
2016: A Better History No. 2 , Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb
2018: Bigger Than Life , Berlinische Galerie

Exhibitions and performances (selection)

2014: Heimatmuseum , Schauspielhaus, Hamburg
2014: New Art in Hamburg , Holger Pries Gallery, Hamburg
2015: Bibby Challenge , Kampnagel , Hamburg
2015: Bibby Challenge , Kammerspiele, Munich
2017: NSK State-in-Time Pavilion, Venezia
2017: Villa Massimo as guest in the Martin-Gropius-Bau , Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin
2018: City views , Heidelberger Kunstverein
2018: Mobile Worlds , Museum for Art and Commerce , Hamburg
2018: The Street. Where the World Is Made , MAXXI , Rome

Teaching (selection)

"Dramatize things to make a story ..." - Scene from the film Ground Control by Adnan Softic, 2009

2005: Seminar: Why Live? - HfbK , Hamburg, with Dušan Makavejev and Wim Wenders
2011: Seminar: Marginal Notes and Resolutions in Pictures - HfbK , Hamburg
2012: Substitute professorship in time-related media - HfbK , Hamburg (substitute for Prof. Jeanne Faust )
2014–2015: Visiting professor with a major in film - HfbK , Hamburg
2017: Lecture : Posttraumatic Entertainment - Accademia di Belli Arte , Rome
2018: Lecture: Monumentomachia - University of the Arts, Stockholm
2018: Lecture: A Better History - ETH, Zurich | Leuphana University , Lüneburg | ZHdK , Zurich

Further publications

2009: Lettre de Sarajevo - Trafic No. 72, Journal of Film Theory, Paris
2015: A subway line should go here - Text, DIE ZEIT story No. 4/2015
2015: Dare more Balkans - essay, DIE ZEIT No. 42/2015
2016: Weltfrnde Universalisten / Ivory Tower Universalists - Essay, ITI Yearbook 2016, German Center of the International Theater Institute
2016: Which Limit? - Essay, New Institute for Dramaturgical Writing, Berlin
2017: Between no more and not yet - essay, book "Passagen des Exils", Institute for Art History, LMU Munich
2017: Invention of Europe - Essay, Verlag Schauspiel Frankfurt
2017: The Disgruntlement of Times - Essay, 39NULL, magazine for society and culture

2018: More Balkan Wagons - Cultural Elements, No. 133-134

2018: Mater vs. Idea - TRACES, Journal on museum heritage

2018: In the future! New plays for the present - transcript Verlag

Awards and scholarships (selection)

2004: DAAD diploma award
2005: Karl-H.-Dietze Prize for the best diploma
2006–2008: Scholarship to promote young artists, Hamburg
2007: Research grant & residency at the Paul Klee Summer Academy , Bern
2008–2009: Hamburg work grant for fine arts
2010–2011: Annual scholarship in the water mill in Trittau , Stormarn Cultural Foundation
2012: Scholarship from the Zurich Sculptors Working Group, Zurich
2014–2015: District artist, Hamburg-Veddel
2016-2017: Villa Massimo , Rome
2018: Message Salon Embassy , Zurich
2018: 3sat sponsorship award, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
2018: Art Fund , Bonn

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ South Eastern Europe: More cars Balkans . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on September 28, 2018]).
↑ transcript: In the future! Retrieved September 28, 2018 .
^ Karl H. Ditze Prize for the best thesis
↑ Studio grant "District artist on the Veddel"
↑ Katharina Schipkowski: Appreciation through art ?: Migration as a state of nature . In: The daily newspaper: taz . February 23, 2016, ISSN 0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on September 28, 2018]).
^ Winner of the 64th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
↑ 3sat.online: 3sat sponsorship award for "Bigger than Life" - award ceremony at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival. Retrieved September 28, 2018 (German).

personal data
SURNAME	Softić, Adnan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bosnian video artist and author
DATE OF BIRTH	1975
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sarajevo

[1] South Eastern Europe: More cars Balkans . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on September 28, 2018]).

[2] transcript: In the future! Retrieved September 28, 2018 .

[3] Karl H. Ditze Prize for the best thesis

[4] Studio grant "District artist on the Veddel"

[5] Katharina Schipkowski: Appreciation through art ?: Migration as a state of nature . In: The daily newspaper: taz . February 23, 2016, ISSN 0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on September 28, 2018]).

[6] Winner of the 64th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

[7] 3sat.online: 3sat sponsorship award for "Bigger than Life" - award ceremony at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival. Retrieved September 28, 2018 (German).