08-13.12 ’25
Subjektivni atlas Bosne i Hercegovine
🕐 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 December, 2025
📍Preporod Gallery, Maršala Tita Street 54 🇧🇦
🔗 balkandiskurs.com
🙏🏻 James Riding, PCRC (Tatjana Milovanović, Velma Šarić, Amina Sejfić)
The Subjective Atlas of Bosnia and Herzegovina exhibition will be presented at Prepared Gallery, Maršala Tita Street 54, from 8 to 12 December. The exhibition brings together works by 88 young authors from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the diaspora, offering a deeply personal and imaginative portrayal of the country through drawings, collages, and photography. Developed through workshops held in Sarajevo, Srebrenica, and Vitez, the artworks map how young people live, remember, and envision Bosnia and Herzegovina today.
Created through a partnership between the Center for Post-Conflict Research, Subjective Editions, and Newcastle University, the Subjective Atlas uses visual storytelling and subjective cartography to encourage dialogue and reflection. The exhibition invites visitors to engage with intimate artistic interpretations of everyday life and collective memory, presenting Bosnia and Herzegovina as a shared space shaped by diversity, creativity, and the ongoing legacy of peace.
Read more: https://fena.ba/
PCRC & Subjective Editions, 2025
Bosnian-English, 192 full-colour pages, 25,5 MB
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The Subjective Atlas of Bosnia and Herzegovina brings together over eighty personal mappings from people living in a country long defined by outsiders—reduced to entities, ethnic categories, and wartime narratives. This atlas counters such simplifications with a polyphonic cartography: visual stories that show how people inhabit, remember, and imagine this place today.
Created through participatory workshops across Bosnia and Herzegovina, the contributions use drawing, collage, and photography to create alternative mappings of a conflict affected state. Rather than offering a fixed or objective account, these situated mappings aim to feel the country—through the materialities of war-damaged buildings, the taste of homemade juices, and the joy of small acts of kindness.
In a landscape where trauma lingers and political inertia persists, this publication opens space for critical imagination. It invites us to see Bosnia and Herzegovina not as divided, but as a layered place of entangled histories and resilient futures—mapped from within.
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ISBN 978-9-46444-802-3
This publication is a result of a collaboration between Subjective Editions, Newcastle University and PCRC
Editor-in-Chief: Annelys de Vet (Subjective Editions)
Editorial support: Sana Gobbeh, Anita Karabašić, Paul Lowe, Tatjana Milovanović, Ivana Perić, Theresa Rauch, James Riding, Velma Šarić, Amina Sejfić
Foreword: Velma Šarić
Introduction: James Riding