EXHIBITIONS
Cups of Memory
In 2025, Cups of Memory premiered at KM21 / Kunstmuseum Den Haag as a collaboration between artist Aida Šehović (ŠTO TE NEMA) and architect Arna Mačkić (Studio L A), offering a new approach to remembrance in which art, collective memory, and shared rituals not only reflect on the past, but also confront its long-term consequences that continue to shape the present.
Rooted in ŠTO TE NEMA (“Why are you not here?”), a participatory monument realized in city squares around the world, Cups of Memory reconstitutes the temporary monument within a museum setting. Surrounded by images and stories of survivors and descendants, witnesses, and collaborators, the exhibition creates space for reflection, hope, and a collective commitment to a world free of genocide.
Cups of Memory at KM21 / Kunstmuseum Den Haag and was curated by Yasmijn Jarram, with support from Margriet Schavemaker.
Spatium Memoriae [ŠTO TE NEMA]
including Interactive performance Reflection and Memory
Spatium Memoriae presents an archive of the monument made up of original fildžani (cups) collected over 15 years. The cups are displayed in an archival system inspired by the methodology for storing of the International Commission on Missing Persons, symbolically pointing to the tragic reality that remains are still being discovered in mass graves throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Spatium Memoriae is not only a space for remembrance, but a space for learning and dealing with the past. The exhibition reminds us that war, mass violence and human rights violations remain a global threat—while art can become a tool of resistance, prevention, and healing.
Through the interactive performance Reflection and Memory, visitors place fildžani collected for the ŠTO TE NEMA monument into the exhibition’s archival system—a gesture of collective remembrance and the shared building of Spatium Memoriae.
Spatium Memoriae has been exhibited at Akademie Graz; Artivism: The Atrocity Prevention Pavilion in Venice; the Canadian Museum for Human Rights; Karmelitenkirche Munich; Kunsthaus Dresden; Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis; and the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
