Velma Babić was born in Germany and raised in former Yugoslavia, where she witnessed the start of the war at the beginning of the ‘90s. Eventually, she fled to Germany where she later graduated in Slavic and German Literature with a Master’s degree from LMU Munich. During her time abroad in Colombia and the United States, she dedicated herself intensively to photography, being both the photographer and the performing female subject.
Her interest in the relationship of photography to both literature and performance is a fertile moment to explore the meaning of identity and home, including her gender as a surface for interpretation around those topics.
Velma Babić has been exhibiting in museums and galleries of contemporary art in Colombia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Germany. Currently, she lives in Munich, Germany. She has another domicile in Sarajevo, where she is a regular lecturer at the summer school led by Kuma International, Center for Visual Arts from Post-Conflict Societies.
