Ira Hadzic was born in 1979 in Sarajevo (BiH). At the age of eight she became a pioneer and swore an oath to always learn and work diligently. That is why at the heart of her work lies a learning: How to think about how things might be different. As learning is living and vice versa, I.H.s biographical facts have been born out of the attempt to understand the apparently foreign and the apparently familiar and thus to explore beyond the ‘taken-for-granted’.

I.H. studied Cultural Anthropology and American Culture and Literature in England and Germany. She graduated (MA) in 2005 and moved to Berlin where she currently lives.

Together with another artist she ‘operates’ under the name Meereshund. Their field of work mainly includes film, photography, writing, illustration, exhibition, observation, translation and improvisation