MA PhD. Smirna Kulenovic is an internationally awarded academic, artist, creative director, and doctoral researcher at the University of the Arts Berlin — working at the intersection of art, digital technologies, and immersive cultural experiences. Over the past decade, she has lived and worked between Berlin, Venice, and Vienna.
She is currently a guest lecturer and PhD researcher at the University of the Arts Berlin and the University of Arts Linz, where she teaches within the departments of multimedia art and space design. Her teaching explores the creation of immersive realities that merge natural intelligence, cultural curation, and experience-oriented artistic practices across multi-sensory events, objects, spaces, performances, and fine art.
Between 2021 and 2024, Kulenovic served as a guest lecturer at the YALE university, on the departments of of Architecture and Theatre, in the United States. Her interdisciplinary collaborations extend across science and art institutions, including lectures and exchanges with the University of Oxford and collaboration with the quantum research laboratory Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, founded by Nobel Prize laureate Anton Zeilinger.
Kulenovic has also worked as a curator and collaborator within the immersive performance program at Ars Electronica, including projects in the renowned Deep Space 8K environment.
She is the founder, CEO, and creative director of mmmuse, a boutique creative agency based in Berlin and Vienna, currently expanding its headquarters to Lisbon. The studio develops new luxury cultural concepts, immersive multimedia environments, and high-end artistic curation for institutions, cultural spaces, and private commissions. Notable clients and collaborators include the Belvedere Museum, Hotel Sacher Vienna, the Hofburg Palace, designer Lie Sang Bong, and the Liechtenstein Garden Palace.
Her artistic work has been exhibited internationally in museums, galleries, and cultural institutions including Mattatoio Rome, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Milan Design Week, the EU Capital of Culture Austria, the EU Cultural Centre Paris, and The Courtauld Institute of Art London, among others.
Her work bridges artistic practice, cultural research, and curatorial innovation, exploring how art, science, and technology can shape new forms of cultural experience and collective imagination.