Amel Bešlagić was born in Prijedor (Bosnia and Herzegovina). After he graduated from the architecture program at Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul (Turkey), he moved to Graz (Austria) where he started his masters in architecture at Graz University of Technology. Right now he is working on his master’s thesis »Highway Prijedor Banja-Luka«, supervised by Milica Tomić at the Institute for Contemporary Art, where he also works as a study assistant.