A contemporary painter whose practice moves between classical imagery, personal mythology and contemporary visual culture.
Van Eyck, triptych, oil on canvas, 85×75 cm, Zadar 2025
Current / Recent Exhibitions
Painting Painter Painting
Galerija Sanjaj, Belgrade
20 May – 30 June 2026
A selection of 18 works by Tarik Berber, exploring memory, identity, and the meeting point between Bosnian cultural heritage and the traditions of classical Italian painting, shaped through a distinctly contemporary sensibility.
Few words from the famous art critic Edward Lucie-Smith
[…] The eclecticism of Tarik Berber’s work is personal, yet is at the same time symbolic of much that is happening in the visual culture of today. This culture has access to an increasingly wide range of references. Images from every region of the world and from old epochs, from Palaeolithic times to our own, are readily available to young artists, and indeed to all the rest of us provided we have access to a computer. Historical hierarchies are vanishing – art from every epoch is immediately ours if we wish it to be so. Geographical boundaries are also tending to dissolve.
The result has been the gradual emergence of a new generation of artists, less interested in avant-garde identity, and much more interested in locating the true creative self. Tarik Berber is one of those artists.
Edward Lucie-Smith