Tarik Berber
Profile
Painter and Etcher
Born in Banja Luka (Bosnia and Hercegovina) in 1980, Tarik Berber studied in Florence at Accademia di Belle Arti with prof. Adriano Bimbi. After couple of years in Berlin and seven years in London he moves to Milan where he currently lives and works.
As a child due to the Yugoslavian War, he left his own country and settled with his family in Bolzano, Italy. Even before moving to Florence to continue his academic studies, while still very young, he had already received recognition and exemplary acknowledgements of esteem.
He started working with the prestigious Florentine art gallery Poggiali e Forconi, which took him to all major Italian art fairs.
In 2004 he was the youngest artist to be invited to exhibit at the inauguration of MACI (Museum of Contemporary Art of Isernia), in the same year he took part in the Second InTranSito Biennial, in Sassoferrato at the 55th Rassegna Internazionale d’Arte G. B. Salvi Aperture, curated by Mauro Corradini, and then, by Alessandro Riva in Catania in the Le Ciminiere space, and at the 2nd Rassegna Internazionale d’Arte Città di Bozzolo Don Primo Mazzolari, where he won the first acquisition prize. In May 2006, he had his first solo exhibition at the eighteenth-century residence of Villa Pisani, the Museo Nazionale of Strà in the Province of Venice.
In 2007 he moved to Berlin, but returned to Italy after a year and a half. From 2011 to 2018 he lived in London where he started working on animations. His works attracted the attention of BBC, InsideArt and Vimeo Staff Picks with more than 60,000 views.
In the summer of 2015 he is invited for a series of four solo exhibitions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia: in Maribor at the ARMAMAXA Gallery, at the City Gallery in Bihac, National Gallery in Sarajevo and the G&M Gallery in Tuzla. During this period he gives the project of a children's book to the orphanage in Kulen Vakuf (BiH), which prints and distributes it.
Towards the end of 2015 he began working with the prestigious Albemarle Gallery in London (Mayfair). During this period he met Edward Lucie-Smith, a famous English art historian and critic, who interviewed him and wrote a text about him for the catalogue of the exhibition at Art Moor House, a skyscraper built by the archistar Lord Norman Foster, in the City of London.
In 2016 he was a finalist in the “Ibero-American Art Award Exhibition” at the Brazilian Embassy, London.
In 2017, he was invited to create an 80m2 installation for the Piazza dei Tre Re as part of the “Estate Fiorentina”.
The same year he exhibited his solo show TOXIC CADMIUM at Aria Art Gallery in Florence. The same gallery exhibited his works at ‘CI’ - Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair 2017.
In 2018, he began a collaboration with the VSArte Gallery in Milan (Brera) and in July of the same year he opened his solo exhibition "Windsor Beauties" at Aria Art Gallery in Istanbul.
In January 2020, the Fondazione Maimeri hosted the retrospective “Seven Sisters” curated by Andrea Dusio in collaboration with Arte.it.
Upon his return to Milan, after the lockdown, he met Italian rapper Marracash, who commissioned him to make the hand-drawn music video (2700 drawings) “Dubbi”, for Universal Musical . The project will be presented at ASSAB One in Milan by Irina Zucca Alessandrelli, curator of the Ramo Collection. In addition to numerous prestigious media mentions, the 1,900,000 online views, the video was selected as a finalist for the Italian Music Video Award.
In spring 2021, he had a retrospective with more than 60 works at the National Museum Knezeva Palaća in Zadar, Croatia.
His latest project is a book of engravings “Sacra Illusione” printed at the Albicocco Art Printworks in Udine in 6 copies, with text by Matteo Nucci. The book was produced for the car manufacturer Lamborghini and is now at the Automobili Lamborghini Museum in Sant'Agata Bolognese. This was followed by a solo exhibition of engravings at La Stamperia d'Arte Albicocco in Udine 2024.
In May 2025, he finished the new animation “LINT” for Princeton (USA) creative writing professor Aleksandar Hemon. And in the same year, he began a collaboration with the Salamon Fine Art gallery in Milan.
Selected exhibitions
Solo Exhibition:
2024
As I was moving ahead occasionally I saw brief glimpses of Beauty, at La Stamperia d’Arte Albicocco, Udine
2022
Dubbi, ASSAB One, COLLEZIONE RAMO e UNIVERSAL Music, curated by Irina Zucca Alessandrelli, Milan
2021
Mademoiselle Zara, National Museum of Croatia, Rector’s Palace Knezeva Palača, Zara
2020
SEVEN SISTERS, MAC Milano, FONDAZIONE MAIMERI, curated by Andrea Dusio, Milan
2018
Windsor Beauties, Aria Art Gallery, curated by Antonio Budetta, Istanbul
2017
TOXIC CADMIUM, Aria Art Gallery, curated by Antonio Budetta, Florence
2016
Ibero-American Art Award Exhibition, Embassy of Brasil, London
2015
Solo show at, ArtMoorHouse, in collaboration with Albemarle Gallery, curated by Tony Pontone and Elisa Martinelli, Londond
FLOW, Darren Baker Gallery, curated by Jason Colchin-Carter & Agnieszka Perche, London
FLOW, City Gallery Bihać, curated by Nermin Delić & Adnana Dupanović, Bihác
FLOW, G&M Galeria, Tuzla
FLOW, National Art Gallery of Bosna and Herzegovina, Sarajevo
Solo Show at Lejla Festic Britovsek ArmaMaxa, VETRINSKI DVORI, Slovenia Maribor
2013
Heterotopias of Time, curated by Gabriella Daris, Blacks, SOHO, London
2011
Anatomia di un lupo, Aria Art Gallery, Florence
2010
Back to Italy, curated by Luca Beatrice, double solo show with Elena Manzan, MACI, Isernia
IMAGO, LATO studio Architect Designer, Prato
Drawing Exhibition, Etrarte, Firenze
2009
Double Solo Show with sculpture Lorenzo Vignoli, Ex Marmi, Pietrasanta
2007
Firenze 2006, Berlin 2007, SelvArtGallery, Bolzano
2006
Gli occhi della gente, curated by Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Il Castello Art Gallery, Trento
Vestigia Umane, curated by Maria Livia Brunelli, Museo Nazionale Villa Pisani, Stra
2004
Teste e/o mitologemi, Circolo Arti Figurative, Empoli
Collective Exhibitions:
2018
Luoghi: opere pittoriche di Tarik Berber, Filippo Cristini, Max Gasparini e Tina Sgrò, VS Arte Sguardi, Milan,
Opening “Group Show” at the new Aria Art Gallery in ISTANBUL
2017
Winter Show part.1/Winter Show part.2, Albemarle Gallery, London
Tedx Talk Synergy, group show curated by Blair Zaye, ADA Nation- al College for Digital Skills,Tottenham, London
2016
Shortlisted Finalist at the Ibero-American ART AWARD Exhibition at the Embassy of Brasil, London
Mersad Berber & Tarik Berber, Albemarle Gallery, Mayfair, London
NewYear/NewArtist/NewWork, with Gordon Davidson, Tim Jones, Arshak Sarkissian, Albemarle Gallery, Mayfair, London
2015
Baker Gallery, curated by Jason Colchin-Carter e Agnieszka Perche, IPA Isis Phonix Arts, London
2013
100 Years Gallery, curated by Pascal Ancel Bartholdi e Jaimi Valtierra, London
2012
Group Show Bosnian, Culture Museo della Civiltà Romana, EUR, Rome
2010
Oltrarno, Palazzo Panciatichi, Florence
Group Show Beauty Farm, la bellezza del corpo tra idealizzazione e ossessione, Fondazione Durini, Milan
2005
International Art Review G. B. Salvi, Sassoferrato
International Art Review, curated by Mauro Corradini, First Floor section, first prize awarded, Città di Bozzolo
Altre Voci altre stanze, curated by Alessandro Riva, spazio Le Ciminiere, Catania
2004
Biennale d’Arte Contemporanea Intransito, Museo Nazionale Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome
L’arte in testa, curated by Luca Beatrice, MACI, Isernia
2003
Il Mugello dipinto, Barberino di Mugello
2002
Il Mugello disegnato, Palazzo Panciatichi, Firenze
Animations:
2022
DUBBI
hand drawn animation on paper
For MARRACASH
Editing and Compositing: Nevena Radović
An Island Records video
Universal Music Italy
Link: youtube.comwatchv=q670GzES8G4&ab_channel=MarracashVEVO
2014
WUNDERKAMMER
hand drawn animation on paper
An experiment of hand drawn animation and composited scientific footage to recreate a modern Wunderkammer, a cabinet of curiosities inspired by Durer's engravings.
bbcmusicvideofestival.tumblr.com/post/66394881645/emrey-in-your- pocket-director-maria-pia
BBC MUSIC VIDEO FESTIVAL INSIDEART Feb 2014
insideart.eu/2014/02/12/lanimazione-di-tarik-berber/
Director/Editor/Compositor MARIA PIA FANIGLIULO
Link: vimeo.com/76479873
2013
DULCITONE
hand drawn animation on paper
Dulcitone is an ancient keyboard instrument with an incredibly poetic sound. This instrument is as a symbol for all lost and forgotten things.
Concept & Drawings Tarik Berber
Digital Compositing Maria Pia Fanigliulo
Link: vimeo.com/59858611