Tarik Berber
Tarik Berber was born on 12.07.1980 in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1991 he moved with his family to Bolzano, attended the Torricelli High School, after which he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, a painting course with Prof. Adriano Bimbi. Already in the second year he began working with the prestigious Florentine art gallery Poggiali e Forconi, which took him to all the main Italian art fairs.
In 2004 he is the youngest artist to be invited to exhibit at the inauguration of MACI (Isernia Contemporary Art Museum,) in the same year he participates in the Second InTranSito Biennial, Castel Sant’Angelo National Museum, Rome, then in Sassoferrato at the Review International Art FairSalvi-Aperture-, curated by Mauro Corradini and then at the second International Art Exhibition Citta ‘di Bozzolo, Don Primo Mazzolari, where he won the first purchase prize. In May 2006 he has his first personal exhibition at the Museum National Villa Pisani, Strà, Venice.
In 2007 he moved to Berlin, but after a year and a half he returned to Italy. From 2012 to 2015, he exhibited two hand-drawn video animations that attract the attention of the BBC, InsideArt and Vimeo Staff Picks with more than 60,000 views.
In the summer of 2015 he was invited for a series of four solo exhibitions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia: in Maribor at the ARMAMAXA gallery, at the City Gallery of Bihac, National Gallery of Sarajevo and at the G&M Gallery in Tuzla. In this period he gave the project of a children’s book to the orphanage of Kulen Vakuf (BiH) which prints and distributes it.
Towards the end of 2015 he began working with the prestigious Albemarle Gallery in London (Mayfair) at this time he met Edward Lucie-Smith, a famous English art historian and critic, who interviewed him and wrote a text about him for the catalog of exhibition at Art Moor House, a skyscraper built by the archistar Lord Norman Foster, in the City of London.
In 2016 he is the finalist of the Ibero-American Art Award Exhibition at the Embassy of Brazil, London.
In 2017 he was invited to create a 80m2 installation for the Piazza dei Tre Re within the “Estate Fiorentina”.
The same year he exhibited his solo show TOXIC CADMIUM at the Aria Art Gallery in Florence.
The same gallery exhibits his works at “CI” – Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair 2017. In 2018 he begins the collaboration with the VSArte Gallery of Milan (Brera), and in July of the same year he exhibited the solo show Windsor Beauties at Aria Art Gallery Istanbul.
In January 2020 the Maimeri Foundation hosted the retrospective “Seven Sisters” curated by Andrea Dusio in collaboration with Arte.it.
Solo Shows
SEVEN SISTERS, MAC Milano, FONDAZIONE MAIMERI, curated by Andrea Dusio, 2020
Windsor Beauties, Aria Art Gallery, curated by Antonio Budetta, Istanbul, 2018
TOXIC CADMIUM, Aria Art Gallery, curated by Antonio Budetta, Firenze, 2017
Ibero-American Art Award Exhibition at Embassy of Brazil, London, 2016
Solo Show at ArtMoorHouse in association with Albemarle Gallery, curated by Tony Pontone and Elisa Martinelli, London, 2015
FLOW, Darren Baker Gallery, curated by Jason Colchin-Carter & Agnieszka Perche, London, 2015
FLOW, City Gallery Bihać, curated by Nermin Delić & Adnana Dupanović, 2015
FLOW, G&M Galeria, Tuzla, 2015
FLOW, National Art Gallery of Bosna and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, 2015
Solo Show curated by Lejla Festic Britovsek ArmaMaxa, VETRINSKI DVORI, Slovenia Maribor, 2015
Heterotopias of Time curated by Gabriella Daris at “Blacks”, SOHO, London, 2013
Anatomia di un lupo, Aria Art Gallery, Florence, 2011
Double Solo Show with Elena Manzan Back to Italy, curated by Luca Beatrice, MACI, Isernia, 2010
IMAGO at LATO studio Architect Designer, Prato, 2010
Mostra di disegni, Etrarte, Florence, 2010
Double Solo Show with sculptor Lorenzo Vignoli, Ex Marmi, Pietrasanta, 2009
Firenze 2006, Berlin 2007, SelvArtGallery, Bolzano, 2007
Gli occhi della gente, curated by Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Il Castello Art Gallery, Trento, 2006
Vestigia Umane, curated by Maria Livia Brunelli, Museo Nazionale Villa Pisani, Stra, 2006
Solo Show Teste e/o mitologemi, Circolo Arti Figurative, Empoli, 2004
Groupe Shows
VS Arte Sguardi e Luoghi opere pittoriche di Tarik Berber, Filippo Cristini, Max Gasparini e Tina Sgrò, Milano, 2018
Opening “Group Show” at the new Aria Art Gallery in ISTANBUL, 2018
Winter Show part.1/Winter Show part.2, Albemarle Gallery, London, 2017
Tedx Talk Synergy, group show curated by Blair Zaye, ADA Nation- al College for Digital Skills,Tottenham,London 2017. Shortlisted Finalist at the Ibero-American ART AWARD Exhibition at the Embassy of Brasil, London, 2016
Mersad Berber & Tarik Berber at the Albemarle Gallery, Mayfair, London, 2016
NewYear/NewArtist/NewWork with Gordon Davidson, Tim Jones, Arshak Sarkissian at Albemarle Gallery, Mayfair, London, 2016
Baker Gallery, curated by Jason Colchin-Carter and Agnieszka Perche, IPA Isis Phonix Arts, London, 2015
100 Years Gallery curated by Pascal Ancel Bartholdi and Jaimi Valtierra, London, 2013
Group Show Bosnian Culture Museo della Civiltà Romana, EUR, Roma, 2012
Double Solo Show with Elena Manzan Back to Italy, curated by Luca Beatrice), MACI, Isernia, 2010
Oltrarno, Palazzo Panciatichi, Florence, 2010
Group Show Beauty Farm, la bellezza del corpo tra idealizzazione e ossessione, Fondazione Durini, Milano, 2010
Double Solo Show with sculptor Lorenzo Vignoli, Ex Marmi, Pietrasanta, 2009
International Art Review G. B. Salvi, Sassoferrato 2005.
International Art Review, curated by Mauro Corradini, First Floor section, first prize awarded, Citta’ di Bozzolo, 2005
Altre Voci altre stanze, curated by Alessandro Riva, spazio Le Ciminiere, Catania, 2005
Biennale d’Arte Contemporanea Intransito, Museo Nazionale Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome, 2004
L’arte in testa, curated by Luca Beatrice, MACI, Isernia, 2004
Il Mugello dipinto, Barberino di Mugello, 2003
Il Mugello disegnato, Palazzo Panciatichi, Florence, 2002
