Ivo Šeremet

In the Anniversary Year

17 November – 17 December 2026

National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina

As part of the celebration marking 80 years of the National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, we present an exhibition dedicated to Ivo Šeremet (Livno, 1900 – Sarajevo, 1991), an academic painter and cultural figure whose professional engagement marked an important period in the history of this institution.

The exhibition features around twenty works from the collection of the National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which today comprises more than 6,000 works of art. In Bosnian and Herzegovinian art, Šeremet is remembered primarily as a plein air painter and landscape artist, but also for his still lifes, portraits and self-portraits. His work is stylistically associated with poetic realism, intimism and colourist realism.

This year also marks the centenary of Šeremet’s first solo exhibition, which he held in Sarajevo in the autumn of 1926, while completing his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. On that occasion, he presented 30 works at the gallery of Desimir Skočajić.

After returning to Sarajevo in 1948, Šeremet worked as a professor at the State School of Fine Arts and Crafts, and from 1951 was employed at the National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He served as its director from 1953 to 1965. During this period, he worked on expanding the Gallery’s art collection and adapting its building, which opened to the public in 1959. A particularly significant part of his cultural engagement was his contribution to the founding and development of the Počitelj Art Colony.

Text and exhibition design by Dragana Brkić-Hodak, Senior Curator.

The exhibition is open to the public until 17 December 2026.