Iva Despić Simonović was born in Hrastovica near Petrinja in 1891. Upon completion of primary and junior high school, Iva, who always showed affinity towards artistic expression, is enrolled in the Crafts Course for Girls at the Crafts School in Zagreb, and when the Course was discontinued in 1908, she enrolled in the College of Arts and Crafts.
Iva Despić Simonović was the first female sculptor in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a woman who was successful both as an artist and as a mother during the time when women were given different roles. Her sculptures testify of her extraordinary talent and skills, and her personality – real, dedicated, gentle and graceful.
Bosnian-Herzegovinian public is familiar with Thomas Steyaert as a dancer and choreographer. This exhibition will present him as a painter. His mixed-media work is a playful reflection on power structures and pain caused by violent political and economical systems. The distorted and cartoonish characters in Steyaert’s paintings often represent the obscene behavior of egocentric capitalist figures with a minimum on empathic understanding. The abstract works evolved from a pure fascination with texture, color and different printing techniques. The pieces seen at the exhibition were created with a self-thought technique by using oil paint, acrylic and spray paint on insulating foam boards.
The National Gallery of BiH has the honor and unique opportunity to organize, in cooperation with the Serbian Cultural and Educational Society “Prosvjeta” Sarajevo, another large retrospective exhibition of Branko Šotra’s works, after almost thirty years from the last one. This artist was primarily represented in the Yugoslav art history as a graphic artist, especially with the opus created during the last fifteen years of his life (1945-1960), so his paintings did not receive sufficient expert recognition. His works in the field of woodcarving, iconography and wall painting are even less known.
Aware of the educational potential of the art collections and the changing needs of society, in the past six months the National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina carried out first museum outreach program in Bosnia and Herzegovina for school children with autism spectrum disorder. This program is a result of systematic educational-museum work with children, experience and gained knowledge of the museum pedagogy. The program was financially supported by Open Society Fund Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The exhibition of sculptures and drawings by Jagoda Buić internationally acknowledged and affirmed artist and a winner of many awards. The exhibition is organised on the occasion of the election of Jagoda Buić as an international member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Mica Todorović’s drawings (1929-1933) represent an isolated example within an entire artistic opus both in thematic and expressive terms, but at the same time they occupy an important place in the segment of Bosnian-Herzegovinian social art. Looking at her entire opus, these works can be considered a stage of artistic maturation and growing up. They bear a strong criticism in themselves, but it is not directly addressed to any particular time or to any particular ideology. By confronting biblical motifs with the contemporary world, the artist emphasizes the universality of human mistakes. These drawings refine simultaneously both the reflections of collective consciousness, and responsibility and individuality of her personal attitude.
November 22, 2018 – January 15, 2019 Sometimes one painting, bought or received as a gift, is enough to create the passion and desire to acquire one more, and…
Ana Crespo and Meliha Teparić October 4-18, 2018 Spanish artist Ana Crespo and Meliha Teparic, artist from BH, found common artistic interests and ideas y brought forward an exposition which…
September 27 – October 11, 2018 “You live with the cards life’s dealt you. We are the ones to make things right.” Bob Dylan, The Chronicles Mental Screen What…
