Visual artist & set designer
Born in Belgrade, Serbia, 1971
Lives and works in Belgrade
Member of ULUS – The Association of Fine Artists of Serbia
Email: borko@orion.rs
Instagram: @borko.petrovic
About the artist
Borko Petrovic is a Serbian visual artist whose abstract and expressive paintings explore the inner life of human beings. Through dynamic movement, a blend of colors, and a unique texture, Borko succeeds in stopping time and capturing motion on a static canvas. The constant motif in his work is the human being, examined through relationships and emotions. His latest painting series, Captured time, emerged from years of artistic experience and experimentation with various techniques and styles.
His main aspiration is to create energy during the painting process. The lines in this new series represent movements that never end. They generate a sense of motion and evoke in the viewer feelings of vitality, energy, and the uniqueness of a fleeting moment. Movement and stillness are reconciled, as are transience and eternity.
He has exhibited widely across Europe, North America, and Asia, and his works are held in numerous private and institutional collections internationally.
„The act of painting instantly engages senses and emotions, paints become a sensual touch of living matter, traveling at high speed towards the moment of completion of a painting. The truthfulness of these paintings liberates viewer’s emotions and enters him into an energized vortex of color. Borko succeeds in painting that which is most difficult: life itself!“ – Kosta Bunuševac
Education
Faculty of Applied Arts and Design, University of Belgrade – Department of Set Design (BA, 1996)
High school of Industrial Design, Belgrade – Graphic Department (1987–1989)
Selected solo exhibitions
2023 – Everything is Art Gallery, Herceg Novi, Montenegro
2012 – Centro Culturale La Rotonda di San Biagio, Monza, Italy
2012 – Galleria Parrocchiale di SS Pietro e Paolo, Saronno, Italy
2012, 2010 – Hexalab Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2010 – National Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2007 – Diplomatic Club, Belgrade, Serbia
2002 – Fonds de Decoration, Geneva, Switzerland
2001 – La Mansarde de Veyrier, Geneva, Switzerland
1997 – MOST Gallery, Podgorica, Montenegro
Selected group exhibitions
2022 – PASA Festival, Seoul, South Korea
2019 – Synergic, The Old Biskuit Factory, London
2018 – Dafen International Art Biennale, China
2018 – Gallery Attaché, Chipping Norton, UK
2016 – Mirror Mirror, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
2016–2017 – Polar Self Portraits Project (Greenland, Antarctica, UK, France,
Balkans, Morocco, USA)
2012 – Incident II / Accident, Czestochowa Museum, Poland
2008–2011 – Annual ULUS Exhibitions, Belgrade, Serbia
2007 – Galeria Zero, Barcelona, Spain
1994 – Agora Gallery, SOHO, New York, USA
