Bernard Simunovic

Bernard Šimunović works with the line, not because he chose it, but because it was always there. His drive is simple and unrelenting: to render the complex so that it can be felt. Movement. Emotion.

The human being in his most fundamental constellations , closeness, loss, tenderness, transience.

In Relational Lines, the figure has not disappeared. It has become relationship. Two lines approaching, touching, missing each other. What becomes visible is not the body, but what arises and remains between two people. Reduction is not a stylistic choice. It is method.

What is unnecessary falls away.

What remains carries the full weight.

At the end of the last evening, we will be asked about love.

1990–1992 Academy of Fine Arts Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
(studies interrupted due to the war)

1995–1999 Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Visual Communication and Painting (Diploma), Prof. Jochen Geilen


Fellowships
1996–1997 Aldegrever-Gesellschaft, Münster, Germany, Artist Residence
Zeichner Untertage Project
1996-1999 Stipendium Albertus Magnus Verein, Germany


Early Career / Professional Experience
1992 Assistant to Croatian artist Branimir Čilić,
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
(following his arrival in Germany)

1999-2004 IWT- Scientific Researcher/ Designer

2004 Founder of Design Office

Selected Exhibitions

Tiha poezija — GKS Metković, 2026

Paul Smith Group Exhibition, London, 2020

Nit života — Pikto Gallery

Zeche Friedrich-Heinrich, Kamp-Lintfort, 2000

Galerie FH Bielefeld, 1997

UNESCO — Sarajevo: A Wounded City, Europa & New York,

Stop the War in Croatia, with Croatian artist Branimir Čilić, 1992


Private and Public Collections

Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart

Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF), Universität Bielefeld

The Hong Kong Jockey Club

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Solo Exhibitions
2026 Tiha poezija – Silent Poetry, City Art Gallery Metković, Croatia
2022 Kantgaragen, STILWERK Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2020 Jockey Club, Hong Kong
2019 Kutleša Gallery, Goldau, Switzerland
2017 Nit života Pikto Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2012 Lebensfaden (Thread of life), Berswordt-Halle, Dortmund, Germany
2013 Bürgerhaus Essen, Essen, Germany
2011 Observation II, Blaues Haus, Dortmund, Germany
1999 Merkatorhalle, Duisburg, Germany
1997 Zeichner Untertage, Aldegrever-Gesellschaft, Münster, Germany
1996 Observations, St. Joseph Church, Bielefeld, Germany

Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Otvara vrata, Galerija Uremović, Trogir, Croatia

2024 Singulart, Dorotheen Quartier, Stuttgart
2023 One Night in Paris, Home Collette, New York, USA
2022 In the Wake of Movement, Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2022 Life in Colors – Colorful, Powerful, Beautiful, f6 – the open factory, Vienna, Austria

2020 Paul Smith NO. 9 ALBEMARLE STREET - MAYFAIR - London, U.K.
2020 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, USA
2018 Art Acacia, San Francisco, USA
2016 Artwista Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2015 Gemischte Tüte, Kulturort Depot, Dortmund, Germany
2014 Gemischte Tüte, Atelierhaus Westfalenhütte, Dortmund, Germany

2013 44|88 ArtRaum, Berlin , ...