Ljuba Popović Painter · 1934—2016
1960 — 2024

Exhibitions

Sixty-four years of exhibition history, from a first showing with Mediala in Belgrade to the retrospectives that followed his death.

22 exhibitions recorded, compiled from published sources. The estate holds the complete list at ljuba.fr.

Retrospectives and posthumous exhibitions

From October 2024
Parisian Ascension, 1963—1983 ARTE Gallery, Belgrade

Marking his ninetieth birthday, accompanied by a new monograph and the first volume of the catalogue raisonné.

Retrospective
2020
Ljuba — Canvas without easel Modern Gallery Valjevo, Valjevo
Retrospective
4 September — 20 October 2019
Ljuba Popović — retrospective Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU), Belgrade

Curated by Nikola Kusovac and Slavica Batos; 45 mainly large-format paintings. SANU records 57,350 visitors, by far the most-visited solo exhibition of his work in either Serbia or France. The first printing of the Serbian catalogue sold out mid-run and 300 further copies were printed.

Retrospective

Solo exhibitions

2005
Ljuba Galerie Abel Rambert, Paris
Solo
1991, 1994
Ljuba Gruyères Castle, and Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Gruyères and Geneva
Solo
1986
Ljuba Richter & Masset, Munich
Solo
1985
Inaugural exhibition Modern Gallery Valjevo, Valjevo

He co-founded the gallery the same year.

Solo
1978
Ljuba Beaubourg Gallery, Paris
Solo
1978, 1984, 1998
Ljuba Veranneman Foundation, Kruishoutem, Belgium

Three exhibitions across twenty years.

Solo
1974
Ljuba Aberbach Fine Arts, New York

His first American solo exhibition, in the year he took French citizenship.

Solo
1972
Ljuba Galerie de Seine (Thessa Herold), Paris

Twenty-three large paintings, catalogued by André Pieyre de Mandiargues and Etiemble.

Solo
1971
Ljuba Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels
Solo
1971
Ljuba Galerie de Seine (Thessa Herold), Paris

Four large works, in the year René de Solier’s Musée de Poche monograph appeared.

Solo
1966
Ljuba Galerie Marcel Zerbib, Paris and Brussels
Solo
May 1964
Ljuba Galerie Edouard Smith, Paris

His first Paris solo exhibition, instigated by the critic René de Solier.

Solo

Group exhibitions

1993
Inaugural exhibition Galerie Thessa Herold, Marais, Paris

Herold opened her own Marais gallery in 1993; he was in the opening show.

Group
1988
La passion du Christ Dunkirk, Dunkirk

Travelled to Taiwan the following year.

Group
1969—1973
Surrealist revival exhibitions, organised by Patrick Waldberg Various, Brussels and Paris
Group
1965—1973
Salon de Mai and Biennale de Paris Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

Shown repeatedly across these years. The CNAC bought L’Ange de la perversité out of the Salon de Mai.

Group
1962—1964
Fantasy in the Works of Modern Belgrade Artists Zagreb, Zagreb
Group
1962—1964
San i mašta (Dream and Imagination) Biennale Požarevac, Požarevac
Group
1960
Mediala Grafički kolektiv, Belgrade

His first exhibition with the Mediala group.

Group