‘The Bird of Peace’ sculpture by Mirza Moric at The Hague City Hall

‘The Bird of Peace’ sculpture by Mirza Moric at The Hague City Hall

The Hague, the Netherlands, 17 June 2025 – As of 10 June the ‘Bird of Peace’, a sculpture by Bosnian artist Mirza Moric, can be admired at the main entrance of The Hague City Hall. The arrival of this artwork was initiated by the Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina, H.E. Mr Almir Šahović.

The official unveiling will take place on Thursday 19 June. In the presence of the Mayor of The Hague and members of the Diplomatic Corps. The sculpture will remain at City Hall until 21 September 2025, International Day of Peace. Its installation is part of the broader ‘Road to Summit programme’ in the lead-up to the NATO Summit in The Hague. 

Mirza Moric was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1954 and has lived in Paris since 1977. He graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Sarajevo in 1976, followed by studies at the National Schools of Fine Arts in Munich and Paris from 1977 to 1984. Throughout his entire life Mirza has been using his art to defend and promote peace; peace for his native war-wounded country of Bosnia, as well as peace for the entire World. 

Moric’s contemporary artwork has been exhibited widely across Europe, as well as in Los Angeles and Tokyo. Many of Moric’s bird sculptures are rooted in what he describes as “internal movement”—expressions of the inner world. These forms, often abstract and ascending in shape, echo themes found in Sufi mysticism and the writings of 12th-century Persian poet Attar, who described birds in search of spiritual enlightenment. In this way, Moric’s birds are not just artworks, but reflections on the human condition.