Born 1972 in Agrigento, Italy.
Lives and works in Berlin.
Education and Residencies |
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| 2022 | Ann Wolff Foundation, Berlin |
| 2021 | Guest Artist programme of Arts at CERN |
| Atelier Calder, Saché, France | |
| Callie’s, Berlin | |
| 2017 | Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco |
| Denniston Hill, Glen Wild | |
| 2014–2015 | The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, EMPAC, Troy, New York |
| 2014 | Artpace, San Antonio, TX |
| 2013–2018 | PhD of the Malmö Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, Lund University |
| 2013 | Chinati Foundation, Marfa |
| 2008 | Dia Art Center, New York City |
| 2007–2008 | IASPIS, International Artists Studio Program, Stockholm |
| 2007 | Museumsquartier, Vienna |
| Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles | |
| 2006 | Production-in-Residence, Baltic Art Center, Visby |
| 2003–2004 | Two-year residency program, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam |
| 2001–2002 | C3-Institute, Budapest |
| 1995–2000 | Academy of Media Arts, Cologne |
| 1993–1995 | Theater and Film Studies, Erlangen |
Solo Exhibitions (selection) |
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| 2022 | Rosa Barba. Exhibition Notes, Cukrarna, Ljubljana |
| 2021 | Rosa Barba: In a Perpetual Now, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
| Rosa Barba: Pillage of the Sea, permanent sculpture for Beaufort Triennial, Belgium | |
| Rosa Barba: Inside the Outset, UN Buffer Zone, Deryneia, Cyprus | |
| 2020 | Rosa Barba, Touched by the Same Breath of Air, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku |
| 2019 | Rosa Barba: The Hidden Conference, ARTER, Istanbul |
| Rosa Barba, CCA Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu | |
| 2018 | Rosa Barba: On the Anarchic Organisation of Cinematic Spaces – Evoking Spaces Beyond Cinema, Malmö Art Academy, Gallery KHM1, Malmö |
| Rosa Barba: Geschichte als Skulptur / History as a Sculpture, Kunsthalle Bremen | |
| Rosa Barba: Send Me Sky, Remai Modern, Saskatoon | |
| Rosa Barba: Drawn by the Pulse, Tabakalera, International Centre for Contemporary Culture, San Sebastián | |
| 2017 | Rosa Barba: Solar Flux Recordings, Palacio de Cristal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid |
| Rosa Barba: From Source to Poem to Rhythm to Reader, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan | |
| Rosa Barba: Spacelength Thought, Secession, Vienna | |
| Rosa Barba: Elements of Conduct, Malmö Konsthall | |
| 2016 | Rosa Barba: The Color Out of Space, n.b.k., Berlin |
| Rosa Barba: From Source to Poem, CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux | |
| Rosa Barba: Blind Volumes, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt | |
| 2015 | Rosa Barba: Spaces for species (and pieces), Albertinum, Dresden |
| Rosa Barba: The Color Out of Space, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts | |
| Rosa Barba: The Color Out of Space, EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York | |
| 2014 | Rosa Barba: A Fictional Library–Live, Center of Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lithuania, curated by Juan de Nieves |
| Rosa Barba. The Mute Veracity of Matter II, MAXXI, Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, Rome | |
| Spring 2014 International Artist-In-Residence Program: Rosa Barba–New Works, Artpace, San Antonio, Texas | |
| 2013 | Rosa Barba: A Home For a Unique Individual, MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León |
| Rosa Barba: Subject to Constant Change, Turner Contemporary, Margate | |
| Time as Perspective, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway | |
| 2012 | Time as Perspective, Kunsthaus Zürich |
| Back Door Exposure, Jeu de Paume, Paris | |
| Rosa Barba: Desert—Performed, Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis | |
| 2011 | Stage Archive, Fondazione Galleria Civica – Center of Research on Contemporary Art, Trento Stage Archive, MART d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto |
| 2010 | Rosa Barba, Tate Modern, London |
| Is it a two-dimensional analogy or a metaphor?, Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière | |
Group Exhibitions (selection) |
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| 2022 | Farbe als Programm, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn |
| At Dawn, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin | |
| Opera Opera, Maxxi – Palais Populaire, Berlin | |
| What a Wonderful World, Maxxi, Rome | |
| Videoarte in Italia, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome & GAM, Milan | |
| 2021 | L’altro, lo stesso, ZAC, Palermo |
| New Collection, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid | |
| 2020 | 7th Yokohama Triennale – AFTERGLOW, Yokohama (curated by Raqs Media Collective) |
| 2019 | Fly me to the Moon, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich |
| 2017 | Collecting Europe, Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
| 2016 | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Hieroglyphics, with works by Rosa Barba and Rudolf Stingel, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin |
| Celluloid: Tacita Dean, João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Rosa Barba, Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam | |
| 32nd Bienal de São Paulo: Incerteza Viva (Live Uncertainty) | |
| 2015 | All The World’s Futures, 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Central Pavilion, Giardini, Venice |
| 2014 | 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art Museen Dahlem – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
| 2013 | Nuit Blanche 2013, Paris (curated by Chiara Parisi) |
| 2010 | Touched, Liverpool Biennial |
| 2009 | Making Worlds, 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
Rosa Barba engages within the medium of film through a sculptural approach. In her works, Barba creates installations and site-specific interventions to analyze the ways film articulates space, placing the work and the viewer in a new relationship. Questions of composition, physicality of form and plasticity play an important role for the artist as Barba examines the industry of cinema and its staging vis-à-vis gesture, genre, information and documents. Her film works are situated between experimental documentary and fictional narrative. They often focus on natural landscapes and human-made interventions into the environment and explore the relationship of historical records, personal anecdotes, and filmic representation, creating spaces of memory and uncertainty.
