Rosa Barba

Rosa Barba was born in Italy, and currently lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne followed by a fellowship at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam; and has completed her PhD with the title On the Anarchic Organisation of Cinematic Spaces: Evoking Spaces beyond Cinema at the Malmö Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, Lund University in 2018. Rosa Barba's work has been exhibited at prestigious institutions and biennials worldwide: MALI Museum, Lima, Tate Modern, London, MoMA, New York, Centre de Création contemporaine Olivier Debré, Tours, Cukrarna, Ljubljana, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Yokohama Triennial; Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland; CCA Kitakyushu; Armory Park Avenue, New York; Kunsthalle Bremen; Remai Modern, Saskatoon; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Palacio de Cristal, Madrid; Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan; Vienna Secession; Malmö Konsthall; CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Albertinum, Dresden and at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA. Barba participated in the 7th Beaufort Triennial, Belgium; 32nd São Paulo Biennial; 53rd and 56th Biennale di Venezia; 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art; 19th Biennale of Sydney; Performa, New York; International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia and Liverpool Biennale. In 2021, Rosa Barba inaugurated a permanent Open-Air Cinema sculpture in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Deryneia, Cyprus and Pillage of the Sea, and a permanent sculpture in the sea in Ostende, during the Beaufort Biennial. The artist has been awarded various international prizes, and her work is in the permanent collections of dozens of institutions worldwide.