Rosa Barba

Born:
1972
Residence:
Berlin, Germany
Nationality:
Italian
Trust:
APT Berlin
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  • Exhibitions

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  • Parra & Romero, Madrid will be participating at ARCOlisboa 2017 from May 18 through May 21, 2017.

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  • The selection of Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) as the Manifesta 12 team for urban studies in Palermo, Sicily, has been followed up by the appointment of an international, interdisciplinary team of four creative mediators.

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  • Remai Modern presents its new web commission, “Unprocessed in States,” 2017, by artist Rosa Barba.

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  • A solo exhibition presenting works designed by renowned Italian artist Rosa Barba (b. 1972 in Agrigento), who is widely known for his films and sculptures, will be on view at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan from May 5, 2017 through October 8, 2017.

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  • When I was small, I hated museums. They seemed less like repositories of past genius and more like mausoleums where objects that once had a life now sat embalmed for display.

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • A collective fundraising exhibition in aid of Pianoterra onlus.

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  • Incerteza Viva (“Live Uncertainty”) takes uncertainty as a structuring device in order to reflect on our current conditions of economic crisis, political instability, the rise of conservative forces, and ecological and migratory emergencies.

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  • Tacita Dean was in the midst of a commission for Tate Modern in early 2011 when she learned that the film laboratory where she bought 16-millimeter film for her artworks had stopped making it, almost overnight.

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  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s "Hieroglyphs" will be exhibited at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart's Neue Galerie, Berlin from September 23, 2016 through February 26, 2017.

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  • Following the removal of former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff from office and her replacement with new president Michel Temer, uncertainty in Brazil abounds.

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  • Some artists return to the land and one suggests interspecies communication could be a solution as exhibition expresses tension and uncertainty.

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  • The Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco presents details of a new work by Rosa Barba, winner of the PIAC – Prix International d’Art Contemporain 2016 (International Prize for Contemporary Art).

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  • Headlands Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the fifty-one artists and collaboratives who will participate in its renowned Artist-in-Residence program in 2016, including alumni who will receive project-specific support through Alumni New Works.

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  • The ICA opens a comprehensive survey of the artist Walid Raad, a pivotal figure in contemporary art whose work across various mediums investigates the ways in which we represent, remember, and make sense of history.

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  • It's said that there is “no free lunch,”—but what about some free art events in Basel?

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  • The 11th iteration of Gallery Weekend Berlin is about to kick off on Friday with some 47 participating galleries, and a slew of further openings and events around the city. A quick browse of the list of artists in this year's official program reveals that some of the strongest exhibitions to open this weekend are by women artists.

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  • Berlin Gallery Weekend

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  • The Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco announces shortlist for 46th PIAC (Prix International d’Art Contemporain / International Prize for Contemporary

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  • Yes! After months and months of speculation, prayers, and rumors, the Venice Biennale has released the artist list for its 56th edition, “All the World’s Futures,” which is being curated by Okwui Enwezor.

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  • From 6 June to 9 September 2012, the Kunsthaus Zürich is presenting the first solo exhibition in Switzerland by the young Italian artist Rosa Barba

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  • Reels and projectors have long been the key elements of Italian-born, Berlin-based Rosa Barba’s filmic installations.

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  • From 6 June to 9 September 2012, the Kunsthaus Zürich is presenting the first solo exhibition in Switzerland by the young Italian artist Rosa Barba

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  • Chicagoans Jessie Mott and Steve Reinke screen their short animation Blood & Cinnamon in Video Data Bank's annual New Acquisitions program

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  • With Americans’ attention directed this autumn toward the Presidential election, The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) brings together

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  • carlier | gebauer presents their first solo exhibition of artist Rosa Barba, opening at the Berlin Gallery Weekend 2011. With her filmic works

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  • The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis’s (CAM) fall 2012 season features the most significant museum exhibition to date of Leslie Hewitt

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  • Dealing with the lapses between narrative content and medium, Rosa Barba’s film and sculptural work is a meditation on memory and vision

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  • Rosa Barba, Rossella Biscotti, Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio and Piero Golia, all artists under 40 years old, are the finalists in the first edition

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BIOGRAPHY
Rosa Barba (Agrigento, Italy, 1972) is a Berlin-based visual artist and film-maker who predominantly bases her work on the use of celluloid and filmic devices, in both materiality and concept. Her pieces imply discontinuities, paradoxes and dialectic turns which are born in between the process of image creation and its metaphors. Mediums such as film, sculpture, installation and the written text come together to engender contradiction, the irony in a conceptual universe that transcends reality. Her films are often micro-stories of reality which grow inside a possible fiction; seemingly marginal happenings take on the value of a historical document, more real than major political and economic events. Omitted from official accounts of History, these everyday, fantastical narratives are normalised to explain the time we live in under the formula of post-modernity.
 
Rosa Barba’s work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions in institutions that include the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2016), the CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (2016), the MIT List Visual Arts Center (2015) and MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Castilla y León (2013). She has also participated in different editions of the Venice Biennale – numbers 52 (Slovenian Pavilion, 2007), 53 (Pallazzo delle Esposizione, 2009) and 56 (Giardini, 2015) – and the 32nd São Paulo Biennial (2016). Her films have been screened at numerous film festivals, for instance the 54th New York Film Festival (2016), the FACT screening program, the 24th Liverpool Biennial (2016), Basel Parcours Night: The Hidden Conference, film and sound performance (2015) and the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (2014), among others.

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