Artist Rosa Barba explores permanence, impermanence, reality, and fiction through a repertoire of works traversing sculpture, installation, and film. Using performance as a framework and method, Barba examines the unruliness of cinematic apparatuses, the instability of knowledge, and the complexity of astronomical phenomena. Her work examines how space is influenced by temporal and linguistic constructs, challenging traditional understandings of narrative and language. Natural landscapes and human-made interventions into the environment feature as pivotal actors in Barba's films, and as proxies for charting political and cultural transformations in society. Using the raw material of cinema–projectors, screens, and celluloid film–Barba probes theoretical and abstract conditions of space and time, creating pieces that often quantify the convergence of light and sound. Her work is part of numerous international collections and recent solo exhibitions include: MoMA, New York (2025), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2023), Tate Modern, London (2023), Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2021-2022), HangarBicocca, Milan (2017), Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2017) and Secession, Vienna (2017), Schirn Kunsthalle (2016), and at Biennials such as the 53rd and 56th Venice Biennale, and Performa (2013).
Rosa Barba. Photo: Saskia Uppenkamp © Rosa Barba
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