Education / Residencies
2021 Atelier Calder, Saché, France (upcoming) 2021 Guest Artist programme of Arts at CERN (upcoming) 2019 Park Avenue Armory, New York City 2018 PhD at the Malmö Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, Lund University 2017 Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco 2017 Denniston Hill, Glen Wild 2014/15 The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, EMPAC, Troy, New York 2014 Artpace, San Antonio, Texas 2013 Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas 2008 Dia Art Center, New York 2007/2008 IASPIS, International Artists Studio Program, Stockholm 2007 Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, USA 2006 Production-in-Residence, Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden 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 Theatre and film studies in Erlangen, Germany
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
Rosa Barba, Luhring Augustine, New York (upcoming) Rosa Barba, Cukrarna, Ljubljana (upcoming) Rosa Barba, Esther Schipper, Berlin (upcoming) Rosa Barba, CCC OD – centre de création contemporaine olivier debré, Tours (upcoming) 2021 Rosa Barba, Esther Schipper, Berlin (upcoming) Rosa Barba: In a Perpetual Now, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (upcoming) Rosa Barba: Pillage of the Sea, permanent sculpture in the sea for Beaufort Triennial, Belgium Rosa Barba: Inside the Outset, public sculpture, Cyprus Buffer Zone 2020 Rosa Barba: Touched by the Same Breath of Air, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku Rosa Barba: Turn and Wind, Parra & Romero, Madrid 2019 Rosa Barba: The Hidden Conference, ARTER, Istanbul Rosa Barba, CCA Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu Rosa Barba, Park Armory Avenue, New York City 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, curated by Eefke Kleimann Rosa Barba: Send Me Sky, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada, curated by Sandra Guimarães Rosa Barba: Pensiero Spaziolungo, Vistamarestudio, Milan Rosa Barba: Drawn by the Pulse, Tabakalera, International Centre for Contemporary Culture, San Sebastián, curated by Cristina Cámara Bello Rosa Barba: Between Objects in the Waking World, Void Contemporary Art Centre, Derry, North Ireland, curated by Mary Cremin 2017 Rosa Barba: Solar Flux Recordings, Palacio de Cristal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, curated by Manuel Borja-Villel Rosa Barba: From Source to Poem to Rhythm to Reader, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, curated by Roberta Tenconi Rosa Barba: Spacelength Thought, Secession, Vienna, curated by Jeanette Pacher Rosa Barba: Elements of Conduct, Konsthall Malmö, Sweden, curated by Mats Stjernstedt Rosa Barba: Unprocessed in States, web project for Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada 2016 Rosa Barba: The Color Out of Space, n.b.k., Berlin, curated by Kathrin Becker Rosa Barba: From Source to Poem, CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, France, curated by María Inés Rodríguez Rosa Barba: Blind Volumes, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, curated by Esther Schlicht Rosa Barba: Thoughts of Sorts, Parra&Romero, Madrid Rosa Barba, White Museum – Live, Sunday Sessions, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York 2015 Rosa Barba: Spaces for species (and pieces), Albertinum, Dresden, Germany, curated by Hilke Wagner Rosa Barba: The Color Out of Space, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, curated by Henriette Huldisch Rosa Barba: Inside a Magnified Picture, Meyer Riegger, Berlin Rosa Barba: The Color Out of Space, EMPAC Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 2014 Rosa Barba: Performativity of Presence, Centre of Contemporary Art, Hotel de Inmigrantes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, curated by José-Carlos Mariategui Rosa Barba with Lenor Antunes, Daniel Roth, Ettore Spalletti, Vistamare, Pescara, Italy 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 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, Spain, curated by Juan de Nieves Rosa Barba: Subject to Constant Change, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK, curated by Henriette Huldisch Rosa Barba: Subject to Constant Change, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, curated by Lauren Wright Time as Perspective, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, curated by Solveig Øvstebø The Mute Veracity of Matter, Giò Marconi, Milan 2012 Time as Perspective, Kunsthaus Zürich, curated by Mirjam Varadinis Back Door Exposure, Jeu de Paume, Paris, curated by Filipa Oliveira A Private Tableaux and Printed Cinema, Marfa Book Co, Marfa, Texas Rosa Barba: Desert—Performed, Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, USA, curated by Kelly Shindler The Move, ARTER, Istanbul, curated by Basak Senova October Salon, Kulturni Center, Belgrade 2011 Stage Archive, Fondazione Galleria Civica - Center of Research on Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy Stage Archive, MART d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy, curated by Chiara Parisi and Andrea Viliani carlier | gebauer, Berlin Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, curated by Hilke Wagner Somnium, XL, Lobby New orleans gebouw, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands Rosa Barba/David Maljkovic, la Pedrera, Barcelona, Spain, curated by Cristina Cámara 2010 Rosa Barba, TATE Modern, London, curated by Ben Borthwick A Curated Conference: On the Future of Collective Strength within an Archive, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (curation by the artist) Is it a two-dimensional analogy or a metaphor?, Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière, France, curated by Chiara Parisi and Andrea Viliani Rosa Barba, Center of Contemporary Arts, Tel Aviv, Israel, curated by Sergio Edelsztein 2009 Western Round Table, carlier | gebauer, Berlin Stating the Real Sublime, Giò Marconi, Milan 2008 Outwardly from Earth’s Center, carlier | gebauer, Berlin Vertiginous Mapping, Dia Art Foundation, New York (web project) Villa Romana, Florence, Italy, curated by Angelika Stepken Handed Over (with David Maljkovic), Bakery, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam Esbama École des Beaux-Arts, Montpellier, France Outwardly from Earth’s Center, Bildmuseet Umeå, Sweden, curated by Jan-Erik Lundström Handed Over (with David Maljkovic), Project Art Center, Dublin, Ireland, curated by Tessa Giblin Western Round Table, Gallery Patricia Dorfmann, Paris, curated by Romain Torri 2007 They Shine, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, curated by Jelle Bouwhuis Present Future, Artissima, Turin, Italy, curated by Cecilia Alemani HAP-Grieshaber-Preis, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin With a Hidden Noise, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, Austria, curated by Sandro Droschl Western Round Table, Koje Medienturm Museumsquartier, Vienna 2006 Rosa Barba, Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden, curated by Johan Pousette Who Can Tell If I Am Inventing?, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, curated by Angelika Stepken Its Gonna Happen, Croy Nielsen, Berlin (with David Maljkovic) Rosa Barba: Printed Cinema, Schaufenster im Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany, curated by Inke Arns 2005 Rosa Barba, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow Rosa Barba: You Cannot Remain Indifferent, Kasseler Kunstverein, Fridericianum, Kassel A Tangible Accomplishment, Gallery Vera Gliem, Cologne 2004 Buckle and Jitter, Argos, Brussels, Belgium, curated by Paul Willemsen 2003 Compilation1 with Jeanne Faust and Jennifer Nelson, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, curated by Ulrike Groos and Peter Gorschlüter Rosa Barba, Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2002 Rosa Barba, Sala de arte contemporanéo, Lima, Peru, curated by José-Carlos Mariátegui Pirate Spaces, c/o Peter Gorschlüter, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe 2001 Navigator, Ancient Gallery, Cinematexas, Austin, Texas Flightmachine, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, Austria, curated by Sandro Droschl Counter-Motion, C3-Gallery, Budapest 2000 Rosa Barba: Navigator im Licht-Raum-Modulator, artothek, Cologne Moltkerei Werkstatt, Cologne
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2022 Il Video Rende Felici. Video-arte in Italia Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome and GAM, Milan (upcoming) 2021 Carlier Gebauer, Berlin, curated by Dieter Schwarz (upcoming) Sounds From Another Room, Vistamare, Pescara, curated by Alessandro Rabottini (upcoming) Vistamare Studio, Milan (upcoming) Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (upcoming) NOTHINGTOSEENESS—Void/White/Silence, Akademie der Künste, in the context of Berlin Art Week (upcoming) Art Encounters Biennial in Timisoara, Romania (upcoming) In the Open, Common Guild, Glasgow (online) Rosa Barba: Selected Works, Esther Schipper, Berlin (online) Degrowth and Progress, L’International (online) Editorial Thinking, The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation 2020 7th Yokohama Triennale - AFTERGLOW, Yokohama Not I (Throwing Voices), LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art PUSH THE LIMITS, Fondazione Merz, Turin Time Machine - Cinematic Temporalities, Palazzo del Governatore, Parma 2019 La Source, Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles Serendipity, Galeria Francesco Fino, Lisbon Fly me to the Moon, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg Calder Stories, Centro Botín, Santander La strada. Dove si crea il mondo / The Street. Where the World Is Made, La Panacée, EPCC MoCo – Montpellier Contemporain, Montpellier Model and Ruin, Werkleitz Festival, Dessau Time Forward!, V-A-C Foundation, Venice Setouchi Triennale, Setouchi Fly me to the Moon, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich anarchive, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig 2018 La strada. Dove si crea il mondo / The Street. Where the World Is Made, MAXXI, Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo Rome (upcoming) Raqs Media Collective. In the Open or in Stealth. MACBA, Barcelona A Visibility Matrix. Espace Écureui, Toulouse, France The Moon. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, DK CROSSROADS, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art A Visibility Matrix. Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Møenlight Sonata. 44MØEN, Askeby, Denmark Walk-in Cinema. SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul Artists’ Film International. Rosa Barba, Robertas Narkus and Jokūbas Čižikas, Danielle Dean, Whitechapel Gallery, London Un Campo Oscuro. Jose Guerrero Art Center of Granada, Spain Artists’ Film International. Whitechapel Gallery, London Deutschland ist keine Insel. Sammlung Zeitgenössischer Kunst Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Ankäufe von 2012 bis 2016. Bundeskunsthalle Bonn 2017 Open at Night, Villa Medici, Accademia di Francia a Roma, Rome Da Io a Noi (nessuno è mai solo), Palazzo del Quirinale, Roma Never Ending Stories. Der Loop in Kunst, Film, Architektur, Musik, Literatur und Kulturgeschichte, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany trigon 67: „ambiente / environment“, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz Time as Landscape, The Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, Florida Le Storie del Film d’Artista in Italia, MAXXI, Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, Rome Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie – Farewell Photography. Leaving the Still Image, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Mannheim 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, touring program: SESC Garanhuns, Brazil;SESC Itajaí, Brazil Sculpture on Screen—The Very Impress of the Object, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal Wither the Winds, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden Invisible Cities (MODA curates 2017), The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York Toujours. El museo como testigo, Museo Amparo, Peubla, Mexico Collecting Europe, Victoria & Albert Museum, London The String Traveller, S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art, Gent, Belgium Pafos2017 - Planites, Pafos, Cyprus 2016 Re/Turning Out, opere scelte dal Fondo Regionale Arte Contemporanea, Castello del Monferrato,Italy The Artist’s Museum, ICA Boston, curated by Dan Byers I would prefer not to / Preferirei di no, La Quadriennale d’Arte, Rome Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Hieroglyphen, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin Celluloid: Rosa Barba - Tacita Dean - João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva - Luis Recoder & Sandra Gibson, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil, curated by Jochen Volz Surfacing Earth, Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden Remember Lidice, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Germany Sublime, Centre Pompidou Metz, France, curated by Hélène Guenin Fertile lands, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris, curated by Alexandra Fau 2015 Plagiarizing the Future, Hangar. Center for Artistic Investigation, Lisbon, Portugal, curated by Bruno Leitao and Andrea Rodriguez Novoa Timisoara Art Encounters, Sequential Strings, Timisoara Art Museum, Timisoara, Romania, curated by Nathalie Hoyos and Rainald Schumacher Screen City Festival, Stavanger, Norway Doing The Impossible Light, Arton Foundation, Warsaw, Poland, curated by Florian Zeyfang and Marika Kuzmicz Remember Lidice, Edition Block, Berlin A Space Is A Space Is A Space, DAZ, Berlin, curated by Karima Boudou, Céline Poulin, Agnès Violeau Arte In Centro, Palazzo De Sanctis, Castelbasso (TE), Italy, curated by Andrea Bruciati All the World’s Futures, 56th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Central Pavilion, Giardini, Venice, Italy, curated by Okwui Enwezor Checkpoint California. 20 Jahre Villa Aurora, Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Berlin The Coming Museum, Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, Portugal, curated by Filipa Oliveira I’ll Be There Forever. The Sense of Classic, Palazzo Cusani, Milan Poetic Minimalism - Bernd Lohaus et. al., Salon Dahlmann, Berlin Landschaft in Bewegung - Filmische Ausblicke auf ein unbestimmtes Morgen, Kunsthaus Graz Verdingte Wahrscheinlichkeit, Ingrid Wiener & Rosa Barba, Galerie Charim, Vienna Hong Kong Art Centre - ifva Media Art Exhibition, Cinema 2.0: Hard Cinema, Hong Kong 2014 Playtime, Cornerhouse, Manchester Up Close and Personal, De Hallen Haarlem, Netherlands In the mouth of the wolf ! Die! Die!, House of Cyprus, Athens, Greece Pier 54, High Line, New York Islands Off the Shore of Asia, Para Site, Spring, Hong Kong thingworld: International Triennial of New Media Art 2014, NAMOC, Beijing, China 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Germany Le musée imaginaire d’Henri Langlois, La Cinémathèque Française, Paris Words as Doors - in Language, Art, Film, Künstlerhaus – Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria You Imagine What You Desire, 19th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia The Text: First Notions and Findings - II. Escapes. Fiction as Rigor, Fabra i Coats Art Center, Barcelona, Spain 1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia Lens-based Sculpture, Akademie der Künste, Berlin and Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz The Dying of the Light: Film as Medium and Metaphor, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts 2013 Performa13, New Visual Art Performance Biennial, New York Iskele2/The Unanswered Question, n.b.k., Berlin, curated by Rene Block Des Mondes Possibles (Possible Worlds), Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon, France Die gestundete Zeit, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf Nur hier. Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Ankäufe von 2007 bis 2011, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn Film as Sculpture, WIELS, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels, curated by Elena Filipovic Langages: Entre le dire et le faire, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris 2012 Telling everything, not knowing how: After the Death of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, CA2M, Madrid, curated by Joao Ribas Man in the Holocene, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA Field Experiences, Centre International d’Art & du Paysage de Vassivère, France Pink Caviar, New works in the Collection 2009-2011, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark MACRO, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome A Trip to the Moon. Before and After Film, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, curated by Sara Arrhenius The Poster Show, carlier | gebauer, Berlin Made in Germany 2,Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany Never Odd or Even, Museum for Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark Collezione Acacia, Palazzo Reale, Milan Du monde clos à l’univers infini, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Quimper, France Unfinished Journeys, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway Vistamare, Benedetta Spalletti, Pescara, Italy A Doll’s House, Isola Art Center, Milan Ciudad Moderna, Le Silo, Inha, Paris Man and Machine, Botkyrka Konsthall, Botkyrka, Sweden Regarding Marisa Merz, MAXXI, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome 2011 Never Odd or Even, Grimmuseum, Berlin, curated by Solveig Øvstebø videocriação, Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, curated by Julieta Roitman Alles Gute, Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau, Germany Les Marques Aveugles, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève, Switzerland Surviving the Future, Murmansk Art Museum, Russia, curated by Jan-Erik Lundström El Mapa: Cartografías críticas, MAMM - Museo de Arte Moderno Medellin, Colombia Segalega, Zero, Milan Staging Documentary, Lothringer 13, Munich, Germany Magical Consciousness, Arnolfini Art Centre, Bristol, United Kingdom, curated by Nav Haq and Runa Islam Terminal Convention, Cork Airport, Cork, Ireland, curated by Peter Gorschlüter H-Box, MUDAM, Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Mudam Luxembourg H-Box, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Corea 2010 SI, Magasin, Grenoble, France, curated by Yves Aupetitallot Camera, Light, Action, ABC, Berlin, curated by Marc Glöde Premio Italia, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome Transatlantische Impulse, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, curated by Markus Richter Quando si parte, Assab One, Milano, Italy, curated by Gaia Fugazzi La scultura Italiana del xxi secolo, Fondazione Pomodoro, Milano, Italy The Moon is an Arrant Thief, David Roberts Foundation, London, curated by Thom O’Nions, Luiza Teixeira de Freitas and Oliver Martínez-Kandt Faux Amis, vidéothèque éphémère, Jeu de Paume, Paris, curated by Marta Ponsa Behind the Curtain, Giò Marconi, Milan Autokino, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, curated by Phil Collins H-Box (touring), New Museum, New York, curated by Benjamin Weil H-Box (touring) Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Paris H-Box (touring), Fondazione Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland H-Box (touring), Laboratorio de Arte Alameda, Mexico City 21/21, 21 artists for the 21st century, Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy, curated by Francesco Bonami And nothing turned itself inside out, Galeria Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, Croatia Biennale Cuvée, Ok Center for Contemporary Arts, Linz, Austria Terra Infirma, ICSP New York curated by Chiara Sartori A Generation, Petah-Tikva Museum of Art, Israel, curatd by Avi Feldman Rethinking Location, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen From The Liberty Square to Independent Square, Fokus Lodz Biennale, Lodz, Poland Nam June Paik Award, Museum Kunst-Palast, Düsseldorf Touched, Liverpool Biennale, United Kingdom, curated by Lorenzo Fusi October Salon, Belgrade, curated by Johan Pousette and Celia Prado 2009 Making Worlds, Palazzo delle Eposizione, 53rd Venice Biennale, curated by Daniel Birnbaum Ecstatic Resistance, X-initiative, New York, curated by Emily Roysdon And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out, WUK Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, curated by Antonia Majaca and Ivana Bago The Boundary Layer, The Prairie Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada, curated by Catherine Dean New Acquisitions, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, curated by Rosario Pérez Passaggi in Sicilia, Palazzo Riso – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Fondazione Sambuca, Palermo, Italy Art at the Centre of a responsible transformation of society, Collezione FRAC Piemonte, Vercelli, Italy, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy Art at the Centre of a Responsible Transformation of Society, Collezione FRAC Piemonte, Vercelli, Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy Eppur si muove (And yet it moves), Fondatione Re Rebaudengo, Fondazione Eduardo Garrone, Palazzo Ducale, Genua, Italy Italics, Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution, 1968-2008, MCA Chicago, USA, curated by Francesco Bonami A Despot in Flora’s Garden, Preston Gallery, New York, curated by Jasper Sharp What a Wonderful World, Göteborg Biennial, Sweden, curated by Celia Prado and Johan Pousette Life Forms, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, curated by Sara Arrhenius Solaris, Giò Marconi, Milan, curated by Cecilia Alemani Just in the Dark, Mercati di Traiano, Museo dei Fori Imperiali, Rome, curated by Andrea Viliani Images Festival, Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto, curated by Pablo Ocampa Drifting Histories, CCS Bard, Hessel Museum, New York, curated by Anais Lellouche Six Tuesdays After Film as a Critical Practice, The Lux 28, London, curated by Ian White 2008 Rooms look back and Inserts with Ursula Mayer and Margret Salmon, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland, curated by Simone Neuenschwande and Annette Amberg 50 Moons of Saturn, Torino Triennale, Italy, curated by Daniel Birnbaum Video Report Italia 2006/2007, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy, curated by Andrea Bruciati Degrees of Remove: Landscape and Affect, Sculpture Center, Long Island and Anthology Film Archive, New York, curated by Sarina Basta and Andrew Lampert Italics, Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution, 1968-2008, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, and MCA Chicago, curated by Francesco Bonami Map-Navigating the Present, Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden, curated by Brita Talje and Jan-Erik Lundström Visible Cinema, Center of Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland, curated by Isla Leaver-Yap We want to thank the curators, Seventeen Gallery, London, curated by Vincent Honoré Soft Cell - dinamiche dello spazio in Italia, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy, curated by Andrea Bruciati Abstracts of Syn, Ar/ge Kunst, Bolzano, Italy 2007 52nd Venice Biennale, Italy, Slovenian Pavilion, film program, curated by Francesco Manacorda Heterotopias, 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greece, curated by Jan-Erik Lundström 12th Biennial of Moving Images, Geneva, Switzerland Loop, Centro Cultural Valentina, Barcelona, Spain Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland, curated by Tessa Giblin Turtle Salon, Slade Woburn Studios, London, curated by Michael Shamberg Nederclips, Stedelijk Museum, Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, curated by Bart Rutten Dissecting the Ear, Sign Gallery, Groningen, Netherlands, curated by Bojan Faifric Jahresgaben Ausstellung der Atelierstipendiaten, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne 2006 Last Lives in the Universe, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, curated by Tessa Giblin and Chiara Sartori Revisie, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands No Picture, Swiss Institute, New York, curated by Gianni Motti Bathhouse, Gouda, curated by Theo Tegelaers Almost Cinema, Kunstcentrum Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium 2005 Gravity in Art, de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam, curated by Theo Tegelaers Image and Sound, Senef Film Festival, Seoul, Corea Horror, Science Fiction and Porn, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada, curated by Philip Monk Murmur, Tent - Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam, Netherlands, curated by Edwin Carel 2004 A Molecular History of Everything, Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia, curated by Juliana Engberg Doku/Fiction, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany, curated by Mouse on Mars and Peter Gorschlüter Pole Position, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Germany FEEL the Old FEEL the New, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium, curated by Edwin Carels and Pieter Van Bogaert The Ex, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium Club Transmediale 04, Club Maria, Berlin Duo Track, Nederlands Cultuurhuis, Brussels, Belgium, curated by Paul Willemsen Travelling without moving, W139, Amsterdam, curated by Ann Demeester Born To Be A Star, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, curated by Ursula Probst 2003 Streams of Encounter, Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan 2002 Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico, curated by Guillermo Santamarina Vision, Muescarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest, curated by Miklos Peternak 2001 Köln-Kunst 6, Josef-Haubricht Kunsthalle, Cologne See you Hear, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, curated by Siegfried Zielinski KölnQuartett, Kunstraum Fuhrwerkswaage, Cologne 2000 Media Model, Muescarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest Wie man sieht, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, curated by Siegfried Zielinski Insensatezza, Fondazione Teseco, Pisa, Italy, curated by Luca Cerizza 1999 Copy and Paste, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria Masterclass, Montevideo, Amsterdam
Awards/Commissions
2020 The Calder Prize, Calder Foundation, New York 2018 3rd Edition Italian Council, Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, Rome “New Vision” Award, 36th Asolo Art Film Festival, Asolo, Italy 2017 Experimental Film Award (From Source to Poem), 25th Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, Portugal 2016 Experimental Film Award (Bending to Earth) , 24th Curtas Vila do Conde International FilmFestival, Portugal No Violence Award, 54th Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA 2015 46th PIAC - Prix International d’Art Contemporain (International Prize for Contemporary Art), Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco CPH:DOX NEW:VISION Award; Copenhagen 2012 Premio ACACIA, Milan 2010 Nam June Paik Award, Museum Kunst-Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea, MAXXI Museum, Rome; award nominee The Award of The Cultural Centre of Belgrade, 51th October salon International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Tiger Short Award nominee 2008 Web project for the DIA Art Foundation, New York 2007 Prix du Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Genève (12th Biennale of moving Image), Switzerland Project Grant Atelier, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Germany International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Tiger Short Award nominee 2006 Artist Book Award for Printed Cinema, Ontario Association of Art Galleries, Canada Kunstpreis Berlin, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Berlin, sponsorship Award HAP-Grieshaber Preis, Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany 2005 Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) Grant, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Installation Award, Images Festival, Toronto, Canada Project fund for Printed Cinema, Kunstiftung North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 2004 Netherlands Filmfonds Special Award, Split Film Festival, Croatia Acquisitions Prize, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam 2003 Grant of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Germany DAAD-Grant, Germany Uriot Award, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam 2002 Chargesheimer Stipendium für Foto-Film-Video (grant), Cologne 2001 Music Video Prize, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany Hermann Claasen Förderpreis, Cologne
Screenings and Festivals (selection)
2020 Frames of Representation, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London UMFF Ulju Mountain Film Festival, International Competition 68th Trento Film Festival 36th Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, International Competition 44th Hong Kong International Film Festival, Short Film competition UNDERDOX FILM FESTIVAL, Dokumente & Experimente-Kurzfilmprogramm, Munich Curtocircuíto – International Film Festival, EXPLORA Official Competition, Santiago de Compostela ISFF Imagine Science Festival New York, Displacement and Relocation, Short Film Program Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival, Experimental, Competition Section Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin V Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, International Competition 56th Pesaro Film Festival, Competition “Pesaro Nuovo Cinema” – Lino Miccichè AwardUnder the Ground, Galeria Quadrum, Lisbon Conflictual Topography, Times Art Center, Berlin OnLife, Villa Romana IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam, Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 2019 NOMA New Orleans Museum of Modern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA akademie der bildenden künste, Vienna VIDEONALE.scope #7, Filmforum Museum Ludwig, Cologne Cineteca, Madrid The Calder Stories, Centro Botín, Santander City 46, Kommunalkino, Bremen 2018 Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Berlin CROSSROADS film festival, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 54 Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, Pesaro, Italy 36th Asolo Art Film Festival, Italy Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton, UK: Film screening and artist talk The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, USA Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris No Narratives. Cinema Zuid, Museum of Contemporary Art MuHKA, Antwerp, Netherlands transmediale festival, face value, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 46th International Film Festival Rotterdam Pour une histoire de l’art projetée. Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice 2017 ACMI Melbourne, Australia (screening and artist talk) Valdivia International Film Festival, Valdivia, Chile Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: screening and artist talk (within the exhibition: Calder: Hypermobility) Open City Docs Festival, London Toronto International Film Festival 22nd Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Ontario, Canada 25th Curtas Vila do Conde IFF, Portugal, Experimental Competition CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival IFFR , 46th International Film Festival Rotterdam; Tiger Short Award nominee 2016 EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam 33rd Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany Projections, 54th New York Film Festival Curtocircuito Film Festival, Santiago de Compostela, Spain FACT screening program, Liverpool Biennial 24th Curtas Vila do Conde IFF, Portugal 51st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Prague, Czech Republic Centre Pompidou, Metz, France 32. Internationales KurzFilmFestival Hamburg Edinburgh International Film Festival An Evening with Rosa Barba in conversation with Stuart Comer, MoMA, New York 54th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Centre Pompidou, Paris Tramway, Glasgow, UK IFFR, 45th Rotterdam Film Festival 2015 CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival 8th Imagine Science Film Festival, Museum of the Moving Image, New York Whitechapel Gallery, London An Exhibition of a Film, Centre Pompidou, Paris Art Basel Parcours Night: The Hidden Conference, film and sound performance, Münsterplatz, Basel, Switzerland The Hidden Conference, film and sound performance, Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium, London Subconscious Society, a Feature, HOME, Manchester, UK Planete+ Doc Festival, Warsaw-Wroclaw, Poland 2014 Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014, Artists’ Cinema Program CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2013 Centre Pompidou, Paris Filmforum, Gorizia, Italy Conversation at the Edge: Rosa Barba, Gene Siskel Center, Chicago Artist’s Films: Rosa Barba, ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, London 2012 Private Tableaux, Le Silo at INHA, Paris Locarno Film Festival, Italy ICA/LUX Biennial, London (curation) Centre Culturel de Suisse, Paris Antimatter Festival, Victoria, Canada Abandoned Projectors: A Pavilion Forum, Leeds Art Gallery 2011 What Makes Art Popular, What Makes Popular Art?, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland Rosa Barba, Outwardly from Earth’s Center, Tirana Art Center, Loopfestival, La Pedrera, Barcelona Moves # 22: Rosa Barba, Image Movement, Berlin Séance # 3 Rosa Barba, FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, France Rosa Barba, Outwardly from Earth’s Center, Rietveld Academy, Studium Generale, Amsterdam Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus, Nurimberg, Germany 2010 Rosa Barba in Conversation, Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, London Rosa Barba in Conversation, Cornerhouse, Manchester IFFR , International Film Festival Rotterdam; Tiger Short Award nominee Kopietheater, Arsenale, Berlin, curated by Ian White Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York Courtisane Festival, Ghent, Belgium 2009 Prospectif Cinéma: Rosa Barba, Centre George Pompidou, Paris Pavillion Projects, Toronto, Canada Centro per l‘arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid Art Film, Art Basel, Switzerland Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands Size Matters, 38th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands 2008 Anthology Film Archive, New York Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne Soirée Flare #3, Languedoc Roussillon Cinéma, Montpellier, France Sugar Is Sweet, Filmbank Tour with Fiona Tan and Nora Martirosyan, various cinemas and film museums, througout the Netherlands IASPIS Open House, Stockholm Filmwinter, Stuttgart 2007 No Picture, Swiss Institute, New York 12th Biennale of Moving Image, Geneva, Switzerland International Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany Virtuous Siblings (with Werner Herzog), Goethe-Institute, Los Angeles Contemporary Passages, Tent, Rotterdam, Netherlands IFFR, International Film Festival Rotterdam; Tiger Short Award nominee International Film Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany 2006 Refracted Lens, The Pioneer Theatre, New York Rosa Barba, Goethe-Institute, Los Angeles 2005 Senef, Seoul Film Festival, Seoul Museum of Contemporary Arts, Lyon, France International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen Emaf, Osnabrück 2004 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Centre for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels 2002 Video Art Festival, Lima, Peru Avanto Film Festival, Helsinki Rosa Barba, Cinema Gejzir, Budapest International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen 2001 Invideo, Milano Netmage, Bologna 2000 IFFR, International Film Festival Rotterdam FCMM Film Festival, Montreal Internationales Film Festival, Odense Cinematexas, Austin, Texas Murphy’s Cork Film Festival, Cork, Ireland Internationales Film Festival, Dresden 1999 Cinema Nova, Brussels Video Art Festival, Lima, Peru 1998 12th Video Festival, São Paolo Golem Video Festival, Turin Raindance Film Festival, London
Performances
2021 Rosa Barba: Voice Engine, A Commission for International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021, Kunsthal Rotterdam (upcoming) 2019 Artists Studio: Rosa Barba, Park Avenue Armory, New York Rosa Barba with Chad Taylor: In a Perpetual Now of Instantaneous Visibility, Rayo Festival, Madrid Rosa Barba with Chad Taylor, Desert Encrypts Vol. II, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa 2017 Summer Whispers, sound festival curated by Rosa Barba, and Hear, There, Where the Echoes Are, live with Chad Taylor, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan 2016 Hear, There, Where the Echoes Are, with Chad Taylor, CAPC Bordeaux, France White Museum – Live, with Chad Taylor, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany Rosa Barba, White Museum – Live, with Chad Taylor, Sunday Sessions, MoMA PS1, LongIsland City, NY 2015 The Color Out of Space, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center EMPAC, Troy,New York 2013 Wichtel und die Wuchteln (with Klaus Sander, Jan St. Werner, Ingrid and Oswald Wiener), Performance, Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Berlin 2011 Wichtel und die Wuchteln (with Klaus Sander, Jan St. Werner, Ingrid and Oswald Wiener), Performance, Villa Romana, Florence, Italy 2010 „Maps for the 21st Century“ with Hans Ulrich Obrist, DLD Conference München Performance and Conversation: Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, London Rosa Barba in Conversation: Cornerhouse, Manchester 2009 “To retrieve new places“, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden Saloon Biennale, Konsthogskolan, Gothenburg 2007 Wichtel und die Wuchteln (Rosa Barba, Klaus Sander, Jan St. Werner, Ingrid and Oswald Wiener, Mariazeller Alpenchor), Performance, Kunstverein Graz 2008 Handed Over, with David Maljkovic, 16mm film and sculpture Hämchen, CD with Klaus Sander, Ingrid Wiener, Oswald Wiener, Jan St. Werner, Anja Theismann, published by supposé, Cologne since 1996 Production of music videos for projects like: Mouse on Mars, Microstoria, and Monade. Live performances with Microstoria (selection): Sounds like Film, Kölnischer Kunstverein, 2000 Frascati Theater, Amsterdam, 2004 Beursshowburg, Brussels, 2004 Club Transmediale 2004 Live performances with Mouse on Mars (selection): Milano Film Festival, 2004 Center of Contemporary Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2004 Serravales Museum, Porto, Portugal, 2003 International Film Festival Rotterdam, 1998 and 2000
Teaching
2020 External Tutor at Malmö Art Academy Artist Talk at Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden 2019 Schule Friedl Kubelka, workshop, Vienna Università luav di Venezia, workshop, Venice Lecture at Cooper Union, New York 2018 Experience It . Rosa Barba in Conversation with James Voorhies at The Lab, California College of the Arts, San Francisco 2017 Visiting Artist at Maryland Institute College of Arts, Baltimore, Maryland 2016 Visiting Professor at MIT, ACT (program in art, culture and technology), Cambridge, Massachusetts (spring semester) Film als Skulptur? Symposium of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, and BildFilmRaum, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Berlin 2015 “On Objects as Ideas,” lecture at MIT, program in art, culture and technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts since 2013 Professorship in Fine Arts at the University of the Arts, Bremen, Germany (ongoing) 2013 Lecture at Bergen Kunsthall, Norway Visiting Artist at the School of the Arts Institute, Chicago 2012 Visiting Artist at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen 2011 Visiting Artist at de ateliers, Amsterdam Visiting Lecturer at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen Workshop at the Kunstakademie Nürnberg, Germany 2010 Visiting Lecturer at the Hochschule für Kunst und Medien, Zurich Visiting Artist at the Art Academy, Oslo Lecture at EHESS, Paris Lecture at Jeu de Paume, Paris 2009 Visiting Lecturerat Hochschule für Kunst und Medien, Zurich Lecture at the Art Academy Malmö, Sweden 2008 Lecture at Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Montpellier, France (with Benjamin Weil) Lecture at Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden Lecture at Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg 2007 Lecture at the Photography department, Art Academy, Gothenburg Lecture at Department of Fine Arts, University Gotland, Sweden 2005 Teaching at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam 2004 “Kunst macht Schule” (workshop), Saarland 2003 Lecture, “Videonale”, Kunstmuseum, Bonn 2002 Lecture at the Fachhochschule für Kommunikationsdesign, Wuppertal Lecture at the Faculty of Arts and Design, National Autonomous University of Mexico,Mexico City Lecture at the City Audiovisual Department, Istanbul Bilgi University 2001 Lecture at the University of Texas at Austin College of Fine Arts, Texas
Public collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris Collezione MAXXI, Rome Collezione FRAC Piemonte, Vercelli, Italy Fondazione Giuliani, Rome Fondazione Prada, Italy Fundación Tantica, Buenos Aires, Argentina FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, France FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France Galleria civica d’arte moderna e contemporanea (GAM), Turin, Italy André Iten Collection, Geneva Jumex Collection, Mexico City Kunsthaus Zürich Lemaître Collection, London Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris Mart – Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Art Collection UniCredit, Rovereto MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona Museo del Novecento, Milan Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporanéo, Castilla y Léon, Spain Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin Nomas Foundation, Rome Pace Foundation, San Antonio, Texas Philadelphia Museum of Art Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Germany Staatliche Museen Berlin, Nationalgalerie Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah Tate Modern, London Vehbi Koc Fondation, Istanbul Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku