Rosa Barba

donated by the artist
courtesy: carlier | gebauer, Berlin

Some recent solo exhibitions
Centre International d'Art et du Paysage de l'ile de Vassiviere, 2010, 'Is it a two-dimensional analogy or a metaphor?'
carlier | gebauer, Berlin 2009, 'Western Round Table'
Galeria Gio Marconi, Milan 2009, 'Stating the real Sublime'
Dia Art Foundation, New York 2008, 'Vertiginous Mapping' (a web project)
Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, 2007, 'They Shine'
Baltic Art Center, Visby 2006

Some recent group exhibitions
Hermès Foundation Paris / New Museum, New York 2010, 'HBox' (touring)
Biennale di Venezia, Venice 2009, 'Making Worlds'
Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm 2009, 'Life Forms'
Sculpture Center, New York 2008, 'Degrees of Remove – Landscape and Affect'
Palazzo Grassi, Venice/mca Chicago 2008, 'Italics. Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution, 1968-2008'
Smart Project Space, Amsterdam 2006, 'Last Lives in the Universe'

Selected publications
Rosa Barba, Printed Cinema 1# -10#, 2004-2008, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König 2008
A molecular history of everything (*well not everything), [s.l.]: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art 2005
Stefan Bidner, Thomas Feuerstein (ed.), Sample minds: materials on sampling culture, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König 2004
Köln quartet 01: Rosa Barba, Barbara Flatten, Björn Schülke, Markus Willeke, Cologne: Fuhrwerkswaage Kunstraum 2001

Selected public and corporate collections
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid ES

In excellend condition. The present movie can be seen on the website www.sothebys.com.
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Rosa Barba is an artist who might work in a variety of media but whose work is invariably about one medium in particular: industrial cinema. Rather a distillation of the form than a structural analysis of its component parts that those filmmakers of the late 1960s or 1970s might have been investigating, her works are beguiling and elemental. Informed by a social and cultural research, the representation or her subjects are akin of construction of peculiar monuments represented in her films, sculptures, installations and publications. (Excerpt from 'Rosa Barba' by Ian White, Camera Austria 101, 2008)

Rosa Barba was resident artist at the Rijksakademie in 2003-2004.
She won the Uriôt Prize (NL) in 2003, the Special Award (HR) in 2004 and the HAP-Grieshaber-Preis (DE) in 2006.

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