Rosa Barba
born 1972 in Sicily, Italy
lives in Berlin

Education
2003-2004 Two Year Residency Programme; Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
1995-2000 Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany
1993-1995 Studies of Theatre and Filmscience in Erlangen, Germany

Residencies
2007-2008 IASPIS, International Artists Studio Program, Stockholm
2007 Museumsquartier, Vienna
2007 Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles
2006 Production in Residence, Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden
2001-2002 c3-Institute, Budapest

Solo Exhibitions
2012 MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León, Spain

2011 Foundation Galleria Civica-Center of Research on Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy
2011 carlier | gebauer, Berlin
2011 Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

2010 Rosa Barba, TATE Modern Level 2, London, UK
2010 A curated conference, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
2010 Centre International D'Art et du Paysage de l'ile de Vassiviere, France
2010 Center of Contemporary Arts, Tel Aviv, Israel

2009 Prospectif Cinema, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2009 Stating the real Sublime, Galeria Gio Marconi, Milan

2008 Outwardly, carlier | gebauer, Berlin
2008 Vertiginous Mapping, a web project, Dia Art Foundation, New York (www.diaart.org/barba)
2008 Villa Romana, Florence, Italy, curated by Angelika Stepken
2008 Handed Over (with David Maljkovic), Bakery, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
2008 Handed Over (with David Maljkovic), Project Art Center, Dublin, curated by Tessa Giblin

2007 Outwardly, Bildmuseet Umea, Sweden, curated by Jan-Erik Lundstrm
2007 They Shine, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, curated by Jelle Bouwhuis
2007 Present Future, Artissima, Turin, curated by Cecilia Alemani
2007 Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin
2007 With a hidden noise, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz curated by Sandro Droschl
2007 Western round table, Koje Medienturm, Museumsquartier, Vienna

2006 Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden
2006 Who can tell if I am inventing? Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe curated by Angelika Stepken
2006 Its gonna happen Croynielsen, Berlin (with David Maljkovic)
2006 Open Space, Art Cologne
2006 Schaufenster, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund curated by Inke Arns

2005 Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
2005 Kasseler Kunstverein, Fridericianium, Kassel
2005 A tangible accomplishment, Galerie Vera Gliem, Cologne

2004 Buckle and Jitter, Argos, Brussels, curated by Paul Willemsen

2003 Compilation1 with Jeanne Faust and Jennifer Nelson, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
2003 Kunststiftung Baden Württemberg, Stuttgart curated by Ulrike Groos and Peter Gorschlter

2002 Sala d arte contemporaneo, Lima, Peru curated by Jose-Carlos Mariategui
2002 Pirate Spaces, c/o Peter Gorschlter, Galerie Meyer-Riegger, Karlsruhe
2002 Navigator, Ancient Gallery, Cinematexas, Austin, USA
2002 Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz

2000 artothek, Cologne
2000 Moltkerei Werkstatt, Cologne

Group Exhibitions
2010 The moon is an arrant thief, David Roberts Foundation, London
2010 Faux Amis, vidéothèque éphémère, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
2010 21/21, 21 artists for the 21st century, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
2010 Nam June Paik Award, Museum Kunst-Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
2010 Premio Italia, Maxxi Museum, Rome, Italy
2010 Octobersalon, Belgrade, curated by Johan Pousette and Celia Prado, Serbia
2010 Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, UK
2010 Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
2010 Rethinking Location, Sprueth Magers Berlin, Germany
2010 Autokino, curated by Phil Collins, Temporaere Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
2010 Fokus Lodz Biennale, Lodz, Poland
2010 Biennale Cuvee, Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich, Linz, Austria
2010 HBox, a project of the Hermès Foundation Paris, New Museum, New York, Foundation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Laboratorio de Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico (touring)
2010 Terra Infirma, ISCP International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, USA
2010 A Generation, Petach Tikva Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

2009 Eppur si muove (And yet it moves), Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d'Alba, Italy and Palazzo Ducale, Bologna, Italy and Genova Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy
2009 New Acquisitions, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
2009 Museo Riso, Palazzo Sambucco, Palermo
2009 Art at the Centre of a responsible transformation of society 2009, Collezione FRAC Piemonte, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
2009 Making Worlds, 53rd Venice Biennale, Italy
2009 Solaris, Gió Marconi Gallery, Italy, curated by Cecilia Alemani
2009 Simon Preston Gallery, New York
2009 Images Festival, Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto
2009 Fantasies of the Tropics, CCS Bard, Hessel Museum, New York
2009 Six Tuesdays After Film as a Critical Practice, The Lux 28, London

2008 Rooms look back and Inserts with Ursula Mayer and Margret Salmon, Kunsthalle Basel, curated by Simone Neuenschwander and Annette Amberg
2008 Italics, Palazzo Grassi, Venice curated by Francesco Bonami
2008 Torino Triennale, curated by Daniel Birnbaum
2008 Affective Landscapes, Sculpture Center, New York City, curated by Sarina Basta
2008 Visible Cinema, CCA, Glasgow, curated by Isla Leaver-Yap
2008 We want to thank the curators, Seventeen Gallery, London curated by Vincent Honor

2007 52nd Venice Biennale, Slovenian Pavilion, filmprogram curated by Francesco Manacorda
2007 Heterotopias, 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of contemporary art, Greece curated by Jan-Erik Lundstrm
2007 12th Biennial of Moving Images, Geneva, Switzerland
2007 Loop, centro cultural valentina, Barcelona
2007 Project Arts Centre, Dublin curated by Tessa Giblin
2007 Dissecting the ear, Sign Gallery, Groningen, Netherlands curated by Bojan Faifric
2007 Turtle Saloon, Slade Woburn Studios, London curated by Michael Shamberg
2007 Nederclips, Stedelijk Museum, Hertogenbosch curated by Bart Rutten

2006 Gouda Lichtjaren, Bathhouse, Gouda curated by Theo Thegelaers
2006 Last Lives in the Universe, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam curated by Tessa 2006 Giblin and Chiara Sartori
2006 Revisie, Centraal Museum, Utrecht
2006 Almost Cinema, Kunstcentrum Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium

2005 Gravity in Art, de appel, Amsterdam curated by Theo Thegelaers
2005 Image and Sound, Senef Filmfestival, Seoul, Corea
2005 Noise Cabin, Five days Off, Melkweg, Amsterdam
2005 Horror, Science Fiction and Porn, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada curated by Philip Monk
2005 Murmur, Tent, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam curated by Edwin Carels

2004 A Molecular History of Everything, Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
2004 Doku/Fiction, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf curated by Mouse on Mars and Peter Gorschlter
2004 Pole Position, Mannheimer Kunstverein
2004 Feel the New, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
2004 The Ex, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2004 Club Transmediale 04, Club Maria, Berlin
2004 Duo Track, Nederlands Cultuurhuis, Brussels
2004 Kunst macht Schule, Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken und Cave Sainte Croix, Metz
2004 Travelling without moving, W139, Amsterdam curated by Ann Demeester
2004 Kunst macht Schule, Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken
2004 Born to be a star, Künstlerhaus, Vienna

2003 Streams of Encounter, Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

2002 Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico curated by Guillermo Santamarina
2002 Vision, Muscarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest curated by Miklos Peternak

2001 Köln-Kunst 6, Josef-Haubricht Kunsthalle, Cologne
2001 See you Hear, Akademie der Künste, Berlin curated by Siegfrid Zielinski
2001 Kunstraum Fuhrwerkswaage, Cologne

2000 Media Model, Muescarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest
2000 Wie man sieht, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
2000 Insensatezza, Fondazione Teseco, Pisa

1999 Copy and Paste, Kunstraum Innsbruck
1999 Masterclass, Montevideo, Amsterdam

Screenings and Festivals (selection)
2009 Prospectif Cinema screening, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2009 38th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
2009 Images Festival, Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto, curated by Pablo Ocampa

2008 Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
2008 Visible Cinema, Glasgow Filmfestival, curated by Isla Leaver-Yap
2008 Filmbank Tour Sugar is sweet with Fiona Tan and Nora Martirosan through dutch 2008 cinemas and Filmmuseums
2008 Iaspis, Open House, Stockholm
2008 Filmwinter, Stuttgart

2007 No Picture, Swiss Institute, New York
2007 12th Biennale of Moving Image, Geneva
2007 International Filmfestival, Hamburg
2007 Contemporary Passages, Tent, Rotterdam
2007 International Filmfestival, Rotterdam, nominated for Tiger short Award
2007 International Filmfestival, Gothenburg
2007 International Shortfilmfestival, Oberhausen

2006 Refracted Lens, The Pioneer Theatre, New York City
2006 Rosa Barba, Goethe-institut, Los Angeles

2005 Senef Filmfestival, Seoul, Corea
2005 Museum of Contemporary Arts, Lyon
2005 International Shortfilmfestival, Oberhausen
2005 Emaf, Osnabrück

2004 Moma, San Francisco
2004 CCA, Tel Aviv
2004 Palais des Beaux Arts, Filmbank , Madrid

2002 Video Art Festival, Lima, Peru
2002 Avanto Filmfestival, Helsinki
2002 Cinema Gejzir, Budapest
2002 International Shortfilmfestival, Oberhausen

2001 Invideo, Milano
2001 Netmage, Bologna

2000 International Filmfestival Rotterdam
2000 FCMM Filmfestival, Montreal
2000 Internationales Filmfestival Odense
2000 Cinematexas, Austin
2000 Murphys Shortfilmfestival, Cork, Irland
2000 Internationales Filmfestival, Dresden

1999 Cinema Nova, Brussels
1999 Video Art Festival, Lima, Peru

1998 12th Videofestival, Sao Paolo
1998 Golem Videofestival Turin
1998 Rotation auf Viva 1 und 2, MTV
1998 Raindance Festival, London