About the Artist Rosa Barba

Rosa Barba (*1972 in Agrigento, Italy) is an Italian artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Berlin. Her films move between experimental documentary and fictional narrative. Starting from the medium of film, she develops installations and sculptural works. These interventions explore how film articulates space, and in doing so establish a new relationship between the artwork and the viewer.

Rosa Barba studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and has been awarded, among others, the Calder Prize (2020). She participated in the 53rd and 56th Venice Biennale. Her works have been exhibited at institutions like Tate Modern in London and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. In 2026, she had a solo exhibition at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. At the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, the large-scale spatial installation "Under the Canopy" is currently on view.