Education / Residencies
2023 Schaufler Residency @TU Dresden
2022 Ann Wolff Foundation, Berlin
2021 Atelier Calder, Saché, France; Guest Artist programme of Arts at CERN
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; 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)
2026 Rosa Barba: Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon (upcoming)
2025 Rosa Barba, MAXXI, Rome (upcoming)
2024 Rosa Barba: Voice Engine and Hear, There Where the Echoes Are, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Rosa Barba: Evoking a space beyond the cinema, MALI Museum, Lima, Peru; Rosa Barba: Inserted Between The Painted Glass, Cahiers d’Art, Paris
2023 Rosa Barba: Beginning What And Ending Away, Esther Schipper Seoul, Korea; Rosa Barba: The Color Out of Space, Schaufler Residency at Galerie der Kustodie im Görges-Bau, TU Dresden; Rosa Barba: The Hidden Conference, The Tanks at Tate Modern, London; Rosa Barba: Emanations, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia
2022 Rosa Barba: Focus on Rosa Barba, Lo schermo dell’arte, Florence; Rosa Barba: Durch die Etagen, Edition Block, Berlin; Rosa Barba: Weavers, CCC OD – centre de création contemporaine olivier debré, Tours; Rosa Barba: Radiant Exposures, Esther Schipper, Berlin; Rosa Barba: Drawing the Infinite, Luhring Augustine, New York; Rosa Barba: Exhibition Notes, Cukrarna, Ljubljana
2021 Rosa Barba: In a Perpetual Now, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Rosa Barba, Fixed in Fleeting: Performative Objects and Tape Journals, Esther Schipper, Berlin; 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, Armory Park 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; It’s 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)
2024 Collection display, Rosa Barba: Time as Perspective, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich; Maltabiennale.art; Collection 1980s–Present, Rosa Barba’s Aggregate States of Matters, Uncertain Theme – and Therefore Abstract, MoMA, New York; Gaasbeek Castle, Lennik, Belgium; untranquil now: a constellation of narratives and resonances, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany (upcoming); ENTROPIA, Kunst Raum Riehen, Switzerland (upcoming); SCHAUWERK, Sindelfingen, Germany (upcoming)
2023 Himmel – Die Entdeckung der Weltordnung, Kunststiftung DZ Bank, Frankfurt am Main; The King Is Dead, Long Live the Queen, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden Baden; Fragment of an Infinite Discourse, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich; Time Source: Fuori Tutto, MAXXI, Rome; What Matters: A Proposition in Eight Room, SFMoMA, San Francisco; Downbeat, Denniston Hill at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York; Tale of a City II – Gangneung International Art Festival 2023, Gangneung Museum of Art, Gangneung, Korea; Collection display, Rosa Barba: The Long Road, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2022 Art Club #36, Villa Medicis, Rome; Die Tore, Berlin Art Week, Berlin; Chateau Royal, Berlin; What a Wonderful World, Maxxi, Rome; At Dawn, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin; Il Video Rende Felici. Video-arte in Italia Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, and GAM, Milan; Opera Opera, Maxxi – Palais Populaire, Berlin; Farbe als Programm, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn; Le Voci della Sera, Vistamare, Milan
2021 L’altro, lo stesso, ZAC, Palermo; New Collection, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; 8/XXX, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, curated by Dieter Schwarz; Sounds From Another Room, Vistamare, Pescara, curated by Alessandro Rabottini; NOTHINGTOSEENESS—Void/White/Silence, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, in the context of Berlin Art Week; The Third Woman, Art Encounters Biennial in Timisoara, Romania; 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, Stockholm;
2020 7th Yokohama Triennale - AFTERGLOW, Yokohama; Not I (Throwing Voices), LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, curated by Jose Luis Blondet; Collection Erika Hoffmann, Berlin; PUSH THE LIMITS, Fondazione Merz, Turin; Time Machine - Cinematic Temporalities, Palazzo del Governatore, Parma; Unfolding Questions, Codes, and Contours, Tromso Kunstforening, Norway;
2019 Time, Forward!, V-A-C Foundation, Venedig; Parra Romero, Ibiza; Serendipity, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon; Fly me to the Moon, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg; Kill the Boss / Here, Rabotaroom, Milan; La strada. Dove si crea il mondo / The Street. Where the World Is Made, La Panacée, EPCC; MoCo – Montpellier Contemporain, Montpellier; La Source, Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles; Fly me to the Moon, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich; 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; A Visibility Matrix. Espace Écureuil, Toulouse; Raqs Media Collective. In the Open or in Stealth. MACBA, Barcelona; The Moon. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk; CROSSROADS, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Artists’ Film International 2018, Ballroom, Marfa; Artists’ Film International 2018, MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology Lisbon; “Artists’ Film International” on “Truth”, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul; Artists‘ Film International 2018, Project 88, Mumbai; A Visibility Matrix. Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Møenlight Sonata. 44MØEN, Askeby; 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, Granada; 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: la città senza confini, Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome; Never Ending Stories. Der Loop in Kunst, Film, Architektur, Musik, Literatur und Kulturgeschichte, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany; Field guide, Remai Modern, Saskatoon; 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, 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; 1. Art Encounters, Sequential strings, Timisoara, Romania, Romania; 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, Haarlem, Netherlands; In the mouth of the wolf ! Die! Die!, House of Cyprus, Athens; 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, Berlin; 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; Marie Cool / Fabio Balducci / Rosa Barba / Joseph Kosuth / Ettore Spalletti. 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, UK, 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, Korea;
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, Milan; 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, UK, 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, and 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, Gent, Belgium;
2005 Gravity in Art, de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam, curated by Theo Tegelaers; Image and Sound, Senef Film Festival, Seoul, Korea; 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, Mannheim, 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
2023 Louis M. Martini Tasting Room Art Installation, California
2021 Best Experimental Short Film (Inside The Outset, Evoking A Space Of Passage), South Film and Arts Academy Festival (SFAAF) - Chile
2020 The Calder Prize, Calder Foundation, New York; Honorary Mention of the Collide Award, CERN, Geneva
2019 „There“ by Etel Adnan (Co-direction), The Wilma Theatre, Philadelphia
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; 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)
2023 NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore; By Night with a Torch, The Louvre, Paris; Festival Klangbrücken, Hannover; Contested Terrains, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College; Lo Schermo dell'arte Cinema and Contemporary Art Festival, Palazzo Grassi, Venice; Contra-Fluxos, Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto; Floating Cinema: Unknown Waters, Venice
2022 Babylon - Videoart at Midnight, Berlin; Art-O-Rama, Marseille; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris & HKW, Berlin; Fata Morgana, Jeu de Paume, Paris; Video Ex, Zürich
2021 Istanbul Experimental International Film Festival; Club Solo, Breda, Netherlands; Porto/Post/Doc, Portugal; Kurzfilmfestival, Hamburg; Mur Murs, Redcat, Los Angeles; Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival; Curtas Vila do Conde, International Film Festival, Portugal
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 Award; Under 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, Spain; 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, USA; 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 39 Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, La Habana, Cuba; ACMI Melbourne, Australia (screening and artist talk); Valdivia International Film Festival, Valdivia, Chile; 10th Imagine Science Film Festival, New York; 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, Canada; Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan; 22nd Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Ontario, Canada; 25th Curtas Vila do Conde IFF, Portugal, Experimental Competition: award winner; 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, Experimental Competition: award winner; 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(No Violence Award); Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tramway, Glasgow; IFFR, 45th Rotterdam Film Festival Rotterdam
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, and 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, 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, Korea; Museum of Contemporary Arts, Lyon, France; International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen; Emaf, Osnabrück
2004 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA; 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
2024 Rosa Barba: Voice Engine and Hear, There, Where the Echoes Are, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
2023 Rosa Barba: Voice Engine and Hear, There, Where the Echoes Are, Moviment, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2021 Rosa Barba: Voice Engine, A Commission for International Film Festival Rotterdam, Callies, Berlin
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
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
2007 Wichtel und die Wuchteln (Rosa Barba, Klaus Sander, Jan St. Werner, Ingrid and Oswald Wiener, Mariazeller Alpenchor), Performance, Kunstverein Graz
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,
2004 Frascati Theater, Amsterdam, Beursshowburg, Brussels, Club Transmediale Live performances with Mouse on Mars (selection): Milano Film Festival, Center of Contemporary Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania,
2003 Serravales Museum, Porto, Portugal,
2000 International Film Festival Rotterdam
1998 International Film Festival Rotterdam
Teaching
2023 Professorship in Architecture at ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich), Switzerland (ongoing)
2022 Artist Talk, Royal Institute of Art, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Artist Talk, ZAC, Palermo
2021 Artist Talk, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Artist Talk, Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin
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
2013-2023 Professorship in Fine Arts at the University of the Arts, Bremen, Germany
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 Centre Pompidou, 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 Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis