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Selected Works24

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Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon

Previous Sales 5

Vistamare · Artsy
Weavers
Weavers, 2026
No longer available
16mm red film, nails and walnut frame
Vistamare · Artsy
Off My Mind
Off My Mind, 2025
No longer available
Steel, glass, motors, 35 mm film, aluminum
Rago/Wright/LAMA/Toomey & Co. · Artsy
Time Machine
Time Machine, 2007
Bidding closed
Screenprint on canvas
Rago/Wright/LAMA/Toomey & Co. · Artsy
Isolation of Information
Isolation of Information, 2015
Bidding closed
Linocut ink on unstretched canvas
Walker Art Center Benefit Auction · Artsy
From Source to Poem
From Source to Poem, 2023
Bidding closed
Archival pigment print on Hahnmühle Photo Rag Baryta paper

For Sale 9

Vistamare · Artsy
Near the Small Magellanic Cloud
Near the Small Magellanic Cloud, 2018
Price on request
Cutout text on felt, spotlight
Vistamare · Artsy
Pensiero Spaziolungo
Pensiero Spaziolungo, 2017
Price on request
Neon writing
Esther Schipper · Artsy
This Space Populated by Infinite Colors
This Space Populated by Infinite Colors, 2021
Price on request
Handblown glass, wood
Vistamare · Artsy
Charge
Charge, 2025
Price on request
35mm film, color, optical sound
Esther Schipper · Artsy
Colors with Phonetic Similarities
Colors with Phonetic Similarities, 2025
Price on request
35 mm film, aluminum frame, motors, Plexiglas, LED lights
Vistamare · Artsy
Liberties
Liberties, 2020
Price on request
Wax, wood frame
Esther Schipper · Artsy
Off my Mind
Off my Mind, 2025
Price on request
Steel, glass, motors, 35 mm film, aluminum
Vistamare · Artsy
They Are Taking All My Letters
They Are Taking All My Letters, 2025
Price on request
70mm film, aluminium, LED, plexiglass, motors
Vistamare · Artsy
Tangible Kinships
Tangible Kinships, 2026
Price on request
Two 16mm film projectors, two 16mm film, screen
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Galleries1

#26 Esther Schipper
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Publications10

Monograph 1

Rosa Barba: On the Anarchic Organization of Cinematic Spaces - Evoking Spaces beyond Cinema Author
Hatje Cantz · 2021

Exhibition Catalog 7

Rosa Barba. Impermanence in Fields Author
Hatje Cantz · 2026
Rosa Barba. Impermanence in Fields (Italienisches Booklet) Author
Hatje Cantz · 2026
Rosa Barba. Impermanence in Fields (Portugiesisches Booklet) Author
Hatje Cantz · 2026
Rosa Barba. Impermanence in Fields - Spanisches Booklet Author
Hatje Cantz · 2026
Rosa Barba Author
Hatje Cantz · 2017
Rosa Barba: Time as Perspective
Hatje Cantz · 2013
Rosa Barba: White Is an Image
Hatje Cantz · 2011

Survey 2

When Display Becomes Art: Living in Exhibition Design
Hatje Cantz · 2026
Vitamin V: Video and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art
Phaidon Press · 2025
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Current Exhibitions1

#442 Vistamare

Tangible kinships

Rosa Barba

Via Gaspare Spontini, 8, 20131 Milano MI, Italy

Apr 18, 2026 — Jun 20, 2026

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Rosa Barba's exhibition "The Ocean of One's Pause" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York surveys 15 years of her work, featuring over a dozen cinema…
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Sicily-born, Berlin-based installation artist Rosa Barba has been named the 19th winner of the Zurich Art Prize, awarded by Museum Haus Konstruktiv an…
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Past Exhibitions12

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#1,059 Sultana

Rosa Barba: Tangible kinships

Rosa Barba

75 Rue Beaubourg, 75003 Paris, France

Apr 17, 2026 — Apr 17, 2026

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#6,132 Belmacz

Rosa Barba: Tangible kinships

Rosa Barba

45 Davies St, London W1K 4LX, United Kingdom

Apr 17, 2026 — Apr 17, 2026

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#92 Corbett vs. Dempsey

Rosa Barba Poised Compression

Rosa Barba

2156 West Fulton Street, Chicago, IL 60612

Jun 20, 2025 — Aug 2, 2025

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#26 Esther Schipper

They Are Taking All My Letters

Rosa Barba

via lift or stairs, Potsdamer Str. 81e/Top floor / Obergeschoss, 10785 Berlin, Germany

Feb 1, 2025 — Mar 5, 2025

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#5,635 Cahiers d'Art

Rosa Barba, Inserted Between The Painted Glass

Rosa Barba

15 rue du Dragon

Apr 5, 2024 — May 18, 2024

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#26 Esther Schipper

Beginning What and Ending Away

Rosa Barba

via lift or stairs, Potsdamer Str. 81e/Top floor / Obergeschoss, 10785 Berlin, Germany

Nov 8, 2023 — Dec 21, 2023

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#26 Esther Schipper

Radiant Exposures

Rosa Barba

via lift or stairs, Potsdamer Str. 81e/Top floor / Obergeschoss, 10785 Berlin, Germany

Sep 9, 2022 — Oct 15, 2022

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#55 Luhring Augustine

Rosa Barba Drawing the Infinite

Rosa Barba

531 W 24th St, New York, NY 10011, USA

Apr 7, 2022 — May 21, 2022

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#26 Esther Schipper

Rosa Barba, Inside the Outset: Evoking a Space of Passage

Rosa Barba

via lift or stairs, Potsdamer Str. 81e/Top floor / Obergeschoss, 10785 Berlin, Germany

Aug 20, 2021 — Aug 28, 2021

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#26 Esther Schipper

Fixed in Fleeting: Performative Objects and Tape Journals

Rosa Barba

via lift or stairs, Potsdamer Str. 81e/Top floor / Obergeschoss, 10785 Berlin, Germany

Jul 3, 2021 — Aug 28, 2021

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HangarBicocca

From Source to Poem to Rhythm to Reader

Rosa Barba

May 5, 2017 — Oct 8, 2017

Rosa Barba — 05.05.2017 – 08.10.2017

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HangarBicocca

From Source to Poem to Rhythm to Reader

Rosa Barba

Jan 1, 2017

Rosa Barba — 5 Maggio – 8 Ottobre 2017

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Art Fair Appearances11

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ARCOmadrid — Madrid
2026
Miart — Milan
2026
ARCOmadrid — Madrid
2025
Miart — Milan
2025
The Armory Show — New York
2024
ZONAMACO — Mexico City
2024
Miart — Milan
2023
The Armory Show — New York
2023
The Armory Show — New York
2021
The Armory Show — New York
2020
FIAC — Paris
2019
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Recent Activity20

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From Source to Poem to Rhythm to Reader
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Wohin im Juni?
May 31, 2026
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Chiara Camoni, “Con te con tutto” (With You, With Everything)—Italian Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale: Chiara Camoni, Cecilia Canziani, and Alessandro Rabottini in Conversation
May 7, 2026
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In Spagna è nata una nuova fondazione per l’arte contemporanea. Il collezionista Gabriel Calparsoro ce l’ha raccontata
May 6, 2026
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Milano Art Week 2026 top e flop: il meglio e il peggio della settimana dell’arte
Apr 19, 2026
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Tangible kinships
Apr 18, 2026
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Art Fair
Miart 2026
Apr 17, 2026
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Exhibition
Rosa Barba: Tangible kinships
Apr 17, 2026
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Exhibition
Rosa Barba: Tangible kinships
Apr 17, 2026
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Exhibition
Rosa Barba: Tangible kinships
Apr 17, 2026
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ARCOmadrid 2026
Mar 4, 2026
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wafaa bilal artnews awards 2025 established artist
Dec 8, 2025
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Nov 25, 2025
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artnews awards 2025 nominees
Oct 1, 2025
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Aug 14, 2025
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rosa barba wins the zurich art prize 2026
Aug 5, 2025
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Jul 3, 2025
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Rosa Barba Poised Compression
Jun 20, 2025
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Must-See Art Installations in NYC, June 2025
Jun 3, 2025
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