Artist in Residence 2023: Rosa Barba

The internationally renowned filmmaker and installation artist Rosa Barba was selected by the jury as the fourth artist, for the extended funding period in 2023. She will start her residency in September 2023.

Rosa Barba (b. 1972/Italy, lives in Berlin), Artist-in-Residence 2023, engages conceptually within the medium of film through a sculptural approach. In her works, Barba creates installations and site-specific interventions to analyze the ways film articulates space, placing the work and the viewer in a new relationship. Questions of composition, physicality of form and plasticity play an important role for the artist as Barba examines the industry of cinema and its staging vis-à-vis gesture, genre, information and documents.

Her film works are situated between experimental documentary and fictional narrative. They often focus on natural landscapes and human-made interventions into the environment and explore the relationship of historical records, personal anecdotes, and filmic representation, creating spaces of memory and uncertainty.The artist has exhibited her work at the Tate Modern, London, at the Jeu de Paume, Paris, at the Albertinum Dresden, at the MAXXI, Rome and elsewhere. She has conducted research at various universities, including Harvard and has been awarded numerous prizes. In summer 2021, she is presenting a location-specific installation for the reopening of the  Neue Nationalgalerie der Staatlichen Museen in Berlin.

At the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden, Rosa Barba will explore the concept of the archive and the possibilities of AI:

“For my artistic work, reference to scholarly research topics is quite central, so I am very glad to be able to develop my exploration of archives as storehouses of knowledge in the context of artificial intelligence during my time as a fellowship recipient of the Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden in 2023. In collaboration with scholars at the TU Dresden, a new work will be created that represents a physical storage place between machine and sculpture whose genesis, at the same time, is based on digital processes. This tension between an object-bound piece and fluid, global knowledge is of particular interest to me.“ (Rosa Barba, June 2021)