Life and Career
Rosa Barba started working with photography at an early age when she inherited a camera. She very soon began experimenting with moving images using super 8 film. During her studies at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne (1995–2000) she made her first 16 mm film Panzano (2000) in which three characters struggle to assign parts among themselves.
Barba has travelled and taken part in several residencies; the two year residency program at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (2003-2004), Production in Residence, Baltic Arts Center Visby (2006), Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, USA (2007) and IASPIS Stockholm (2007-2008) among others.
She is part of a group of artists that addresses the importance of film and analogue in the digital age along with other contemporary practitioners such as Matthew Buckingham, Tacita Dean, Luke Fowler, Ben Rivers etc.
Artistic collaborations include Handed Over (2008) with David Maljkovic and several projects with her main partner in sound Jan St Werner from the duo Mouse on Mars.
In January 2013, Rosa Barba was awarded the Marta Herford prize by the Museum Marta Herford in Germany.
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