Launch of the publication Rosa Barba. Impermanence in Fields
With Rosa Barba, Ana Teixeira Pinto and Benjamin Weil
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Date
- 17:30 / Cancelled 17:30 / Sold out 17:30 – 19:00
Location
Engawa Gulbenkian Garden
Part of the International Museum Day programme, this talk marks the launch of the publication that reflects on the central themes of Rosa Barba’s work.
This publication offers an in-depth exploration of the conceptual practice of the artist Rosa Barba (Italy, 1972), who is presenting her first major solo exhibition in Portugal, at CAM.
With contributions from internationally renowned writers, the book works both as a critical complement to Barba’s work and as an artist’s book in its own right.
Bringing together diverse voices, the volume reflects on central themes of her work – time, memory, language, cinema and the materiality of film, revealing the multiple narratives that drive her work.
International Museum Day
This activity is part of International Museum Day at Gulbenkian, with free entry, on May 16th, 17th and 18th. Read more
Biographies
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Rosa Barba
Explores permanence, impermanence, reality, and fiction through a repertoire of works traversing sculpture, installation, and film. Using performance as a framework and method, Barba examines the unruliness of cinematic apparatuses, the instability of knowledge, and the complexity of astronomical phenomena. Her work examines how space is influenced by temporal and linguistic constructs. Rosa Barba work is part of numerous international collections and recent solo exhibitions include: MAXXI, Rome (2025) or MoMA, New York (2025) and at Biennials such as the 53rd and 56th Venice Biennale, and Performa (2013).
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Anabela Teixeira Pinto
Writer and cultural theorist based in Berlin, and a professor at HGB Leipzig. She is the editor of the Sternberg Press series ‘On the Antipolitical’, and co-organized HKW Berlin’s ‘The White West’ conference/podcast series, co-editing the subsequent publication ‘Fascism, Unreason and the Paradox of Modernity’. Her forthcoming book is entitled ‘Death Wall’.
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Benjamin Weil
As director and curator, has focused his professional activity on the production of new works by both emerging and established artists, engaging diverse audiences both within and beyond institutional walls. He most recently spearheaded the reopening of CAM, reestablishing it as a core venue for Contemporary Art in Lisbon, with a wide array of exhibitions and experimental projects, including commissioned works by various artists.
Credits
Concept and direction
Anabela Teixeira Pinto
Benjamin Weil
Rosa Barba
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