Barbara Luisi

After many years in New York City, she now lives and works in Vienna, Austria, and Venice, Italy.

Her artist statement: "my work is concerned exclusively with the perception of three elements: darkness, sound and loneliness.

As a trained classical violinist, I have to first hear my images and it is always this noise or music that triggers my themes."

She was a violinist in the Munich Philharmonic, the Orchestra of Toulouse and the Bavarian State Opera as well as being the "primaria" (first violinist) in the "Pocci String Quartet.” At age seventeen, she began exploring photography, experimenting with a Leica M6 and developing her work in her own darkroom.

On 21 January 2020 she made her debut in Carnegie Hall as a violinist in a program with harpist Alexander Boldechev.