Barbara Polla (born March 7, 1950) is a Swiss medical doctor, gallery owner,[1] art curator and writer.

[citation needed] Barbara Polla studied in Geneva where she obtained a degree with a specialization in inner medicine, pneumology and immunoallergology.

In 2015, Polla and Paul Ardenne were the co-curators of a two-part exhibition of Shaun Gladwell across two sites in Sydney: UNSW Galleries and SCAF (Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation).

Polla is a writer and a columnist for newspapers such as Les Quotidiennes (La Tribune de Genève, 24 heures), Agefi, (Switzerland), Citizen K,[7] Nuke, Blast, Bariqaldana (Kuwait), CRASH,[8] DROME,[9] ART And, Roots & Routes,[10] and Kunst Magazine.

Since 2020 she is regularly writing for Womentoday.fr[11] She cofounded and edited the magazine Londerzeel and has created, in 2013, with the support of HEAD Geneva, the first issue of Critical Fashion Review.

The same evolving show,[19] Le Sens de la Peine[20] was also presented in Nanterre[21] in a contemporary art exhibition space called the Terrasse,[22] in collaboration with Sandrine Moreau.

[22] In 2018, Polla curated two museum exhibitions on the theme, one at Château de Penthes in Geneva called LA PRISON EXPOSÉ, for the Fondation des Suisses dans le Monde, in collaboration with the local jail, Champ-Dollon; the other at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, in Hobart Tasmania, called A JOURNEY TO FREEDOM.