[2] Suspended between dichotomies—permanent and impermanent, real and fictional, obsolescent and modern, conceptual and concrete, alien and familiar, Rosa Barba’s multiform practice encompasses films, sculptures, installations, live-performances, text, sound.
[6] The various professional and educational experiences have brought Barba to teaching and she currently holds a Professorship in Art in Space and Time at the Department of Architecture of ETH Zürich.
[7] Barba interrogates the industry of cinema and regards it in her work in an architectural sense and as an instrument, where the environment, the screen and the projection can be pushed forward to create another spatiotemporal dimension that is concurrent with and points beyond the context of interior or exterior space.
[9] She has exhibited at MoMA, New York, (2024),[10] MAXXI, Rome, (2023, 2025), MALI, Lima (2024),[11] Depot Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam (2024),[12] Centre Pompidou, Paris (2023-2024),[13] Tate Modern, London (2023),[14] PICA, Perth Australia (2023),[15] Villa Medici, Rome (2022),[16] Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2021-2022),[17] Cukrarna, Ljubljana (2021, 2022) Tabakalera, International Centre for Contemporary Culture, San Sebastián, and at Kunsthalle Bremen.
[34] At EMPAC, Barba was commissioned a new work production in collaboration with Rensselaer's Hirsch Observatory, which resulted in two site-specific installations spanning different media formats, The Color out of Space and White Museum.
At Callie’s, Berlin, Barba developed Voice Engine, a performance installation which has been presented at Centre Pompidou in 2023[35] and Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam in 2024.
Outwardly from Earth's Center is constructed around a fictitious society living on the truly existing island of Gotska Sandön, which drifts approximately one meter per year and.
The depiction of the small society trying to hold up the disappearance of the island develops into a surrealistic atmosphere that slowly but surely replaces the experience of what one might consider a beautiful documentary with a more abstract and somewhat absurd picture of people's struggle and vulnerability.
[38] In 2019, she produced Aggregate States of Matters,[39] a 35mm film shot in the Peruvian Andes which deals with the increasing impact of climate change on remote areas.
The series Printed Cinema which won the artist book award 2006 at the Ontario Association of Art Galleries is published for specific exhibition spaces and accompanies her films as secondary literature for a limited time.