contact@simonabarbera.com
member of NBK/UKS, Norway – AWI Art Workers Italia, Italy
EDUCATION
2007 MFA, Kunsthøgskolen I Oslo, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway
1997 BFA, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Academy of Fine Arts, Milano, Italy
UPCOMING 2022
K4 Oslo, w/Ronny Faber Dahl 2022
SOLO
2021 Between the translucent and the blue, Lydgalleriet, Bergen, Norway
2019-2020 From dim to clear to curve, w/Ronny Faber Dahl, Office Project Room, Milan, Italy
2018 Welcome to the Anthropocene!, w/Debora Hirsch, Riss(e), Varese, Italy
2016 Ippocampo, Noplace, Oslo, Norway, supported by NBK Norway
2015 If I just laid down, w/ Ronny Faber Dahl, LYNX, Oslo, Norway
2014 Daphne Cneorum. Something there needs to thrive!, CHAN Contemporary Art Association, Genova, Italy, supported by OCA, Norway
2010 Oh, my dark soul!, Space 4235 Tromsø, Norway
Saturn Over Sunset, Temporary Black Space, Bergamo, Italy
I walk into this garden, IIC, Oslo, Norway, The state of arts, Italian Pavilions in the world, 54° Venice Biennale Venice, Italy
2009 These stones will not dance or clap hands at the solstice, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Roma, Italy
2007 The Shivering Cold Continues, Gallery 21:24, Oslo, Norway
GROUP
2022 Paradise is exactly like where you are right now only much, much better, Palazzo Franzone Spinola di Luccoli, Genova, Italy w/Flavia Albu, Sveva Angeletti, Simona Barbera, Thomas Berra, Jonny Briggs, Nicole Colombo, Daniele Costa, Gaia De Megni, Matteo De Nando, Inside Job(Ula Lucińska & Michał Knychaus), Rada Koželj, Davide La Montagna, Eleonora Luccarini, Agnieszka Mastalerz, Claudia Petraroli, Fabio Ranzolin, Nuvola Ravera, Jacopo Rinaldi, Davide Sgambaro, Marco Siciliano, Elio Ticca, Jonathan Vivacqua
2022 Synthesis, group show, Melk Gallery, Oslo, Norway w/ Kaya Wilkins / Admir Batlak / Simona Barbera / Nina Skarsbø / Farhad Kalantary / Mary N. Hasavari / Karen Nikgol
2021 Another world now! , urban actions, billboards and video projections, Genova curated by Anna Daneri, Francesca Guerisoli, Carlotta Pezzolo
CHAN Contemporary Art Association, Genova w/Ronny Faber Dahl
Timeless (Between the translucent and the blue), Electropark, sound art festival, Genova, Italy supported by OCA, Norway
2020 Apnea, Monza Biennale, NEI sports centre, Monza, Milano, Italy
2019 Finart Festival International de Artes Graficas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Iconografie dell’Indipendenza NESXT, public art project, Turin, Italy, w/Space4235
Iconografie dell’Indipendenza, Macro Museum, NESXT, Rome, Italy w/Space4235
Accesso Obliquo, Lato, Prato, Italy
2018 Parallels, Space4235, Genova, Italy
Walkabout #1, Fondazione La Fabbrica del Cioccolato, Arts Foundation, Cima Norma, Switzerland
Dialogos IV, Current space, Milan, Italy
2017 Camminare l’orizzonte. Deriva, Space4235, Genova, NESXT, Circuito spazi indipendenti, Turin, Italy
Cantiere in lento movimento, Riss(e), Varese, Italy
Il pittore e la modella. Il corpo che guarda, Assab One, Milano, Italy
Dialogos III, Olomouc, Vitrina Deniska, Czech Republic
LUCIA, curated by Kristian Skylstad, QB Gallery, Oslo, Norway
Spazi 2017, Edicola Radetzky, Milan, Italy
2016 I won’t do what you tell me, RAM Gallery, Oslo, Norway
Secrets in the carbon atom, curated by Angels Miralda Tena, Podium Gallery, Oslo, Norway
L’aperto, public art group project, Rocca Vignale, Italy
2014 Formations, Transart Festival, S. Vigilio Mountain, Bolzano, Italy
2013 On a Perilous Absence, Møllebyen Litteratur Festival, Moss, Norway
Entering land where nobody has been before seeing what nobody has seen owning what nobody has owed, No Place Gallery, Oslo, Norway
2010 25 hours a day, Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
From the liberty square to the independence square, Lodz Biennale 2010, Lodz, Poland
This is the end, 91mq, Berlin, Germany
Candy Hell!, Su de Coucou, Berlin, Germany
Bloom Art Fair/Temporary Black Space, Cologne, Germany
Lissone Award, Lissone Contemporary Art Museum, Lissone, Italy
Bologna Art Fair/ Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome, Italy
2009 Looming over the darkest black, Henie Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden, Norway
2007 Stenerseen Museet, Master Degree Exhibition, Oslo, Norway
Rekord Gallery, Happy Festival, Oslo, Norway
BROWSER-BASED INTERNET WORKS, SOUND DIFFUSION, PERFORMANCE
2020 Noi fuori nella notte, online, ISG
2019 Delay delay delay, w/Ronny Faber Dahl, online ISG
2017 Video Open II, Bergen Kjøtt, Bergen, Norway
Landescape Festival, Giardino Botanico, Palermo, Italy
2016 Oslo Open 2016 satellittprogram, Atelier Nord ANX, Oslo, Norway
Helicotrema, World Breakers, DRODESERA XXXVI Centrale Fies, Dro, TN, Italy supported by OCA, Norway
Papay Gyro Nights, Skodul Gondul video program Orkney, Scotland
2009 Progetto Centaura, Orto Botanico, Bergamo, Italy
2008 Acid Landscapes, Netmage ’08, International Live Media Festival, Bologna, Italy
2007 Rekord Gallery, Happy Festival, Oslo, Norway
Stark Vision of the Morning, Crossover, Genoa, Italy
GRANTS
2021 NBK, Prosjektstøtte group show Melk Galley 2022, Oslo
OCA, Office for Contemporary Art, Norway / project Between the translucent and the blue, Timeless, Electropark, Genova, Italy
2016 OCA, Office for Contemporary Art 2016, project If I just laid down, Helicotrema, Centrale Fies, Dro, Trento, IT
2016 NBK Prosjektstøtte, project Ippocampo Noplace, Oslo Norway
2014 OCA, Office for Contemporary Art 2014, Daphne Cneorum, Something there needs to thrive! CHAN Contemporary Art Association, Genova, IT
PRESS, INTERVIEWS
Agency in every word, interview by Ina Hagen, Kunstkritikk, 2021
Review of ‘Between the translucent and the blue’ at Bergen Tildende, 2021
RESIDENCY
2011 Nes Artist Art Residency, SIM, Skagaströnd, Iceland, August
2010 GlogauAIR Berlin
LECTURES, WORKSHOPS, PANELS, ARTIST TALK
2021 UKS, Artists organising artists, 100 years of conviviality
The recorded sound and voice: online communities across data networks, workshop and 3Dsound, Après la Nuit art association, Savona, Italy
How music and performing art are moving forward gender equality and reduced inequality, with Dafne Boggeri, Fafi Abdel Nour, Timeless, Electropark, June 2021
Artist Talk, Between the translucent and the blue, KMD, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, Bergen, Norway
2013 Posso non, w/ Mauro Folci, Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art, Genova, Italy
2010 Artist Talk, Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art and Creative Writing, University of Tromsø Norway
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2009 – current Professor of Multimedia Studies and Installation, Academy of Fine Arts, Genova, Italy