Tewa Barnosa (1998) is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural practitioner living and working between Tripoli and Amsterdam, her practice spans visual arts, time-based media, performance, and curatorial collaborations. In her work, she investigates historical and contemporary warfare tactics and theatrics in relation to ecological ecosystems, and exploitation of people, land and resources. An inquiry into language, technology, visual and digital culture as anti-colonial modes of communication. Through working with video, sound, games and objects, she explores absent archives, Bedouin and Amazigh oral literature and music, fiction and political propaganda. Often to interweave narratives in resistance to systems of alienation while centering generational knowledge.
Her pedagogical and curatorial work is informed by researching, organizing, and engaging in the revival and activation of artistic discourse in post-2011 Libya. Between 2015-2023, she was the artistic director of WaraQ, an art space and laboratory for collective learning previously based in Tripoli, centering collaborative processes such as exhibitions, publishing, space-making, and public interventions to facilitate local and nomadic infrastructures of co-creation and critical discourse.
Barnosa is an alumni of the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague 2024-2025. A resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten 2021-2023, a recipient of S+T+Arts and Arts Electronica African distinction awards 2025, the Iwaelwahaus African Artist Award 2021, and the Berlin-based fellowship for artists at risk by the Martin Roth initiative 2019-2020.