Tewa Barnosa is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural worker based between Tripoli and Amsterdam, her practice spans visual arts and time-based media such as film, sound, performance, and expands to curatorial and collaborative projects focused on space making and knowledge transmission. She investigates historical and contemporary warfare in relation to the colonial rupture of social and ecological ecosystems. Through exploring generational Bedouin and Amazigh oral literature, vocalities and embodied archival practices in North Africa. Her work often carries an inquiry and speculation around space, technology, memory, visual and sonic culture as anti-colonial modes of resistance, interweaving fiction and political imaginaries.
Her pedagogical and socially engaged work emerged by the necessity to activate collective infrastructures in post-revolution Libya. Between 2015-2023, she was the artistic director of WaraQ, an art space and laboratory previously based in Tripoli. 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.
Her pedagogical and socially engaged work emerged by the necessity to activate collective infrastructures in post-revolution Libya. Between 2015-2023, she was the artistic director of WaraQ, an art space and laboratory previously based in Tripoli. 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.