TEWA BARNOSA (B.1998) IS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST AND CULTURAL PRODUCER
WORKING BETWEEN TRIPOLI AND AMSTERDAM, WHOSE PRACTICE SPANS VISUAL ARTS,
TIME-BASED MEDIA, PERFORMANCE, PEDAGOGICAL RESEARCH, AND CURATORIAL
COLLABORATIONS. HER WORK IS GROUNDED IN CRITICAL OBSERVATION AND RESEARCH-
BASED KNOWLEDGE INTERPRETATION, SHE EXAMINES HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL
NARRATIVES WITH AN INTEREST IN LANGUAGE AND ANTI-COLONIAL MODES OF
COMMUNICATION AND BEING, BY CONTEXTUALIZING IMAGES, SOUNDS, OBJECTS,
INVESTIGATING WAR ARCHIVES, LIBYAN AND AMAZIGH ORAL LITERATURE, FICTION, AND
MYTHOLOGIES. SHE POSITIONS EVIDENCE CONCERNING HUMAN ALIENATION AND SOCIO-
ECOLOGICAL TURBULENCE, INTERSECTING WITH NOTIONS OF CONTEMPORARY WARFARE
AND VIOLATIONS OF COGNITIVE AND CULTURAL MEANS OF RESISTANCE.
HER PEDAGOGICAL AND CURATORIAL WORK IS INFORMED BY HER RESEARCH,
ORGANIZING, AND ENGAGEMENT IN THE REVIVAL AND ACTIVATION OF ARTISTIC
DISCOURSE IN POST-GADDAFI LIBYA. IN 2015, SHE INITIATED WARAQ, AN ART SPACE
CENTERING COLLABORATIVE PROCESSES SUCH AS EXHIBITION PROJECTS, PUBLISHING,
SPACE-MAKING, AND PUBLIC SPACE INTERVENTIONS TO FACILITATE LOCAL AND NOMADIC
INFRASTRUCTURES OF CO-CREATION AND CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS.
BARNOSA IS AN ALUMNI OF THE INSTITUTE OF SONOLOGY AT THE ROYAL CONSERVATOIRE
IN THE HAGUE 2024-2025. THE RIJKSAKADEMIE VAN BEELDENDE KUNSTEN 2021-2023, A
RECIPIENT OF S+T+ARTS 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.
WORKING BETWEEN TRIPOLI AND AMSTERDAM, WHOSE PRACTICE SPANS VISUAL ARTS,
TIME-BASED MEDIA, PERFORMANCE, PEDAGOGICAL RESEARCH, AND CURATORIAL
COLLABORATIONS. HER WORK IS GROUNDED IN CRITICAL OBSERVATION AND RESEARCH-
BASED KNOWLEDGE INTERPRETATION, SHE EXAMINES HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL
NARRATIVES WITH AN INTEREST IN LANGUAGE AND ANTI-COLONIAL MODES OF
COMMUNICATION AND BEING, BY CONTEXTUALIZING IMAGES, SOUNDS, OBJECTS,
INVESTIGATING WAR ARCHIVES, LIBYAN AND AMAZIGH ORAL LITERATURE, FICTION, AND
MYTHOLOGIES. SHE POSITIONS EVIDENCE CONCERNING HUMAN ALIENATION AND SOCIO-
ECOLOGICAL TURBULENCE, INTERSECTING WITH NOTIONS OF CONTEMPORARY WARFARE
AND VIOLATIONS OF COGNITIVE AND CULTURAL MEANS OF RESISTANCE.
HER PEDAGOGICAL AND CURATORIAL WORK IS INFORMED BY HER RESEARCH,
ORGANIZING, AND ENGAGEMENT IN THE REVIVAL AND ACTIVATION OF ARTISTIC
DISCOURSE IN POST-GADDAFI LIBYA. IN 2015, SHE INITIATED WARAQ, AN ART SPACE
CENTERING COLLABORATIVE PROCESSES SUCH AS EXHIBITION PROJECTS, PUBLISHING,
SPACE-MAKING, AND PUBLIC SPACE INTERVENTIONS TO FACILITATE LOCAL AND NOMADIC
INFRASTRUCTURES OF CO-CREATION AND CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS.
BARNOSA IS AN ALUMNI OF THE INSTITUTE OF SONOLOGY AT THE ROYAL CONSERVATOIRE
IN THE HAGUE 2024-2025. THE RIJKSAKADEMIE VAN BEELDENDE KUNSTEN 2021-2023, A
RECIPIENT OF S+T+ARTS 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.