Tewa Barnosa (b.1998) is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer based between Tripoli and Amsterdam, whose practice spans visual arts, time-based media, performance, pedagogical research, and curatorial collaborations. Grounded in critical curiosity- and research-based knowledge reinterpretation and production, Her work examines historical events and political contradictions with an interest in language and anti-colonial modes of communication, Barnosa recontextualizes images, sounds, objects, investigates war archives, Libyan and Amazigh oral literature, fiction, and mythologies. She attempts to reposition fragments of evidence concerning human alienation and socio-ecological turbulence, intersecting with notions of contemporary warfare and the 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 contemporary art 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 interventions to facilitate local and nomadic infrastructures of co-creation and critical conversations.
Barnosa is currently enrolled at the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague 2024-2025. She is an Alumnus of the Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten 2021-2023, a recipient of the Iwaelwahaus African Artist Award 2021, and the Berlin-based fellowship for artists at risk by the Martin Roth initiative 2019-2020.