Absence 2 Drawing

Barbara Cousin is French. She has lived and worked in Berlin since 2014. She works on the theme of individual and collective memory, with our relationship to time, history and forgetting. She was awarded, among others, for her installation "306 000 crosses" in commemoration of WW1 (2016) and recieved a research grant from the Foundation Auschwitz - ASBL Mémoire d'Auschwitz for her project "Thousand and one visages" (2018-2020). Her projects are exhibited in France and Germany (Galerie im Saalbau and Stiftung Genshagen in Berlin, Grand Palais in Paris, Kunstbiennale in Cachan). From 2015 to 2020, she has led numerous art workshops with over 500 children and young people. She also develops participative projects with different generations such as "Memory Map" (2015) or "The Artme Collection" (2016) in Berlin or "Heritage stories" in Annecy (Fr.) (2017). In the 2018-2019 school year, she participated in the "Max - Artists in Residence at Primary Schools" programme at Foundation Brandenburg Gate. There she developed a library of childhood memories with the pupils and their parents.