Debora Barnaba

Milan-based artist Debora Barnaba originally studied drawing and painting; she later embraced photography, which became her primary artistic expression.

Since 2006 she has worked with renowned practitioners including Giovanni Gastel and Oliviero Toscani, participated in group and solo exhibitions and won numerous awards.

Her images express the power of self-portraits, with bodies that are controlled and subverted in favour of the photographic lens. Barnaba’s background can be seen in the detailed, formal construction of the shots and in her effort to aestheticise an idea, “tracing” it in the space of a single click.

Self-taught photographer, she studied drawings at school and graduated in Art management at IULM, Milan.

SOLO EXHIBITION

Body architecture, Ghiggini Gallery, Varese, Italy, may 2022

.nedt, IBSA special project, Milan, Italy, june 2019

Debora Barnaba: Untitled Show, Theca Gallery, Lugano, Swiss, september 2013



SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

#MFM1# Excitatio, with Nayra Martin Reyes, curated by Francesca Interlenghi, Spazio Maria Calderara, Milano, Italy, march 2022

Femme et fatale, with Image Nation Milan, Fondazione Matalon, Milan, Italy, september 2021

PhotoLondon fair, with Podbielski Gallery, London, Great Britain, october 2020

Ghiggini Arte 03/2020, curated by Eileen Ghiggini, Ghiggini Gallery, Varese, Italy, march 2020

Pleasure Garden, curated by Pierre Podbielski, Podbielski Gallery, Milan, Italy, february 2020

50 Liceo Artistico, Villa Mirabello Museum, Varese, Italy, february 2020

ContemporaneaMENTI, exhibition of the finalists of the prize, Fondazione Arsenale, Iseo, Italy, september 2019

Incarnato, curated by Chiara Gatti, Ghiggini Gallery, Varese, Italy, april 2019

Artisti a Venezia, curated by Daniela Accorsi, Accorsi Gallery, Venice, Italy, may 2018

Arte e moda, curated by Giorgio Grasso, Spazio Kappa, Milan, Italy, february 2018

Carte esposte, curated by Annalisa Fanti, Th...