Barbara Cousin

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.

2010-14 - Beaux Arts Studios, Chantal Lascuretttes’s and Jürgen Stimpfig’s art classes, drawing, Paris
2005-09 - School of Economics and Business Administration (EDHEC), Lille (Fr.) (MA in cultural management)
2006-09 - Lille University 3, Art History, Lille (Fr.) (correspondence courses)

2019
- 30. Jahre Mauerfall, Gymnasium am Europasportpark, Berlin (G)
- Library of childhood I, School im Blumenviertel, Berlin (G)
- To protect oneself, Lycée Châtelet, Douai (Fr.) (G)
2018
- 306.000 crosses, Commemoration of the Centenary of the First World War, Genshagen
Foundation, Genshagen Castle, Berlin Brandenburg (S)
- Neuköllner Kunstpreis, Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin (G)
- Espace libre, Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin (G)
- Anonymous Drawings, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin (G)
2017
- Heritage stories, Contemporary Art Space le Point Commun, Annecy (S)
- Plural Solitude, HilbertRaum, Berlin (G)
- A female body, galerie asterisk* (S)
- I feel coffee, Coffee art project, Amsterdam (G)
2016
- 306.000 crosses, French-German Youth Office, Berlin (S)
- The Berta Art Raffle, Vol. V, HilbertRaum, Berlin (G)
- Contemporary Art Biennale of Cachan, Cachan (G)
- Beyond the heritage, Salle Saint Pierre de Montmartre, Paris (G)
- Date as per postmark, Hippocrène Foundation, Transcultures, Paris (G)
2015
- Anonymous Drawings, Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin (G)
- The small formats, Art Space AVV, Saint-Mathurin-sur-Loire, France (G)
- I feel coffee, Coffee art project, London (G)
- Full & empty, ...