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 controll
ed 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. Solo exhibitions
.nedt, IBSA special project, Milan, Italy, june 2019
Debora Barnaba: Untitled Show, Theca Gallery, Lugano, Swiss, september 2013
Selected group exhibitions
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, Theca Gallery, Milan, Italy, july 2017
Biennale di Genova, Palazzo Stella, Genova, Italy, june 2017
N**e, Cortina Gallery, Milan, Italy, may 2017
Kunst lives matter, Marzia Frozen Gallery, Berlin, Germany, march 2017
White light/White heat, Theca Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland, february 2014
Corpo a corpo, Hangart, Pavia, Italy, 2013
Il paesaggio contemporaneo, Deodato Arte, Milan, Italy, 2012
Nonsolocorpisoli, I Macelli, Florence, Italy, 2012
TOSCANI Oliviero e ALTRI, Santo Spirito, La Sterpaia Ed, 2009
AAVV., Cristalli di Rocca, cat. exhibition, 2008
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Get • .official We are happy to announce “Love,” a Contemporary Exhibition
📍 Bastille Design Center, 74 Bd Richard-Lenoir, 75011 Paris
🗓️ 26–28 May 2026
Curated by .tkachenko.studio and
Slide 3 features a still from the 1975 video art “Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful” by Marina Abramović
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