Artist Talk: Barbara Prenka

Artist Talk: Barbara Prenka

Barbara Prenka is one of the participating artists in the exhibition Make me coffee make me a sandwich, with the work Bodies as Steps. You will be able to understand more about the concept of her work for this exhibition during the talk, as well as about her artistic practice in general

Barbara Prenka (Gjakova, Kosovo, 1990) graduated with Professor Carlo Di Raco at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, lives and works between Venice and Bolzano.

She is interested in the spontaneity of the gesture, the freshness, the dirt that runs through the pictorial progression, painting as a process, as a succession of unexpected events and rediscoveries, the making and undoing that defines the subject. Physicality is the starting point of her work, the starting idea of a work the process of frantic and passive realization, physicality as a body that moves, creates, destroys, does not act on the pictorial material.

In 2021 participated in the solo exhibition Shelter Lines curated by Edoardo Monti at Palazzo Monti – in the art residency at Palazzo Monti Brescia, curated by Edoardo Monti. In 2020 Whatever It Takes at A plus A gallery curated by Curatorial School Venice – participated in Pesi Massimi at Spazio Punch curated by Augusto Maurandi. Renovation at the Marina Bastianello Gallery. In 2019 participates in the collective Margine curated by Raffaelle Santillo and Daniele Capra in Pordenone – at the artistic residency Bocsart Cosenza, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio group exhibition Etna & Paricutin, Centro Cultural Antiguo Colegio Jesuita, Fabrica de San Pedro Uruapan Mexico – Il disegno Politico Italiano, curated by Aurora Fonda and Sandro Pignotti, at A plus A gallery Venice. – Figolammerda ep. 2, curated by Pier Paolo Scelsi and Valentina Gioia Levy, at Giudecca Art District, Venice. In 2018 he participates in Artissima stand n.30 Fiera di Torino – Charming Encounters curated by Dionisio Gavagnin and Marina Bastianello. Afterwards he takes part in the group exhibition – 777 at the bottom right – at the spaces of Venice Art Projects, curated by School for Curatorial Studies Venice.