Tewa Barnosa
Tewa Barnosa (b. 1998, Tripoli, Libya) is a trans-disciplinary artist and cultural producer born in Tripoli and based in Amsterdam. Her artistic practice spans across trajectories of visual arts, time-based media, and curatorial collaborations, consisting of audio-visual installations, text, performance, along with expanded paintings and objects which she utilizes as tools and toys for testing taboos and territories on the margins.
Barnosa grounds her work in a critical and curious approach, exploring historical and political contradictions, contemporary polarities, and the interplay between physical, psychological, and public spaces. She reinterprets source materials, creates fictional stories and myths, and researches historical archives to highlight human alienation and social and environmental crises. Her work draws connections between these crises, war laboratories, and the violation of cognitive and cultural resistance.
Her pedagogical and curatorial methodology are informed by researching, organizing, and engaging in the local Libyan context, where she initiated WaraQ art space in 2015. Currently, she is a post-grad Sonology student at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague 2024-2025, and an alumnus of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten 2021-2023. Furthermore, Barnosa received the Iwaelwahaus African Artist award 2021, and the Berlin based fellowship for artists at risk by the Martin Roth Initiative 2019-2020.