On the occasion of the first survey exhibition of the artist, filmmaker, and author Moyra Davey in Germany, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) presents a conversation between Davey and the artist Rosa Barba.

The practices of the two artists share a media-reflexive approach to photography and film that foregrounds the materiality of analogue image processes, and their material supports. In their work, they also frequently draw on existing textual and visual fragments as well as bodies of knowledge, which they distill into essayistic compositions. Building on an ongoing exchange between the two artists, the discussion – moderated by the art theorist Janique Vigier – considers Davey’s oeuvre and addresses, among other themes, artistic approaches to chance and temporality, as well as modes of archiving and remembering.

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Rosa Barba (*1972 in Agrigento / Italy) is an artist based in Berlin. Her work is characterized by a conceptual engagement with the medium of film. Recent solo exhibitions include: MAXXI – Museum nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome (2025); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2025); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2024); The Tanks – Tate Modern, London (2023); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2022); Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku / Finland (2020); Arter, Istanbul (2019, 2012); Kunsthalle Bremen (2018), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2017, 2010); Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (2016); Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main (2016); MoMA PS1, New York (2016); Albertinum, Dresden (2015). She is a professor in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich.

Moyra Davey (*1958 in Toronto) lives and works in New York. Her work has been shown internationally, including at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2023); Museum of Modern Art, New York (solo, 2022); Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2022); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (solo, 2020); documenta, Kassel / Athens (2017); Mumok, Vienna (solo, 2014). Davey received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020 and the Scotiabank Photography Award in 2018. Recent books include Portrait Mode (Berlin: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2025), Index Cards: Selected Essays (New York: New Directions, 2020), and The Shabbiness of Beauty (London: Mack, 2021).

Janique Vigier (*1989 in Winnipeg) is a curator, writer and editor based in London. She is an editor at Granta, London, and works with Semiotext(e) in Los Angeles. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, frieze, The London Review of Books, among others.