Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig

The German-Italian artist Rosa Barba (* 1972 Agrigento, Italy) has created a spatial installation for the MdbK on the large terrace on the 2nd floor, in which she addresses the physical perception of light and space. Coloured glass floats in a modernist second ceiling. The result is a room within a room that opens up transparently to a space behind and above. The terrace thus becomes a giant camera lens that focuses and projects light. Through this quasi-photographic process, time acquires a form, appearing as daylight in its different qualities. Barba thus addresses a fundamental shift: while digital spaces increasingly define our perception, space and time remain unambiguously physical experiences. At the same time, Barba emphasizes the relevance of the analogue in a digital world.

Colour out of Space is the fourth position in the series of spatial installations conceived especially for the large corner terrace on the 2nd floor of the MdbK - after Chiharu Shiota Internal Line (23.09.2021- 27.03.2022), Hito Steyerl The City of Broken Windows  (15.06.-15.10.2023) und Sandra Mujinga Fleeting Home (30.11.2023-12.01.2025).

Opening: 21.05.2025, 18 h