New artist-in residence: Barbara Gamper

Barbara Gamper is an interdisciplinary artist from South Tyrol (Italy), based in Berlin, in residency at Lottozero, from 2 to 14 February.
Barbara Gamper works across movement, somatics, performance, moving image, and textiles. Her research centers on the politics of embodiment seeking to advocate for decolonial feminist pedagogies through somatic movement workshop formats in art, education and activism.

Somatic exploration is an integral part of her daily practice, challenging the internalized patterns of socialization and expanding the body’s experience beyond the skin. Through this, she explores the body as a porous, fluid form in constant interconnection with human and non-human materialities and ecologies.

Textiles take the role of "connective tissues" fostering participation and serving as a canvas for visual storytelling.

She earned her Master’s degree in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University London in 2016. Most recently, she completed training in Somatic Movement Education at the Somatic Academy Berlin. In 2023, she realized the project Think Like Mycelium together with mycologist Alessandra Senettin at the Natural History Museum in Bolzano.

Barbara Gamper & Fouzia W. Kinyanjui, At the point of subversion (constituting the new normal), 2020, video still.