My work explores the threshold where encounters take shape: the space in between where one meets another, whether a person, a tree, a stone, or the wind. It is within this liminal space that identities, memories, and relationships are continuously negotiated, revealing the invisible threads that connect the human and the more-than-human.
Working across photography, video, drawing, sound, print, and multimedia installation, I move between analogue and digital processes. I rework, layer, and translate images into photographic series, video works, and immersive installations that invite viewers to inhabit this space of relation rather than simply observe it.
I am drawn to the tension between the desire to approach, merge, and cross boundaries, and the fear of losing oneself in the encounter. This movement—between presence and absence, vulnerability and resilience, the individual and the collective—is at the core of my practice. Through shifting perspectives, I seek to make visible what usually remains unseen: the fragile connections through which belonging, diversity, and new forms of coexistence can emerge.
Biography
Barbara Bernardi is a multimedia artist and filmmaker based in Berlin since 2008. She studied Film Direction at the B.A. “Luchino Visconti” Film School in Milan and completed an M.A. in Fine Arts at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, with a British Academy Scholarship. After working as a television director and video artist in Milan, she developed an interdisciplinary artistic practice combining video, photography, drawing, sound, printmaking, and multimedia installation.
Recent exhibitions and projects include Stadtmuseum Berlin, Artificerie Almagià (Ravenna), Bienno Borgo degli Artisti (Italy), Kommunale Galerie Charlottenburg (Berlin), Kubiz Kunstfestival (Berlin), ExpoArt40 (Prishtina, Kosovo), and the Museo Digitale Migra Emilia-Romagna. Her work has been developed through international exhibitions, site-specific projects, and artist residencies in Iceland, Germany, Italy, Gran Canaria, and Denmark. Her projects have been supported by public institutions, cultural organizations, and galleries in Germany and Italy.