Berlin | ArtRegion: Berlin, Tiergarten

Esther Schipper

Rosa Barba: Inside the Outset

Evoking a Space of Passage

20. – 28. August 2021

On the occasion of Mies in Mind—an exhibition parcours through 30 galleries for the reopening of the Neue Nationalgalerie—Esther Schipper is pleased to present Rosa Barba’s new film Inside the Outset: Evoking a Space of Passage, 2021.

Inside the Outset is a project that consists of two parts: a film and a long-term open-air cinema installation within the 180-kilometer UN-controlled „Green Line Buffer Zone“ in Cyprus. This area divides the island between North and South, and forms the starting point of Rosa Barba’s artistic intervention.

The project started seven years ago when Barba first visited the island and proposed a cinema sculpture in the Buffer Zone. The inaugural ceremony of the Open-Air Cinema will take place on September 10, 2021, with the projection of the film Inside the Outset: Evoking a Space of Passage along with films selected by the project’s Advisory Board of artists from each side of the Green Line and beyond. Visitors from both sides of the island will be able to enter the Buffer Zone, which is usually closed to civilians.