Tina Bara

Tina Bara (*1962, Kleinmachnow, DE) is an artist and professor. She became known for her intimate photographic body portraits in the 1980s, that represent a generation of young people who no longer believed in the socialism of the GDR. In 2016, the photographic film “Lange Weile” was created on the basis of this material and a commenting soundtrack. In the 1990s, she was mainly dealing with fragmentary representations of the body and she observed the vague attitude to life in her changing neighbourhood by means of portraits and urban architecture. Since 2000 she is interested in photographic portraits of women. In photographic series and videos she is researching on various aspects of female biographies and strategies of self-empowerment through the appropriation and deconstruction of male-occupied stereotypes. In collaboration with Alba D’Urbano she has been working since 2000 on several installations, as well as curated projects and books.