A limited edition of ten records by the artist was released as part of the n.b.k. Records series, each featuring a unique work from the series Memories prior perceptual experience by Rosa Barba.

The record Instruments Inside Out, which is based on audio recording made in Barba’s solo exhibition In a Perpetual Now at the Neue Nationalgalerie and creates an audio-archive of the works, but also of the performance of the machines and their location in the space throughout the exhibition period. The artist filled the modernist spaces with her films and projectors deployed on an architectonic structure modelled after Mies van der Rohe’s plans for his unrealized Brick Country House project (1924). The soundtrack reenacts the framework of perception by offering another viewpoint on the composition as a whole. By defocusing the visitors’ attention away from the visible elements of the exhibition, Rosa Barba captures the diffuse effects of the propagation of sound and recomposes the play of associations between sounds, objects and voices.

Rosa Barba (b. 1972 in Agrigento / Italy, lives in Berlin), studied theater and film studies in Erlangen and attended the Academy of Media Arts Cologne as well as the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. Solo exhibitions (selection): Museum of Modern Art (2024); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2024); The Tanks – Tate Modern, London (2023); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2022); Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku / Finland (2020); Arter, Istanbul (2019, 2012); Kunsthalle Bremen (2018), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2017, 2010); Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (2016); Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2016); MoMA PS1, New York (2016); Albertinum, Dresden (2015); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge/Mass. (2015); Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome (2014); Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León (2013); Kunsthaus Zurich (2012); Jeu de Paume, Paris (2012); Tate Modern, London (2010).

n.b.k. Records is a collaboration between Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and Ediciones Inauditas, publishing LPs of works by various visual artists. Each LP is a work of art in itself.