Introduction
The Neue Nationalgalerie celebrates its reopening after six years of renovation with a solo exhibition by Rosa Barba. Under the title In a Perpetual Now, Barba presents key works of her oeuvre from the years 2009–2021, as well as a new film created on the occasion of the exhibition: Plastic Limits – For the Projection of Other Architecture.
An expansive steel structure—referring in its architectural design to Mies van der Rohe's early project, Brick Country House—hosts 15 of Barba's cinematic and sculptural works. Specially produced for the architecture of the Neue Nationalgalerie, this major solo exhibition follows the principle of cinematic montage, which plays a pivotal role in the artist’s work as well as her conceptual approach to cinema itself.