Education
She studied visual art at the Rietveld Academy and was resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and The American Academy in Rome.
She studied visual art at the Rietveld Academy and was resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and The American Academy in Rome.
MARIA BARNAS (Netherlands, 1973) She lives and works in Amsterdam and Berlin. Both in her written work, including novels, poetry and essays and in her visual work, she focuses on how description shapes reality. Barnas is currently advisor at the Rijksakademie.
In 2011 her collected observations on art and literature for National Research Council Handelsblad were published in "Fantastic".
Barnas is currently working on visual and spatial essays (including film, drawing and text) in which language and image are combined, results of which have been presented at Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam.