• Debora Barnaba is a Milan-based visual artist whose work transcends traditional photography, exploring the body as a universal visual language. Her artistic practice transforms physical forms into profound narratives, where each body part becomes like a letter in an alphabet, composing different poems and meanings that transcend their physical nature.

    Throughout her career, she has collaborated with influential photographers including Giovanni Gastel and Oliviero Toscani, and her work has been featured in prestigious publications such as Vogue, L'Officiel, and Marie Claire. Her pieces have graced notable venues including Art-Icon (Paris), Palacio de Lombillo (Havana), and PhotoLondon, earning recognition from both critics and collectors across Europe.

    In her ongoing artistic research, Barnaba creates compelling visual narratives that challenge conventional perspectives on human essence. Each piece emerges through a process of observation and intuitive development, where the final result often reveals unexpected depths and meanings beyond the initial vision.

    Through her lens, the body becomes a medium for expressing life, emotions, and worldviews. Her work invites viewers into an intimate dialogue about human connection and perception, where technical precision meets emotional resonance to create lasting visual conversations.

  • 2024 BODYlicious, Ghiggini Gallery, Varese, Italy

    2022 Body architecture, Ghiggini Gallery, Varese, Italy

    2019 .nedt, IBSA special project, Milan, Italy

    2013 Debora Barnaba: Untitled Show, Theca Gallery, Lugano, Swiss

  • 2024 Corporeality, Art-Icon, Paris, France

    2023 Miradas Compartidas, Palacio de Lombillo, L’Avana, Cuba

    2023 Hot topic, curated by Eileen Ghiggini, Ghiggini Gallery, Varese, Italy

    2023 Presenze contemporanee, curated by Paolo Feroce, PAM Museum, Caserta, Italy

    2022 #MFM1# Excitatio, curated by Francesca Interlenghi, Spazio Maria Calderara, Milano, Italy


    2021 Femme et fatale, with Image Nation Milan, Fondazione Matalon, Milan, Italy

    2020 PhotoLondon fair, with Podbielski Gallery, London, Great Britain

    2020 Ghiggini Arte 03/2020, curated by Eileen Ghiggini, Ghiggini Gallery, Varese, Italy

    2020 Pleasure Garden, curated by Pierre Podbielski, Podbielski Gallery, Milan, Italy

    2020 50 Liceo Artistico, Villa Mirabello Museum, Varese, Italy

    2019 ContemporaneaMENTI, exhibition of the finalists of the prize, Fondazione Arsenale, Iseo, Italy

    2019 Incarnato, curated by Chiara Gatti, Ghiggini Gallery, Varese, Italy

    2018 Artisti a Venezia, curated by Daniela Accorsi, Accorsi Gallery, Venice, Italy

    2017 Carte esposte, curated by Annalisa Fanti, Theca Gallery, Milan, Italy

    2017 Biennale di Genova, Palazzo Stella, Genova, Italy

    2017 Nude, Cortina Gallery, Milan, Italy 

    2017 Kunst lives matter, Marzia Frozen Gallery, Berlin, Germany

    2014 White light/White heat, Theca Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland 

    2013 Corpo a corpo, Hangart, Pavia, Italy

    2012 Il paesaggio contemporaneo, Deodato Arte, Milan, Italy

    2012 Nonsolocorpisoli, I Macelli, Florence, Italy

    2011 Circuiti dinamici, Circolo culturale Bertolt Brecht, Milan, Italy

    2010 Locus animae, Palazzo del Turismo, Jesolo, Italy

    2010 Artparty, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Castello di Masnago, Varese, Italy

    2008 Cristalli di Rocca, curated by Carolina Lio, Rocca Grimalda, Italy 

    2007 Body-il corpo umano nell’arte contemporanea, Spazio Expo Culturali GB Design, Florence, Italy

  • 2021 Bronze at Paris Photo prize, Paris

    2019 Winner of the photographry prize at ContemporaneaMENTI, Fondazione Arsenale Iseo

    2018 Finalist at C.O.C.A. Prize for photography

    2017 Winner of the critique prize, Genova Biennale

    2017 Mention by the jury, The Independent Photographer award

    2014 Third classified with Annalisa Mazzoli, Serbelloni Prize

    2012 Finalist at Premio Giovani Artisti Borgomanero, III edition

    2012 Third classified, Premio Ghiggini Arte Giovani XI edition

    2011 Special mention by the jury, Giovani Artisti Borgomanero, II edition

  • AAVV., ContemporaneaMENTI, cat. Exhibition, Arsenale Iseo, 2019

    AAVV., Biennale di Genova, cat. Exhibition, AGF Edizioni, 2017

    AAVV., Regione Lombardia: four seasons of beauty, Regione Lombardia, 2017

    BONOMI Giorgio, Il corpo solitario vol.2, Rubettino Editore, 2017

    AAVV., Expo Tales, Regione Lombardia, 2015

    BARNABA Debora, Mondrian: Arte come percezione della forma invisibile, Edizioni Accademiche Italiane, 2015

    AAVV., Pasottiade, Silvio Pasotti dal 1933, Skira Ed, 2015

    BARNABA Debora, White catalogue, White Milano, jan. 2015

    AAVV., La Varese che vorrei, 80 contributors, Associazione Parentesi and Lions Club Varese Host Ed, 2014

    AAVV., 12 Riflessi, cat. exhibition, Francesco Brioschi Ed, 2014

    AAVV., Premio giovani artisti, cat. exhibition, Italgrafica Ed, 2012

    AAVV., Ghiggini arte, cat. exhibition, 2012

    BARNABA Debora, Visioni del vuoto: Varese, Arterigere Ed, 2011

    AAVV., Premio giovani artisti, cat. exhibition, Italgrafica Ed, 2011

    IOVINE Sandro, Il Fotografo, Kissing me, magazine, Sprea Ed, 2010

    AAVV., Locus animae, rassegna d'arte contemporanea quinto episodio, cat. exhibition, Nextitalia, 2010

    AAVV., Artparty, sferica, cat. exhibition, Quir Ed, 2010

    AAVV., Circuiti dinamici, cat. exhibition, Seriart Ed, 2010

    AAVV., Ghiggini arte, cat. exhibition, 2010

    TOSCANI Oliviero e ALTRI, Santo Spirito, La Sterpaia Ed, 2009

    AAVV., Cristalli di Rocca, cat. exhibition, 2008