Artist Talk: Tina Bara

Photo: Tina Bara, BUNA eine Zeit, 1988/2025, Videostill.

Tina Bara in conversation with journalist Ulrich Gutmair (Berlin / taz, among others). Admission free.

Tina Bara (born in Kleinmachnow in 1962) is a German photographer. After completing her secondary education, Bara began studying history and art history at Humboldt University in Berlin in 1980, graduating in 1986. During this time, she was in contact with opposition groups, including Women for Peace. In 1985, she presented her first photo exhibition at the Galerie am Prater; further exhibitions followed in 1988 in Leipzig, Gotha and Cottbus, among other places. She also participated in the major GDR art exhibition in Dresden in 1987/1988. At the same time, she completed a distance learning course in photography at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig from 1986 to 1989. From 1986 onwards, she worked as a freelance photographer and was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR. Among other things, she photographed for the DEFA Studio for Documentary Films, for example in connection with the film flüstern & SCHREIEN – Ein Rockreport (Whisper & Scream – A Rock Report). In July 1989, she moved to West Berlin. Since 1993, she has been a professor of artistic photography at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig.

Part of the Dortmunder U's Kleiner Freitag event series.