Bárbara Palomino Ruiz is a Brazilian-Chilean artist and artistic researcher based in Vienna.
Her practice examines the systems of inscription and translation through which information, memory, and social narratives are recorded, transformed, and made perceptible. Bringing textile processes into dialogue with analogue and digital technologies, she explores technological heritage, systems of representation, affective cartographies, and the shifting relations between documentation and fiction.
Her more recent professional experience in film costume breakdown has brought these long-standing interests into contact with the deliberate production of material traces. Working directly with the transformation of textile surfaces has sharpened her attention to embodied knowledge and to how wear, damage, environment, and duration become materially legible.
Palomino Ruiz graduated in Fine Arts with a specialisation in Textile Art from the University of Chile and later completed the postgraduate programme at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in France. She is a member of VÖF – Austrian Filmdesigners Association, the professional association representing film practitioners working in production and costume design in Austria.
Her work has been presented internationally at Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Medienwerkstatt Wien and das weisse haus in Austria; the European Cultural Centre’s Personal Structures – Open Borders in Venice; Le Cube and Le Fresnoy in France; FACT Liverpool in the United Kingdom; the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź, Poland; and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Galería Gabriela Mistral, Balmaceda Arte Joven, and Galería AFA in Chile. Her work is held in public and private collections in Europe and Latin America.
Alongside her artistic practice, Palomino Ruiz has developed extensive experience in university teaching, collaborative research, curatorial work, arts administration, and cultural production.
From 2005 to 2012, she was a member of the Italian-Chilean media-art collective Netzfunk. Within this context, she contributed to Memoria Histórica de la Alameda, a collaborative project examining collective memory and urban space through locative media, physical interfaces, audiovisual archives, and situated forms of narration.
Between 2006 and 2009, she co-managed INCUBO, an international residency programme in Santiago that fostered exchanges between Chilean artists and international curators, artists, and thinkers—including Theo Jansen, Luis Camnitzer, Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, Paul Ardenne, and Dan Cameron—through exhibitions, publications, public programmes, and curatorial and spatial experiments.
From 2018 to 2022, she was a member of the Golden Pixel Cooperative in Vienna, contributing to moving-image programmes, public discussions, research projects, publications, educational initiatives, and the cooperative’s communication and outreach.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Cross Patterns: Paths to be Able to Return — An(other) South+, Minuseins, Austria
2018 Lo que está junto a la orilla — Centro de Arte Faro Cabo Mayor, Spain
2018 La imagen pertenece al pueblo — Video of the Month, Das Weisse Haus, Austria
2017 Cross Patterns: Paths to be Able to Return — Medienwerkstatt Wien, Austria
2012 Techné — Galería AFA, Chile
2012 Danse Serpentine — Galería YONO, Chile
2008 Oscuro Suspendido — Galería Balmaceda Arte Joven, Chile
2007 Circuitos Híbridos — Galería Gabriela Mistral, Chile
2006 Acopios Textiles — Sala Blanca, Universidad de Chile, Chile
2006 Soportes Transitorios — Centro Cultural San José, Chile
2005 Acopios Textiles — Goethe-Institut, Santiago, Chile
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2021 IG Editionen Hängung #04, IG Bildende Kunst in cooperation with VIENNA ART WEEK, Austria
2022 Inspire.e.s. Acte 2. Arts numériques — Centre d’art contemporain L’arTsenal, Dreux, France
2021 Wake Words — Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Austria
2021 They, Sie, Oni — Online screening, curated by Maja Ciric
2021 Rastrums Transversales — Online exhibition
2021 Subjectant la Historia — Centre d’Art Maristany, Sant Cugat, Spain
2020 Knotentopologie — Parallel Vienna, project statement, philomena+, Austria
2020 I Long To Be Close To You — Le Studio Molière, Austria
2019 Altered Affairs — Kunstuniversität Linz / Valie Export Center, Austria
2019 Alzheimer II Variación — Casa Fugaz, Artmo19, Monumental Callao, Peru
2018 Diáspora — Centro Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile
2018 Reunion On The Grass — Das Weisse Haus, Austria
2017 Contingency Plan — Studio Das Weisse Haus, Austria
2017 Personal Structures. Open Borders — European Cultural Centre, 57th Venice Biennale, Italy
2016 ArtLima — Lima, Peru
2016 Cuatro Reinos, Sala CCU, Chile
2015 PANORAMA 17 — Techniquement Douce — Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France
2014 Memoria Histórica de la Alameda — Cities in Dialogue — FACT, Liverpool, England
2014 PANORAMA 16 — Solus Locus — Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France
2012 Memoria de la Imagen — Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
2011 Contemporary Miniartextil — Montrouge, Paris, France
2010 Enchanted Pathways / Small Format Tapestry — William and Joseph Gallery, USA
2010 13th International Triennial of Tapestry — Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź, Poland
2009 Transmutación — Museo Casa Colorada, Santiago, Chile
2007 Contextualizando — Sala Juan Egenau, Facultad de Artes, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
2006 Multiplication — Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Santiago, Chile
2006 Naturaleza Textil — Centro Cultural Anáhuac, Santiago, Chile
2006 Memoria Histórica de la Alameda — netzfunk.org — Sydney Opera House, Australia
2006 Memoria Histórica de la Alameda — netzfunk.org — VIII Salón de Arte Digital, Cuba
2006 Memoria Histórica de la Alameda — netzfunk.org — HomeMade Festival, Italy
2005 Objeto y Arte Textil — Centro de Arte Cecilia Palma, Santiago, Chile
2004 Fotoamérica — Facultad de Artes, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
2002 Ejercicios de Superficie II — Sala Juan Egenau, Universidad de Chile, Chile
COLLECTIONS
Orbital Residency, José Luis de la Fuente, Spain
Yoshihuni & Kusching Private Collection, Berlin, Germany
Mollet and Wilson Private Collection, Santiago, Chile
CCU Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile
Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź, Poland
AWARDS, GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
2020 Fellowship — Kültüř Gemma — philomena+, Austria
2018 Orbital Residency #3 — Barcenilla, Spain
2017 Studio Grant — Das Weisse Haus, Austria
2017 Project & Exhibition Funding — MA7 Wien Kultur; FONDART, Chile; DIRAC, Chile
2013 Scholarship Funding — FONDART, Chile
2012 Award for “Entonador de ruido” — Ch.ACO-Finlandia, Chile
2009 Nomination, CIFO Grant — Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, USA
2008 DAV Award for “Mano de Obra” (publication funding) — Universidad de Chile
2007 Residency — Land Arts of the American West — Atacama Lab, Chile
2006 “Best Libertary and Low-Fi Artwork” — Memoria Histórica de la Alameda — HomeMade Festival, Accademia di Belle Arti, Carrara, Italy
SELECTED AUTHORED TEXTS AND EDITORIAL WORK
2022 The Golden Pixel Cooperative. “Visions of a common place”, in You’ll Never Work Alone: Collective Infrastructures in Moving Images, Schlebrügge.Editor
2020 Palomino Ruiz, Bárbara. “Weitergehen.” In Esos grandes detalles: 92 relatos escritos durante la pandemia, edited by Enrique Matthey, Universidad de Chile, pp. 41–43
2009 Palomino Ruiz, Bárbara. “La lenta conquista de lo manual.” In Mano de Obra: Publicación sobre Artes y Oficios, Universidad de Chile, pp. 7–16
2009 Moreno, Paola; Bárbara Palomino Ruiz; and Constanza Urrutia. Mano de Obra: Publicación sobre Artes y Oficios. Universidad de Chile, Chile
2008 INCUBO. INCUBO: Atacama Lab. Santiago, Chile
2007 Palomino Ruiz, Bárbara. “Mochileando…” in Instalando / Installing: Arte y Cultura Digital / Art and Digital Culture, Troyano 03, LOM Ediciones
2007 Palomino Ruiz, Bárbara. “Como una sábana blanca” in Revista Punto de Fuga, no. 2, Department of Art Theory, Universidad de Chile, LOM Ediciones
2007 Palomino Ruiz, Bárbara. “Dados.” Catalogue text for Multiplication, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Chile
2007 Palomino Ruiz, Bárbara. “Paisaje panorámico a distancia” in APROX, Universidad de Chile
2007 Palomino Ruiz, Bárbara. Exhibition text for Daniel Rodríguez’s Ruta 5, Galería BECH, Chile
2007 Palomino Ruiz, Bárbara. Exhibition text for Constanza Urrutia’s Ambiente Perceptual, Universidad de Chile
2007 Palomino Ruiz, Bárbara. “Apunte y Pespunte” in catalogue essay for Patricia Álvarez’s Pespuntes de un Apunte, Centro Cultural de España, Santiago, pp. 18–23
2006 Palomino Ruiz, Bárbara. “Textil y Digital: Una exploración entre fibras” in Revista Punto de Fuga, no. 1, Department of Art Theory, Universidad de Chile, LOM Ediciones, p. 143
2006 Palomino Ruiz, Bárbara. “Intervalo Visual” Exhibition text for Daniel Rodríguez’s Panorámica Anacrónica, Santiago, Chile
SELECTED WRITING AND PUBLICATIONS ON THE ARTIST
2022 Fajardo-Hill, Cecilia, Remains – Tomorrow: Themes in Contemporary Latin American Abstraction. Ed.Hatje Cantz.
2021 Doğtaş, Gürsoy, PARABOL SE #5 — The Kültüř Gemma! Issue
2016 Personal Structures. Open Borders (catalogue), GAA Foundation European Cultural Centre, Italy
2016 Taylor, Claire, “Chapter Two. On Bárbara Palomino: her art Practice and her Work” in Cities in Dialogue, Liverpool University Press, England Taylor, Clare, pp. 30-45
2016 Wanono, Nadine. “Anthropologies numériques: Invitation au dialogue entre sciences et art numérique.” La Lettre de l’InSHS, no. 41, May 2016, pp. 31–34.
2015 Panorama 17 Catalog. Le Fresnoy,, France
2014 Panorama 16. Catalog. Le Fresnoy, France
2014 Taylor, Claire. “Memoria Histórica de la Alameda: The Mapping Out of Memory Battles in Chile”, in Politics in Latin American Digital Culture: Location and Latin American Net Art, Ed. Routledge, pp. 18-44
2012 Gabler, César. “Techné” published in La Panera, no. 28, Santiago, Chile
2012 Italia Magazine, “El Olvido” Cover, and in “Alzheimer Exhibition“: El Olvido” Vol.4 , January
2012 “Arte Textil Contemporáneo”. Catalog. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, October, pp. 42-43
2008 Aurigi, Alessandro and De Cindio, Fiorella, Augmented Urban Spaces: Articulating the Physical and Electronic City, Ed. Ashgate: England, pp. 240-242
2005 Hernández Cerda, Jorge. “Netzfunk en Chile. Memoria Histórica de la Alameda”, in EAC // Magazine
SELECTED ARTIST TALKS & LECTURES
2021 kültüř gemma is on! online artist talk and roundtable with Marissa Lobo and Ipek Hamzaoğlu, festival kültüř gemma!, Vienna
2021 “Las grandes alamedas” — presentation and online conversation with Patricio Vogel. Virtual Conference: Memory and Representation in Latin America, University of Liverpool, 8 April
2016 Anthropologies Numériques — Le Cube, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris, France
2015 La réticulation du monde — textile, art, technologie — Conference “Textile: System of Technology”, ESAD Valenciennes / Le Fresnoy, France
2015 Les temps forts. Textile: Quand l’histoire croise l’avenir — Le Fresnoy, in partnership with Université Lille 3, France
2009 INCUBO Atacama-Lab — Parsons New School of Design, New York, USA
2007 Artist Talk — Exhibition Circuitos Híbridos, Galería Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile
2007 Guided Exhibition Tour — Circuitos Híbridos, Galería Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile
2005 Collective Presentation, “Intervention on the Alameda with the Cultural Luggage Platform: Netzfunk.org in Chile” — 7th Santiago Biennial of Video and New Media, Centro Cultural de España, Santiago, Chile
SELECTED FILM & TELEVISION
COSTUME BREAKDOWN ARTIST / COSTUME DESIGN
2026 Costume Designer — “London” — dir. Sebastian Brameshuber, feature film
2025 Textile Art & Costume Breakdown — “Die Blutgräfin” — dir. Ulrike Ottinger, feature film
2025 Breakdown / Patina — “Neo Nuggets” — dir. A. Schmied, feature film
2024 Breakdown / Patina — “Fountain of Youth” — dir. Guy Ritchie, feature film
2025 Textile Art & Costume Breakdown — “Die andere Seite” — dir. M. Minoguchi, feature film
2024 Costume Breakdown Assistant — “Welcome Home Baby” — dir. A. Prochaska, feature film
2024 Textile Art & Costume Breakdown — “Stabil” — dir. T. Sinje Köhler, TV
2024 Breakdown / Patina — “Steirerwahn” — dir. Wolfgang Murnberger, TV
2024 Breakdown / Patina — “Unruhe um einen Friedfertigen” — dir. M. Geschonneck, TV
2024 Set Costume Breakdown & Assistance — “Alles Finster 7–12” — dir. H. Bartel, TV
2023 Textile Art & Costume Breakdown — “Woodwalkers” — dir. D. Harper, feature film
2023 Textile Art & Costume Breakdown — “Exterritorial” — dir. C. Zübert, Netflix film
2023 Breakdown / Patina — “Auf der Walz” — dir. S. Tafel, TV
