Haarlem, 1966. She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, Cooper Union in New York and the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. In her work - videos, installations, photos and performances - she examines the subtext of ordinary things, and her approach reveals a new reality in them. She recently had a retrospective at the Paviljoens in Almere under the title 'Vertaalde Werken / Translated Works'. It was accompanied by the book 'Barbara Visser is er niet' (Barbara Visser is not there). She has had solo exhibition at Villa Arson in Nice (2002), the Underground Gallery in Athens (2002) and Stroom HCBK in The Hague (2001). She has taken part in such group exhibitions as 'I (Ich) Performative Ontology', at the Secession in Vienna (2005), 'Surfacing', at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest (2004), 'Urban Dramas', at deSingel in Antwerp (2003), 'Neue Welt', at the Frankfurter Kunstverein (2001) and 'For Real', at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (2000). Last year Barbara Visser represented the Netherlands at the São Paulo Biennale.