Acting
Barbara Kowa (born March 5, 1973, in Hanover) is an Austrian actress and performance artist. Barbara Kowa grew up in Hamburg, where she initially completed a musical theater program at the Stage School of Dance and Drama before earning her diploma in acting from the "Ernst Busch" Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin in 1996. Even during her studies, she engaged intensively with performance art, collaborating with artists such as Nan Hoover. This was followed by international performances and projects in public spaces, as well as engagements as a dancer-actress in various stage and opera productions in Berlin, Paris, and Tokyo. Alongside her work as an actress, Kowa increasingly developed her own multimedia performance and film projects. Her intensive engagement with film as an artistic med...
