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About K A R M A B A R N E S
K A R M A B A R N E S (@k.a.r.m.a.a.r.t.s) is an Artist creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. The account has 6,191 followers and 592 published posts. Recent posts average 241 likes and 35 comments, an engagement rate of 4.89%.
K A R M A B A R N E S belongs to the nano tier, the band usually drawn between 1,000 and 10,000 followers. K A R M A B A R N E S follows 3,958 accounts, so the audience is roughly 1.6 times the size of the list followed. K A R M A B A R N E S carries Instagram's verified badge and is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files K A R M A B A R N E S under Artist, with Art & DIY as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for K A R M A B A R N E S runs to 18 words across 5 lines. The bio mentions @ostenbiennial. The latest activity Flinque has on record for K A R M A B A R N E S dates from March 2020.
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Of the 10 most recent posts shown for K A R M A B A R N E S, 5 are carousels, 4 are videos and 1 is a single image. No single format accounts for most of them. K A R M A B A R N E S has built a substantial archive of 592 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 10 followers for each post published. K A R M A B A R N E S also keeps 13 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 154 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include international, biennale, beijing, co-lapses and exhibition. The captions tag #karmabarnes, #beijingbiennale, #colapses, #artistlife and #internationalwomensday.
Robèrt & I collaborated between 2020–2023 on the Relative Terrains series, but our connection goes back much further. I first met him as an unruly teenager at art school in Wellington, where I found the biggest rebel of them all. Over the last 25 years that connection has shifted between friendship, mentoring and collaboration.
Born in The Hague, The Netherlands, Robèrt is a sixth-generation artist whose practice has spanned more than 60 years. He previously exhibited in the Beijing International Art Biennale and for years kept telling me I should go to Beijing. I didn’t listen… until somehow, unexpectedly, I ended up there myself earlier this year, invited as the first New Zealand artist included in six years at the Beijing Biennale.
Conversations with Robèrt always feel like turning a diamond in the light seeing the world & yourself from new angles.
....Also exciting news on the next projects in China on the tip of my tongue...news soon!!! ✨✨✨
#artistlife
#8 Palimpsest, 2023, Karma Barnes & Robert Frankén
📷 7 & 9 ✨
Wonderful to be included in International Women’s Day 2026 list of female artists.
The list features many influential artists including Louise Bourgeois, Agnes Martin, Georgia O’Keeffe, Hilma af Klint, Helen Frankenthaler, and Emily Kame Kngwarreye, artists whose practices expanded the language of form, material, spirit and perception and continue to shape contemporary art today.
#InternationalWomensDay #WomenInArt #Arttyco #ContemporaryArt
#beijingbiennale #biennale #CoLapses #karmabarnes
CO-Lapses (Beijing Iteration 2025), Beijing Exhibition Hall
On view until 28 February
Over the past two months, CO-Lapses has held a prominent position at the main entrance of the central exhibition hall, quietly releasing pigmented sands into shifting landscapes shaped by erosion, accretion and material memory.
The response in Beijing has been both sensitive & significant. Conversations have centred on interdependence, fragility & adaptation, deeply resonating with this year’s Biennale theme, Coexistence. Within a global exhibition of nearly 600 works from around 120 countries, the work has sat within a broader dialogue around ecological civilisation, technological ethics & peaceful development.
CO-Lapses critically addresses the socio-ecological consequences of climate disruption, reflecting on how communities negotiate response and resilience under accelerating environmental change. Local experiences of floods & fires are situated within wider global & cosmological systems.
My work is currently featured in Carbon News, Aotearoa New Zealand’s daily publication covering climate policy and the low-carbon transition. "NZ art focussing on climate on display at Beijing Biennale”, highlights the connection between my practice and broader conversations on climate disruption, adaptation and resilience.
A huge thanks to Biennale curator Sir Huang Yi, the BIAB and the Arte Laguna team for their ongoing support and belief in the trajectory of this work. A massive congratulations to all the participating artists who I know all worked so incredibly hard for this ✨
Following the Grand Prix at Larnaca Biennale 2025 and presentations in Shanghai, followed closely by the Beijing International Art Biennale this chapter closes as I move back into production, developing new works & expanding the material language of CO-Lapses for exciting projects ahead this year.
#COLapses #karmabarnes #beijingbiennale #beijing #BiennaleArt
in conversation about being the first Kiwi artist to exhibit at the Beijing International Art Biennale in six years!
We speak about my durational installation Co-Lapses, climate-shaped landscapes, adaptation and how this work continues to evolve across international contexts.
📍 Co-Lapses is currently on exhibition at the Beijing International Art Biennale until 28 February
🎧 Listen here - Part #1 (next reel part #2)
Thank you Perlina and RNZ for the care and depth of this conversation ✨
As the only Australasian artist representing New Zealand in this edition of the Biennale, this marks an important moment in the international trajectory of the work, engaging themes of co-existence, erosion, adaptation & collective responsibility.
From the article:
“Co-Lapses unfolds over time rather than presenting a fixed image, reflecting how environments, like communities, are continually shaped by pressure, loss and renewal.”
“The work asks how we remain attentive and responsible within systems that are in constant motion.”
*A few grammer boo-boos with the language translation
📍 中文
本周登上中新媒体
本周，作品发表于 New Zealand Messengers（新西兰—中国双语媒体平台），聚焦我正在 第十届北京国际美术双年展 展出的装置作品
《共生崩解》（北京版本，2025），展出地点为 北京展览馆。
作为本届双年展中唯一代表新西兰的澳大拉西亚艺术家，此次报道标志着该作品国际发展中的重要节点，围绕共生、侵蚀、适应与集体责任展开持续讨论。
文章引述：
“《共生崩解》并非呈现固定图像，而是随时间展开，如同环境与社区，在压力、失落与更新中不断被塑造。”
“作品追问：在永恒运动的系统中，我们如何保持专注与责任感？”
Read the full article here
Since a pivotal moment at the Arte Laguna Prize Finalists Exhibition, Venice (late 2024), the work has moved through a series of major international platforms - receiving the Grand Prix at the Larnaca Biennale, Cyprus (Oct 2025) and subsequently being selected from two decades of Arte Laguna Prize finalists for a major edition at EKA Tianwu, Shanghai (Nov–Dec 2025).
Each iteration continues to open new conversations, engage diverse audiences, and attract international media attention, with further projects unfolding across 2026.
Co-Lapses unfolds as a durational system of suspended vessels releasing pigmented sands, forming shifting landscapes shaped by erosion, accumulation and material memory. Drawing on biomimicry and environmental systems, the work reflects cycles of disruption and regeneration, translating lived experiences of floods and fires into a broader planetary framework.
The Beijing International Art Biennale runs until 28 Feb 2026.
Co-Lapses (Beijing Iteration) - Beijing International Art Biennale
2–3. Beijing media coverage
Co-Lapses (Beijing Iteration) - Beijing International Art Biennale
Art in the City - Cyprus TV
Co-Lapses (Larnaca Iteration) - Apothiki 79 Larnaca Biennale, Cyprus
Co-Lapses (Refuge Iteration) - Arte Laguna Shanghai Edition, EKA Tianwu, Shanghai
Co-Lapses - Arte Laguna Prize, Arsenal Nord, Venice
Australasian interdisciplinary artist Karma Barnes, representing Australia and New Zealand, has been awarded the Grand Prix of the Larnaca Biennale 2025 for her landmark installation CO-Lapses. Presented at Apothiki 79, a historic limestone warehouse in central Larnaca, the work was unanimously selected by the jury for its conceptual clarity, environmental depth and material intelligence. This recognition coincides with the debut of a major new international iteration of CO-Lapses at the Arte Laguna Prize: Shanghai Edition, the first Asian presentation of the Venice-based award. Curated by Dr. Huang Ye and staged within EKA Tianwu’s expansive “open-air architectural museum,” the Shanghai exhibition introduces a further evolution of Barnes’ durational installation practice.
A Major Win in Cyprus
Curated by Sana López Abellán under the theme Along Lines and Traces, the 2025 Larnaca Biennale features 117 works from 43 countries and is considered Cyprus’ most prominent contemporary art event.
Abellán writes: "The jury unanimously recognised Karma Barnes as the Grand Prix winner, noting her remarkable capacity to merge poetic sensitivity with conceptual and environmental depth. Her work stood out as an emblem of this year’s exhibition where time unfolds not as a linear progression, but as resonance, rhythm, and return.”
At Apothiki 79, Barnes presents an upscaled interpretation of the miniature mud architectures built by wasps that inhabit her Bundjalung studio. Using 31 Cypriot earth pigments and oxides, suspended vessels slowly release fine layers of limestone sand and pigment, forming shifting groundscapes that accumulate, erode and reform over time. The work unfolds as a living system shaped by biomimicry, material memory and ecological adaptation.
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A huge thank you to the meticulous curation of
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'The New Mexico State University Art Museum (NMSU) has made a landmark acquisition: two powerful artworks by Karma Barnes that confront the social impacts of compounded climatic events in Northern Rivers, NSW. This marks a pivotal moment for Barnes, now recognised by a major art institution. These pieces amplify NMSU's commitment to contemporary issues and underrepresented voices, fostering international arts dialogue and addressing the profound social challenges posed by climate change.'
Thank you to the team for your support I'm so delighted for these works to join your wonderful collection at the art museum!
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Soils, pigments & stone dusts from the outskirts of Rome to The Contemporary Art Gallery of Rome & back again.
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"The owl of Minerra takes its flight only when the shades of night are gathering". -G.W.F. Hegel
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K A R M A B A R N E S (@k.a.r.m.a.a.r.t.s) is an Artist creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. K A R M A B A R N E S carries Instagram's verified badge and is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for K A R M A B A R N E S runs to 18 words across 5 lines.
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K A R M A B A R N E S has 6,191 followers on Instagram (6.2K). K A R M A B A R N E S follows 3,958 accounts, so the audience is roughly 1.6 times the size of the list followed. K A R M A B A R N E S has built a substantial archive of 592 posts.
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