Barbara Sbrocca

Art is relationship and viceversa

I am an Italian visual
and relational artist.
Since 2001, my practice has moved across painting, sculpture, installation, sound, voice and participatory art, exploring the invisible dynamics of human relationships and the space between connection
and separation.


Selected works

Giallo Massimo (sculpture-painting on canvas)
Multipassionalite (multimedia on paper)
Mood River (site-specific interior design)

Baci Sospesi

Baci Sospesi™ is an ongoing participatory art project about love, separation and the human need for connection. Created during Italy’s first lockdown in 2020 and inspired by the tradition of the caffè sospeso (suspended coffee), it invites people to offer a message to someone they do not know. Through anonymous voices, interactive public installations and collective actions, the project has travelled from Italy to Portugal, the UK and Germany.


Latest news

  • I am writing the first Baci Sospesi book

    Baci Sospesi has been alive for more than six years. It has travelled from Italy to Portugal, the UK and Germany. It has entered museums and public spaces, gathered messages…

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  • Baci Sospesi for Gaza: keeping attention alive

    For too long, Gaza has been reaching us through images, testimonies and voices that should be impossible to ignore. Yet even the unbearable can gradually become part of the background.…

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  • Baci Sospesi Sprouting Lab: Berlin and what comes next

    At the end of August 2026, Baci Sospesi arrived in Berlin for its first Sprouting Lab, an intensive three-day workshop developed on this occasion with my dear friend, the artivist…

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