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Barbara Polla was born on 7 March, 1951 in Switzerland, is a Swiss doctor and writer (born 1951). Discover Barbara Polla's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

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Born 7 March, 1951
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Nationality Switzerland

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1950

Barbara Polla (born March 7, 1950) is a Swiss medical doctor, gallery owner, art curator and writer.

Daughter of the painter AMI (Anne-Marie Imhoof) and of a passionate philhellene (Rodolphe Imhoof), Barbara Polla grew up in Geneva and spent a year in Greece at the age of 17.

This year spent abroad represented her first contact with a dictatorship and prison.

1989

In 1989, she took the helm of the unit of study of allergies at the Cantonal Hospital in Geneva.

1991

In 1991, Polla got involved in politics: first as member of the Geneva City Council, then as canton depute of Geneva from 1993 to 1999 and finally as member of the National Parliament from 1999 to 2003.

Since 1991, she has been developing her activity of gallery owner in Geneva.

International program dedicated to contemporary artists, interest in every field that art explores and in every artistic media, multiple collaborations with art critics and curators, many publications, are some of the characteristics of Analix Forever.

In 1991 Polla got involved in politics, first as member of the Geneva City Council, and then as canton of Geneva deputy from 1993 to 1999 and member of the national parliament from 1999 to 2003.

During her tenure as politicians she stood up for the freedom of research, preimplantatory diagnosis and the legalisation of abortion.

1993

From 1993 to 2000, she worked as research director of the French Institute of Health and Medical Research in Paris, focusing on stress proteins (HSP) and oxygen free radicals.

She is the author and co-author of hundreds of research articles published in various reviews such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, The Journal of Clinical Investigation, and The American Journal of Physiology.

2007

She left the Liberal Party of Geneva in 2007.

She left the Liberal Party of Geneva in 2007.

She has been co-curator of many exhibitions on the theme "Art & Prison".

2008

In 2008, Polla initiated a long-term collaboration with Paul Ardenne (exhibitions, conferences, books).

2011

Polla has been curating exhibitions in Paris and elsewhere since 2011.

She also founded the Swiss Organization for emotional architecture and is the originator of the first international conference about emotional Architecture that took place in January 2011 in Geneva.

Polla commits herself to freedom at various levels: as national counsellor, she fought for freedom of research, for the right to abort and to the pre-implantation diagnosis.

2013

She has four children and was divorced in 2013.

Barbara Polla studied in Geneva where she obtained a degree with a specialization in inner medicine, pneumology and immunoallergology.

She then conducted research at Harvard Medical School (HMS), Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston.

She cofounded and edited the magazine Londerzeel and has created, in 2013, with the support of HEAD Geneva, the first issue of Critical Fashion Review.

The first one, entitled Public Enemy was organized at Magda Danysz Gallery in 2013 ; the next one at the contemporary art centre le Château des Adhémar in Montélimar, La Belle Echappée; in March 2015, La Belle Echappée, was shown at ISBA (Beaux Arts Institute of Besançon).

The same evolving show, Le Sens de la Peine was also presented in Nanterre in a contemporary art exhibition space called the Terrasse, in collaboration with Sandrine Moreau.

2014

She was associate curator for the exhibition "Motopoetics " (MAC Lyon, 2014) and for "Human Economy " presented at HEC Paris (2014, 2015).

2015

In 2015, Polla and Paul Ardenne were the co-curators of a two-part exhibition of Shaun Gladwell across two sites in Sydney: UNSW Galleries and SCAF (Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation).

She teaches on the links between art and fashion at the Institut Français de la Mode (IFM) in Paris and at the HEAD (Haute Ecole d'art et de Design) in Geneva.

She organizes monthly seminars in Geneva on the theme of creativity and is also a creative and critical writing professor at the HEAD.

Polla is a writer and a columnist for newspapers such as Les Quotidiennes (La Tribune de Genève, 24 heures), Agefi, (Switzerland), Citizen K, Nuke, Blast, Bariqaldana (Kuwait), CRASH, DROME, ART And, Roots & Routes, and Kunst Magazine.

The final voting about this subject occurred in Switzerland on June 14, 2015.

2017

Since 2017, Barbara Polla had worked on a cultural, artistic and social project aiming to install art by the UK artist Robert Montgomery in the public space of Perama, a city near Athens in Greece where she lived as a teenager.

The project also includes a pedagogic program with scholars from Perama, a collaboration with the Athens School of Fine Arts, films, publications and theater plays to be presented in the open air Mikis Theodorakis Theater of Perama.

2018

In 2018, Polla curated two museum exhibitions on the theme, one at Château de Penthes in Geneva called LA PRISON EXPOSÉ, for the Fondation des Suisses dans le Monde, in collaboration with the local jail, Champ-Dollon; the other at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, in Hobart Tasmania, called A JOURNEY TO FREEDOM.

Polla organizes bimonthly conferences dedicated to video art: VIDEO FOREVER taking place in different sites: Magda Danysz Gallery, Palais de Tokyo, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Frank Perrin studio, National Finish Theatre of Helsinki and UNSW Galleries in Sydney.

Barbara Polla regularly publishes articles about video on the online magazine art-critique.

2020

Since 2020 she is regularly writing for Womentoday.fr