Marion Baruch

1929, Timişoara

Visual artist

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Marion Baruch with Victor Neumann, director of the Timisoara Art Museum, 2020, Lucerne, Switzerland

Exhibited the retrospective of the Kunstmuseum Luzern 29.02. – 11.10.2020

She was born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Timisoara. Her grandfather, Simon Baruch, was the rabbi of the Sephardic community in the Fabric neighborhood in the 1930s. Her mother, Barbara, b. Ungár, her father, Felix, was a doctor, as was her brother, Ernest, a gynecologist.


The family moved to Bucharest, where Marion Baruch studied for a year (1949-1950) at the Bucharest Academy of Fine Arts. In 1950 she emigrated to Israel where she continued her studies at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. The first solo exhibition of large format drawings took place at the Micra-Studio Tel Aviv gallery. She won a scholarship that allowed her to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. She settled in Italy. She works for the textile industry and looks for new ways of artistic expression with an Italian blacksmith, and years later with a carpenter. Exhibits in Italy and France. She lives in Milan where she is represented by the Luciano Inga-Pin gallery.


Her first period of creation is part of the current of conceptual painting. In the years 1990-1995 she created a fiction-company Name Diffusion, the name under which she signed his works which she registered with the Chamber of Commerce of Varese (Italy), questioning the traditional economic circuits. Marion Baruch / Name Diffusion participates in collective actions, addressing issues such as mobility, exile, cultural, physical and mental landmarks.

Since 2007, affected by a partial loss of vision, Baruch moved to Gallarate (Italy), radically changed her style and exhibited under her own name. In 2010 she launches the Trilogy project, Mon corps où es-tu? which begins with performing art La chambre vide (Empty Room), a room in which the artist receives people who have responded to announcements about the work. The one-action trilogy La collecte des chûtes (Waste Collection) and ends with Parischutes, which offers participants the opportunity to create textiles from various wastes. Since 2011 she has had scraps of materials from tailoring workshops in Milan in various compositions based on presence / absence, full / empty, the empty space gaining a greater significance than the material.


The title of the exhibition Eingang, In & Out, Up & Down, Durch und Durch alludes to the work of the artist Kurt Schwitters with whom Marion Baruch feels she has affinities. Reminiscences of Joseph Beuys, Christian Boltanski, Robert Morris can be discerned in her art.

Her exhibition at MAMCO, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Genève is part of the museum's heritage. Marion Baruch is represented by the Laurence Bernard Gallery, Geneva and Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris.

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