Emanuel Barica is a visual artist and live performer whose practice centers on drawing as an act of presence, memory, and human connection. Working primarily with ink and ballpoint pen, he creates powerful portraits and large-scale works that explore identity, resilience, and lived experience. His approach combines intensity and vulnerability, using the drawn line as both a personal language and a social tool.

Barica’s work moves fluidly between the street and the museum. He has exhibited and performed in cultural institutions across Europe, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig, Mucem Marseille, and Rivoli 59 in Paris, as well as galleries and public spaces in Berlin, Vienna, Kraków, and Dresden. Alongside exhibitions, he is known for live drawing performances and collaborative projects with museums, universities, and media platforms, engaging a broad international audience.

His artistic practice extends across drawing, performance, illustration, and research-based projects. Barica works in both analog and digital formats, including sketchbooks, large-scale paper works, murals, and digital illustration. His projects often intersect with education, memory work, and community engagement, using art as a means to address historical silence, social exclusion, and human dignity.

Through long-term artistic and collaborative processes, Barica develops works that connect personal narratives with collective histories. His practice is rooted in direct human interaction and sustained research, positioning drawing not only as an image-making process, but as a method of listening, witnessing, and transformation.