Robin Rhode

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Robin Rhode, 2015

Robin Rhode (* 1976 in Cape Town ) is a South African street art - action artist who deals with happenings , photography and video art in combination with graphic set pieces.

Live and act

Robin Rhode was classified as Colored during the apartheid period . He lived for a long time in the Bosmont district of Johannesburg and studied art at the Witwatersrand Technikon until 1998 . In 2000 he completed a postgraduate program at the South Africa School of Film, Television and Dramatic Arts. He has lived and worked in Berlin since 2002.

Thematically, the artist deals with both socially critical and casual views of the youth scene and city ​​life , in the narrower sense with the townships around Johannesburg , especially Soweto . In his actions he quotes stylistic features of graffiti , wall painting and street art. The work often has autobiographical references that reflect on Rhodes' own childhood and youth in a subculture that emerged from apartheid , violence and racism . In his performances, the artist first provides a scenario (a bicycle, a house, an implied skateboard, etc.), which he usually pre-sketched with charcoal on a wall or on the floor; Rhode adds space to this two-dimensional template as part of a sometimes humorous, sometimes serious story by adding props. Rhodes' fictional interactions with his drawings are documented on videos, which in turn are used in installations .

In November 2009, Rhode realized the multimedia project Pictures Reframed , a reinterpretation of Modest Mussorgski's Pictures at an Exhibition, together with the Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes . In November 2015 his design was Arnold Schoenberg 's opera expectation on the Times Square shown in New York in two performances - the first opera performance in this square.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions and performances

  • 2016: The Moon is Asleep , (performance and solo exhibition) SCAD Museum of Art , Savannah , Georgia, USA
  • 2015: Arnold Schönberg ’s Expectation - A Performance by Robin Rhode, Times Square , (opera performance) New York, USA
  • 2015: Robin Rhode: Robin Rhode (solo exhibition), North Carolina Museum of Art , USA
  • 2015: Drawing Waves (solo exhibition), Drawing Center , New York
  • 2015: The Sudden Walk (solo exhibition and performance), Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 2014: Animating the Everyday (solo exhibition), Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York
  • 2014: Tension , Tucci Russo Studio Per L'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
  • 2014: Robin Rhode: Animating the Everyday , Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, USA
  • 2014: Robin Rhode: RHODE WORKS , Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
  • 2013: The Call of Walls , National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australian
  • 2013: Paries Pictus , Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
  • 2013: Take Your Mind Off The Street / Paries Pictus , Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY, USA
  • 2012: Imaginary Exhibition , L&M Arts Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • 2011: Probables (performance), Fons Welters, Amsterdam
  • 2011: Let in the Outside , Tucci Russo Studio Per L'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
  • 2011: Variants , White Cube, London, UK
  • 2010: Robin Rhode (performance), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • 2009: Robin Rhode: Catch Air , The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, USA
  • 2009: Robin Rhode , Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2008: Who Saw Who , Southbank Center, London
  • 2008: Through the Gate , White Cube, London, UK
  • 2008: Promenade , Tucci Russo Studio Per L'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
  • 2007: Walk Off , Haus der Kunst, Munich
  • 2007: Robin Rhode , Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY, US
  • 2006: Robin Rhode , Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2006: The Storyteller , FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, France; carlier | gebauer, Berlin
  • 2005: Street Smart , Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, USA
  • 2004: Robin Rhode (performance), Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY, USA
  • 2004: The Score (Performance), Artists Space, New York, NY, USA
  • 2004: The Animators , The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
  • 2000: Fresh (Performance), South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
  • 2000: Living in Public (Performance), Market Theater Galleries, Johannesburg, South Africa

Group exhibitions

  • 2014: Under the Skin, Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong
  • 2014: B roken, slapstick, comedy and black homo. Goetz collection in the Haus der Kunst, Munich
  • 2014: Contemporary South African Art, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
  • 2014: Fútbol: The Beautiful Game, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA, USA
  • 2014: Pictures in Time - Goetz Collection in the Haus der Kunst, Haus der Kunst Munich, 25 January - 15 June 2014; Video shown: oT, Spaten for Spaten (2005)
  • 2013: Wall Works, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin, Germany
  • 2013: 10 Under 40, Istanbul '74, Turkey
  • 2013: My Brain is in my Inkstand: Drawing as Thinking and Process, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomsfield Hills, MI, USA
  • 2013: El Teatro del Arte, La Caixa Collection of Contemporary Art Barcelona, ​​Barcelona, ​​Spain
  • 2013: Nuit Blanche 2013, Paris, France
  • 2013: Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
  • 2013: The Cinematic Impulse, Nasher Museum at Duke University, Raleigh, NC, USA
  • 2013: my joburg, La maison rouge, Paris, France
  • 2013: LE PONT, [mac], musées d'art contemporain, Marseille, France
  • 2013: Writings without Borders, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Hong Kong, China
  • 2012: Paris Photo, Paris, France
  • 2012: Fiction as Fiction (or a ninth Johannesburg Biennale), Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
  • 2012: Chance: Marina Abramovic, David Hammons, Robin Rhode, The George Economou Collection, Athens, Greece
  • 2012: The Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real Contemporary Video Art, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ, USA
  • 2012: Art thou gone, beloved ghost ?, 4th Narracje Festival, Gdańsk, Poland
  • 2012: Chambres a part VI: Poetic trajectories / Political trajectories, La Reserve, Paris, France
  • 2012: Beyond the Wall, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Turin, Italian
  • 2012: Fruits of Passion, Center Pompidou, Paris, France
  • 2012: A Window on the World. From Dürer to Mondrian and beyond, Museo, Cantonale d'Arte and Museo d'Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
  • 2012: Beyond Beauty, Twig Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
  • 2012: all our relations, 18th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
  • 2012: Lightness ?, Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium
  • 2008: Prospect.1 New Orleans, The New Orleans Biennial, New Orleans, USA
  • 2007: Animated Painting, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, USA
  • 2006: 7ème Biennale de l´Art Africain contemporain, Dakar
  • 2006: Biennale Cuvée, Open House of Culture Upper Austria, Linz, Austria
  • 2005: Rundlederwelten, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
  • 2005: New Photography '05, Museum of Modern Art | MoMA, New York

Literature and selected bibliography

  • Don Mattera , Matthew Hindley: The Five Magic Pebbles & other stories. Rhodeworks, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-9815878-2-1 .
  • Paries Pictus. Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town. on the occasion of the exhibition Robin Rhode Paries Pictus Stevenson Gallery Cape Town 11 April - 1 June 2013.
  • Bones. Rhodeworks, 2013, ISBN 978-3-9815878-0-7 .
  • Paries Pictus - Activity book. on the occasion of the exhibition Paries Pictus. Rhodeworks, 2013, ISBN 978-3-9815878-0-7 .
  • Variants. on the occasion of Robin Rhode Variants, White Cube Hoxton Square, 8 June - 9 July 2011. White Cube, ISBN 978-1-906072-48-3 .
  • Paper planes. Rhodeworks, 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-031146-8 .
  • Parabolic bike. Rhodeworks, 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-031145-1 .
  • Catch Air. This publication accompanies the exhibition Robin Rhode Catch Air, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, April 2 - July 26, 2009. ISBN 978-1-881390-47-3 .
  • Through the gate. to accompany the exhibition, Robin Rhode Through the Gate, November 26, 2008 - January 10, 2009. White Cube, London, ISBN 978-1-906072-24-7 .
  • WHO SAW WHO. on the occasion of the exhibition, Robin Rhode Who saw Who The Hayward, London, UK, 7 October 2008 - 7 December 2008. ISBN 978-1-85332-271-6 .
  • Stephanie Rosenthal (Ed.): Walk Off. Matthias Wolf (translation). Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7757-2005-2 .
  • 5th MOSCOW BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART. BOLSHE SVETA MORE LIGHT. 2013, ISBN 978-94-91775-30-7 .
  • NUMBER FIVE: CITIES OF GOLD AND MIRRORS. Julia Stoschek Collection. Hatje Cantz, Düsseldorf 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-3308-3 .
  • the dissolve. Santa Fe site. Eight International Biennale. 2010, ISBN 978-0-9764492-9-4 .
  • 21st Century: Art in the first decade. 2010, ISBN 978-1-921503-17-7 .
  • THE ORIGINAL COPY. PHOTOGRAPHY OF SCULPTURE, 1839 TO TODAY. 2010, ISBN 978-0-87070-757-5 .
  • The Record. Contemporary ART and VINYL. 2010, ISBN 978-0-938989-33-2 .
  • Forty Are Better Than One. Edition Schellmann 1969–2009. Hatje Cantz, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-2236-0 .
  • William Kentridge and Robin Rhode Free Forms The artists in conversation. In: Modern Painters. June 2008, pp. 64-69.
  • MoMA: Highlights since 1980. 2007, ISBN 978-0-87070-713-1 .
  • Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography. Phaidon Press, New York 2006, ISBN 0-7148-4656-2 .
  • Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing. Phaidon Press, New York 2005, ISBN 0-7148-4545-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Robin Rhode: The Skateroom. theskateroom.com, accessed August 19, 2019
  2. ↑ Robin Rhode. artinwords.de, accessed on August 19, 2019
  3. ↑ Modern times in the concert hall. Leif Ove Andsnes - Official Website, November 29, 2009, accessed December 10, 2009 .
  4. ^ "Arnold Schönberg's Expectation - A Performance by Robin Rhode" , Times Square Arts (English)
  5. ↑ See en: SCAD Museum of Art
  6. ↑ See en: Drawing Center
  7. ↑ tuccirusso.com "Tension" Exhibition 2014.
  8. ↑ tuccirusso.com Tucci Russo Studio Per L'Arte Contemporanea
personal data
SURNAME Rhode, Robin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Cape Town