Robin Rhode

Robin Rhode (born 1976 in Cape Town) is a South African street art performance artist who deals with happenings, photography and video art in combination with drawing set pieces.

Life and work

Robin Rhode lived in Bosmont, Witwatersrand and Johannesburg and studied until 1998 on the Witwatersrand Technikon Art. Today he lives and works in Berlin. Thematically, the artist both with socially critical and casual observations of the youth scene of big city life, in the strict sense of the townships around Johannesburg, Soweto in particular, apart. In his actions he cites stylistic features of graffiti, murals and street art. The work has often autobiographical references, the Rhodes to his own childhood and youth, in a resulting from apartheid, violence and racism subculture reflect. In his performances, the artist initially one scenario ( a bicycle, a house, an indicated skateboard, etc.) before, which he usually sketched in charcoal on a wall or on the floor; this two-dimensional template expands Rhode within a sometimes humorous, sometimes serious story by adding props to the component space. Rhodes fictional interactions with his drawings are thereby documented on video, which are in turn in installations using.

In November 2009, Rhode realized together with the Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, the multimedia project Pictures Reframed, a new interpretation of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2009: Robin Rhode, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2008: Who Saw Who, Hayward Gallery, London
  • 2007: Walk Off, Haus der Kunst, Munich
  • 2006: The Storyteller, carlier | gebauer, Berlin
  • 2004: The Score, Artists Space, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

  • 2008: Prospect.1 New Orleans, The New Orleans Biennial, New Orleans
  • 2007: Animated Painting, San Diego Museum of Art
  • 2006: 7ème Biennale de l' Art Africain Contemporain, Dakar
  • 2006: Biennale Cuvée, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz
  • 2005: Rundlederwelten, Martin -Gropius -Bau, Berlin
  • 2005: New Photography '05, MoMA, New York
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