Robin Rhode (born 1976) is a South African artist based in Berlin. He has made wall drawings, photographs and sculptures.

Education

Rhode was born in

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, South Africa. He studied fine art at

Technikon Witwatersrand The Technikon Witwatersrand was a technikon located in Johannesburg, South Africa. On 1 January 2005, it merged with Rand Afrikaans University and the Soweto and East Rand campuses of Vista University to form the University of Johannesburg. The fo ...

in Johannesburg (now the

University of Johannesburg The University of Johannesburg (UJ) is a public university located in Johannesburg, South Africa. The University of Johannesburg came into existence on 1 January 2005 as the result of a merger between the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), the Te ...

), followed by postgraduate work in 2000 at the

South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance AFDA is a private Higher Education institution that offers courses in film, television, performance, business innovation and technology, radio and podcasting. It has campuses located in Auckland Park, Johannesburg; Observatory, Cape Town; Dur ...

Work

Rhode is represented by

Lehmann Maupin David Maupin is an American art dealer. With Rachel Lehmann, he opened the Lehmann Maupin gallery in SoHo, Manhattan, in October 1996. Before opening Lehmann Maupin, Maupin was the director of Metro Pictures. Early life and education Born in Cal ...

. In November 2009 he provided stop-frame video animations for a performance by Leif Ove Andsnes of

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's ''

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'' at the

Lincoln Center Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 millio ...

in New York. Robin Rhode 2015

In 2014 he directed a music video for the U2 single "

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"; it includes stop-frame animation stencil drawings, and figures which interact with them.

Exhibitions and performances

* ''Fresh'', South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (2000, Performance) * ''The Score'', Artists Space, New York (2004, Performance) * ''Street Smart'', Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2005, solo exhibition) * ''Empieza el Juego'', Zaragoza, Madrid (2006, solo exhibition) * ''The Storyteller'', FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, France (2006, solo exhibition) * ''All About Laughter: The Role of Humour in Contemporary Art'',

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, Tokyo (2007, Performance) * ''Walk Off'',

Haus der Kunst The ''Haus der Kunst'' (, ''House of Art'') is a non-collecting modern and contemporary art museum in Munich, Germany. It is located at Prinzregentenstraße 1 at the southern edge of the Englischer Garten, Munich's largest park. History Na ...

, Munich, Germany (2007, solo exhibition) * ''Who Saw Who'',

Hayward Gallery The Hayward Gallery is an art gallery within the Southbank Centre in central London, England and part of an area of major arts venues on the South Bank of the River Thames. It is sited adjacent to the other Southbank Centre buildings (the Roy ...

, London, UK, (2008, solo exhibition) * ''Catch Air: Robin Rhode'', The

Wexner Center for the Arts The Wexner Center for the Arts is the Ohio State University's "multidisciplinary, international laboratory for the exploration and advancement of contemporary art". The Wexner Center opened in November 1989, named in honor of the father of Limite ...

, Columbus, Ohio (2009, solo exhibition) * ''Robin Rhode and Leif Ove Andsnes: Pictures Reframed'', Lincoln Center, New York (2009, Performance) * ''Robin Rhode'',

Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California, Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Pa ...

(2010, solo exhibition) * ''Paries Pictus'', Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (2011, solo exhibition) * ''The Call of Walls'', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (2013, solo exhibition) * ''Animating the Everyday'', Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York (2014, solo exhibition) * ''The Sudden Walk'', , Stockholm, Sweden (2015, solo exhibition and performance) * ''Drawing Waves'',

Drawing Center The Drawing Center is a Manhattan, New York, museum and a nonprofit exhibition space that focuses on the exhibition of drawings, both historical and contemporary. History The Drawing Center was founded by former assistant curator of drawings at ...

, New York (2015, solo exhibition) * Robin Rhode: Robin Rhode,

North Carolina Museum of Art The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) is an art museum in Raleigh, North Carolina. It opened in 1956 as the first major museum collection in the country to be formed by state legislation and funding. Since the initial 1947 appropriation that e ...

, USA (September 2015, solo exhibition) * Arnold Schönberg's '' Erwartung'' in partnership with

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, Wet Ink Ensemble conducted by

Arturo Tamayo Arturo Tamayo Ballesteros (born 3 August 1946) is a Spanish conductor and music teacher. Life Tamayo studied music at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, while studying Law at the Complutense University of Madrid. He finally ...

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, New York (November 7 & 8, 2015) * ''The Moon is Asleep,

SCAD Museum of Art The SCAD Museum of Art was founded in 2002 as part of the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia, and originally was known as the Earle W. Newton Center for British American Studies. The museum's permanent collection of more than ...

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, Georgia, USA (February 2016, solo exhibition and performance) * ''Under the Sun'', Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (2017, solo exhibition) * ''A Plan of the Soul'', Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland (October 2018, solo exhibition and performance) * ''Memory Is the Weapon'', Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (2019)"Robin Rhode – Memory Is the Weapon – Installation views"
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg * ''Memory Is the Weapon'', , Krems an der Donau, Austria (2020) *

Museum Voorlinden Museum Voorlinden () is an art museum in Wassenaar in the Netherlands. It was founded and is privately owned by Joop van Caldenborgh. It was opened on 10 September 2016 by King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands Willem-Alexander (; Willem-Al ...

, Wassenaar, The Netherlands (2021)

Reception

In 2018 he won the

Zurich Art Prize Zurich Art Prize is a Swiss art prize that has been awarded annually by the Museum Haus Konstruktiv together with the Zurich Insurance Group, since 2007. The award includes a cash prize (roughly $100,000 USD), and a solo exhibition in a museum. ...

. Examples of his work are held by the

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...

in New York, the Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, Michigan, and the

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is the permanent home of a continuously exp ...

in New York.

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