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
Cape Town
Cape Town ( af, Kaapstad; , xh, iKapa) is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving as the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. It is the legislative capital of the country, the oldest city in the country, and the second largest ...
, 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
.
Work
![A film still from](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/A_film_still_from_%22the_Candle%22.jpg)
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
Mussorgsky
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky ( rus, link=no, Модест Петрович Мусоргский, Modest Petrovich Musorgsky , mɐˈdɛst pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈmusərkskʲɪj, Ru-Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky version.ogg; – ) was a Russian compo ...
's ''
Pictures at an Exhibition
''Pictures at an Exhibition'', french: Tableaux d'une exposition, link=no is a suite (music), suite of ten piano pieces, plus a recurring, varied Promenade theme, composed by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874. The piece is Mussorgsky's ...
'' 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](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Robin_Rhode_2015.JPG)
In 2014 he directed a music video for the
U2 single "
Every Breaking Wave
"Every Breaking Wave" is a song by Irish rock music, rock band U2. It is the second track from their thirteenth studio album, ''Songs of Innocence (U2 album), Songs of Innocence'', and was released as its second single. It was produced by Danger ...
"; 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'',
Mori Art Museum
The is a contemporary art museum founded by the real estate developer Minoru Mori (1934–2012) in the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower in the Roppongi Hills complex both of which he built in Tokyo, Japan.
The exterior architect of the museum's gall ...
, 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
Performa
The Macintosh Performa is a family of personal computers designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Inc., Apple Computer, Inc. from 1992 to 1997. The Performa brand re-used models from Apple's Macintosh Quadra, Quadra, Macintosh Centris, Centri ...
, 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 ...
,
Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and neighborhood in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It is formed by the junction of Broadway, Seventh Avenue, and 42nd Street. Together with adjacent ...
, 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 ...
,
Savannah
A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the Canopy (forest), canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to rea ...
, 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.
References
Further reading
* ''Robin Rhode: Walk Off''. André Lepecki, edited by Stephanie Rosenthal, Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz 2007.
* ''Street Level''. Mark Bradford, William Cordova, and Robin Rhode, edited by Trevor Schoonmaker. Exhibition catalogue. Durham: Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 2007.
* ''Street Art, Street Life''. Edited by Linda Yee. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Aperture/
Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), also called the Bronx Museum of Art or simply the Bronx Museum, is an American cultural institution located in Concourse, Bronx, New York. The museum focuses on contemporary and 20th-century works created by A ...
, 2008.
* ''Robin Rhode: Who Saw Who''. Michele Robecchi, Stephanie Rosenthal and James Sey. Exhibition catalogue. London:
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 ...
, 2008.
* ''Catch Air: Robin Rhode''. Catharina Manchanda and Claire Tancons, edited by Ann Bremner and Ryan Shafer, 2009.
* ''
Leif Ove Andsnes and Robin Rhode: Pictures Reframed''. 2009.
* ''Robin Rhode: Variants''. Edited by Honey Luard. Exhibition catalogue. London:
White Cube
White Cube is a contemporary art gallery founded by Jay Jopling in London in 1993. The gallery has two branches in London: White Cube Mason's Yard in central London and White Cube Bermondsey in South East London; White Cube Hong Kong, in Centra ...
, 2011.
* ''Robin Rhode: Paries Pictus''. Edited by Sophie Perryer. Exhibition catalogue. Cape Town: Stevenson Gallery, 2013.
* ''Robin Rhode: The Call of Walls''. Maggie Finch, edited by Mark Gomes. Exhibition catalogue. Melbourne:
National Gallery of Victoria, 2013.
* ''Robin Rhode: Animating the Everyday''. Helaine Posner and Louise Posner. Exhibition catalogue. New York:
Neuberger Museum of Art
Neuberger Museum of Art is located in Purchase, New York, United States. It is affiliated with Purchase College, part of the State University of New York system. It is the nation's tenth-largest university museum. The museum is one of 14 sites on ...
of Purchase College, 2014.
* ''Robin Rhode: Tension''. Text by Andrea Bellini, Michele Robecchi. Published by Hatje Cantz, 2016.
External links
*
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1976 births
Living people
South African performance artists
Artists from Cape Town
South African contemporary artists