Robin Rhode

Robin Rhode was born 1976 in Cape Town, South Africa. The Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist engages in a variety of visual languages such as photography, performance, drawing, painting and sculpture to create arrestingly beautiful narratives that are brought to life using quotidian materials such as soap, charcoal, chalk and paint. His strategic interventions transform urban landscapes into imaginary worlds, compressing space and time, as two-dimensional renderings become the subject of three-dimensional interactions by a sole protagonist, usually played by the artist or by an actor inhabiting the role of artist. Rhode’s work reveals a mastery of illusion, a rich range of historical and contemporary references, and an innate skill for blending high and low art forms. Rhode has had major solo and group exhibitions at a number of important museums around the world.