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JIMMY ROBERT
1975, Guadeloupe, FR
Lives and works in Berlin, DE
Education
2004-2005 Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, NL
1996-1999 Fine Art and Critical Theory, Goldsmiths’ College, London, UK
Residencies
2016 Davidoff International Art Residency, Altos de Chavón School of Design, La Romana, DO
2009 Reprise, CCA KITAKYUSHU Project Gallery, Kitakyushu, JP
2009 Follow Fluxus, NKV, Wiesbaden, DE
Awards
2009 nominated for the Prix Ricard, Paris, FR
2009 Follow Fluxus, NKV, Wiesbaden, DE
Solo exhibitions and performances
2022 All Dressed Up And Nowhere To Go, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, DE
2022 Still Alive, 5th Aichi Triennale, Aichi, JP
2022 The Scripts Found in a Bottle, Found in a Can, Found in a Discourse, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, US
2022 Portrait of a Movement, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), Madrid, ES
2022 When I State That I Am An Anarchist, curated by Pierre Bal-Blanc, PLATO, Ostrava, CZ
2022 Framenti, Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples, IT
2022 La musique dans la chambre, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, DE
2021 Appui, tendu, renversé, CRAC Occitanie in Sète, FR
2021 Technique et Sentiment, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, DE
2021 Akimbo, Museion, Bolzano, IT
2021 Akimbo, CRAC Occitanie in Sète, FR
2021 Tobacco Flower, The Hunterian, Glasgow International, SC
2020 Akimbo, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
2020 Plié, Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren, DE
2019 Joie noire, Kaaitheather, Brussels, BE
2019 Joie noire, KW Institute for Contemprary Art, Berlin, DE
2018 Many Shades of Brouwn, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL
2017 AL(LI)TERATION, Performa Commission, The Glass House, Connecticut, US
2017 European Portraits, Peer, London, UK
2017 Wanna talk about reading?, Western Front, Vancouver,CA
2016 Descendances du nu, CAC-La Synagogue de Delme, FR
2015 A Clean Line that Starts from the Shoulder, Museum M, Leuven, BE.
2015 It’s not lame…it’s lame, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, DE.
2013 Made to Measure, 1857, Oslo, NO.
2013 Draw the line, The Power Plant, Toronto, CA
2013 F230 Rose dragée, Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL
2012 Vis-à-vis, Museum of Contenporary Art, Chicago, USA
2012 Consensus Rouge Noir (Bristol) and Under the Influence: Marguerite Duras and Jimmy Robert, Picure This, Bristol, UK
2012 Langue materielle, Jeu de Paume, Paris, FR
2011 Und das nennt sich Mann…,…Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL
2011 Consensus Rouge Noir, performance, Kunsthalle Basel, CH
2010 Le Bonheur d’etre Dupe (Pas de Deux), Art Concept, Paris, FR
2010 Art Basel Features (with Maaike Schoorel), Galerie Diana Stigter
2010 Consensus Rouge Noir, performance, South London Gallery, London, UK
2009 Marriage a la Mode et Cor Anglais (in collaboration with Ian White) FRAC lle-de-France & CAC Bretigny, Miscadanses, Paris, FR / I.C.A., London, UK
2009 Reprise, CCA KITAKYUSHU Project Gallery, Kitakyushu, JP
2009 Suspended Closure, Suspended, Follow Fluxus prize exhibition,
Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, DE
2009 Figure de Style, performance, Frascati, Amsterdam
2009 Trio A, performance (in collaboration with Pat Catterson and Ian White), Museun of Modern Art, NY, US
2009 Grey Flannel Suits Any Man, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
2008 Légèrement Manipulés, CAC, Brétigny, FR
2008 Elegantly Wasted, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, DE
2008 Figure de Style, Cubitt Gallery, London, UK
2007 Marriage a la Mode et Cor Anglais (in collaboration with Ian White), De Appel, Amsterdam, NL / STUK, Brussels, BE
2007 Art Basel Statement with Galerie Diana Stigter
2006 Manifold Centerfold, White Light, Dusseldorf, DE
2006 Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2006 Instability, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL
2004 6 Things We Couldn’t Do..., (in collaboration with Ian White) Art Now, Tate Britain, London, UK
2002 Brown Leatherette, commissioned by Autograph, Platform, London, UK
Selected Group exhibitions
2022 Still Alive, 5th Aichi Triennale, Aichi, JP
2022 The Scripts Found in a Bottle, Found in a Can, Found in a Discourse, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, US
2022 Portrait of a Movement, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), Madrid, ES
2022 When I State That I Am An Anarchist, PLATO, Ostrava, CZ
2021 A Time to Embrace and to Refrain from Embracing, 6th Ural Industrial Biennial, Ekaterinburg, RU
2021 Balade, The French Institute, Berlin, DE
2021 Wild Frictions, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, US
2021 Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE
2021 Crocodile Cradle, curated by Simon Moretti, PEER, London, UK
2020 Studio Berlin, Boros Foundation at Berghain, Berlin, DE
2020 Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
2019 ...and other such stories, Chicago Architecture Biennial, US
2019 Displacement and Togetherness, Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, Grimbergen
2019 Stars are Closer and Clouds are Nutritious Under Golden Trees, MMAG Foundation, Amman, JO
2019 Hybrid Sculptures, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
2019 Tender Buttons, Künstlerhaus Bremen, DE
2018 XlV Bienal de Cuenca, ES
2018 A Stong Desire, PS120, Berlin, DE
2018 Prosecute my Posture, Garage, Rotterdam, with performance Metallica at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL
2018 Nothing Will Be As Before, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, DE
2018 Any frame is a thrown voice, Camden Arts Centere, UK
2018 Relational Undercurrents, Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, The Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, US
2017 Rest In the Furrows of My Skin, Kunsthaus Hamburg, DE
2017 Palace Potemkin, National Gallery / The Palace, Sofia, BU
2017 Rest in the Furrows of My Skin,Kunsthaus Hamburg, DE
2016 The Museum of Rhythm, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, PO
2016 AIMIA|AGO Photography Prize, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
2016 SCIC Friche la Belle de Mai, Actoral Festival, Marseilles, FR
2016 Collective Exhibition / Interprétations à l'œuvre, Astéride/Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, FR
2016 Künstlich Natürlich, Sabot Gallery, Paintbrush Factory, Cluj, RO
2015 After Dark, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, CH
2015 2nd Chapter : Eclipse of an Innocen Eye, National Gallery of Prague, CZ
2014 All that falls, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2014 Textile languages, Thalie Art Project, Brussels, BE
2014 Dak’art Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, SN
2014 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, DE
2013 In a Sentimental Mood, Galerie des Galeries, Paris, FR
2013 Edo Pop: The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints, Japan Society Gallery, New York, US
2012 Iemanja Claus, Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL
2012 Iemanja Claus, Mendes Wood, San Paulo, BR
2012 Suspended closure, suspended, performance, The Imaginary Museum, Kunstverein Munich, DE
2012 Alice in Wonderland, MART, Rovereto, IT
2011 Alice in Wonderland, Tate Liverpool, GB
2011 The Second Act: A Festival on Photography Goes Live, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL
2011 The Other Tradition, Wiels, Brussels
2010 Here and Now, Julia Stoscheck, Dusseldorf, DE
2010 Sheffield Biennial, GB
2009 30 Seconds off an Inch, Studio Museum Harlem, New York, US
2009 Antidotes, Galeries Lafayettes, Paris, FR
2009 l’ Image Cabrée, Prix Ricard, Paris, FR
2009 2 or 3 Things I Know about Her, duo show with Kate Davis, FOUR, Dublin, IR
2008 Un-Scene, Wiels, Brussels, BE
2008 Notorious, Frac Ile-de-France, Paris, FR
2008 Persona, Park Saint- Legér, Saint Leger-en–Bray, FR
2008 Palace, The John Institute, St. Gallen, CH
2008 Gwanju Biennial, CN
2008 Yokohama Triennial, JP
2008 5th Berlin Biennial, DE
2007 Re-Make / Re-Model, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, GB
2007 Moving, Contingency, Community, Gallery 27, Seoul, KO
2007 Act Out, Studio Voltaire, London, GB
2007 Zes, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2007 Zes, Harris Lieberman, New York, US
2007 Travaux Sur Papier Art: Concept, Paris, FR
2006 Just In Time, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
2004 3 to the Power of 3, Cine Lumiere, French institute, London, GB
2002 Brixton Studio, The photographers’ Gallery, London, GB
2002 F.A.G, Cubitt, London, GB
Screenings,festivals, perforamances
2021 Joie Noire, Block Universe, London, UK
2019 Joie Noire, KAAI Theater, Brussels, BE
2018 Metallica in Prosecute my Posture, Garage, Rotterdam, NL
2018 A Clean Line that Starts from the Shoulder, Salonul de proiecte, Bucarest, RO
2015 Abolibibelo, Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, CH
2014 8th Berlin Biennial, DE
2014 11th Dakar Biennial, SN
2014 Mile-Long Paper Walk, MoMA, New York, US
2014 21 AGAIN Festival, Hebbel am Uffer, Berlin, DE
2013 Stedelijk at Trouw, Contemporary Art Club, Amsterdam, NL
2013 Arika : Hidden in Plain Sight, Tramway, Glasgow, GB
2013 Performatik, Kaaitheater, Brussels, BE
2012 Emma/Mystique, ICA, London, GB
2008 Recorded images, Art Gallery of South Australia, AU
2007 Le Ping-Pong d’amour, Whitechapel art gallery, London, GB
2006 Prospectif Cinéma, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
2005 The Artists’ Cinema, Frieze Art Fair, London, GB
2003 The 47th London Film Festival, GB
2003 Oberhausen Short Film Festival, DE
2003 Changing Times, Tate Britain, London, GB
Publications
2020Jimmy Robert: Revue, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren
2014 Jimmy Robert: Draw the Line, The Power Plant, Toronto
2012 Jimmy Robert Vis-à-vis, MCA Chicago
2009 Suspended Closure, Suspended, vinyl record, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden
2008 Elegantly Wasted: Jimmy Robert, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein
2007 Painful Singularities, Passanger books
2006 Artist Book