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🇿🇦 Contemporary artist living in Berlin 🇩🇪

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What happens when artists look beyond borders?

Featuring new commissioned works by Robin Rhode, ‘A Protea Is Not a Flower’ explores the complexities of exile, identity and home.

Now on view at @zeitzmocaa until 15 November 2026.

#PrixPictet #Photography

Rhode (@robinrhodeofficial) was shortlisted for Prix Pictet 𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘦 (2019) for his series ‘Principle of Hope’.

📷 Robin Rhode. Courtesy of Zeitz MOCAA. taken in Cape Town, South Africa by @robinrhodeofficial

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3 days ago

Underwater inside the unique swimming pool installation artwork by maestro @leandroerlichofficial for @museumvoorlinden
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A wonderful congratulations to Museum Voorlinden on their 10th Anniversary
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A warm thank you to @suzanneswarts for the invitation to this most wonderful occasion
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#sculpture #installationart taken in Museum Voorlinden by @robinrhodeofficial

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Making waves, together 🌊🖍️

Berlin-based artist Robin Rhode (@RobinRhodeOfficial) has long used drawing to transform walls into playful, imaginary worlds. In 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘗𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘴 – 𝘋𝘳𝘢𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴 (2015), a flotilla of sailing ships is silk-screened across the gallery walls. In a special performance this summer, the artist invited children to draw waves under the ships using a set of over-sized oil crayons.

Heavy to hold, the group had to work hard together to create the drawing. Together, they defied gravity and overcame challenges to leave their mark on the gallery walls!

💙 Thank you to the artist and to all the children who took part and brought their creativity, imagination, and teamwork to the work through play.

A special thanks to the wonderful team at @BGC_Eastview for their support and collaboration! 🫶

⚠︎ 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 (𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩!). 𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘳, 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘶𝘱𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘏𝘶𝘣, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘯.

#ThePowerPlantTO #ColourfulParachutes #RobinRhode #ContemporaryArt #TorontoArts taken in The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery by @robinrhodeofficial

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A few photographs from a memorable evening at @bmwwelt
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It was a pleasure to join the conversation “Body, Machine, Public Space: Artists on the Cultural Meaning of the Automobile,” and to exchange ideas on the evolving relationship between the body, technology, movement, and the public realm.
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I am grateful to have shared the panel with the talented Göksu Kunak @goeksu_kunak and Yilmaz Dziewior @yilmaz.dziewior Director of Museum Ludwig and member of the BMW Art Car Jury. My sincere thanks also to Christiane Pyka @christiane.pyka from @bmwgroupculture for guiding such a thoughtful and generous discussion.
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Conversations like these are a reminder that art continues to open unexpected paths for dialogue—bringing together different perspectives, disciplines, and experiences to reconsider how we move through and shape the world around us.
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Thank you to everyone who joined us and contributed to such an inspiring evening.
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For the first time ever, all BMW Art Cars are brought together in one place: with the exhibition “BMW ART CARS – 20 ARTISTS, 50 YEARS OF INNOVATION. REUNITED AT BMW WELT”, BMW is presenting the complete series of “rolling sculptures” in Munich from 29 July to 31 August 2026, honouring the collection’s 50th anniversary. The opening today, Tuesday 28 July 2026, also marks the conclusion of the BMW Art Car World Tour, which has showcased the collection at venues in over 30 countries worldwide. A particular highlight of the exhibition is Olafur Eliasson’s “BMW H2R Project”, which, since its world premiere in 2007, has only been presented to the public as a complete installation on three occasions.
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#bmw taken in BMW Welt | BMW Museum by @robinrhodeofficial

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We’re at Art Basel! Join us at Stand J8 this weekend where we are showing work by Robin Rhode.

𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦, 2026
Spray paint on photo-paper
12 panels: 71 x 51 x 2.5cm each unique

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#artbasel taken in Art Basel by @robinrhodeofficial

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After 53 years, the job IS done 🏀 Congratulations to the New York Knicks on bringing the championship back to our hometown!

Gallery artist–and dedicated Knicks fan–Robin Rhode brings New York’s iconic orange and blue color scheme to his work with ‘Untitled (Zootrope),’ a 21st-century reinterpretation of Eadweard Muybridge’s pioneering motion picture technology.

PS: We do not endorse jumping on cars under most circumstances, but maybe tonight is the exception 😉

#RobinRhode #LehmannMaupin #NewYorkForever by @robinrhodeofficial

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4 months ago

You may have noticed something new in Parking Structure 2. 👀

The Hanging Gardens mural by Robin Rhode is now complete at North City, adding a little more color to the everyday.

Take a look next time you’re here!
@robinrhodeofficial by @robinrhodeofficial

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5 months ago

I 🖤 Mies van der Rohe in the beginning of spring.
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#miesvanderrohe taken in Hamburg, Germany by @robinrhodeofficial

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My work titled ‘Microphone’ from 2005, is included in the exhibition ‘Dessins sans limite - Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou collection’, in Paris.
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The Centre Pompidou Cabinet d’Art Graphique collection is one of the world’s greatest sets of works on paper from the 20th and 21st centuries. This amazingly rich and diverse collection has never before been presented in a large-scale, exclusive exhibition. “Limitless drawings” is an opportunity to reveal these priceless treasures for the first time and understand how this artistic medium was entirely reinvented in the 20th century.
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Many artists have taken up this seminal, cathartic form of expression in order to subvert the limits of art, making drawing today a laboratory for all that is possible. In addition to sheets of paper and the faithful sketch pad, its sphere of expression has stretched across to other media such as walls and installation areas and has opened up to embrace other practices – photography, film and digital technology.
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#centrepompidou #drawing #paris taken in Paris, France by @robinrhodeofficial

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7 months ago

Happy birthday, Robin Rhode!

Don’t miss the artist’s current solo show, ‘Body as Sculpture’ at the Nirox Foundation near Johannesburg, South Africa.

The exhibition is the culmination of his recent residency at the Villa-Legodi Centre for Sculpture, where Rhode expanded his multidisciplinary practice by introducing stone-working into his work.

#RobinRhode #NiroxFoundation #LehmannMaupin taken in Nirox Foundation by @robinrhodeofficial

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Robin Rhode is included in 𝘈 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘢 𝘐𝘴 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘍𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳, now on view @zeitzmocaa. Rhode shows alongside Lerato Shadi, responding to the works and legacy of Bessi Head, Don Mattera and Gerard Sekoto.

Curated by Khanyi Mawhayi, the exhibition is a ‘multigenerational conversation between South African artists and writers whose lives and works contend with the complexity of the exilic experience. Contemporary visual artists @studio.leratoshadi and @robinrhodeofficial respond to the lives and works of painter Gerard Sekoto and writers Bessie Head and Don Mattera, three important figures of the Black Modernist Intellectual Movement in twentieth-century South Africa.

𝘈 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘢 𝘐𝘴 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘍𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 considers the parallels between the various forms of exile experienced by Sekoto and Head abroad, and the internal isolation that Mattera endured within South Africa. What does it mean to be excluded, stripped of your connection to others physically, emotionally, and artistically? What does it reveal about the quality of choices available to Rhode and Shadi in choosing to live and practice in Europe? What kinds of exilic compromises1 did these contemporary artists make to build lives for themselves in Berlin, Germany? Drawing on the written correspondences of Sekoto, Head, and Mattera, as well as their modernist artistic output, the exhibition explores the spectrum of personal and political expression, navigating themes of exile, identity, and memory. It maps constellations and communities of exchange, revealing the profound connections between these protagonists, even in the absence of any documented encounters.’

On view until 15 November 2026!

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@khanyimawhayi taken in Zeitz MOCAA by @robinrhodeofficial

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Currently showing in the @villa_legodi_cfs is Robin Rhode’s ‘Body as Sculpture’

For more than two decades, South African-born artist Robin Rhode—based in Berlin since 2002—has explored the body as a sculptural instrument. Using walls, streets, and architectural surfaces as stages, Rhode has built a practice where movement, drawing, and photography merge into a language of embodied form. His work transforms the most ordinary surfaces into sites of performance, where the body inscribes itself into space.

Rhode’s residency at the Villa-Legodi focused on learning particular stone-working skills through practical skills transfer, enabling the development of this new body of work. The new stone-related sculptures translate ephemeral bodily gestures into material permanence, compressing movement, resistance, and play into depth, surface, and weight.

The body-as-sculpture is central to Rhode’s idiom, yet it has historically manifested in ephemerality: chalk lines erased by movement, photographs capturing transient gestures, or videos recording playful confrontations with urban space. At the Villa-Legodi, Rhode presents a new body of work that extends this language into sculptural, painted wall reliefs. These works translate the immediacy of performance into material permanence: gestures once fleeting become etched into surface, thickened into depth, and stilled as form. The wall reliefs act as “frozen actions,” compressing the dynamism of the body into sculptural memory.

The Villa-Legodi Centre for Sculpture, dedicated to the evolving tradition of South African sculpture, provides an ideal setting for this shift. Rhode’s reliefs enter into dialogue with the site’s architectural and sculptural legacies, rooting his international practice in local histories. They affirm the wall not as background but as active register of corporeal presence, where play, struggle, and imagination leave enduring traces.

This work was presented within the NIROX Residency space, as one of the several exhibitions taking place that form part of the ongoing Soil & Water program, curated by Johan Thom & Basak Senova.

Images by Anthea Pokroy taken in Nirox Sculpture Park by @robinrhodeofficial

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