Jimmy Robert

Artist

Jimmy Robert (born in Guadeloupe, 1975) is a Berlin-based artist. After graduating from London's Goldsmith's College in 1999 Robert's performances and installations have enjoyed a growing recognition in Europe.

The films, prints, performances and publications by Robert gravitate around a common sensibility, marked out by the temporary characteristic of time-based-acts (from private memory to dance and installations) and their appropriation into writing, photography and public media. The analysis of the image-object relation is fundamental to Jimmy Robert in this respect. It is by way of this relation that representation meets yet another time-based physical existence through the act of display and the perception of the spectator. Each of his works questions how a two-dimensional surface ceases to be an image and begins to reach out towards three-dimensionality and objecthood.

Robert has staged solo exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary, Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Stieger van Doesburg, Amsterdam and Salonul de proiecte, Romania. His work has been included group exhibitions in the UK, the USA, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium and Jordan.

Jimmy Robert (born in Guadeloupe, 1975) is a Berlin-based artist. After graduating from London's Goldsmith's College in 1999 Robert's performances and installations have enjoyed a growing recognition in Europe.

The films, prints, performances and publications by Robert gravitate around a common sensibility, marked out by the temporary characteristic of time-based-acts (from private memory to dance and installations) and their appropriation into writing, photography and public media. The analysis of the image-object relation is fundamental to Jimmy Robert in this respect. It is by way of this relation that representation meets yet another time-based physical existence through the act of display and the perception of the spectator. Each of his works questions how a two-dimensional surface ceases to be an image and begins to reach out towards three-dimensionality and objecthood.

Robert has staged solo exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary, Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Stieger van Doesburg, Amsterdam and Salonul de proiecte, Romania. His work has been included group exhibitions in the UK, the USA, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium and Jordan.

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