Jimmy Robert
Born in Guadeloupe, 1975
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Professor at Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Education
Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2005
Goldsmiths College, London, England, 1999
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Asymmetrical Grammar, Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden
Pausing (organised by François Piron as part of Exposed, Palais de Tokyo, Paris), Centre National de la Danse, Paris-Pantin, France
2022
All Dressed Up and Nowhere To Go, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
Phenomenon, Kerenidis Pepe Foundation, Anafi, Greece
Frammenti, Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples, Italy
la musique dans la chambre, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany
2021
Appui, tendu, renversé, CRAC Occitanie in Sète, France
Technique et Sentiment, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany
Tobacco Flower, The Hunterian, Glasgow International, Glasgow, Scotland
Mirror Language, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
2020
Akimbo, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, England
Plié, Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren, Germany
2018
Many shades of Brouwn, Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2017
Imitation of Lives, Performa 17, The Glass House, New Canaan, CT
European Portraits, Peer, London, England
Wanna talk about reading?, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
2016
Descendances du nu, CAC - La Synagogue De Delme, France
2015
Abolibibelo, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
A Clean Line that Starts from the Shoulder, Museum M, Leuven, Belgium
It’s not lame... it’s Lamé, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany
Textile languages, Thalie Art Project, Brussels, Belgium
2013
Draw the Line, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
F230 Rose Dragée, Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Made to Measure, 1857, Oslo, Norway
2012
Vis-à-vis, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Under the Influence: Marguerite Duras and Jimmy Robert, Picture This, Bristol, England
Langue matérielle, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Lemon Rose (in collaboration with Ian White), Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
2011
Counter-relief (in collaboration with Maria Hassabi), CCS Bard, New York, NY
2010
Le bonheur d’être dupe (pas de deux), Art: Concept, Paris, France
Consensus rouge noir, South London Gallery, London, England
Here and Now, in collaboration with Saskia de Keyser, Emma Hedditch & Ian White, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany
2009
Reprise, Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
Follow Fluxus 2009 / Jimmy Robert - Suspended closure, suspended, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany
Grey Flannel Suits Any Man, Sorcha Dallas Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
If I Can’t Dance Tonight with Jimmy Robert, Frascati Theater, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Trio A (with Ian White and Pat Catterson), MoMA, New York, NY
2008
Elegantly Wasted, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Germany
Aachen Légèrement manipulés, Centre d’art contemporain de Brétigny, France
Figure de Style, CUBITT, London
2007
Metallica, FLACC, Genk, Belgium
Salonishesque Tendencies, Maison Grégoire, Brussels, Belgium
Marriage à la mode et cor anglais (in collaboration with Ian White), STUK, Leuven, Belgium
Act Out, (with Emma Hedditch and Emily Roysdon), Studio Voltaire, London, England
2006
Manifold Centerfold, White Light, Düsseldorf, Germany
2004
Art Now - Jimmy Robert / Ian White - 6 things we couldn’t do, but can do now, Tate Britain, London, England
2002
Brown Leatherette, Platform, London, England
Group Exhibitions
2024
Flipping through pages keeping a record of time: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha & Jimmy Robert, Participant Inc, New York NY
2023
The Trembling Museum, Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Horizons Olfactifs, Fondation Espace Écureuil pour l’Art Contemporain, Toulouse, France
touch. Politiken der Berührung (The Politics of Touch), EMOP European Month of Photography, Amtsalon, Berlin, Germany
2022
Still Alive, 5th Aichi Triennale, Aichi, Japan
The Scripts Found in a Bottle, Found in a Can, Found in a Discourse, curated by Matt Morris, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Portrait of a Movement. Renate Lorenz & Pauline Boudry, curated by Övül Ö. Durmusoglu, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
When I State that I Am an Anarchist (curated by Pierre Bal-Blanc), PLATO, Ostrava, Czech Republic
2021
A Time to Embrace and to Refrain from Embracing, 6th Ural Industrial Biennial, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Balade Charlottenburg, The French Institute, Berlin, Germany
Wild Frictions, CAC Cincinnati and Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Crocodile Cradle, curated by Simon Moretti, PEER, London, England
2020
Studio Berlin, Boros Foundation at Berghain, Berlin, Germany
OF REFRAINS AND LIMINAL SPACES, Suprainfinit, Bucharest, Romania
Sâr Dubnotal, CAC Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge, France
Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2019
...and other such stories, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago, IL
Displacement and Togetherness, Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, Grimbergen, Belgium
Stars are Closer and Clouds are Nutritious Under Golden Trees, MMAG Foundation, Amman, Giordania
Hybrid Sculptures, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tender Buttons, Künstlerhaus, Bremen, Germany
Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR
2018
Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
Picture Fiction: Kenneth Josephson and Contemporary Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
A Strong Desire, PS120, Berlin, Germany
Prosecture my Posture, Garage, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Nothing Will Be As Before, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany
Any Frame is a Thrown Voice, Camden Arts Centre, London, England
Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, The Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
2017
Moving/Image, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Rest In the Furrows of My Skin, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Palace Potemkin, National Gallery / The Palace, Sofia, Bulgaria
2016
The Museum of Rhythm, Muzeum Sztuki, Lódź, Poland
AIMIA AGO, Photography Prize, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
SCIC, Friche la Belle de Mai, Actoral Festival, Marseilles, France
Collective Exhibition / Interprétations à l’œuvre, Astéride/ Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
Künstlich Natürlich, Sabot Gallery, Paintbrush Factory, Cluj, Romania
2015
After Dark, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
2nd Chapter: The Eclipse of an Innocent Eye, National Gallery of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Et bien dansez maintenant!, CAC De Pontmain, Pontmain, France
Shadow Scenes, Cinnamon Colomboscope, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2014
8th Berlin Biennial, Berlin, Germany
11ème Biennale de l’art africain contemporain, Dak’Art, Dakar, Senegal
Mile-Long Paper Walk, MoMA, New York, NY
All that falls, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Textile languages, Thalie Art Project, Brussels, Belgium
2013
A buddy for a text, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
Surface Tension, Oakville Galleries, Toronto, Canada
In a Sentimental Mood, Galerie des Galeries, Paris, France
LA Existencial, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Edo pop: the graphic impact of Japanese prints, Japan Society, New York, NY
2012
The Imaginary Museum, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
Iemanjá Claus, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Iemanjá Claus, Galeria Mendes Wood, São Paulo, Brazil
Alice in Wonderland, Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
Exposiçaõ, Teatro Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images, ICA, London, England
2011
Benefizauktion Zug., Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
Drawing 2011 – Biennial Fundraiser, The Drawing Room, London, England
The Other Tradition, WIELS Centrum voor Hedendaagse kunst, Brussels, Belgium
Alice in Wonderland, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
2010
From Dusk Till Dawn, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Life: A User’s Manual, Art Sheffield Biennale, UK
Alchemy Box, Maison d’Art Bernard Anthonioz, Nogent-sur Marne, France
An Affirmative Attitude, Hollybush Gardens, London, England
Just a Matter of Time, Galerie Kadel Willborn, Karlsruhe, Germany
Here and Now, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany
Bagna Cauda, Art: concept, Paris, France
2009
Rotterdam Dialogues: The Critics, The Curators, The Artists, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Taj Mahal Travelers, Galerie Nordenhak, Stockholm, Sweden
Two or Three Things I Know About Her, Four, Dublin, Irland
L ́image cabrée, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris, France
Antidote 5, La Galerie des Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France
30 Seconds Off an Inch, Studio Museum Harlem, New York, NY
SLOW MOVEMENT ODER: Das Halbe und das Ganze, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Celebration, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany
Notorious, Le Plateau, Paris, France
2008
Un-Scene, WIELS Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Brussels, Belgium
5th Berlin Biennial, Berlin, Germany
Time Crevasse, Yokohama Triennial, Yokohama, Japan
Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, South Korea
Persona, Centre d’art contemporain du parc Saint-Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, France
It Can Start Whenever You Want, Westlondonprojects, London, England
2007
Re-Make/Re-Model, Sorcha Dallas Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Act Out, (with Emma Hedditch and Emily Roysdon), Studio Voltaire, London, England
Miracle Goodnight, White Light, Düsseldorf, Germany
ZES, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY
ZES, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Works on Paper, Art: Concept, Paris, France
2006
Just in Time, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Being, in Brussels, Argos, Brussels, Belgium
Performances, Festivals and Screenings
2019
Old masters, David Roberts Art Foundation x Ministry of Sound, London, England
Joie Noire, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Joie Noire, KAAI Theater, Brussels, Belgium
2018
Metallica in Prosecute my Posture, Garage, Rotterdam, Netherlands
A Clean Line that Starts from the Shoulder, Salonul de proiecte, Bucarest, Romania
2015
Metallica, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany
A Clean Line that Starts from the Shoulder, Playground Festival, Leuven, Belgium
2013
Counter-relief (in collaboration with Maria Hassabi for Performatik festival), KAAI Theater, Brussels, Belgium
2012
Consensus Rouge Noir, Picture This, Bristol, England
2011
Consensus Rouge Noir, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Metallica, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
2008
Metallica, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
Marriage à la mode et cor anglais (in collaboration with Ian White), CAC Brétigny, Paris, France
Marriage à la mode et cor anglais (in collaboration with Ian White), De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2007
Marriage à la mode et cor anglais (in collaboration with Ian White), I.C.A, London, England
Le ping-pong d’amour, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England
2006
Prospectif Cinema, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2005
The Artists’ Cinema, Frieze Art Fair
Awards
2018
The Bessies (nominated: Outstanding Production)
2016
AIMIA AGO Photography Prize (shortlisted)
2009
Follow Fluxus-After Fluxus
1999
Andrei and Nicholas Tooth Award
Public Collections
FRAC Grand Large – Hauts-des-France, Dunkirk, France
Centre National des arts Plastiques, Paris Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Museum Of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
FRAC – Ile-de-France, Paris, Framce
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
LACMA – Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN
The Hunterian, Glasgow, Scotland
The Hepworth Wakefield, England
