In his lecture Jimmy Robert will share insights into his artistic practice and introduce one of his recent performances.

Jimmy Robert is a multidisciplinary artist working across performance, photography, film, and collage. Frequently collapsing distinctions between these mediums, his work often investigates how the body can be personified through materials. His performances are meticulously choreographed within exhibition spaces or in dialogue with existing architecture, drawing inspiration from historical performances and layered narratives that reference art history, film, and literature. 

Born in Guadeloupe in 1975, Robert currently resides between Paris and Berlin. He has been the subject of a mid-career retrospective at Nottingham Contemporary in 2020, with this exhibition travelling to other international institutions in 2021. Recent solo exhibitions include presentations at Moderna Museet, Malmö (2023); Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2022) and The Hunterian, Glasgow (2021). His most recent work Joie Noire premiered in 2019 at KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, and was restaged in March 2023 at Palais de Tokyo, Paris. A comprehensive monograph of Robert’s work is set to be published in 2024.

Image credit: Jimmy Robert, Water binds me to your name, 2022. Phenomenon 4, Anafi, Kerenidis Pepe Collection, 27 June – 11 July 2022. Photo: Alexandra Masmanidi. Courtesy of the artist; Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam; Thomas Dane Gallery, London and Naples; and Tanya Leighton, Berlin and Los Angeles.