Robin Rhode
3 videos / digital animations

Horse, 2002
New Kids on a Bike, 2002
Marongrong, 2002

Robin Rhode's work centers around performances that have grown out experiences in the time of his youth and high school in the area of Johannesburg. He conjoins elements of street culture (sports, music, fashion) with the culture of "making art". He is convinced that art has an educational and practical function, which is also why his performances take place in "everyday space" – in the squares, streets and parks of the suburbs.
With charcoal he draws a motif on the wall, with which he then interacts "three-dimensionally" and tells a story.
The three videos presented at O.K were created from a single camera setting, a perspective focused on the street from above. The single frames arranged one after another and animated result in witty and playful short films.
51st Venice Biennale, 2005

Robin Rhode, born 1976 in Cape Town, South Africa, lives and works in Berlin