Robin Rhode

黑料不打烊

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South African | 1976

Robin Rhode is a South African Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1976. His work is currently being shown at Zeitz MOCAA Museum of Contemporary Art in Cape Town. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Stevenson, Cape Town have featured Robin Rhode's work in the past.Robin Rhode's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 808 USD to 92,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2008 the record price for this artist at auction is 92,500 USD for 18 Parts: Street Gym, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2011. Robin Rhode has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for e-flux in September 2025.

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Notable Lots

White Walls ,2002

By Robin Rhode

+91%

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Throw Away (9) ,2010

By Robin Rhode

+56%

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Street Gym ,2004

By Robin Rhode

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Recent Auction Results

Piano Chair ,2011

By Robin Rhode

+23%

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Color Chart, 2004-2006

By Robin Rhode

-36%

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Empties (brown ,2007

By Robin Rhode

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Current Exhibitions

Imagined into being: South African art 1989 - 2004

Stevenson, Cape Town

Cape Town | South Africa

18 Oct, 2025 - 29 Nov, 2025

SALA

Zeitz MOCAA Museum of Contemporary Art

Cape Town | South Africa

15 Dec, 2023 - 12 Apr, 2026

Lerato Shadi and Robin Rhode: A Protea Is Not a Flower

Zeitz MOCAA Museum of Contemporary Art

Cape Town | South Africa

16 Oct, 2025 - 15 Nov, 2026

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Articles

Lerato Shadi and Robin Rhode: A Protea Is Not a Flower

e-flux 20 Sep, 2025

A Protea Is Not a Flower is a multigenerational conversation that engages with the complexity of the exilic experience.

Art Basel Paris returns this October to a renovated Grand Palais.

FAD Magazine 18 Sep, 2025

Art Basel Paris returns this October to a renovated Grand Palais.

Global Fascisms

e-flux 11 Sep, 2025

The exhibition Global Fascisms does not merely seek to trace the historical roots of fascism nor to enumerate the bad men (and a few women) who have come to power in many places during the last decade, but rather to examine this newly resurgent ideological formation鈥檚 deeper...

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Coverage

鈥� ..Rhode is best known for his photographic series that documents a sole protagonist interacting with murals the artist painted on public walls in Johannesburg and Berlin... 鈥�
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Lehmann Maupin, New York (West 22nd St)

鈥� ..Scenes of the street, rooftops and residential facades are suggested by Rhode's language of simplified and generic forms, functioning as stands-ins or representations of the real thing... 鈥�
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Stevenson, Johannesburg

鈥� ..s suitcases, coins, ropes, bicycle frames and window frames inhabit these scenes, tempering Andr茅's humorous navigation through time and space by developing a life of their own - staying true to Rhode's... 鈥�
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Stevenson, Johannesburg

鈥� .. By bringing an object, idea, or action forth (borne) to a medium central to Rhode鈥檚 practice such as the wall (frieze), the artist evokes the improvisational and vibrant nature of his work... 鈥�
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Lehmann Maupin, New York (West 22nd St)

鈥� ..Rhode combines large-scale charcoal drawings with charming and sharp-witted performances, often acted out on the street... 鈥�
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Southbank Centre, Hayward Gallery