Robin Waart, Amstelveen 1978 (NL)
Lives and works in Amstelveen/The Hague.
Education
2012 MA Master Artistic Research, The Hague
2010 BA Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2005 BA Greek and Latin Language and Culture, VU, Amsterdam
Exhibitions
2013 same/difference, standard/deluxe, Lausanne (CH) (duo-show with Mitchell Thar)
2012 101112, Frankendael Foundation, Amsterdam (solo exhibition, including work by Mitchell Thar)
2012 World book design 2011-12, Printing Museum, Tokyo (JP)
2012 Promenadologues #1, cneai, Chatou (FR)
2012 FIAC, Paris (Galerie Diana Stigter)
2012 De Best Verzorgde Boeken 2011/The Best Dutch Book Designs 2011, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Promenadologues #1, curated by Sylvie Boulanger et Jing He, cneai, Chatou (FR)
2012 Untold stories, Johan Deumens Gallery, De Drie Heuvelen, Herengracht 48, Amsterdam
2012 Parallel daaraan... (with Mitchell Thar), Concordia, Enschede
2012 Songs of the Southbound of Mouth, Graduation Show Master Artistic Research, KABK, The Hague
2012 Perennial Conceits, Galerie Frank Taal, Rotterdam
2012 Cinema, Voorkamer, Lier (BE)
2012 (almost) all my little Polaroids, Johan Deumens Gallery, Spinnerei, Leipzig (DE) (solo exhibition)
2012 Photography and Ruin, NYPL, New York (US)
2012 Content, Happiness, Literally, Galerie Diana Stigter, Backspace, Amsterdam (solo exhibition)
2012 Underground performance, Villa Kabila, The Hague
2011 Books on Books, curated by Christoph Schifferli, Swiss Institute, New York (US)
2011 Collections, KABK, The Hague
2011 Die Schönsten Schweizer Bücher Les plux beaux livres suisses I più bei libri svizzeri The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2010, Zürich, Lavin, St. Gallen, Biel-Bienne, Genève (CH)
2011 Sequences, Johan Deumens Gallery, De Drie Heuvelen, Amsterdam
2011 Constellation of Lines, Christiane Baumgartner Farbskala aus drei Farben auf zwei Ebenen, Paul Heimbach Thinking in Pictures, Robin Waart, Johan Deumens Gallery, Spinnerei, Leipzig (DE)
2011 Signs & Systems, Sign, Groningen
2011 ordered groupings, inheritance, Kyber Institute of Contemporary Arts, Halifax, NS (CA)
2011 And by the way this picture has great significance because..., KABK, The Hague
2010 STRP Art & Technology Festival, Eindhoven
2010 Its hard to stop beginning, Johan Deumens Gallery, Haarlem (solo exhibition)
2010 Best of Graduates 2010, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
2010 Graduation show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2008 Growing Symbols, Basisburo, Asschergebouw, Amsterdam
Collections
Eye Film Instituut Nederland, Amsterdam
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague
MoMA, New York
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
Yale University, New Haven
Museum für angewandte Kunst, Wien
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Grants and awards
2012 De Best Verzorgde Boeken 2011/The Best Dutch Book Designs 2011 (Part one, "2nd" ed.)
2011 The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2010/Die schönsten Schweizer Bücher 2010 (Part one)
Publications
2012 (with Michell Thar), Loneliness, a letter to M./Loneliness, a reply to R., C.I.N.V.U., Volume 1, No. 1, 1 July 2012, pp. 16-17
2011 Some Day My Prince Will Come (Vrijplaats), Tubelight #76, September/October 2011, p. [2]
2011 Part one, second edition (Book design by Jonas Wandeler)
2010 Thinking in Pictures (Book design by Tanguy Wermelinger)
2010 Part one (Book design by Jonas Wandeler)
2010 Traum en trauma. Warhol bij Nietzsche (Bachelor thesis GRA)
Artist contributions
Vrijplaats (Some Day My Prince Will Come), in Tubelight #76, September/Oktober 2011, p. [2]
Robin Waart, in Cotter, Lucy/Zito Lema, Aimée (eds.), Marchive 1, Master Artistic Research, Royal Academy of ART (KABK)/Royal Conservatoire (KONCON), The Hague, 2010-2011, p. 41, 91, 94
Reviews
Art in Print, Weekly News, New Releases, 18 December 2012 (Review of Would you postcards)
Inge Braeckman, Over de kunst van illusie en suggestie. Voorkamer presenteert CINEMA in Lier (Benelux Expo), art, 31 May 2012, p. 14
'New York Public Library' (Goings on about town - Art - Museums and Libraries), www.newyorker.com, 23 April 2012
Boy van Dijk, hard//hoofd kiest: Robin Waart, www.hardhoofd.com, 16 April 2012
KK [Kees Keijer], Geluk, voorspoed en buitenkansjes, Het Parool, Friday 16 March 2012 (Review of Content, Happiness, Literally)
'Part one', Graphic, Issue #19 (Autumn 211), What a beautiful book is: Best Book Competitions Issue [Text in English and Korean], p. 118 (P) and 189 (Comments on Books).
Voorde, Lise Lotte ten, Altijd tekortschieten. Part one (section Het boek = het werk), Tubelight, 28 April 2011.
Laurie Cluitmans, Robin Waart; deel 1, Metropolis M, no. 4, August/September 2010, pp. 39-40.
Sophie de Groot, 'Niet te stuiten', Blend, no. 50, June/July 2010, pp. 84-85.
Catalogues
Tan Wälchli, Part One (jury report), The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2010 Die Schönsten Schweizer Bücher Les plux beaux livres suisses I più bei libri svizzeri. The Swiss Federal Office of Culture / Schweizerische Erdgenossenschaft, Bern 2011, p. 9 / 57 (translations in the Beiheft / Encart / Inserto, p. 7 (deutsch); p. 17 (français); p. 27 (italiano)).
Mariëtte Willemsen, Liberation from Innerness, in Robin Waart, Thinking in Pictures, 2010, pp. [VII]-[VIII].
Texts
Mariëtte Willemsen, Liberation from Innerness, in Robin Waart, Thinking in Pictures, 2010, pp. [VII]-[VIII].
TV
Rietveld TV # 23, Saturday, 2 October 2010
* http://www.vimeo.com/25819071
Weblinks
Thinking in pictures by Robin Waart, prosthetic knowledge, 24 September 2011
* http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/post/10614789888/thinking-in-pictures-by-robin-waart-art-project
Simon Kentgens & Michiel Huijben, Robin Waart, pietmondriaan.com, 2 July 2011, links/references to 745 and Tien boeken (Ik hou van je)
* http://pietmondriaan.com/2011/07/02/robin-waart/
Wim Noordhoek, Robin Waart, Avondlog, vpro boeken, 31 May 2011, about Thinking in Pictures and <em