Jimmy Robert2026
Jimmy Robert positions his work at the intersections of performance, choreography, sound, photography, film, and installation. He engages the body as a site of knowledge in order to reveal how spaces are constructed and what it means to move through them. Countering the genealogy of western art history and its exclusion or exoticization of the Black body, his works challenge questions of visibility and invisibility, the notion of seeing and being seen.
The artist often draws from the specific context of his work's presentation and imagines dialogues with figures from art history, literature, philosophy, and music, such as Yvonne Rainer, Stanley Brouwn, Josephine Baker, Marcel Duchamp, Louise Lawler, or Bas Jan Ader.
Robert will develop a new project for the VILLA. Leading up to his exhibition in 2026, the artist will spend time in Fulda to conduct research in the archive of the Franz Erhard Walther Foundation as well as into the socio-political context of Fulda, with a special interest in its vivid jazz scene in the 1950s.