Robin Waart works with words - as an artist, by making exhibitions and writing about the work of others.

Robin Waart arbeitet mit Worten - als Künstler, indem er Ausstellungen macht und über die Arbeit anderer schreibt.

21–05–2024 review
The movable type

On the occasion of the artist’s 80th birthday, the Weserburg recently presented an extensive solo exhibition of Kay Rosen’s work. Her witty wordplays extended to billboards in public spaces, postcards for visitors to take home, and a new art-book catalog. Our author, Robin Waart—a friend of words and publications himself—visited the show in Bremen and captured his impressions in his latest review, now on PASSE AVANT.
22–01–2024 review
Loss of lightness

The consecutive and alternating duo exhibition 'Exposure / Double Exposure' at Camera Austria in Graz transforms the photo album from a static documentation into a flexible format, where narratives shift, overwrite, change, and complement each other. Robin Waart took a closer look at the show.
11–11–2022 review
Windows in our hands

Read Robin Waart’s piercing impressions from Rare Earth Magnet, Gwenn Thomas' exhibition at Vienna’s EXILE, with inserts by David Gruber and Alexander Jackson Wyatt.
21–07–2022 review
Where we would be without

Robin Waart journeys into Yalda Afsah's "Every word was once an animal", a constellation of four video works presented both at the Kunstverein München and Halle für Kunst Steiermar in Graz.
18–05–2022 review
Something one tries to hide but at a certain point cannot be kept a secret anymore

Robin Waart reviews the exhibition we sat rigid except for the parts of our bodies that were needed for production curated by Tom Engels with works by Sandra Lahire and Celeste Burlina at the Grazer Kunstverein.
07–04–2022 review
Art You Love With

Robin Waart retraces Jennifer Gelardo’s diagrams of desire in her solo show Pick-Up Artist at tart.vienna
16–02–2022 review
Realism without glamour

In Sarah Rapson’s work, the outside is as much about doubt as it is a decision, a mediation between inside(r) and outside(r) art. It is hard to find a better place to be stuck in. Robin Waart writes dives into the gently complex Robin Waart on Ode to Psyche by Sarah Rapson at the Vienna Secession.
10–08–2023 interview
The double is a double in two directions

Robin Waart was invited to develop an exhibition based on Kunstraum Lakeside’s bookshelf, an unsystematic library of artist’s and theory books accumulated since the founding of the space. Under the title "Wörthersee, Wörtersee" and in his double role as artist and artist-curator, he responds to the structures Josef Dabernig established for the Kunstraum with a site-specific intervention. [1]

For PASSE AVANT, Robin Waart sat down with Denise Helene Sumi to talk about the show – to think of it outside of the space, its duration and the location in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee.