Catinca Tabacaru Gallery Collective

Xavier Robles de Medina

XAVIER ROBLES DE MEDINA (b. 1990, Surinam)
lives and works between Berlin and Paramaribo

Xavier Robles de Medina is based in Berlin. In 2019 he graduated from the Master’s program in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Robles de Medina’s combined consideration of surface, and personal archive—spanning from generic signs to highly specific historical sources—are meditated via the Cartesian coordinate system. In 2015 he was nominated for the Prix de Rome Visual Arts (NL), and the following year he earned a place on the shortlist of the Royal Award for Modern Painting (NL). Recent solo exhibitions include Wan Destination Wanhoop at SCAD Museum of Art, USA (2020), Faya Lobi at Praz-Delavallade, Paris (2020), als het hele lichaam oor zou zijn (if the whole body were an ear) at Readytex Art Gallery, Suriname (2018), and if you dream of your tongue, beware at Catinca Tabacaru, New York (2017). Upcoming shows include a three artist exhibition curated by Luís Manuel Araújo at Catinca Tabacaru, Bucharest (2021).

Artist Website

BORN 1990 IN PARAMARIBO, SURINAME
LIVES AND WORKS IN BERLIN, GERMANY

EDUCATION

2019

MFA in Fine Art, Goldsmiths, London, England

2012

BFA in Painting and Animation, Magna Cum Laude, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Savannah, USA

2008

Bilingual International Baccalaureate Diploma, St.Clare’s, Oxford, England

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

Love is not a maybe thing, 2024, Efremidis, Berlin (Forthcoming)

2023

I will go away into the wild wood, and never come home again, Alice Amati, London

2022

What if the tongue is cut out?, Art Basel Hong Kong, Discoveries, with Catinca Tabacaru Gallery

2020

Ți-a ieșit iepurele în cale, Another Mobile Gallery, Bucharest
Faya Lobi, Praz Delavallade, Paris

2020

Wan Destination Wanhoop, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, USA; Curator: Ben Tollefson

2019

MFA, Goldsmiths, London

Opportunity Cost, Praz Delavallade, Los Angeles

2018

Solo Presentation, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Drawing Now, Paris
als het hele lichaam oor zou zijn” (if the whole body were an ear), Readytex Art Gallery, Surinam
The Future Looms Dark and That We Can Scarcely, Barbé Urbain, Gent, Belgium

2017

TNF with Xavier Robles de Medina, Readytex Art Gallery, Surinam
If you dream of your tongue, beware, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York

2012

Atelo, Little Beasts Gallery, Savannah, USA


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

DucatoPrize 5 Finalists in Contemporary, Piacenza
Biographicality, Efremidis, Berlin
Capture Change, nouveaux deuxdeux, Munich
Party in the Blitz, Mamoth, London

2022

Manifestatie 1980–1989: Surinaamse verhalen van vreugde en verdriet, Readytex Art Gallery, Paramaribo, SR (co-curated w/ Miguel Keerveld)
Trust in Mortals, Brigade, Copenhagen
NADA Curated: Reduction to Satire (Reductio ad Satura), Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, The New Art Dealers Alliance (curated by Fatoş Üstek; online)
The Palliative Turn, Künstlerhaus Bremen; Curated by Nadja Quante in close collaboration with Kasia Fudakowski and Olav Westphalen
Ĩ’NDAFFA FORGER / OUT OF THE FIRE, 14th Dakar Biennale, Dakar, Senegal; Curators: Dr El Hadji Malick Ndiaye, Delphine Buysse, and Anna Karima Wane
An Evening On The Palliative Turn hosted by Kasia Fudakowski, Pogo Bar, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Curator: Sofie Krogh Christensen

2021

Udubaki, Readytex Art Gallery, Paramaribo, Surinam
Dionysia, No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London
The Palliative Turn, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam, Germany; Curator: Olav Westphalen
Flux and Reflux, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany; Curated by Willem de Rooij in the framework of his exhibition Pierre Verger in Suriname; online
Dreams Made Flesh, Galeria Catinca Tabacaru, Bucharest; Curator: Luís Manuel Araújo
Group exhibition, M. LeBlanc, Chicago

2020

CTG Collective: The Berry Eaters, Catinca Tabacaru, New York

2019

General Meeting, Freehouse, London; Curated by Darren Flook and Nancy Hatcher
The Sound of Silence, Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles
ZWRT, Barbé Urbain Gallery, Ghent
Metabolic Museum University, 33rd Ljubliana Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubliana, SI (devised by Clémentine Deliss)

2018

CTG-R: Zimbabwe, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe
Material, Cob Gallery, London, UK
From Shape to Form, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, USA (curator: Jon Seals)
Jubileum Expo: 25 Jaar Readytex Art Gallery, Readytex Art Gallery, Paramaribo, Surinam

2017

While Meditating on War, CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam; Curator: Ronit Eden
X-C: Transference Between Neighbors, (with Clément Carat), WOW International, Amsterdam

2016

Exhibition of the IAOCA, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Japan
Zig Zag Zim, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, ZI (catalogue)
Zig Zag Zim part II, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York, New York
25 Years Contemporary Art in Suriname, Readytex Art Gallery, Paramaribo, Surinam; Curator: Sasha Dees

2015

Fictions and Constructions, Catinca Tabacaru, New York, NY

2014

It Begins on Paper, Catinca Tabacaru, New York, NY

2013

Ever Ours, Beethoven Festival: LOVE 2013, Chicago; curator: Catinca Tabacaru
Slideluck, Oglethorpe Gallery, Savannah, USA
THE SKETCHBOOK SHOW!!!, Ashmore Gallery, Savannah, USA

2012

META, Gallery 263, Cambridge, USA
Small Works 2012, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, USA
Cherchez La Vérité, The Porch, Savannah, USA
Little Beasts Gallery, Savannah, USA
Far From Home, Blue Gallery, Savannah, USA
THE SKETCHBOOK SHOW!!!, Little Beasts Gallery, Savannah, USA

2011

Drawing Works, Alexander Gallery, Savannah, USA

AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

2023

DucatoPrize (finalist), Piacenza (winner announced 9.2023)

2021

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize (shortlist), London

2016

Royal Award for Modern Painting (shortlist), Royal Palace Amsterdam, Netherlands

2015

Prix de Rome (Visual Arts nominee), The Mondriaan Fund, Netherlands

2012

Artistic Honors Scholarship, Savannah College of Art and Design

RESIDENCIES

2020

CTG ( R ): Romania, CTG Collective with Another Mobile Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

2019

CTG ( R ): Finland, CTG Collective at Serlachius Museums Residency, Mänttä, Finland

2018

CTG ( R ): Zimbabwe, CTG Collective in collaboration with Dzimbanhete Arts & Culture Interactions (DAI), Harare, Zimbabwe

2017

CTG ( R ): Zimbabwe, CTG Collective in collaboration with DAI, Harare, Zimbabwe
WOW Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2015

CTG ( R ): Zimbabwe CTG, Collective in collaboration with DAI, Harare, Zimbabwe

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Pérez Art Museum Miami
Fondation L’Art Est Vivant
National Gallery of Zimbabwe