Nicolás Robbio (Mar del Plata, Argentina, 1975) lives and works between Buenos Aires and São Paulo. His multidisciplinary practice spans drawing, sculpture, installation, artist books, and editions, exploring the structures of everyday objects and examining how systems of representation shape our perception of the world.
“Using lines, cuts, and superimpositions, my work seeks to bring new meanings to the structure of ordinary objects. Everything is two-dimensional: schemes, outlines, and empty spaces form an endless repertoire of notes on everyday objects. My notebooks include sequences of drawings, generally composed of simple lines, superimposed transparencies, and schematic cuts of objects that contain or are contained within one another. As each drawing attempts to synthesize as much as possible the structure of real objects, their superimposition in irregular layers suggests narratives, combinations, and, ultimately, new perspectives on those same objects.” Nicolás Robbio
Selected solo and group exhibitions include Hecho en Cuba, Colegio San Alejandro, Havana; Avalanche, International Studio Program, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2007); Indirections, Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia; and the 28th São Paulo Biennial, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo (2008). In 2009, he participated in Emissores Reunidos [Episódio 1]: O Amanhã de ontem não é hoje at Fundação Serralves, Porto. Other notable exhibitions include Every Body Knows, Galerie Invaliden, Berlin (2013); Global Practices: Art from Latin America in the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, CIFO Art Space, Miami (2013); Contemporary Art from the 10th FEMSA Monterrey Biennial, Monterrey (2013); Medos Modernos, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, and Imagine Brazil, MAC Lyon (2014); Observações de uma realidade sincopada, Pavilhão Branco – Galerias Municipais, Lisbon (2015); Plano Expandido: questões ao traçar uma linha, SESC Pompeia, São Paulo (2016); Ejercicios de resistencia, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2017); Três de espadas, Museu Sívori, Buenos Aires (2019); and La vigilia de las cosas, Museo Histórico Nacional, Buenos Aires (2021). More recently, his work was featured in ARGENTINA: What the Night Tells the Day at PAC Milano (2023), followed by presentations at Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, and MAR – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Mar del Plata (2024). In 2025, he participated in La Rebelión de la Basura at BIENALSUR, Rosario, and MAM São Paulo na Pinacoteca do Ceará: Figura e Paisagem, Palavra e Imagem at Pinacoteca do Ceará, Fortaleza.
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