Robin McBride

Born in Munich in 1962, the artist’s biography is shaped by a constellation marked by both photography and painting. He is the son of photographer Will McBride and the grandson of painter Paul Ernst Wilke. Early on, his artistic background is framed by an ongoing dialogue between image, gaze, and pictorial construction. After studying classical guitar at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, he developed his practice in drawing and painting as a self-taught artist.

At the core of his work lies an understanding of perception as a productive and structuring force. It is not a passive representation, but an active process of selection, condensation, and transformation. His works operate in the tension between observation and construction, immediacy and formal awareness. Art becomes a means of inscribing a human dimension into the fragmented experience of the contemporary world. It is a gesture of measure against dispersion, a way of giving form to the ambiguous. “Art is perception. Perception means giving the surrounding chaos a human measure.”

Robin lives in Ochsenfurt, Bavaria, and Casoli, Italy