Xavier Robles de Medina

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Xavier Robles de Medina is an artist and writer working at the intersection of visual art and research-based approaches. Informed by his creolized queer subjectivity, he explores linkages between personal history and broader contexts, often deliberately disrupting linear readings. Rooted in a methodical process of collecting and curating found images and texts, his process builds on the appropriation art tradition of borrowing existing materials to generate new meanings. These materials, laden with historical and cultural resonance, are re-contextualized and collaged to create meticulously crafted works that are mathematically precise yet imbued with lyrical depth, straddling the poetic and the political.

Recent solo exhibitions include Tetris Effect with Catinca Tabacaru Gallery at Art Basel Paris [2024]; Love is not a maybe thing …, Efremidis, Berlin [2024]; I will go away into the wild wood, and never come home again, Alice Amati, London [2023]; What if the tongue is cut out? with Catinca Tabacaru Gallery at Art Basel, Hong Kong [2022]; Faya Lobi, Praz-Delavallade, Paris [2020]; and Wan Destination Wanhoop, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia [2020]. In 2024 he published his first monograph, Pengel (coy koi books, Berlin), detailing the creation of a three and a half meter tall bronze sculpture of Surinamese politician Johan Adolf Pengel by his grandfather, the Surinamese visual artist Stuart Robles de Medina. He is the recipient of the 2025 Krull Arbeitsstipendium.