ROBERT WILSON

Stage Director And Visual Artist

‘I rise up and walk with myself’.

Bob Wilson

Born in Waco, Texas, Robert Wilson is one of the world's leading theatrical and visual artists. His works for the stage embrace a wide range of artistic media, including dance, movement, lighting, sculpture, music and text. His images are aesthetically striking and emotionally charged, and his productions have won acclaim from audiences and critics around the world.

A major figure in the world of experimental theatre, Wilson explores the use of time and space on stage. Educated at the University of Texas and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, Wilson founded the New York performance collective The Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds in the mid-1960s and developed its first plays.

Wilson's close ties and collaborations with leading artists, writers and musicians continue to fascinate audiences worldwide. He has worked with Philip Glass, with whom he wrote the opera Einstein on the Beach (1976), and with Tom Waits, Susan Sontag, Laurie Anderson, William Burroughs, Lou Reed and Jessye Norman, among many others.

He has also left his mark on masterpieces such as Brecht/Weill's The Threepenny Opera, Debussy's Pelléas te Melisande, Goethe's Faust, Homer's Odyssey, La Fontaine's Fables, Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Verdi's La Traviata and several Shakespeare plays.

Wilson's drawings, paintings and sculptures have been presented around the world in hundreds of solo and group exhibitions, and his works are also held in private collections and museums worldwide. Wilson has been the recipient of numerous awards celebrating excellence, including a Pulitzer Prize nomination, two Ubu Awards, the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale and an Olivier Award.

Wilson is the founder and artistic director of The Watermill Center, a laboratory for the arts in Water Mill, New York.

Since the late 1960s, Robert Wilson's productions have decisively shaped the face of theatre and opera. Through his use of light, his inquiries into the structure of simple movement and the classical rigour of his stage and furniture design, Wilson has continually articulated the strength and originality of his vision.

Wilson Universe

EXHIBITION. Ivory: Black Panther

FROM 16 TO 26 MAR 2024—

Mirror Room

CONFERENCE

To be confirmed

At the Foyer

EXHIBITION. The Messiah Drawings

MAR 2024

Galeria Senda