Robert Stadler studied design at IED and at ENSCI in Paris where in 1992 he co-founded the Radi Designers. The group was active until 2008. Since 2000, Robert Stadler has lived and worked solo in Paris.
His works
Robert Stadler intervenes in very diverse fields, obliterating all hierarchies between free proposals, industrial and public commissions.
He explores the exhibition space in order to scramble the usual categories of art and design. He questions the status of the object as a work of art or a product as well as the border between preciousness and lowliness, elegance and vulgarity, the serious and the absurd. Questioning the object’s identity or even provoking their dissolution, are fields of interest crossing most of his projects.
His work is present in several private and public collections such as Fondation Cartier, FNAC (Fonds national d'art contemporain), FRAC (Fonds régional d'art contemporain) Nord-Pas de Calais. He is represented by Carpenters Workshop Gallery and Galerie TripleV. He works for clients such as the Académie des César, Beaumarly, Dior, Hermès, Nissan, Orange, Ricard et Thonet.
In 2012 Robert Stadler received the "Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'Intelligence de la main" together with Siegeair's craftsmen. In 2014 his monography "Robert Stadler Invasive Shifting Absurd Exercise" was published by Editions de la Martinière.
In 2015 Robert Stadler exhibits his "Airspace" collection at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris. The collection is presented by two series: 'cut_paste' and 'PdT'. The series of structural objects are made from an arrangement of composite panels typically used for façades, along with sheets of marble attached to aluminium honeycomb. The first series, titled 'cut_paste', takes inspiration from “the recuperation of an imaginary building site”, - says Stadler. Different types of marble are juxtaposed to look deliberately haphazard, recalling random pieces of discarded material that are retrieved and then fashioned together. Stadler explains that the name of the second series 'PdT' comes from pierre de taille, which describes the way that blocks of limestone were cut and glued together. "These two series occupy the space in totally different ways,” says Stadler. “One is the logic of adding panels, so it’s very visually light and the air will be able to flow through it. The other is just the opposite—it’s massive, and the air will have to blow around it". In some ways the two new series might appear to be an evolution of past projects, like last year’s "Traits d’union" public art commission, or the beautiful marble Exercise series, the BDC side table, or the aluminium works in a previous show in Vienna “Back in 5 Min”.
Selected works
QUIZ 2 - Based on an Idea by Robert Stadler, MUDAM, Luxembourg, 2016.
L'Usage des formes, exhibition design, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2015.
QUIZ - Based on an Idea by Robert Stadler, Galerie Poirel, Nancy, 2014.
Hermès - Le temps à l'œuvre, traveling exhibition design, 2013-2014.
Tephra formations, a play with Philippe Katerine, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris, 2013.
Traits d'union, public commission for l'Ensemble Poirel, Nancy, 2013.
Corso, design of six restaurants in Paris since 2007.
107, bistro chair, edited by Thonet, 2011.
Prix Daniel Toscan du Plantier, best producer trophy, awarded by the Académie des César, 2008.
?, light installation in Saint-Paul Saint-Louis Church, Nuit Blanche Paris 2007.
(in French) Pélegrin-Genel, Élisabeth (2016). Comment (se) sauver (de) l’open-space. Marseille: Editions Parenthèses. pp. 58–61.
(in English)(in French)Robert Stadler Invasive Shifting Absurd Exercise. Paris: Editions de la Martinière. 2014.
(in German) Hesse, Petra; Beyerle, Tulga (2013). Isn't it romantic? (exhibition catalogue). Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König. pp. 27, 28.
Bony, Anne (2013). Esprit du meuble et du design, l'évolution esthétique de l'Antiquité à nos jours (in French). Paris: Editions du Regard. pp. 167, 188, 189.
Plunkett, Drew; Reid, Olga (2013). Detail in Contemporary Bar and Restaurant Design. Laurence King Publishing. pp. 20–23.
(in German) von Borries, Friedrich; Fezer, Jesko (2013). Weil Design die Welt verändert...Texte zur Gestaltung. Berlin: Gestalten. pp. 240–245.
Two Points.Net (2012). Pretty Ugly - Visual Rebellion in Design. Berlin: Gestalten. pp. 126, 127, 158, 159.
Boudier, Laurent (2011). Les objets fous d'artistes (in French). Paris: Hoëbeke. pp. 18, 19, 78, 79.
Hackenschmidt, Sebastian; Rübel, Dietmar; Noever, Peter (2008). Formlose Möbel, Formless Furniture (exhibition catalogue). Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag. pp. 49, 135.
Klanten, Robert; Ehmann, Sven; Kupetz, Andrej; Moreno, Shonquis; Mollard, Adeline (2008). Desire, The Shape of Things to Come. Berlin: Gestalten. pp. 8, 208, 267.
Gaillemin, Jean-Louis (2007). Design contre design: deux siècles de création (in French). Paris: RMN Réunion des Musées Nationaux. p. 229.
Lovell, Sophie; Klanten, Robert; Meyer, Birga (2007). Furnish: Furniture and Interior Design for the 21st Century. Berlin: Gestalten. pp. 47, 67, 145, 148, 149, 154, cover.
Pécoil, Vincent; Vadrot, Olivier (2007). The Freak Show (exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art Lyon) (in French). Paris: Les presses du réel. p. 76.
Couturier, Elisabeth (2006). Le Design hier, aujourd'hui, demain, mode d'emploi (in French). Paris: Editions Filipacchi. pp. 57, 58.
Fairs, Marcus (2006). Twenty-first Century Design, new design icons from mass market to avant-garde. London: Carlton Books. pp. 224, 225.
Remakers, Renny; ten Arve, Wendel (2004). Design etc., Open Borders - Droog Event 01. Editions Lille. p. 68.
Buisson, Françoise (2001). Un art populaire (exhibition catalogue) (in French). Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris in association with Actes Sud, Arles. pp. 162–165.
(in English)(in French) Radi Designers (1999). Réalité fabriquée. Actes Sud, Arles in association with Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris.
