Artist, curator, activist, socio-cultural animator, exhibition space designer. His interests include issues of society as an object of manipulation in the context of concepts related to religion, nation, or race. From the very beginning, he has criticized Polish Catholicism, its superficiality and hypocrisy. In many cases, his artistic language is based on kitsch, which he merges with "national" symbols. Religion is only an element of a complicated structure, just as important as economics, politics, or social dysfunctions.

   The interdisciplinary output of Robert Rumas involves multiple themes, often based on a specific historical, social, political, or cultural context. For more than a decade, he has been intervening in the urban social tissue, expanding the scope of his search, annexing the complicated urban space treated holistically.
In Poland, he has presented his work at the Zachęta gallery, the National Gallery of Art at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, the Museum of Art in Łódź, the National Museum in Warsaw. He has taken part in many major exhibitions, including at the Kunst- und Ausstellungshale in Bonn, Moderna Musset in Stockholm, Contemporary Art Centre in Moscow, Kunsthalle in Vienna, Berlin, and Hamburg.

   Next to his artistic activity, since 2004 he has been an organizer of space and stage designer for multimedia and theatre shows. He works with theatres in Wrocław, Kraków's Stary Teatr, Gdańsk's Teatr Wybrzeże, and the Teatr Narodowy in Warsaw.

   At the Polish National Opera, he prepared the stage design for Xenakis' Oresteia directed by Michał Zadara (2010).


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