Robert Janitz (b. 1962 in Alsfeld, Germany) lives and works between Mexico City and New York City. He studied Ethnology, Comparative Religion, Indology, and Art History at the Philipps University in Marburg, Germany.

Robert Janitz is known for his large abstract paintings for which he uses oil in combination with wax and flour on a monochrome background. Robert Janitz's unique language of abstract painting is based on a restricted vocabulary of elements: gradient backgrounds and vertical stripes that reflect a steady and methodical movement against their surfaces. The gestural traces of Janitz’s forms operate according to complementary sets of limits – the edge of each canvas and the reach of an individual body. In this way, Janitz’s practice is deeply performative, each singular painting functioning as a kind of transparent document of the actions that were used to create it. This site reunites Robert’s last 18 years exhibitions, delighting an evolution on artistry and a dialogue between artworks and places.