Andrea Robbins (born 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts) and Max Becher (born 1964 in Düsseldorf) are U.S.-based visual artists. They have worked collaboratively since they met at the Cooper Union in New York in 1984. They married in 1988.
Andrea Robbins received her BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art and then attended Hunter College School of Art, both in New York City. Max Becher received his BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art, and his MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
Robbins and Becher employ photography, video and other digital media to document what they term "the transportation of place," situations in which one place or culture strongly resembles another distant one. Their conception of place often includes such notions as location in time, positions of ideology and cultural identity. Past subjects of their work have included German colonial towns in Namibia; Germans who dress as Native Americans; descendants of freed American slaves in the Dominican Republic; a Brooklyn Hasidic headquarters building that has been copied and rebuilt around the world; the relocated London Bridge in Lake Havasu, Arizona; the replication of Venice at The Venetian, Las Vegas; and the enduring culture of African American cowboys.
The work of Robbins and Becher has been exhibited and collected by art museums such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, (New York, NY and Bilbao, Spain), the Whitney Museum of American Art, (New York, NY), the Jewish Museum (New York, NY), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL.), the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, IL), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (Barcelona, Spain),Maison européenne de la photographie (Paris, France), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum Kunstpalast (Düsseldorf, Germany), and the (Cologne, Germany). Their work has been reviewed or featured in publications such as Artforum, Art in America, Art News, Blindspot Magazine, October, Art on Paper, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Die Zeit, Welt am Sonntag, and many others.