Róbert was born in Hnúšt', in the Likier district. Hnúšt'a is a small town in central Slovakia. He spent his childhood and adolescence, or the first 18 years of his life, in an orphanage. Throughout his childhood he underwent difficult trials in life because he was different.

"The orphanage was an unhealthy and dangerous place. There I learned that the strong must help the weak, but only until you are completely starved. That's when you have to learn to take what you need and run fast."

"I was always open whether I wanted to be or not. I don't know any other way. It sizzles and burns inside me. The others had no choice but to kick me or accept me. I'm true to my body and my soul, I won't deny those even on the gallows."

Róbert acknowledges all of the largely unpleasant experiences he has faced because of his identity, but he is proud to admit that all of these experiences have pushed him tremendously.

"An orphanage doesn't teach you these things, it doesn't help, it doesn't solve. You're there for yourself. You simply learn to translate your idea of life as you see it in your environment. I didn't see much there, so I made up my own idea and went by it. Help yourself or run away. That was my forte. Today, I'm a good runner, but I'm also a helper."

A chance to see and feel all this will be his recently completed series "ERROR" which won the Jindřich Chalupecký Award at the Moravian Gallery in Brno, in which he explores the theme of Roma non-binary queer corporeality and the kind of safe space they acutely need for healing physical and mental wounds and traumas. "The main thing is connecting, and creating some (I won't reveal yet what kind of) safe space for them."

"I want to fill that space exclusively with us, but I want other alliances to start talking and acting. Because if we don't do it, no one will do it for us."