Born in Vienna, Robert Stadler studied design at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan, followed by studies at ENSCI/Les Ateliers in Paris. In 1992 he co-founded the RADI DESIGNERS group and has been working solo since 2000. Besides his practical activities, Robert Stadler regularely devotes time to teaching. In 2009 he was a guest professor at the HFBK in Hamburg.

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 work of art or 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, FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais. He works for clients such as Académie des César, Costes group, Dior, Orange, Ricard and Take 5 Editions. Stadler is represented by Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris and Carpenters Workshop gallery in London.