We give a survey on recent results on the physics of black holes in four-dimensional anti-de Sitter space. In particular, we present a general recipe for constructing rotating black holes in N=2 matter-coupled gauged supergravity. Several physical aspects of these solutions are discussed, like their thermodynamics and dual hydrodynamical interpretation. It turns out that there exist new exotic black holes whose horizon is a noncompact manifold with finite volume. Finally, we show how to construct multi-centered black hole solutions in anti-de Sitter space.