Bottles — Renée van Oploo

Renée van Oploo

info@reneevanoploo.nl
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INSTALLATIONS & ART
RESARCH, WORKSHOPS & WRITINGS
ANIMATED PROJECTS

BIO

I am a Dutch artist whose practice combines making and thinking. Through installations, essays, and collaborative projects, I explore how art can open space for ethical reflection and collective experience. Alongside my practice I teach at St. Joost School of Art & Design and conduct research at the Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology (CARADT). I am also part of YAFF, an artists’ collective.

Overview

Pan Colon(s)
Bottles
Thinking Landscape #2
A Moral Anatomy of an Artichoke
Living Statistic #7 - Fixed Fiction
Border of Europe
The Blame Game
Fundament & Thinking Landscape #1
I am Water
Song for the Earth
Salt of the Earth
Art is Our Only Hope

Animation overview

Little Flake, Little Hair, Little Booger
None of this was my choice (I)
None of this was my choice (II)
What makes falling so appealing
Deep blue
My heart is a forest
A State of Nature
A Cosmic Anxiety

Installations & artworks

Bottles
Porcelain, various bottle like size

(2025)

In a world where we are constantly yearning for the next big thing, we are lured into self-numbing. The porcelain bottles symbolise these addictions: for some it's alcohol, for others work, and for others still, running. These bottles have been silenced—made of porcelain and rendered unusable. They shine like desirable objects, like trinkets. Created using seven different moulds, one for each day of the week, they reflect a rhythm in our existence.

Exhibited @ Stadsgalerij Breda