Clock — Renée van Oploo

Renée van Oploo
Fine artist & researcher

info@reneevanoploo.nl
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BIO

As a visual artist I bring together practice and reflection, using installations, essays, workshops and collaborative projects to question how art might create space for shared experience and ethical thought. 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), and I work collectively as part of YAFF.

Artist Statement

An everyday object can open up broader reflections on moral questions. Take, for instance, the purchase of a vacuum cleaner: what begins as a practical consideration unfolds into a scene about ownership, aesthetics, ethics, and what ‘clean’ might truly mean. In my work, such questions take form through spatial and textual compositions, where the everyday and the philosophical meet and continue to unsettle one another.

I approach situations with lightness, keeping moral questions in motion rather than locking them into fixed positions. Doubt is an active principle in my practice. What counts as ‘good’ arises within political, legal, and social contexts, and is rarely neutral. I explore that tension not from a distance, but through my own lived experience, which becomes material for shaping larger questions.

Last Updated 07.08.25