Renée van Oploo





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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.
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, aethetics, 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
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Education

2007 ~ 2011 Interactive Design, SintLucas, Boxtel
2013 ~ 2017 BFA Fine Arts (cum laude), AKV|St. Joost School of Art & Design, ’s-Hertogenbosch
2020 ~ 2021 Pre-master Applied Ethics, Utrecht University
2021 ~ 2023 MA Applied Ethics, Utrecht University

Current or Upcoming

2025 Publication @ RUUKKU Journal: Dreaming the city for real – spaces of polyphony, dissonance and coexistence
2025 Land art festival Borkel & Schaft
2025 Participant in jump!
2023 Researcher, Artistic Research for Radical Nuance, CARADT
2023 Lecturer, Photography, Film & the Digital, St. Joost School of Art & Design
2025 Lecturer, Art & Research, Minor The Art of Living Together, St. Joost School of Art & Design
2021 Lecturer, Art & Research, St. Joost School of Art & Design
2017 Member of artist collective YAFF – Young Artists Feed Forward

Exhibitions and Projects (selection)

2025Group exhibition The Proof is in the Pudding, presenting the installation “Bottles” & the text “Gut Feeling”, Stadsgalerij, Breda
2024Group Exhibition in Murf/Murw festival, presenting the work “Thinking Landscape #3”, Tilburg
2024Exhibition at Vredenbergh, presenting various works, Breda
2023Kunstenfestival, presenting the work “Alma, Alma”, Borkel & Schaft (with YAFF)
2023Group exhibition Changing Perspectives, presenting the work “Leven-de Statistiek #7: Fixed Fiction”, Kunstgarage Franx, Zoetermeer
2022Duo exhibition with Eef Schoolmeesters, presenting the work “Moral Anatomy of an Artichoke”, Studio de Gruyter, Tilburg
2022Solo exhibition Tabula Rasa, presenting collective work, Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam (with YAFF)
2020Group exhibition and work period Who’s to Blame?, presenting the work “The Blame Game”, Expoplu Exchange, Nijmegen
2019Solo exhibition at VKK Arnhem during Open Monument Day, presenting the work “Een Denkend Landschap #1”, Arnhem
2018Solo exhibition I am Water, presenting multiple works under the overarching title, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam
2018Solo exhibition at VKK Arnhem during Open Monument Day
2018Group land art exhibition at Fort Sabina (BKKC), presenting the work “Song for the Earth”, Willemstad
2018Group exhibition Mixed Realities, presenting the work “A Cosmic Anxiety”, Albert van Abbehuis, Eindhoven
2018Group exhibition Aisle/ation, Amsterdam
2018Project and exhibition Invasive Exotic, as part of the art manifestation Charlois Speciaal, presented with YAFF, Rotterdam
2018Apprentice Master at Kunstpodium-T, presenting the work “My Heart is a Forest”, TAC, Eindhoven
2018Group exhibition Fresh Cacao, presenting the works “What Makes Falling So Appealing” and “A Cosmic Anxiety”, De Cacaofabriek, Helmond
2018Group exhibition Artspotting, presenting the works “What Makes Falling So Appealing”, “A Cosmic Anxiety” and “A State of Nature”, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam
2017Solo exhibition at VKK Arnhem during Open Monument Day, presenting the work “Salt of the Earth”, Arnhem
2017Group exhibition Exposed, presenting the work “What Makes Falling So Appealing”, Verkadefabriek, ’s-Hertogenbosch
2017Launch 2017, graduation show, presenting multiple works under the overarching title “Art Is Our Only Hope”, AKV|St. Joost, ’s-Hertogenbosch
2017Group exhibition Prelude, Tramkade, Academie voor Beeldvorming, ’s-Hertogenbosch
2017Group exhibition White House, Tramkade, Academie voor Beeldvorming, ’s-Hertogenbosch
2016Group exhibition White House, Tramkade, Academie voor Beeldvorming, ’s-Hertogenbosch

Artist in Residence

2025Artist in residence at Abdij Maria Toevlucht, Zundert
2025Artist in residence at EKWC – Europees Keramisch Werk Centrum, Oisterwijk
2023Artist in residence Emotioneel Landschap, Off Hook Gallery, Groningen (YAFF)
2023Artist in residence Alma, Alma, ’t Landje Art Initiative, Borkel & Schaft (YAFF)
2017Artist in residence It’s Not About What Happens – It’s How You Deal With It, St. Moritz Art Academy (CH)
2013Artist in residence at MIR Project, summer studio with Alphons ter Avest, www.mirproject.nl

Workshops, Talks and Lectures (selection)

2025Workshop Welcome to the (Regenerative) Weird & Dirty, Studium Generale, St. Joost, Breda
2025Poster presentation A Head Massage Tool or a Crowbar? Toolbox for the Evaluation of Art in Public Spaces, International Conference on Artistic Research, Porto (PT)
2024Workshop Convivial (g)Hosts, River Summer Camp, Stuttgart (DE)
2021Lecture and performance Anatomy of Power, presented as part of Culturale, Boxtel (YAFF)
2020Workshop Filleting & Tradition, part of Ritme van de Stad, Studio Stadslab, Bergen op Zoom (YAFF)
2019Workshop A Thinking Landscape, as part of Land Art project Dal van de Kleine Beerze, Vessem
2019Public debate Artist Initiatives, Club Solo Avond (YAFF)
2019Workshop Everything’s Fine, Right?!, AKV|St. Joost (YAFF)
2019Workshop What’s Yyoouurr Problem, Digital Bauhaus Summit, Weimar (YAFF)

Publications, Grants and Nominations

2024Essay My Hygiene is (not) Your Hygiene, published in Thought Magicians
2024Essay My Hygiene is (not) Your Hygiene, published in Murf/Murw Magazine #16
2024Grant awarded by Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
2024Grant awarded by EKWC – Europees Keramisch Werk Centrum
2022Support from Pictoright Support Fund
2020Guest appearance in the talk show Kom op Verhaal Café, Omroep Dommelland, Boxtel
2020Featured in Dal van de Kleine Beerze - Land Art, Vessem
2020Opening speech by Zippora Elders, for solo exhibition at De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam
2017Publication Fresh Cacao, with contribution by Manus Groenen
2017Metropolis M Graduation Special, article by Zoë Dankert
2017Nomination for the Lucas Prize, AKV|St. Joost, ’s-Hertogenbosch

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