CV — Renée van Oploo

Renée van Oploo
Fine artist & researcher

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

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

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

2026	Publication @ RUUKKU Journal: Dreaming the city for real – spaces of polyphony, dissonance and coexistence
2025 - now	Participant in jump!
2023 - now	Researcher, Artistic Research for Radical Nuance, CARADT
2023 - now	Lecturer, Photography, Film & the Digital, St. Joost School of Art & Design
2025 - now	Lecturer, Art & Research, Minor The Art of Living Together, St. Joost School of Art & Design
2021 - now	Lecturer, Art & Research, St. Joost School of Art & Design
2017 - now	Member of artist collective YAFF – Young Artists Feed Forward

Exhibitions and Projects (selection)

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

Artist in Residence

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

Workshops, Talks and Lectures (selection)

2026	Myse en Abym [Workshop]. In Bestaat de (fe)male gaze?, Mezz, Breda, the Netherlands. https://instituteofassociations.com/devijfontmoetingen
2025	Imagining Uncertainty: Beyond Measurable Futures [Conference presentation], PIONEER SDG11 Winter School, Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany. https://www.th-koeln.de/en/international_office/pioneer-winter-school_124837.php
2025	Culture is not an industry [Panel conversation], with Justin O’Connor, Clublokaal, Breda, the Netherlands.
2025	Welcome to the (regenerative) weird & dirty [Workshop], Studium Generale, St. Joost, Breda, the Netherlands.
2025	A head massage tool or a crowbar? Toolbox for the evaluation of art in public spaces [Poster presentation], International Conference on Artistic Research, Porto, Portugal.
2024	Convivial (g)hosts [Workshop], River Summer Camp, Stuttgart, Germany.
2021	Anatomy of power [Lecture-performance], Culturale, Boxtel, the Netherlands. (YAFF)
2020	Filleting & tradition [Workshop], Ritme van de Stad, Studio Stadslab, Bergen op Zoom, the Netherlands. (YAFF)
2019	A thinking landscape [Workshop], Land Art project Dal van de Kleine Beerze, Vessem, the Netherlands.
2019	Artist initiatives [Public debate], Club Solo Avond, Breda, the Netherlands. (YAFF)
2019	Everything’s fine, right?! [Workshop], AKV\|St. Joost, Breda, the Netherlands. (YAFF)
2019	What’s yyoouurr problem [Workshop], Digital Bauhaus Summit, Weimar, Germany. (YAFF)

Publications

2026	Imagining Uncertainty: Beyond Measurable Futures [Conference paper]. In E. Permin & C. F. Dall’Omo (Eds.), Towards safe, resilient and sustainable cities: Proceedings of the PIONEER SDG11 Winter School, Cologne University of Applied Sciences.
2025	Subverting “Creative Placemaking:” How a Berlin Art Stunt Turned into a Model for Democratic Urban Development [Article], by S. Olma & R. van Oploo, published in Institute of Network Cultures.
2024	My Hygiene is (not) Your Hygiene [Essay], published in Thought Magicians.
2024	My Hygiene is (not) Your Hygiene [Essay], published in Murf/Murw Magazine #16.

Grants and Nominations

2024	Grant awarded by Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.
2024	Grant awarded by PPO.
2024	Grant awarded by EKWC – Europees Keramisch Werk Centrum.
2022	Support from Pictoright Support Fund.
2020	Kom op Verhaal Café, guest appearance, Omroep Dommelland, Boxtel, the Netherlands.
2020	Dal van de Kleine Beerze – Land Art, featured contribution, Vessem, the Netherlands.
2020	Opening speech for solo exhibition at De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (by Zippora Elders).
2017	Fresh Cacao, publication with contribution by Manus Groenen.
2017	Metropolis M Graduation Special, article by Zoë Dankert.
2017	Nomination for the Lucas Prize, AKV\|St. Joost, ’s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.