Renée van Oploo
Fine artist & researcher




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BIO

I am a visual artist, lecturer and researcher. I teach in the Art & Research programme (since 2021) and Photography, Film & the Digital (since 2023) 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 a member of the art collective YAFF and the art alliance The Long Tail of Art.

My artistic practice centres on the relationship between art, shared experience and ethical reflection. Through installations, essays, workshops and collaborative projects, I develop situations in which artistic practice creates space for collective inquiry into current dilemmas in art, education and society, and the assumptions and reflexes that shape them. I hold a background in Fine Arts (cum laude, St. Joost School of Art & Design) and Applied Ethics (MA, Utrecht University).
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

 



Fundament
Corten steel and steel
130 (W) x 200 (D) x 70 (H)

(2020)
This artwork is inspired by the transformation and spatial development of a natural area near Vessem. In this process, the river has been restored to a meandering course after being straightened since the 1970s due to intensive agriculture, which disrupted the natural landscape. The Fundament represents human impact on the landscape. The steel map weaves together the old and new river courses. This two-part artwork comprises an engraving, created during the workshop A Thinking Landscape with various stakeholders and an object made of stainless and corten steel that reflects both the transformation and the landscape’s memory.

Part of Land Art route in Vessem as part of Land Art in the Beerzedal





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