Renée van Oploo

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info@reneevanoploo.nl
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works may be for sale

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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.

Overview

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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

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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

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Installations & artworks

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Pan Colon(s)
Ceramics, various dimensions

(2025 )
With Pan Colon(s) I seek a personal, experimental reflection on a specific part of the body: the colon. This organ marks the final stage where everything the body has absorbed leaves as waste. The colon is an organ we feel; it can cramp, rumble, behave unpredictably or fall ill. The abdominal area is also where emotions arise and intuitive decisions are felt. One of the sculptures twists like a living being, searching for something new. Another moves nowhere, trapped in an endless repetition. A third shows signs of decay: perforated, necrotic, as if no longer able to fulfil its function. Perhaps it reflects a broader societal imbalance, or maybe it is just a gut feeling.

Created at EKWC with support from Cultuurfonds and PPO