Vertical lines — Renée van Oploo

Renée van Oploo
Fine artist & researcher

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

Artist Statement

My practice grows from a long-term interest in how people live together. I work between visual art, writing, research and education, with attention to the moral reflexes that shape everyday life. These reflexes appear in public space, in institutions, in domestic surroundings and in small social gestures. Doubt has become central in my practice. I use it to stay close to situations in which judgement, care and responsibility are unstable. I am interested in how a person’s position is never entirely their own, but formed through the conditions that shape everyday life. Through form and material, I bring research back into the work. Everyday surroundings can become a way to look at the structures underneath social life. My work traces how values settle into the places and objects around us, and how fragile the idea of living together can be.

Last Updated 07.08.25