Welcome to the Weird & Dirty — Renée van Oploo

Renée van Oploo

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

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

Research

A Head Massage Tool or a Crowbar (2025)
Research (EN)

Placemaking Common Good (2024)
Article (EN)

Workshops

Welcome to the Weird & Dirty (2025)

Convivial (g)Hosts (2025)

Writings

Gut Feeling (2025)
Essay (EN)

My Hygiene is (not) Your Hygiene (2024)
Essay (EN)

De ezel, de reiger en een vis (2018)
Short Story (NL)

Last Updated 07/08/2025

Workshop

Welcome to the Weird and the Dirty
Workshop in collaboration with Rob Leijdekkers, Sebastian Olma

A subversive design workshop that invited participants to embrace creative mess, alter egos, and material disruption. Through role-playing and hands-on making with second-hand clothing, participants explored alternative ways of creating by customising, deconstructing, and transforming garments. The workshop challenged conventional design processes and encouraged experimentation with hybrid and transdisciplinary methods, fostering new perspectives within critical and artistic practice.

Part of, among others, Studium Generale, St. Joost School of Art & Design