Renée van Oploo
Fine artist & researcher



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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).
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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


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      



    
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
      Pan Colon (1)
      Ceramics, dimension: 180x30x25    
      Pan Colon (3)
      Ceramics, dimension: 80x80x25    
      Pan Colon (4)
      Ceramics, dimension: 60x120x40    
      Pan Colon (2)
      Ceramics, dimension: 190x60x25    
      Pan Colon (5)
      Ceramics, dimension: 110x100 x30    
      Glaze detail    
      
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