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).
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






The Blame Game
Board game, table, chairs

(2023)


Global climate change is an ever more significant factor in our lives. Glaciers are shrinking, animal species face extinction, and increasingly violent storms rage across land and sea. But who is responsible? Or what is responsible? And most importantly, where can we place the blame? In this game, multiple perspectives are combined to explore these abstract questions. It is your task to solve the question “Who’s to blame?!” within the fictional Blame.inc office.

This work was part of Expoplu Exchange, a programme organised by Expoplu in Nijmegen, created in collaboration with Stan Gonera, Koen Kiviets, Kurina Sohn, and Oscar Ekkelboom.

Within this exhibition, we explored our collaboration as a temporary company. Inspired by a five-day workweek, we organised a board meeting, job interviews, and a Friday afternoon social event during the five days of the exhibition.






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