Rene Castelijn

photography - conceptual - crossover - experimental - collaboration

Rene Castelijn is a Rotterdam-based visual artist working in the field of conceptual photography and Image manipulation. His work is a photographic investigation into the State of Being of Western Man.


2008 Nostalgia – Photo Exhibition Bulgaria

Exhibition / presentation

  • 01-01-2008 t/m 13-01-2008
  • Location: Wereldwaag, Dordrecht
  • Around the start of the new millennium until 2008 I searched for a disappearing Bulgaria in analog black and white reportage images.

Mein Anxiety / Solo Exhibition

Exhibition / presentation

  • 01-09-2007 t/m 08-09-2007
  • Location: Dom Kino, St Petersburg
  • Short series of images that evolve around the concept of fear.

KUKARO Art Rooms Rotterdam/ Redefining the Aquarium

Exhibition / presentation

  • 01-01-2011 t/m 20-02-2011
  • Location: Noordereiland Art Route, Rotterdam
  • In my youth my father, and all of his Friends, had an aquarium, it became the starting point for Kukaro.

2013 King for a day/Photo Series

Task

  • 30-04-2013 t/m 12-05-2013
  • Location: Aunt Nino/Noordereiland, Rotterdam
  • Photo series around the change of rule from Beatrix to Willem Alexander. I asked people to pose as king and queen. The series were an assignment form the Sub-municipality Feyenoord. Large prints were shown at the artspace of Tante Nino.

2013 Group Exhibition Cromagnon

Exhibition / presentation

  • 09-08-2013 t/m 12-08-2013
  • Location: Ne Studios Noordereiland, Rotterdam
  • Cromagnon is the collaboration with The work of Cromagnon is a photographic investigation into the State of Being of Western Man. Cromagnon insists in creating images that focus on the very basics of Man, hence the Cromagnon.

Cromagnon KOMO series

Exhibition / presentation

  • 04-05-2016 t/m 18-05-2016
  • Location: Mediawall Rotterdam Schouwburg, Rotterdam
  • programmed exhibition on the media wall of the Rotterdamse Schouwburg. Cromagnon is the collaboration of Rene Castelijn and Raymond de Vries. The work of Cromagnon is a photographic investigation into the State of Being of Western Man. In the Rotterdam Schouwburg Komo Cromagnon was projected on the media wall.

Yakushima

Exhibition / presentation

  • 01-08-2017 t/m 22-08-2017
  • Location: Kunstkamer PlanT, Antwerp
  • Expo about Yakushima. an island in the Japanese archipelago, filled with ancient trees. The exposition was a collaboration with Dutch/Bulgarian Artist Violina Jeliazkova

GRAW - Great Rotterdam Atelier Weekend 2020

Exhibition / presentation

  • 26-09-2020 t/m 27-09-2020
  • Location: Atelier Rene Castelijn, Rotterdam
  • 2020 GRAW - Atelier Exhibition During my photo exhibition at GRAW 2020 I asked people to just sit in the glowing light of an old Philips infraphil lamp, while I filmed them in my studio. The result was shown at GRAW 2021

GRAW - Great Rotterdam Atelier Weekend 2021

Exhibition / presentation

  • 25-09-2021 t/m 26-09-2021
  • Location: Atelier Rene Castelijn, Rotterdam
  • During GRAW 2021 I had another collaboration with Bulgarian Artist Violina Jeliazkova. She showed photographs inspired by Japan. I showed my first steps in a cross media experiment.