Ron Blom

audiovisual - community - conceptual - installation - mural

'art provides tools and materials to learn to think for yourself'

I am a philosophizing artist with a 'social practice'. I work as a city improver and
video maker. My oeuvre has an ethical and socially engaged dimension.
My projects, films and exhibitions move on the edge of art and
life, because they have a distinct social component.
Much of my work is aimed at creating or researching public space, living and working in the city.

As a city improver I work with video, art and media to make an active contribution to developments in the city. I connect the knowledge and insights of my architecture and urban design education with my experience and current activities as an artist / filmmaker.
My work takes place in the public space, on the street, websites and local
television or as part of a thematic, cultural program.
Only rarely is it presented in traditional art spaces.


(W) Here are you

Exhibition / presentation

  • 01-01-2020 t/m 09-02-2020
  • Location: BLAAK HOUSE, Rotterdam
  • The installation '(W)Here are you' is handling about the concept of gentrification in big cities in Europe. The material for the installation (brick stones) are found in 'Middelland' in Rotterdam an area gentrifying because of the politics of the city and the development of the housing market. The stapled stones of the sculpture #zentrification do express the vulnerable balance of the gentrifying neighbourhoods.
  • https://ronunlimited.com/portfolio/blog/2020/02/08/where-are-you/

Acknowledgments

    Publication
  • one step beyond | there is more between heaven and earth

  • 2021
  • book
  • own edition the meeting for art & culture - Willem van Hest
    Publication
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