Rene Castelijn

fotografie - conceptueel - cross-over - experimenteel - samenwerking

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


2008 Nostalgia – Photo Exhibition Bulgaria

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 01-01-2008 t/m 13-01-2008
  • Locatie: 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 Angst / Solo Exhibition

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

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

KUKARO Kunstkamers Rotterdam/ Redefining the Aquarium

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 01-01-2011 t/m 20-02-2011
  • Locatie: Kunstroute Noordereiland, 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/PhotoSeries

Opdracht

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

2013 Group Exhibition Cromagnon

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 09-08-2013 t/m 12-08-2013
  • Locatie: Ne Studios Noordereiland, Rotterdam
  • Cromagnon is the collaboration with The work of Cromagnon is a photographical 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

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

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

Yakushima

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

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

GRAW - Groot Rotterdams Atelier Weekend 2020

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 26-09-2020 t/m 27-09-2020
  • Locatie: 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 - Groot Rotterdams Atelier Weekend 2021

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 25-09-2021 t/m 26-09-2021
  • Locatie: 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.