At birth you are a promise but at the same time also the greatest possible risk
Renée van Trier, a transdisciplinary artist, highlights the discrepancies between reality and appearances to address what we’d rather conceal from the outside world.
Inspired by Tik Tok and Instagram, Renée van Trier seeks to portray a masked vulnerability in an age where nothing is as it seems.
By exploring the darker side of humans and their own image in a visual universe at first glance light-hearted and innocent, she also questions our attraction to certain types of content and what lies behind them. She uses, among other things, the figure of the dolphin who initially seems friendly, but turns out to be particularly dangerous and perverse.
Maintaining the unease of this tragicomedy, Renée van Trier confronts us with our complex use of digital media and invites us to look behind our armour. Are we still authentic and capable of genuine human interaction? Can we still face the problems of the real-world?

Renée van Trier (1983) is a musician, performer and painter.
After graduating from Sint Lucas Graphic Design in Boxtel, St Joost Fine Arts in Breda, she obtained a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam.
She continued her training with a residency at the Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles), then at the CEAC Center (Xiamen, China).
Van Trier has been selected for the Mondriaan Fund Stipendium for Established Artists (2019-2021).
She has exhibited at Arsenic Theater (Lausanne), Centre Pompidou (Paris),
Stedelijk Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Showroom MAMA (Rotterdam)
and Albert van Abbehuis (Eindoven).
She has performed at the Incubate Festival (Tilburg), Paradiso (Amsterdam), Grimm Museum (Berlin), Bad Bonn Kilbi Festival (Düdingen), MADHOUSE (Helsinki), Gare Du Nord (Basel), Pukkelpop (Hasselt), WORM (Rotterdam), and Les Urbaines (Lausanne).
As a musician, she was part of the Milligram Retreat duo.
Parallel to her personal work, she composes musical pieces for theatre and dance performances.
www.reneevantrier.nl/