Rene De Rooze

Rene the Rooze was born in Amsterdam 1955, but grew up in the beautiful albeit poor paradise of Dutch New Guinea. The jungle started 100 metres from his home and its colours, the heat, the indigenous people and the smells of the many tropical fruits and plants make up his earliest memories.
Then, on a cold rainy day in 1961 he arrived with his family in Rotterdam after a boat journey of over six weeks. Shortly after their arrival his mother died of cancer. Both experience that made a mark on his life.
Since, Rene de Rooze has travelled far and wide. Every travel was a search for a lost culture and lost colours and a one year stay in Jerusalem was part of that search.
In recent years Rene has started to explore the influence of his past and tries to fit elements of these early memories into his attitude towards contemporary visual art in Western Europe. He attempts to make a fresh start and to discard unnecessary baggage by forgetting what he has learned at the Academy of Arts and after.
What he learned was useful in wielding the modern visual language. However, Rene remained conscious of other elements from long ago and far away, that did not seem to fit in. By removing this excess baggage and letting go of concepts, these ...

1984-1985 Art History at the RUG. te Groningen
1980-1982 CPDB curriculum at ABK Minerva. (teachers license)
1975-1980 ABK Minerva, Groningen (Art Academy Minerva)
1967-1973 HBS-b at the Rijnlands Lyceum te Oegstgeest

2021 Mark Chagall Museum, Vitebsk, Belarus.
2020 Bart Art Box, Thesinge, Groningen
2018 “Vexillum Patriae”, Kunsttorentje , Almelo
2018 Marc Chagall Museum, Vitebsk, Belarus. 4th Marc Chagall Seminar.
2017 Community Art Project with ART4City and Pushkinskaya10, St Petersburg, Russia
2016 "Galaxis Coincidentia" at Bloemrijk Vertrouwen, Aldstjerk
2016 "Galaxis Coincidentia", at Kunstingang, Ten Kate, Ter Apelkanaal
2016 "Свобода, ведущая народ", Portiersloge , Groningen
2016 "Investigation" at SMAHK, Assen
2015 "Der Fremde in Mir II, SKPN, Groningen
2015 "Der Fremde in Mir", SMAHK, Assen
2014 "NUR NUR II", Kunsttorentje, Almelo
2013 "Galaxis Coincidentia", Hilton Hotel Gallery, Malmo, Sweden
2012 "Galaxis Coincidentia", Hilton Hotel Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012 "00", Galerie T.A.S, Groningen
2012 "Galaxis Coincidentia",Portiersloge,Groningen
2011 "Nur Nur", Kunstprojecten Noorderstation, Groningen
2010 “Sehnsuchtsorte II”, Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum, Emden, Germany
2010 “Nurart” Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin
2010 “BurqaBlues”, Portie...