About Renee

ABOUT RENEE VAN BAVEL.

In her work, the Berlin-based Dutch artist Renee van Bavel deals with the themes of peace, freedom, democracy and human connection. By using various art forms, she initiates ways to approach and experience these topics at a personal level, as is emphatically shown in her space-encompassing work of art THE MIRROR OF PEACE. The viewers see themselves reflected in full size and read a text saying: “This is what people living in peace look like.” It becomes instantly clear that a life lived in peace cannot be taken for granted, and that we must act consciously—every day—to preserve this peace.

From 2022 – 2024 she worked as Artist in Residence at the Memorial Sites Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück where she developed new forms of remembering through the medium of art.

For many years she has also written songs for international commemorative events, including for the Parliamentarians’ House in Berlin, the Berlin Wall Foundation and the Ministry of Defence in the Netherlands and she has performed several times for the Dutch King Willem-Alexander and German President Joachim Gauck, and the current German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.