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2026Between 2019 and 2025 I prioritized family and my law practice, and did not work on my art practice. I look forward to become actively engaged again; I have missed it.

Olivier Oosterbaan


* 1977 (Paris), 2002 graduated from Duke Law (LLM), 2014 graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academie (BFA), based in Amsterdam oo@olivieroosterbaan.com @olivier_ooooo

work from 2014-2018 ↓ ↓
on hiatus 2019-2025
work from 2026 → →|

Evergreen

2017

200 pages, 20×25 cm, softbound


Photographs taken over several days while going about my business in Los Angeles, by car of course. Iconography of a symbolic item.



Panda Panda

2015

96-page book, staple-bound. 
Made by hand, 25 copies.All the FIAT Panda's seen on the streets of Turin, photographed during a short-term stay there. An exagerated kind of fandom / fanzine. I did not have a particular interest for this type of car. An exercise in developing love for something by spending time and effort.
The insert contains historical text (in Italian) on the Panda, ranging from FIAT corporate newspaper articles on the design and purpose for the car, an interview with an employee who won the car in a contest, to equipment lists, and Quattroruote magazine placing the introduction of the Panda in a time of social turmoil. Collected at the Centro Storico Fiat.

For me, also learning new production and graphic techniques, and how to tell a visual story in book form.

Front Right / Front Left Corner

2015

Series of 220 photographs One serie of 220 photographs, all cars of the same make.

The format for presentation is variable, either one long strip, or 5 to 6 selected images, enlarged. Photographed on one day, going by all the cars at a car meet; my car is in there somewhere.






Future (Economic Posibilities)

2015

HD video, 2:26 mins, no soundFrom one office high-rise to another, looking at Friday after-work drinks.

John Maynard Keynes wrote an essay Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren, predicting that technological progress would give us so much free time by 2030 that we needed to work little, and could spend most of our time on leisure, culture, and meaningful pursuits. But leisure has bled into work, and work has become performative leisure. 



Grey (Ferrari)

2017

A0 poster printFor a while, I had been looking with fascination at young people posing in front of expensive cars – not theirs – on the street or at car trade fairs, wanting to touch. Let’s see where that would take me.



Don’t

2017
Beamed Slideshow
Driving around Beverly Hills, listening to radio ads and talkshows.

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