Justus de Rode (1997, Groningen) is a visual artist living and working in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Working with photography, alternative printing processes and mixed media, De Rode explores subjects from natural history, geology and ecology analogizing present day. Usually set in nature, a recurring theme is the interplay of reason and feeling in perception.

Education

2020 - 2022 MA Film & Photographic Studies, Leiden University, Leiden

2016 - 2020 BSc Interdisciplinary Social Sciences + minor Art History, University of Amsterdam

Exhibitions

2025 Galerie Helder, duo w/ Annegret Kellner, Den Haag (NL)

2025 Art Rotterdam, duo w/ Annegret Kellner, Rotterdam (NL)

2025 IN-DEPENDANCE, duo w/ Tjitske Oosterholt, Antwerp (BE)

2024 De Bouwput, duo w/ Kamila Sipika, Amsterdam (NL)

2024 Galerie Helder, groupshow, The Hague (NL)

2024 Nature Exposed, groupshow, Loosen Art, Rome (IT)
2024 Boox.Space, duo w/ Tjitske Oosterholt, Haarlem (NL)
2023 Pictura, Solo (Mycelium), Groningen (NL)
2023 The Gallery Club, duo w/ Judith Stenneken, Hama Gallery, Amsterdam
2022 ArtNoord art fair, groupshow, Museum Belvedere, Heerenveen (NL)
2022 The Gallery Club, groupshow w/ Sander Coers and Oran Hoffmann, Amsterdam (NL)
2022 Gallery + Bookstore for Contemporary Photography. Duo exhibition with Jackie Mulder, Amsterdam (NL)
2022 Gallery What Art Can Do, Solo (Mycelium), Amsterdam (NL)

Publications

2025 Focus Magazine

2024 Cosmopolitan NL

2024 GalleryViewer: Het atelier van.. (click to read)

2024 Musée Magazine

2024 ArtDoc Magazine, Online Exhibition

2024 ZONE Collective book

2024 Dementia Spring

2023 Dagblad van het Noorden

2023 PS het Parool

2023 Museum Tijdschrift

2023 Kunstkrant

2023 Groninger Gezinsbode
2022 Het Parool

2022 ELLE

2022 Harper's Bazaar

2021 GUP NEW TALENTS 2021

Awards / Grants

2024 Fonds Kwadraat

2024 Shortlist Stichting Oog op de Natuur

2023 Het Cultuurfonds

2022 Shortlist Beirut Image Festival, Mycelium

2021 GUP New Talent

Books

2023 Mycelium, Self-published.

2021 Godspeed, PIP.


Talks

2025 Teylers museum: Symposium Plant & Insect