Slava Ukraini
Pride Choir
Corona Corso
Rederij Lampedusa
Totems
Ondiep
Bijlmer Hammam
Halbe
MyPolarIce
The Invention of the Sex Doll
Wietkaas
Allah®
The Geert Wilders
My Boyfriend Went To Afghanistan...
Made in China
No Title
First Man Online
CrisisConsult
The Million Dollar Building
- About

Artist Statement:

My work emerges in response — to a place, an event, a community. For me, art is a form of reciprocity: the world acts, I respond — and within that response, new perspectives on what already exists come to light.

Humor and poetry are my most vital tools. Humor opens; poetry deepens. Together they create space for ideas to resonate with a wide audience. I take pleasure in revealing the peculiarities and particularities of places — not as curiosities, but as sources of pride. By amplifying what is already present, I aim to strengthen the sense of value and belonging within communities.

I navigate between the local and the global. Each project grows from a specific context, yet forms part of a larger chain of events — action and reaction, cause and effect. What seems close by is often inseparably connected to what is far away.

Art, to me, succeeds when the boundary between fiction and reality dissolves — when an intervention becomes so natural that it no longer needs to be recognized as art. I have little interest in art that remains comfortably within the walls of museums or theaters. I believe in art that slips into the real world — that embeds itself in everyday life and quietly shifts something there.

People who encounter me or my work often wonder where the art begins and ends. I take that as the highest compliment. Because precisely there, in that uncertainty, imagination begins.

"Onuitputtelijke multi-ondernemer"
Jessica Numann - Telegraaf
"De businessmodellen die hij uitwerkt, maken vaak een nogal schrijnende werkelijkheid zichtbaar."
Evelien Lindeboom - Financieel Dagblad
"Teun Castelein laat kunst en werkelijkheid vervloeien."
Joyce Roodnat - NRC Handelsblad
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