Justus de Rode (b. 1997) is a visual artist based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. With an academic background in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences (BSc) and Film & Photographic Studies (MA), his practice is cross-disciplinary, rooted in photography while expanding across various media. Growing up in a painter's household instilled a visual sensibility that runs through the introspective and pictorial qualities of his work. Drawing allegorically on disciplines including geology, ecology, and philosophy, his practice is methodical in research, yet instinctive in affect.
Education
2020 - 2022 MA Film & Photographic Studies, Leiden University, Leiden
2016 - 2020 BSc Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam
2019 Minor Art History, University of Amsterdam
Selected exhibitions
2026 *Upcoming* Ex Nihilo, Solo, Copenhagen (DK)
2026 *Upcoming* Josilda da Conçeiçao, duo, Amsterdam (NL)
2026 *Upcoming* VHDG, groupshow, Leeuwarden (NL)
2025 Open Doors Gallery, groupshow, London (UK)
2025 Pan Art Fair, groupshow, FLAT//LAND Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
2025 FLAT//LAND Gallery, groupshow, Amsterdam (NL)
2025 Art Rotterdam, duo, Rotterdam (NL)
2025 IN-DEPENDANCE, duo, Antwerp (BE)
2024 De Bouwput, duo, Amsterdam (NL)
2024 Boox.Space, duo, Haarlem (NL)
2023 Pictura, Solo, Groningen (NL)
2023 The Gallery Club, duo, Amsterdam (NL)
2022 Art Noord art fair, groupshow, Museum Belvedere, Heerenveen (NL)
2022 The Gallery Club, groupshow, Amsterdam (NL)
2022 Gallery What Art Can Do, Solo, Amsterdam (NL)
Selected press
2026 Artsy (click to read)
2025 Focus Magazine
2024 GalleryViewer: Het atelier van.. (click to read)
2024 Musée Magazine
2024 ZONE Collective book
2023 Dagblad van het Noorden
2023 PS het Parool
2023 Museum Tijdschrift
2023 Kunstkrant
2023 Groninger Gezinsbode
2022 Het Parool
Awards / Grants
2026 EU Goethe Intitute | Culture Moves Europe
2025 OD Photo Prize | Juror’s Choice Award
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