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Dutch artist

Renzo Martens (born in Terneuzen) is a Dutch artist who currently lives and works in Amsterdam and Kinshasa. Martens became known for his controversial work, including Episode III: Enjoy Poverty (), a documentary that suggests that the Congo market their poverty as a natural resource.^[1] In Renzo Martens initiated the art institute Human Activities that postulates a gentrification program on a palm oil plantation in the Congolese rainforest.^[2]

Biography

Renzo Martens studied Political Science at the University of Nijmegen and art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.^[3]

In Martens got approved as an artist-in-residence at the ISCP program in New York.

In the artist attended the Yale World Fellows Program, the leadership program of Yale University.^[4] Martens is currently working on a PhD in the arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent