Teun Castelein
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ABOUT
Teun Castelein (1980) is an artist known for a wide range of entrepreneurial adventures. He calls himself a 'one-man conglomerate' operating from the city of Amsterdam with the ambition of overtaking the world. With his projects he researches and questions the functioning of the free market and the chances of survival for the artistic and humanistic. Castelein graduated from the Sandberg Institute (MA program of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy) in 2007 with offering advertisement space on the façade of the institute. Teun Castelijn investigates the hypocrisy and functioning of the free market and media in his work. He investigates the tension of the free market, investigates abuses and responds to this. He imported North Pole ice for the "MyPolarIce" project so that everyone could keep their own piece of polar ice in their freezer. At Vriend van Bavink he showed thhe ultimate Dutch tourist product "Weed Cheese" and he launched the clothing brand Allah. His work is widely covered by national and international media. For his shipping company 'Lampedusa' he received a Peace Pigeon at International Peace Day 2017. Castelein was nominated 'citizen of the year 2016' by the municipality of Amsterdam. He is also a member of pop rock collective 'The Geert Wilders'.
