With a background in street art, René Holm has inherited its bold color palette, yet his art has a much more somber tone than many works of street art. Invariantly, his art circles around nature as a subject. Always depicting forests without leaves, the branches getting darker and darker towards the tips, his works carry a somber vibe which is accentuated by rough painterly textures. Often inhabited by human figures without faces, his paintings convey a sense of longing for something missing, of a search to fill a void or regain something lost. Also working with ceramic sculpture, he manages to transform the feeling of his paintings into three-dimensional objects, working with the surface of the clay to give it the same vibrating, textured feeling which is so prevalent in his two-dimensional works.     Born in 1967 in Esbjerg in Denmark, René Holm studied at the Art Academy of Aarhus from 2001-2006. He has exhibited in many highly regarded museums and galleries in Denmark and all over the world for over 25 years including Museuo IRPINO in Italy, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark, Trapholt Kunstmuseum, Denmark, Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum, Denmark, Museum Frello, Denmark, TRAFO Museum in Poland, Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum in Norway, Vejle Kunstmuseum, Denmark, Vilnius Contempoary Art Museum, Lithuania, Kunsthalle Feldbach in Austria, Piermarq Gallery in Sydney, Australia, Kühlhaus Berlin, Germany, Galerie Pierrick Toucefeu in Paris and many more. His art is featured in museum collections at Trapholt Kunstmuseum, Hygum Kunstmuseum, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg.