Milah van Zuilen (1998, NL) is a visual artist whose work is focused on the landscape. She is intrigued by the contradiction between landscape’s complexity and people’s urge to neatly arrange, change, and organize it. She is investigating an earth-centric way of looking at it — instead of the anthropocentric, or a human-centric one. Van Zuilen works with real plant material, sculpture and installation. Also being a forest ecologist in training, the artist strives to bring the fields of art and ecology closer to each other. Fieldwork lies in the basis of her artistic method. The work of Milah van Zuilen is in the collection of Museum Voorlinden.
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Milah van Zuilen, solo exhibition Betula spp., TUO TUO, Joutsa , Finland
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Museum Voorlinden about Milah van Zuilen
The work whispers to us, invites us to take a closer look. It is conceptual and at the same time appeals to our imagination. A beautiful gem that is both topical and timeless.
Barbara Bos
In museum collection:
Museum Voorlinden
In corporate collection:
COC APS Collection, Italy
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Milah van Zuilen graduated in Fine Arts & Photography from the Willem de Kooning Academy, studied Nature Conservation at Wageningen University and is currently pursuing forest ecology training at the National park de Hoge Veluwe. Her graduation project Terrafuturism won the Ron Mandos Young Blood Award and was acquired by Museum Voorlinden. In the Netherlands, her work was previously presented at a.o. Kunstinstituut Melly, Nederlands Fotomuseum, A Tale of a Tub, Fotofestival Schiedam, and is now on view as a solo exhibition at Museum Kasteel Wijlre. Van Zuilen’s exhibitions abroad include presentations in the UK, Finland, Norway, and the Czech Republic. Milah is also a co-founder of JARO, a space for ecology-related artist residencies in the Czech Republic.
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Milah van Zuilen (b. 1998, NL)
Education
Fine Arts & Photography, Honours Programme | Willem de Kooning Academy | Rotterdam (NL) | 2017 - 2021 Pre-MSc Forest and Nature Conservation | Wageningen University & Research Centre | Wageningen (NL) | 2021
Exhibitions
2022
Fieldwork | solo exhibition | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam (NL)
10 leaves | solo exhibition | Kasteel Wijlre | Zuid-Limburg (NL)
Betula spp. | solo exhibition | TUO TUO | Joutsa (FI)
Betula spp. | solo exhibition & book presentation | BOOX.SPACE | Haarlem (NL)
2021
Best of Graduates | group exhibition | Galerie Ron Mandos | Amsterdam (NL)
La Grande Finale | group exhibition | Galerie WIT | Wageningen (NL)
Terrafuturism | duo exhibition with Herman de Vries | Galerie WIT | Wageningen (NL)
2020
Ruins; An Archive of Imaginary Artifacts | group exhibition | A Tale of a Tub | Rotterdam (NL)
Terrafuturism | radio broadcast | Operator Radio | Rotterdam (NL)
Decade | group exhibition | MONO | Rotterdam (NL)
Milíře | group exhibition & fundraiser | De Stal | Neerijnen (NL)
2019
Acceleration LAB | group exhibition & publication presentation | MELLY | Rotterdam (NL)
Fill in the Blanks | group exhibition & symposium | Nederlands Fotomuseum | Rotterdam (NL)
Streetscapes: Affective encounters between people and things | University of East Anglia | Norwich (UK) Roots | group exhibition | Köningsmühle Land Art Festival | Kraluv Mlyn (CZ)
12 hours | duo exhibition with Maruska Svasek | Kulturhistorisk Museum | Oslo (NO)
2018
Affection for Nature | exhibition & lecture | Queens University | Belfast (UK)
Cultivation | group exhibition | Fotofestival Schiedam | Schiedam (NL)
Prizes, Grants & Awards
2021
Ron Mandos Young Blood Award | Galerie Ron Mandos
Nominee | Threshold Award Autonomous Practices
Nominee | Future of Nature Grant | MIAP
Finalist | Blurring the Lines 2021 | FOTODOK
Shortlisted | Overtref Jezelf | Hogeschool Rotterdam
Best of Graduates 2021 | Galerie Ron Mandos
Nominee | Drempelprijs | Willem de Kooning Academy
Commissions
2022
Edible leaves from Lisse for LAM | Lisse (NL)
10 leaves garden route | castle park Kasteel Wijlre | Wijlre (NL)
Publications
2022 Betula spp. | artist book | BOOX.SPACE
2021 The Untitled Flora of a Lost Location on a Square Planet | artist book | self-published
2020 Vanishing Grid | artist book | Nederlands Fotomuseum
2020 Ruins | The Ansible Institute
2019 Milíře | artist book | self-published
Artist-in-residences
2022
Mustarinda | Kainuu (FI)
TUO TUO | Joutsa (FI)
2021
LekArt | Culemborg (NL)
TUO TUO | Joutsa (FI)
2020
Picture Berlin | Re-Imagining Wanders | Berlin (DE)
Vyksa | shortlist | Vyksa (RU)
2019
JARO | Milíře (CZ)
Lectures & Artist Talks
2021
Blurring the Lines | conference | Ethical Shifts in Photography with Urbanautica, Paris
College of Art, European Cultural Centre (EU)
Un/Predictable Environments; Politics, Ecology and Agency | conference | University of British Columbia (US), Queens University (UK), University of Allahabad (IN)
2020
Affection for Nature | lecture | Queens University | Belfast (UK)
Collections
Museum Voorlinden | Wassenaar (NL)
COC APS Collection | Modena (IT)
Various private collections
Education
Fine Arts & Photography, Honours Programme | Willem de Kooning Academy | Rotterdam (NL) | 2017 - 2021 Pre-MSc Forest and Nature Conservation | Wageningen University & Research Centre | Wageningen (NL) | 2021
Exhibitions
2022
Fieldwork | solo exhibition | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam (NL)
10 leaves | solo exhibition | Kasteel Wijlre | Zuid-Limburg (NL)
Betula spp. | solo exhibition | TUO TUO | Joutsa (FI)
Betula spp. | solo exhibition & book presentation | BOOX.SPACE | Haarlem (NL)
2021
Best of Graduates | group exhibition | Galerie Ron Mandos | Amsterdam (NL)
La Grande Finale | group exhibition | Galerie WIT | Wageningen (NL)
Terrafuturism | duo exhibition with Herman de Vries | Galerie WIT | Wageningen (NL)
2020
Ruins; An Archive of Imaginary Artifacts | group exhibition | A Tale of a Tub | Rotterdam (NL)
Terrafuturism | radio broadcast | Operator Radio | Rotterdam (NL)
Decade | group exhibition | MONO | Rotterdam (NL)
Milíře | group exhibition & fundraiser | De Stal | Neerijnen (NL)
2019
Acceleration LAB | group exhibition & publication presentation | MELLY | Rotterdam (NL)
Fill in the Blanks | group exhibition & symposium | Nederlands Fotomuseum | Rotterdam (NL)
Streetscapes: Affective encounters between people and things | University of East Anglia | Norwich (UK) Roots | group exhibition | Köningsmühle Land Art Festival | Kraluv Mlyn (CZ)
12 hours | duo exhibition with Maruska Svasek | Kulturhistorisk Museum | Oslo (NO)
2018
Affection for Nature | exhibition & lecture | Queens University | Belfast (UK)
Cultivation | group exhibition | Fotofestival Schiedam | Schiedam (NL)
Prizes, Grants & Awards
2021
Ron Mandos Young Blood Award | Galerie Ron Mandos
Nominee | Threshold Award Autonomous Practices
Nominee | Future of Nature Grant | MIAP
Finalist | Blurring the Lines 2021 | FOTODOK
Shortlisted | Overtref Jezelf | Hogeschool Rotterdam
Best of Graduates 2021 | Galerie Ron Mandos
Nominee | Drempelprijs | Willem de Kooning Academy
Commissions
2022
Edible leaves from Lisse for LAM | Lisse (NL)
10 leaves garden route | castle park Kasteel Wijlre | Wijlre (NL)
Publications
2022 Betula spp. | artist book | BOOX.SPACE
2021 The Untitled Flora of a Lost Location on a Square Planet | artist book | self-published
2020 Vanishing Grid | artist book | Nederlands Fotomuseum
2020 Ruins | The Ansible Institute
2019 Milíře | artist book | self-published
Artist-in-residences
2022
Mustarinda | Kainuu (FI)
TUO TUO | Joutsa (FI)
2021
LekArt | Culemborg (NL)
TUO TUO | Joutsa (FI)
2020
Picture Berlin | Re-Imagining Wanders | Berlin (DE)
Vyksa | shortlist | Vyksa (RU)
2019
JARO | Milíře (CZ)
Lectures & Artist Talks
2021
Blurring the Lines | conference | Ethical Shifts in Photography with Urbanautica, Paris
College of Art, European Cultural Centre (EU)
Un/Predictable Environments; Politics, Ecology and Agency | conference | University of British Columbia (US), Queens University (UK), University of Allahabad (IN)
2020
Affection for Nature | lecture | Queens University | Belfast (UK)
Collections
Museum Voorlinden | Wassenaar (NL)
COC APS Collection | Modena (IT)
Various private collections
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