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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Installation view Milah van Zuilen - Walking, Galerie Caroline O'Breen, Amsterdam, NL, 2025
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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
Born in 1998, NL | Lives and works in Veluwe, NL
Education
Het Nationale Park De Hoge Veluwe | internship | (NL) | 2022
Pre-MSc Forest and Nature Conservation | Wageningen University & Research Centre | Wageningen (NL) | 2021
Fine Arts & Photography, Honours Programme | Willem de Kooning Academy | Rotterdam (NL) | 2017 - 2021
Exhibitions
2024
Drift Sands | Art Island | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | IJmuiden (NL)
Squaring the Circle | De Vishal | Haarlem (NL)
Natuur Onder Druk | Allard Pierson Museum | Amsterdam (NL)
PROSPECTS | Art Rotterdam | Rotterdam (NL)
2023-2024
Fieldwork | solo exhibition | Natural History Museum | Rotterdam (NL)
2023
Elementen | Stichting KunstWerkt | Schiedam (NL)
Field Correspondence | with Bødvar Hole | BOOX.SPACE | Haarlem (NL)
Kunstlijn Atelierroute | Lunteren (NL)
Art Island | with Bart Lunenburg | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | IJmuiden (NL)
Duo exhibition with Bødvar Hole | BOOX.SPACE | Haarlem (NL)
Bliss | group exhibition | Rademakers Gallery | Amsterdam (NL)
2022
Betulla spp | book presentation | BOOX.SPACE | Haarlem (NL)
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)
Entangled Life: The Forest as Neural Network | group exhibition | RADIUS CCA | Delft (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
2023 Fotodok Talent Embassy
2022 Mondriaan Fonds | Regeling Kunstenaar Start FD Talenten
2021 Ron Mandos Young Blood Award | Galerie Ron Mandos
2021 Threshold Award Autonomous Practices | Nominee
2021 Future of Nature Grant | MIAP | Nominee
2021 Blurring the Lines 2021 | FOTODOK | Finalist
2021 Overtref Jezelf | Hogeschool Rotterdam | Shortlisted
2021 Best of Graduates 2021 | Galerie Ron Mandos
2021 Drempelprijs | Willem de Kooning Academy | Nominee
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
Urbanautica | Journal of Visual Anthropology and Cultural Landscapes
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 Residencies
2023 Rabbit Island | Superior Lake (US)
2022 Mustarinda | Kainuu (FI)
2022 TUO TUO | Joutsa (FI)
2021 LekArt | Culemborg (NL)
2021 TUO TUO | Joutsa (FI)
2020 Picture Berlin | Re-Imagining Wanders | Berlin (DE)
2020 Vyksa | shortlist | Vyksa (RU)
2019 JARO | Milíře (CZ)
Press (selection)
Kunstenaars wenden zich tot de natuur, Museumtijdschrift, Art Rotterdam highlights, February 2024
Op komst, Straatkrant Z! Amsterdam, January 2024
De Nieuwe Veluwe, Met hoofd en hart in de natuur; Milah van Zuilen, December 2023
Het Atelier van Milah van Zuilen, Museumtijdschrift, p. 81, November 2023
In gesprek met Milah van Zuilen, Metropolis M, September 2023
De Tuin, Architectura et Artemicia (AetA), Forum NO. 7, March 2023
De Ecologische Kunst van Milah van Zuilen, Het Financieel Dagblad, 0. 78 - 85, November 2022 Bending Art and Environmental Science, Urbanautica, October 2022
Takeover #211, Rizoom, September 2022
10 leaves, solo exhibition booklet Milah van Zuilen, Buitenplaats Kasteel Wijlre, April 2022
FD Talenten, Het Financieel Dagblad, February 2022
Vierkant Veldwerk, mini documentary by Okki Poortvliet, NTR, NPO, Docwerk, November 2021
Threshold Awards Nominee Interview, Willem de Kooning Academy, October 2021
Q&A Milah van Zuilen on her Finland Residency, Ron Mandos Young Blood Foundation, October 2021
Blurring the Lines 2021, Urbanautica Institue, Paris College of Art, European Cultural Centre, September 2021 Ruins, The Ansible Institute, February 2021
Lectures & Artist Talks
2024 Guest teacher | HKU | Utrecht (NL)
2024 Studium Generale: Between Art & Science | Wageningen University | Wageningen (NL)
2024 Studium Generale: Art and Tech | TU Delft | Delft (NL)
2023 Insights of an Eco Artist, Podcast guest
2022 Fotodok Take off #4
2021 Blurring the Lines | conference | Ethical Shifts in Photography with Urbanautica | Paris (FR)
2021 College of Art, European Cultural Centre (EU)
2021 Un/Predictable Environments; Politics, Ecology and Agency | conference | University of British Columbia (US), Queens University (UK)
2021 University of Allahabad | Uttar Pradesh (IN)
2020 Affection for Nature | lecture | Queens University | Belfast (UK)
Other
2022 - now Member of the Florawerkgroep, Hoge Veluwe National Park, NL
2019 - now Co-founder JARO, space for ecology-related artist residencies in the Bohemian Woods, CZ
2022 Green Educator Program, IVN Natuureducatie, Wageningen, NL
2021 WUR edX Sustainable Soil Management MOOC, online
Collections
Museum Voorlinden, NL
LAM Museum, NL
Buitenplaats Kasteel Wijlre, NL
KPMG, NL
Lakeside Collection, NL
Various private collections in Europe and the US
Milah van Zuilen
Born in 1998, NL | Lives and works in Veluwe, NL
Education
Het Nationale Park De Hoge Veluwe | internship | (NL) | 2022
Pre-MSc Forest and Nature Conservation | Wageningen University & Research Centre | Wageningen (NL) | 2021
Fine Arts & Photography, Honours Programme | Willem de Kooning Academy | Rotterdam (NL) | 2017 - 2021
Exhibitions
2024
Drift Sands | Art Island | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | IJmuiden (NL)
Squaring the Circle | De Vishal | Haarlem (NL)
Natuur Onder Druk | Allard Pierson Museum | Amsterdam (NL)
PROSPECTS | Art Rotterdam | Rotterdam (NL)
2023-2024
Fieldwork | solo exhibition | Natural History Museum | Rotterdam (NL)
2023
Elementen | Stichting KunstWerkt | Schiedam (NL)
Field Correspondence | with Bødvar Hole | BOOX.SPACE | Haarlem (NL)
Kunstlijn Atelierroute | Lunteren (NL)
Art Island | with Bart Lunenburg | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | IJmuiden (NL)
Duo exhibition with Bødvar Hole | BOOX.SPACE | Haarlem (NL)
Bliss | group exhibition | Rademakers Gallery | Amsterdam (NL)
2022
Betulla spp | book presentation | BOOX.SPACE | Haarlem (NL)
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)
Entangled Life: The Forest as Neural Network | group exhibition | RADIUS CCA | Delft (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
2023 Fotodok Talent Embassy
2022 Mondriaan Fonds | Regeling Kunstenaar Start FD Talenten
2021 Ron Mandos Young Blood Award | Galerie Ron Mandos
2021 Threshold Award Autonomous Practices | Nominee
2021 Future of Nature Grant | MIAP | Nominee
2021 Blurring the Lines 2021 | FOTODOK | Finalist
2021 Overtref Jezelf | Hogeschool Rotterdam | Shortlisted
2021 Best of Graduates 2021 | Galerie Ron Mandos
2021 Drempelprijs | Willem de Kooning Academy | Nominee
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
Urbanautica | Journal of Visual Anthropology and Cultural Landscapes
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 Residencies
2023 Rabbit Island | Superior Lake (US)
2022 Mustarinda | Kainuu (FI)
2022 TUO TUO | Joutsa (FI)
2021 LekArt | Culemborg (NL)
2021 TUO TUO | Joutsa (FI)
2020 Picture Berlin | Re-Imagining Wanders | Berlin (DE)
2020 Vyksa | shortlist | Vyksa (RU)
2019 JARO | Milíře (CZ)
Press (selection)
Kunstenaars wenden zich tot de natuur, Museumtijdschrift, Art Rotterdam highlights, February 2024
Op komst, Straatkrant Z! Amsterdam, January 2024
De Nieuwe Veluwe, Met hoofd en hart in de natuur; Milah van Zuilen, December 2023
Het Atelier van Milah van Zuilen, Museumtijdschrift, p. 81, November 2023
In gesprek met Milah van Zuilen, Metropolis M, September 2023
De Tuin, Architectura et Artemicia (AetA), Forum NO. 7, March 2023
De Ecologische Kunst van Milah van Zuilen, Het Financieel Dagblad, 0. 78 - 85, November 2022 Bending Art and Environmental Science, Urbanautica, October 2022
Takeover #211, Rizoom, September 2022
10 leaves, solo exhibition booklet Milah van Zuilen, Buitenplaats Kasteel Wijlre, April 2022
FD Talenten, Het Financieel Dagblad, February 2022
Vierkant Veldwerk, mini documentary by Okki Poortvliet, NTR, NPO, Docwerk, November 2021
Threshold Awards Nominee Interview, Willem de Kooning Academy, October 2021
Q&A Milah van Zuilen on her Finland Residency, Ron Mandos Young Blood Foundation, October 2021
Blurring the Lines 2021, Urbanautica Institue, Paris College of Art, European Cultural Centre, September 2021 Ruins, The Ansible Institute, February 2021
Lectures & Artist Talks
2024 Guest teacher | HKU | Utrecht (NL)
2024 Studium Generale: Between Art & Science | Wageningen University | Wageningen (NL)
2024 Studium Generale: Art and Tech | TU Delft | Delft (NL)
2023 Insights of an Eco Artist, Podcast guest
2022 Fotodok Take off #4
2021 Blurring the Lines | conference | Ethical Shifts in Photography with Urbanautica | Paris (FR)
2021 College of Art, European Cultural Centre (EU)
2021 Un/Predictable Environments; Politics, Ecology and Agency | conference | University of British Columbia (US), Queens University (UK)
2021 University of Allahabad | Uttar Pradesh (IN)
2020 Affection for Nature | lecture | Queens University | Belfast (UK)
Other
2022 - now Member of the Florawerkgroep, Hoge Veluwe National Park, NL
2019 - now Co-founder JARO, space for ecology-related artist residencies in the Bohemian Woods, CZ
2022 Green Educator Program, IVN Natuureducatie, Wageningen, NL
2021 WUR edX Sustainable Soil Management MOOC, online
Collections
Museum Voorlinden, NL
LAM Museum, NL
Buitenplaats Kasteel Wijlre, NL
KPMG, NL
Lakeside Collection, NL
Various private collections in Europe and the US
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