THE ANATOMY OF DRAWING
A short introduction to my work
by Daniel Milan

What is a drawing? This question keeps surprising me...
To the very
BONE.
Motively I´ve worked intensively with the so called "cactus head" as a metaphor for the human state of mind.
A collective picture reflecting our present place in space and time.
Somehow I see my work as graphic studies of anthropology and civilization criticism.
I´ve made series of drawings of car crash and regional stories from as different places as Münich, Balkan, Japan and latest Africa.
When I do art it´s all ways political in a sense - in terms of content I refer to my text about Human Existentialism *,
but when it comes to the end of the day, after the (un)happy clapping and angry dancing, it´s indeed very much about how the sum of black lines meets the paper.
When I find the drawing disturbing, intense and even chaotic, I know I´m on the track.
To let the drawing evolve into other medias as artist books, Zines, posters, graphic, wallpaintings or installations seems to be a natural extension of my praxis.


Daniel Milan

1978                  geb. / born in Hillerød, Dänemark
1998                  Kunsthøjskolen at Ærø
2000 - 2006       study at Det Kongelige Danske - Prof. Peter Bonde and Erik Steffensen
                          Master of Fine Art, The Royal Danish Academy
2004 - 2005       study at academy of fine arts Munich - Prof.  Markus Oehlen
                          Master of Fine Art, Academy of Fine Art, Munich

lebt und arbeitet in Kopenhagen und Kampala, Uganda / lives and works in Copenhagen and Kampala, Uganda

Museumsausstellung / museum exhibition
2008       
100 dänishe Grafiken - Grafik Museum Stiftung Schreiner, Bad Steben
NORDIC DRAWINGS - Rackstadmuseet
NORDIC DRAWINGS - Skellefteå Konsthall

2007        
Match Race - Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum - Aalborg

2003        
Selvsving - Kunstmuseet Køge Skitsesamling - Køge

Einzelausstellung / solo exhbition
2010
MY FEET IS NOT YOUR RESTAURANT – Stephanie Bender - Munich
ARISE, SHINE, FALL - TTC Gallery  - Copenhagen

2008       
DON´T CURSE MY MISFORTUNE - Stephanie Bender - Munich
Items of high style and prestige - DUNK! - Copenhagen

Gruppenausstellungen Auswahl / group exhbition selection
2010
Last Temptation – Co-Lab - Copenhagen

2009       
Tutti Night Mare – Galerie Stephanie Bender - Munich
ZEDAMATOR goes doom burger! at Co-Lab
Ting, man ikke maa lege med - Smittekilde
Over The Bridge – Dunk - Cirkulationscentralen Malmö
WELCOME TO THE GARAGE – DUNK!
Exhibition Paintspace VII, Rundetårn - Copenhagen
LE RAGOUT NOIR - Galleri Claus Christensen with Zven Balslev

2008       
BEERS - Byens Kro - Co-Lab
Jul på Byens, Byens Kro
Through the Looking Glass - +44 141 Gallery - Glasgow
Repressive Tolerance 4 Ever? - Backyard Gallery

2007       
Haeresi & Vandtro - Graffitigallery
alt_cph – DUNK - Kopenhagen
Art Forum Berlin - Mikael Andersen
Salon #1 Danks Kunst Nu! - Lauritz Kunsthalle - Copenhagen
Marienlyst Slot - Marienlyst Allé 32 - Copenhagen
Bling - Galerie Mikael Andersen - Copenhagen
Zine Soup - TTC, Kopenhagen
The Sword of Evensen - Esplanaden 3 - Copenhagen
Hate Trailer - Art Rebels - Copenhagen
Supermarket - Kunstmesse Stockholm

2006      
Sideshow 2 - Galerie Signe Vad - Copenhagen
Handmade - Telefon Til Chefen - Copenhagen
alt_cph – DUNK - Copenhagen
Det Danske – Kulturinstiut - Brüssel
Squelette de l´esprit - Galerie Mikael Anderson - Copenhagen
EXIT 06 - Gammel Strand - Copenhagen
DUNK - Durup, Jutland
Kunstverein Schloss Plön
Selvsving - the showroom - Kulturfabrik
Patient Zero - the showroom - Kulturfabrik
Super Draw 1 – Dunk - mit Stefan Rotvit und Zven Balslev - Copenhagen

2005      
dipmaster 1 - Stephanie Bender - wandergalerie, Munich    
Haystack Mindwarp - Argot exhibition - Kopenhagen
Selvsving - på Den Frie - Kopenhagen
Die schwarzen Tropen – Bravo - Düsseldorf
Klub Selvsving - på Den Frie - Kopenhagen

2004      
Charlottenborgs Efterårsudstilling - Kopenhagen
Exhibition with northern artist in Borlänge - Sweden                

2003      
Danske Grafikeres Hus with Zven Balslev og Jon Stahn - Copenhagen
Fine Art Hall - Srinakharinwirot University - Bangkok
Vågn op - Køge Galleriet
        
2002      
WorkingTitle: Memory Project – Q - Copenhagen
Explosion du zine - Espace Myrys - Toulouse
Elmers Cut - Christoffersen Art - Copenhagen
Brol – Zoo - Kopenhagen
Selvsving” AIX NV - Copenhagen

2001      
Novus Ordo Seclorum - Kunstakademiets Udstillingssted
Working Title: Memory Project - Rantakasami, Suomenlinna - Findland

2001 - 2002   
Show at the theater "Får 302" - Kopenhagen

1999       
Charlottenborgs Forårsudstilling

Other professional Activities and memberships 

Director and Co Editor of SMITTEKILDE PRESS, www.smittekilde.dk
SMITTEKILDE PRESS is an independent art printing studio based in Copenhagen.

Member of the Danish art group SELVSVING.

Member of the Danish art group ZEDAMATOR, www.kunstdk.dk/kunstner/zedemator_zedemator
Zedamator made a big public decoration at Music Academy of Rytmical Music in Copenhagen in 2008

Member of the Danish Graphic Artist Association, www.danskegrafikere.dk

Member of the Executive Board, the Danish Graphic Artist Association 2007-2008