Milah
van Zuilen

Milah van Zuilen is a visual artist and forest ecologist in training. She aims to bend the fields of art and ecology closer towards each other. 

To her, scientific ways of observing, analysing and capturing are very similar to artistic ways of seeing.

Through pseudo-scientific fieldwork, she investigates these similarities and questions the contradiction between nature’s complexity and humanity’s urge to understand, arrange and shape the land.

Van Zuilen, born in the Netherlands, is now based between the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam with a BFA in Photography. She followed courses on forest ecology at Wageningen University, within their Forest & Nature Conservation Pre-MSc. She received the Ron Mandos Young Blood Award in 2021 and has been invited for various residencies in Finland, the Netherlands and Berlin. Her work has been shown and collected by Museum Voorlinden (Wassenaar), Galerie Ron Mandos (Amsterdam) and other galleries and museums in the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Czech Republic, Northern Ireland and England.

Milah van Zuilen is also co-founder of JARO, a space for ecology-related artist residencies in the Czech Republic.

www.milahvanzuilen.com

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