Danja Akulin (1977 - )

 

Danja Akulin (1977 - )

Danja Akulin creates aesthetically minimalist conceptual drawings. His delicately and precisely crafted large-scale drawings are meditative, seemingly dissolving and coalescing simultaneously as the viewer strives to make sense of the storm of abstract marks that compose his remarkably still images. The scale of the mark versus the scale of the image in Akulin’s work creates tension that further enforces the counterbalance between meditation and calculation, creating a mesmerizing simplicity of remarkable impact.

Danja Akulin was born in 1977 in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Russia. He studied art in the Free Art Department at the Berlin University of Arts in Professor Georg Baselitz’s art studio. In 2006 he completed the Advanced Master Program, also at the Berlin University of Arts.   Akulin continues to live and work in Berlin.

Selected Exhibitions and Art Fairs

2011        Landscapes. Heckenhauer Gallery, Brussels, Belguim.

2011        Monte Verita. Kunstverein Familie Montex, Frankfurt, Germany.

2011        (Moving) Identities. Gallery JJ Heckenhauer, Tubingen, Germany.

2011        Black out. Rizzordi Art Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia.

2010        Boomerang. Perm Biennial of Graphic Arts, Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia.

2010        ART.FAIR 21 (Michael Schultz Gallery), Koln, Germany.

2010        Munich Contempo Art Fair (Michael Schultz Gallery), München, Germany.

2010        V.I.P.R.I.P. Michael Schultz Gallery, Berlin, Germany.

2010        Art Paris (Michael Schultz Gallery), Paris, France.

2010        Art Karlsruhe (Michael Schultz Gallery), Karlsruhe, Germany.

2009        Danja Akulin. Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New York, USA.

2008        Art Moscow (Triumph Gallery), Moscow, Russia.

2008        Laid down on canvas. Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New York, USA.

2007        Signs. Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

2007        Survival Craft. Moscow Centre of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia.

2007        Sputnik: New Painting from Berlin. Claudius Gallery, Hamburg, Germany.

2007        Bridge Art Fair. The Trafalgar Hotel, London, UK.

2005        Nord Art 2005. Rendsburg, Germany.

2005        Subjective Obsessions. (Michael Schultz Gallery), Art Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.

2004        Danja Akulin. Galerie Borkowski, Hanover, Germany.

2004        KMP. Offenhallen, Berlin, Germany.

2004        Identity in the digital era. Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany.

2003        Die Klasse von Baselitz. Galerie Helmut Leger, München, Germany.

2003        Insights: The Baselitz Class. Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin, Germany.