Milana
/ Artist information
Milana
Schoeller
/ Artist information
Milana Schoeller
born in Munich 1986, lives and works since the completion of her MSc in Sustainable Development at the University of St. Andrews, in Stockholm, where she attended classes at Atelier Stockholm and started a mentorship program with the Swedish Artist Peter Sköld. Milana’s first exhibition was a group exhibition in Munich, Germany, in 2012 at Art Room 9. Both group as well as Solo exhibitions at the De Martino Gallery, Mercedes Benz and Hubert Burda Media, Burda Creative, followed this. Her breakthrough came in 2014 with an International solo exhibition at the Xiao Hui Wang Art Museum in China. In 2014 she joined the agency/gallery Bernheimer Contemporary for a few years and had successful exhibitions in Berlin, Hannover and Istanbul. Her work was also featured at the Art fair “Highlights” in Munich, at the Bundesumweltamt in Germany and, through the Entre Art Foundation, in a Group exhibition in Basel. She has since exhibited at Stefan Vogdt, Galerie der Moderne and showed her work in an installation at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich Germany.
“Milana Schoeller creates works of art, which hold a seductive illusion of wholesomeness. Only upon closer inspection cracks become visible, interjections of color, that indicate that the wholesomeness one first saw, is only superficial.”
(Still alive. De Martino Gallery. München 2013, S. 28.)
Artist Statement
Sustainable development, although being an empty signifier, holds one important aspect for me, which surpasses everything else. It is an idea born out of a problem that impacts, and has to be addressed by, every single person on this planet. It truly is a global problem that transcends language boundaries, national borders or cultural differences. It binds us all into one. Art has always been my way of expressing myself. I have painted since the day I could hold up a pen. As such, after my studies, I decided to address this subject by the means I could best communicate it in. I moved to Sweden and started to take a variety of themes within sustainable development and express them in my way on a canvas. I want my art to lead to a positive social change. Art can touch an individual on a deeply personal level, and so I try to take these subjects and bring them into people’s hearts. My Art is Abstract which allows a viewer tremendous freedom to see their own reflection within it, to make it their own. But the theme of the paintings revolve around sustainable development. My art is my revolution.
Milana Schoeller, 2014
“Milana Schoeller’s art is a call to action, a call for a positive change for our planet. One for all and all for one since the whole is greater then the sum of its parts.”