Michael Baastrup Chang — Timeline
Summary
A chronological record of selected events, exhibitions, publications, studies, residencies, screenings, and other developments in the artistic practice of Michael Baastrup Chang.
1973
Born — Skanderborg, Denmark.
1991–1993
Apprenticeship — commercial draughtsman.
1993
Moves — to Aarhus, Denmark; shortly afterwards to London, UK.
1994–1995
Study — Visual Arts, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK.
Grant — Study Grant, City of Westminster.
1995
Moves — returns to Aarhus, Denmark.
Begins painting — figurative painting; trial-and-error period (1995–2007).
2001
Moves — to Copenhagen, Denmark.
2005
Self-study — philosophy and art history.
Self-study — anatomy, with access to the Department of Macroscopic Anatomy, Panum Institute, Copenhagen, August.
2007
Stops painting figuratively — destroys final figurative painting.
2008
Debut Exhibition — Four Grades of Reality, Copenhagen, 1 May.
Publication — Four Grades of Reality.
Screenings — Pregnant, South Africa and US.
2009
Residencies — Aquatint, hard ground and soft ground, Crown Point Press, US, 2 weeks; Stringdance+Media, US, 2 weeks.
Grant — Travel Grant, Danish Arts Foundation.
Group Exhibitions — The Vitruvian Woman, Italy and Sweden; At the Zenith, Serbia; Water Preserves, DMA Gallery, Alfred and State of the Art Gallery, US; Anonymous Drawings, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Germany.
Small Shows — Rejected, Strandgade 10, Copenhagen; Monochromes and Short Wave Paintings, Frederiksgade 2, Aarhus; Pictures of Nothing, Formverk, Eskilstuna, Sweden.
Publications — Rejected; Monochromes and Short Wave Paintings.
Screenings — Pregnant and Espresso, ECVP Vol. 1; US, Brazil, Canada, Germany and Italy.
2010
Solo Exhibition — The Man Without Qualities, CDS Art and Visibility, Copenhagen.
Publication — The Man Without Qualities.
Collaboration — Stories of the Sun God with Christy Walsh, Stringdance+Media, US, 2 weeks.
Performance — Stories of the Sun God with Christy Walsh, Triskelion Arts, US.
Grant — Travel Grant, Danish Arts Foundation.
Screenings — Interfaces and Transformation, France, UK and Brazil.
2011
Solo Exhibition — The Journeyman, Cath Alexandrine Danneskiold-Samsøe Gallery, Copenhagen.
Publications — The Journeyman; Interferens.
Residencies — Aquatint, Danish Art Workshops, 4 weeks; Audio/Visual Experimental Installation, Arnot Art Museum, US, 1 week.
Group Exhibition — Fragments, with Jan Kather and Marty McCutcheon, Arnot Art Museum, US.
Talk — Artist Talk, Arnot Art Museum, US.
2012
Solo Exhibition — Infinity Loop and Images of Eggs, with Mette Ussing, Cath Alexandrine Danneskiold-Samsøe Gallery, Copenhagen.
Publication — Infinity Loop and Images of Eggs.
Residency — Aquatint, Danish Art Workshops, Copenhagen, 3 weeks.
Group Exhibitions — The Postal-Collage Project, with Marty McCutcheon, US.
Activity — Video Dia Loghi, curated by LOOP, Velan Gallery, Italy.
Screenings — No Manifesto, Netherlands, France, UK, Germany, Italy and US.
2013
Residency — Photogravure, Crown Point Press, US, 2 weeks.
Workshop — Pinhole Camera Workshop, Kulturskolerne, Hellerup, 8–9 August.
2014
Group Exhibition — The Postal-Collage Project, with Marty McCutcheon, US.
Screening — Y, Transborda – Overflow, Portugal.
2015
Group Exhibition — Pairings, Healdsburg Center for the Arts, US; Anonymous Drawings, Germany.
Exhibition — The Journeyman (Revisited), staged by the art club of Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen.
2016
Solo Exhibition — Life After Ninety, Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen.
Group Exhibition — Anonymous Drawings, Germany.
2020
Solo Exhibition — Colours Collected From a Childhood, Galleri Weinberger Schandorff, Copenhagen.
Group Exhibition — The Postal-Collage Project, with Marty McCutcheon, US.
Residency — Monoprints, Printers Proof, Copenhagen, 3 weeks.
TV Feature — paintings, drawings and prints featured in Ulven kommer, (Cry Wolf), DR1.
2022
Solo Exhibition — Graphite, Galleri Weinberger Schandorff, Copenhagen.
Art Fairs — Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen, 22–28 August; Art Herning, MCH Messecenter, Herning, 6–8 May.
2023
Group Exhibition — Orange, Galleri Weinberger Schandorff, Copenhagen.
Residency — Spitbite, Printers Proof, Copenhagen, 1 week.