Timeline

1973

Born — Skanderborg, Denmark

1991–1993

Apprenticeship in commercial draftsmanship — three years

1993

Moves — to Aarhus, Denmark; subsequently to London, UK

1994–1995

Studies in visual art — Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK — one year

Grant — ADAR Students Grant, The Borough of Westminster, London, UK

Study Support — Danish State Educational Grant and Loan Scheme Agency

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

2006

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 — 4 Grades of Reality, Copenhagen, 1 May

Publication — 4 Grades of Reality

Screenings — Pregnant, South Africa and US

Independent Exhibition — Monochromes and Short Wave Paintings, Frederiksgade 2, Aarhus

Publication — Monochromes and Short Wave Paintings

2009

Work visit — Aquatint, hard ground and soft ground, Crown Point Press, US, 2 weeks

Grant — Travel Grant, Danish Arts Foundation

Group Exhibitions — The Vitruvian Woman, Italy and Sweden; At the Zenith, Serbia; Anonymous Drawings, Germany; Fragments, US

Collaboration — Fragments with Marty McCutcheon, US

Independent Exhibitions — Rejected, Strandgade 10, Copenhagen; Pictures of Nothing, Formverk, Eskilstuna, Sweden

Publication — Rejected

Screenings — Pregnant and Espresso, ECVP Vol. 1; US, Brazil, Canada, Germany and Italy; Water Preserves, US

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, US

Performance — Stories of the Sun God with Christy Walsh, Triskelion Arts, US

Grant — Travel Grant, Danish Arts Foundation

Screenings — Interfaces and Transformation, ECVP Vol. 2, France, UK and Brazil

2011

Solo Exhibition — The Journeyman, Cath Alexandrine Danneskiold-Samsøe Gallery, Copenhagen

Publications — The Journeyman; Interferens

Work visits — Aquatint, Danish Art Workshops, 4 weeks; Audio/Visual Experimental Installation, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, US, 1 week

Public funding — New York State Council on the Arts’ Decentralization Program, administered by The ARTS Council of the Finger Lakes, for Fragments, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, US

Group Exhibition — Fragments, with Jan Kather and Marty McCutcheon, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, US

Talk — Artist Talk, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, 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

Work visit — Aquatint, Danish Art Workshops, Copenhagen, 3 weeks

Group Exhibitions — The Postal-Collage Project No. 1, 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

Work visit — Photogravure, Crown Point Press, US, 2 weeks

Workshop — Pinhole Camera Workshop, Kulturskolerne, Hellerup, 8–9 August

2014

Group Exhibition — The Postal-Collage Project No. 2, with Marty McCutcheon, US

Screening — Y, Transborda – Overflow, Portugal

2015

Group Exhibition — Anonymous Drawings, Germany

Independent Exhibition — The Journeyman (Revisited), staged by the art club of the Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen

Screening — Pairings, Healdsburg Center for the Arts, US

2016

Solo Exhibition — Life After Ninety, Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen

Group Exhibitions — Anonymous Drawings, Italy and Germany

2020

Solo Exhibition — Colours Collected From a Childhood, Galleri Weinberger Schandorff, Copenhagen

Group Exhibition — The Postal-Collage Project No. 9, with Marty McCutcheon, US

Work visit — Monoprints, Printers Proof, Copenhagen, 3 weeks

TV Feature — paintings, drawings and prints featured in Ulven kommer, (Cry Wolf), DR1

2021

Pop-Up Show — Michael Baastrup Chang, c/o Galleri Weinberger Schandorff, Hellerup, Denmark

2022

Solo Exhibition — Graphite, Galleri Weinberger Schandorff, Copenhagen

Art Fairs — c/o Galleri Weinberger Schandorff, Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen, 25–28 August; Art Herning, MCH Messecenter, Herning, 6–8 May

2023

Group Exhibition — Artwork Orange, Galleri Weinberger Schandorff, Copenhagen

Work visit — spitbite, Printers Proof, Copenhagen, 1 week

Art Fair — c/o Galleri Weinberger Schandorff, Art Herning, MCH Messecenter, Herning, 27–29 Jan

2025

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