Daan Noppen is an international artist mainly working in drawing and photography. He is best known for his realistic larger than life drawings of portraits and bodies. Physics and it’s relation to our being, our emotions, plays a big part in his work. The artist plays with notions of reality by projecting time as a physical dimension. Rather than becoming something ‘scientific’ this opens up a visual world of our hidden layers of our desires, our pain and our cry for being loved. 'Amsterdam based artist Daan Noppen brings a special dynamism to his pencil drawings of still life and portraits. His works are not only eye-catching for their precise layering of details, but also in their massive size that gives his subjects a more palpable presence. A closer look at each piece reveals mathematical equations in between the pencil lines that relate to our reality. More recent works express the artist’s continued fascination with mathematics, geometry, and physics, as his figures appear to be gauged, dissipate, and intermingle in a void of empty vector space'. Hi-fructose magazine march 2016. Daan Noppens work has been exhibited in New York (USA), New Orleans (USA), Mexico DF (Mexico), Shanghai (China), Metz (France), Luxembourg (Luxembourg), Munchen (Germany), Traun (Austria), Antwerp (Belgium) and in Amsterdam (the Netherlands).

Group Exhibitions (selected)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & OTHER 2019 Residency Palazzo Monti Residency Colorado 2018 Residency El pez soluble, Mexico (dec 2018 - jan 2019) Micro art fair, Art House Holland, Leiderdorp Mescenas project 2017 Prospect 4, with Brittany Schall, New Orleans (USA) nov 18 2017 - feb 25 2018 Dreamscapes, Re-Art, Traun (Austria) 9 Nov 2017 - 23 Feb 2018 Artlab Munchen, Galerie Benjamin Eck II, Munchen (GER) 2 sept NOOR, with Mattijs van Bergen, Gallery Lensvelt, Amsterdam (NL) 2016 ​Aqua Art Fair with Kallenbach gallery (Miami Art Basel), Miami (USA) 30 nov - 4 dec Kallenbach gallery, 'The Secret of the Master' group show, Amsterdam (NL) Kallenbach gallery, Works on Paper show group show, Amsterdam (NL) 2015 Compagnie theater, large and small drawings, Amsterdam (NL) Show together with Raphael Hermans St.Vincents, drawings and limited edition prints, Antwerp (Belgium) 2014 The Ambassadors, Solo of small drawings & prints, Amsterdam (NL) 2013 Artist in residence The Nationale Reisopera, Enschede, (NL) Group show Galerie14, Luxembourg city, (Luxembourg) 2012 North Faces, Lele Gallery, Metz, (France) LC Projects, Brooklyn, NY, (USA) 2010 The Ambassadors, Solo show photography and drawings, Amsterdam (NL) 2008 Arteamericas, Miami Beach FL, USA Art fair with Hardcore gallery Artemis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Opus II (upcomming) Arti08, The Hague, The Netherlands Prinsengracht 88, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Group Photography exhibiition Museo Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico DF, Mexico PUI Mexico Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba PUI Cuba (upcomming)

Awards

The artists Symmetry I & II drawing recently won an A'design Award 2016 in the category Arts, craft and ready made