Impakt Festival 2022 – The Curse of Smooth Operations

Simon Dybbroe Møller was born in Aarhus, Denmark (1976), and he lives and work in Copenhagen and Berlin.
He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and at Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main.

Simon Dybbroe Møller’s practice engages with the relationship between weighty, visceral materiality and photographic representation and mediation. He makes works about how it feels to be bodies tumbling or stumbling through this world; how we change media and how media changes us. Rather than settling into one medium or style, he continuously probes new territories, moving between film, photography, found objects, sculpture, writing, curating and teaching.

Simon Dybbroe Møller had solo shows at La Salle des Bains, Lyon, Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, CAPC in Bordeaux, Kunsthalle Sao Paulo, Belvedere 21 in Vienna, Fondazione Giuliani in Rome, Kunstverein Hannover and Frankfurter Kunstverein. His work was included in the 1st Klaipėda Biennial; the 14th Taipei Biennial, the 5th Moscow Biennial, the 9th Berlin Biennial, the 2nd Turin Triennial, the 6th nordic biennial and in group exhibitions at Barbican in London, MAST, Bologna, SMK National Gallery, Copenhagen, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, MOCA Detroit, CCA Wattis in San Francisco, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, MMK Frankfurt am Main, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Art Sonje in Seoul, Museum Ludwig in Cologne and KW in Berlin.

He is a Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Sculpture in Copenhagen since 2019. He co-runs the exhibition space AYE-AYE and curates the performance series Why Words Now.