#153: Simon Dybbroe Møller

Friday, 19 September 2025, 24:00 | midnight—   add to calendar
BABYLON, big cinema hall, Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30, Berlin
admission free and open to the public

As a prominent exponent of an art that emphasises connection, juxtaposition and relationality, Simon Dybbroe Møller’s works engage with the tension between the weighty materiality of sculpture and its photographic representation and mediation. His practice explores what sculpture is or can be in a world dictated by the photographic—a world where our economy and attention have shifted from the object to the image. Rather than settling into one medium or style, he continuously probes new territories, moving between film, photography, found objects, sculpture, writing, curating and teaching.

Especially for his screening at Videoart at Midnight Simon Dybbroe Møller brings together works never made to be screened, digitised analogue material, snippets of film made to be looped, music and other bric-a-brac.

Simon Dybbroe Møller (*1976 in Aarhus, DK) studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and at Städelschule. He is Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Sculpture in Copenhagen, co-runs the exhibition space AYE-AYE and curates the performance series Why Words Now. This fall he will present solo exhibitions at Palace Enterprise in Copenhagen and La Salle de Bain in Lyon, and participate in numerous group shows including the 1st Klaipėda Biennial and the 14th Taipei Biennial.

Dybbroe Møller has previously had solo exhibitions at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen, the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, CAPC in Bordeaux, Kunsthalle São Paulo, Belvedere 21 in Vienna, Fondazione Giuliani in Rome, Kunstverein Hannover, and Frankfurter Kunstverein. His work has been included in the 5th Moscow Biennial, the 9th Berlin Biennial, the 2nd Turin Triennial, the 6th Nordic Biennial, and in group exhibitions at institutions such as the Barbican in London, MAST in Bologna, SMK National Gallery in Copenhagen, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, MOCA Detroit, CCA Wattis in San Francisco, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, MMK in Frankfurt am Main, Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Art Sonje in Seoul, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, and KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin.