SIMON DYBROE MØLLER

Simon Dybbroe Møller – born in Denmark in 1976 – explores themes of deconstruction, decay and disappearance. Møller’s installations oscillate between constructed and authentic art history, between original and reproduction. He appears to play with a sense of nostalgic longing and a state of mind in which utopian artistic movements such as Constructivism, Suprematism, De Stijl, Bauhaus, Minimal and Concept Art still possess the quality of pushing boundaries.

In his drawings, photographs, sculptures, videos, interventions and installations, Møller moves within the realm of deconstruction and reconstruction, nostalgia and oblivion, manipulation and representation. His narratives of decay are enriched with numerous references to the history of art, but also to the history of design, architecture, literature and music: from Robert Morris, Dan Flavin and Robert Matta-Clark to John Cage, Bonnie Prince Billy, the Danish writer Villy Sørensen and August Strindberg.

The exhibition Like Origami Gone Wrong was produced in collaboration with Kunstbygning Aarhus.