Join the opening of this summer’s major exhibition with sculpture professor Simon Dybbroe Møller
Friday 7 June, Kunsthal Charlottenborg opens its doors to the most comprehensive solo exhibition with Simon Dybbroe Møller to date. The opening is celebrated with free admission and a talk with the Danish artist and professor in sculpture which work has been influential both to his contemporaries on the German art scene, where he was based for two decades, and to younger generations of artists in Copenhagen, where he currently holds a position as the professor of Sculpture at The Royal Academy of Arts.
Over the summer, audience can look forward to experience a survey of the work of Danish artist Simon Dybbroe Møller from the past 20 years. The exhibition is the most comprehensive overview of Dybbroe Møller’s practice to date and includes several new works as well as earlier ones that have been restaged and reconfigured for the exhibition.
In his practice, Simon Dybbroe Møller investigates and complicates common binaries: copy and original, motif and depiction. The artist tests what sculpture is or can be, in a world that is dictated by the photographic; a world where our economy and attention has shifted from the object to the image.
Thick & Thin hints at this preoccupation with the relationship between sculpture (thick) and imagery (thin) as well as the twists and turns of two decades of artistic practice – through “thick and thin”. His solo exhibitions often have the atmosphere of carefully curated group shows, and many works chosen for the exhibition use autobiographical elements to examine notions of identity and representation, and question tropes and mechanisms of depiction. Rather than settling into one medium or style, Dybbroe Møller continuously probes new territories, moving between film, photography, found objects, installation, sculpture, performance, writing, curating and teaching.
In the Kunsthal’s major south wing, the audience will meet a practice that emphasizes connection, juxtaposition and relationality. Through his work, Dybbroe Møller engages in a back-and-forth between the thick and the thin – between palpable qualities such as the material and weight of sculpture and the mediation and representation of images.
Thick & Thin has been developed in close collaboration between the artist and with curator Krist Gruijthuijsen, director KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin.
The exhibition is supported by The Augustinus Foundation, The Beckett Foundation, The Danish Arts Foundation, The New Carlsberg Foundation, The Obel Family Foundation, The William Demant Foundation as well as Belvedere 21, Gallery FRANCESCA MININI, Fastighetaktiebolaget Folkets Hus in Stockholm, The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Sammlung Ivo Moser.
About the artist
Simon Dybbroe Møller (b. Aarhus, 1976; lives and works in Copenhagen) is a graduate from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Since 2019 he has been a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Sculpture in Copenhagen. His works have been featured in solo shows at venues such as Kunsthal Aarhus, Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, Belvedere 21 in Vienna, Kunsthalle São Paulo, Objectif Exhibitions in Antwerp, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Fondazione Giuliani in Rome, Kunstverein Hannover, University of Michigan Museum of Art. His works have been featured in group exhibitions at the Berlin Biennale, the Moscow Biennale, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Palais de Tokyo, Centre Pompidou, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, CCA Wattis in San Francisco, Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt and the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. Simon Dybbroe Møller is the founder of the performance programme Why Words Now and, together with artist Nina Beier, runs the exhibition venue AYE-AYE in Copenhagen.
Practical information
Simon Dybbroe Møller: Thick & Thin
8 June – 11 August 2024
Press preview: 6 June, 11.00-12.00
Artist talk: 7 June, 16.00-17.00
Exhibition opening: 7 June, 17.00-20.00
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Kongens Nytorv 1, 1050 Copenhagen K
Further info here
Public program
7 June: Vernissage
16.00-17.00 Talk: Simon Dybbroe Møller & Krist Gruijthuijsen
17.00-20.00 Exhibition opening: Thick & Thin
Free admission
12 June: Introduction to the exhibition
19.30-20.00 Guided tour: Thick & Thin (Danish)
Free admission
18 June – 11 August: Film screening
Simon Dybbroe Møller: What Do People Do All Day (2020-22)
The film loops during opening hours
2 July: Art with your baby
10.00-13.00 Experience our current exhibitions in a baby-friendly pace
11.00-12.00 Guided tour: Thick & Thin (Danish)
11 July: Introduction to the exhibition
18.00-19.00 Guided tour: Thick & Thin (Danish and English)
17 July: Introduction to the exhibition
18.00-19.00 Guided tour: Thick & Thin (Danish and English)
25 July: Introduction to the exhibition
18.00-19.00 Guided tour: Thick & Thin (Danish and English)
31 July: Introduction to the exhibition
18.00-19.00 Guided tour: Thick & Thin (Danish and English)
6 August: Art with your baby
10.00-13.00 Experience our current exhibitions in a baby-friendly pace
11.00-12.00 Guided tour: Thick & Thin (Danish)
7 August: Talk
17.30-19.30 Thick & Thin (Questions & Answers)
Simon Dybbroe Møller in one-on-one conversations with:
Maja Li Härdelin, Artist
Kirsten Ortwed, Sculptur
Anders Kold, Curator at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Steven Shainberg, Film Director
Free admission
11 August: Finissage
15.00-16.00 Talk: @theshrink
Simon Dybbroe Møller in a live session with psychologist Dr. Debbie Quackenbush