SIMONE AABERG KÆRN

1969 Born in Copenhagen, Denmark

Education:

2000 Competition Aerobatics

1999 - 2000 Aerobatics training Chandler Air Service and Boggan

1993 - 1998 The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark

1995 - 1997 Goldsmith's College of Fine Arts, London, England

1996 PPL Clacton Aero Club, Clacton on Sea

Selected solo exhibitions:

2007 Solo Show, Art Brussels, Martin Asbæk Projects, Brussels, Belgium

Galerie Madonna FUST, Bern.

2006 VOLTAShow, Martin Asbæk Projects, Basel, Switzerland

OPEN SKY, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden

Stafet i frit rum, Airplay, Copenhagen

2003 Crossing Line. Fragments from a micro global performance, Galerie Asbæk, Copenhagen, Denmark

2001 Up in the Air, Schnitt Austellungsraum, Köln, Germany

Second to none, Skive Kunstmuseum, Denmark

Downed by Weather, Ronneby Sweden

2000 Sisters in the Sky, Project room, ARCO, Madrid, Spain

1998 Simone Aaberg Kærn, Jyllands Postens exhibition room, Copenhagen, Denmark

1995 Wanna fly, Saga basement, Colbjornsensgade, Copenhagen, Denmark

Air, Kunstakademiets kunstforening, Copenhagen, Denmark

1992 Diftong, Artist space Katharsis, Nansensgade, Copenhagen, Denmark

Pause, Bunkeren pa Frederik den V's vej, Copenhagen, Denmark

Selected group exhibitions:

2007 IS THIS FICTION? Istanbul Modern 5^th Videoprogramme, curated by Rosa Martinez, Istanbul, Turkey

Symposium C6: The Artworld is Flat: Globalism – Crisis and Opportunity, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Chicago, US
“TippingPoint Germany 2007 – A dialogue between climate science and the arts”

2006 Sonoric Perspectives – Ostsee Biennale der Klangkunst, Germany, Sweden, Denmark

ArtForum Berlin

2005 Helden Heute, CentrePasquArt, Biel Bienne, Switzerland

Baby Shower, Wilders, Copenhagen, Denmark

2004 Med kærlig hilsen, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

Mois de la Photo, Chromosome, Berlin, Germany

2003 Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight, North Carolina Museum of Art, U.S.A.

Göteborg International Art Biennale, Gothenborg, Sweden

Europe Exists, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (curated by Rosa Martinez and Harald Szeemann)

Up & Coming (curated by Rosa Martinez), ARCO, Madrid, Spain

M.ars and War, Graz, Austria

2002 Clocwise, Vejle Kunstmuseum, Denmark

TERROR-ISME, Christian DamGallery, Copenhagen

2001 Get that Balance, K2 Hamburg

2000 Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival, curated by Rosa Martinez, Pusan, Korea

1999 48th international Venice Biennale, dAPERTutto, Venice, Italy

Zeitwenden, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, and Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur, Bonn, Germany

Looking for a PLACE, The Third International Biennual, SITE Santa Fe, NM USA

1998 Nordic Normads, White Columns, NY

Something is rotten, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

Come Closer, Liechtensteinische Staatliche Kunstsammlung

Nuit Blanche, Musée d'Art Moderne Ville de Paris, Paris, France

1997 10, Lunds Kunsthall, Lund , Sweden

New Art from Denmark and Scania, Louisiana Museum of Contemporary Art, DK

Selected videos and films

"Smiling in a War Zone" 78 min. movie for cinema, together with Magnus Bejmar, 2005.

"1001 nights 2002" 10 min. video documentaion of performance, with or without installation.

"Terror... Pressurised could you, would you?" 3 min. video installation

"Taraneh heading for the Stars" 10 min. video documentary and dual screen 10 min. DVD projection 2002

"Show me with your hands CPH" 3 min. Single channel video with sound. 2001

"Second to none" 8 min. 2 channel video installation with sound. 2001

"Show me with your hands Korea "3 min. 1 or 3 channel video installation

with sound, Korea 2000.

" Breaking Ground" 3 min. 3 channel DVD video installation with surround

sound. 2000.

" Show me with your hands USA" 1999-2000.

Sisters in the Sky, documentary DR tv/ Zentropa 1998-1999 4 x 29 min. with

Stine Kirstein

" Camping in the clounds" 3 min. single channel video with sound. Los Alamos

1999.

"White" Bird eye Turf - San Diego. 30 min. video no sound. 1998.

"Sisters in the sky" the Russians, 3 min. single channel video with sound.

1997

"15 in 15 minutes" 15 min. single channel video no sound. 1996

"Royal Greenland" 10 min. single channel video installation with sound.

"Drop Zone" 10 min. 2 channel video installation with sound. 1995-96

"wanna fly" 5 channel video installation 1995

"Air" 5 min. video installation with sound 1994-1995.

"Dromostol" 2 channel video installation with sound. 1994

"Dromobil" 2 min. single channel video with sound. 1994

"Safety control" single channel video installation 30 min. 1994.

"Fit for Life" 2 min. single channel video with sound. 1994.

"Scorpio montage" single channel video installation no sound. 1993

"The blue light" 2 channel video installation 1993.

" Pause" No cannel video installation 4 monitors. 1992.

Prizes

2004 Danish Art Critics’ Award, for Crossing Line, Galerie Asbæk (2003)

2005 First Camera Award,

Catalogues

2001 Simone Aaberg Kærn - Schnitt RAUM – Köln

2002 Secnd to None –Skive kunst museum, text Simone Aaberg Kærn.

2006 OPEN SKY, Malmö Konsthall with texts by e.g. Lars Bang Larsen.