SIMONE AABERG KERN

Born 1969. Lives and works in Copenhagen.

Educated at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark 1993-98 and Goldsmith's College of Fine Art, London, England 1995-97.

Over the past ten years, Simone Aaberg Kærn has had the sky and flight as her recurring theme in a series of videos, installations, and works of performance art – often in combination with a historical and social representation of the woman as subject.

Her theme is the battle for free airspace and our dream of being able to fly – of looking up to the sky and just taking off. Aaberg Kærn has done just that – she has flown her own plane right into the war zone in Afghanistan. The plane was a forty-year-old single-engine Piper Colt 108.

In collaboration with Magnus Bejmar she has made a movie for cinema "Smiling in a War Zone", 2005 that has received several nominations and awards at international film festivals.

In 2006 Simone Aaberg Kærn presented a retrospective entitled OPEN SKY at Malmö Konsthall, Sweden. Follwed up by OPEN SKY exhibitions at Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland and ARoS, Denmark in 2008.