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Born 1972 in Aarhus, Denmark

Lives in Aarhus

from the work:

Lasse Krog MØLLER, Meanwhile in Busan - a journey at the desk. JL’s expedition to Gwangan Bridge, 2020

Courtesy the artist

Lasse Krog MØLLER sees cities, their parks, and streets as libraries packed with stories about people, culture, and values. It is often small objects like everyday ephemera—such as gloves, shopping lists, hair bands, letters, or cigarette butts, that people have dropped or left in the streets—that fascinates the artist. Krog MØLLER documents, collects, and works with the overlooked, unwanted, discarded, and marginalized in our everyday lives. He can be seen as an anthropologist or detective conducting fieldwork in urban settings, and his discoveries, recordings, and photographs areintimate portraits of contemporary life and insight into daily life in public spaces. For more than twenty years, Krog MØLLER has investigated remnants in the streets and archived what he has found. He often chooses to display his collections of unwanted objects in old-fashioned museum-like settings, which generate a humorous critique of consumerism, established institutional archival norms, and museum displays.

In his work, Lasse Krog MØLLER creates a new type of geography and idiosyncratic mapping that can be seen in relation to art historical movements such as Situationism and Fluxus. The artist poses questions about which traces we leave behind or overlook in our daily routines in urban spaces, and his approach produces a unique curiosity towards our surroundings. After experiencing Lasse Krog MØLLER’s work we may ask ourselves: How many small stories and personal destinies do each of us treat as unwanted trash everyday and simply pass by in the streets without noticing? Artists’ books constitute another key element in Krog MØLLER’s work, and a dialectical relationship between the books and the physical works on display makes them two sides of the same coin.