Faldbakken was born in Hobro, Denmark in 1973. He studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen and later at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. His work has been exhibited widely in Europe, with solo exhibitions in the Scandinavian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, National Museum of Art, Oslo, the IKON Gallery, Birmingham, Kunsthalle Skt Gallen, Switzerland. Kunsthalle Friedricanum, Kassel, Schinkel Pavillion, Berlin, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany and OCA Oslo. This year, among other projects, he participated in dOCUMENTA (13) and opens ‘Intervention # 21’, a solo presentation at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam.