SIGURDUR GUDJONSSON | works | vita
*1975, Reykjavík, Iceland
Lives and works in Reykjavik
2000 - 2003 Iceland Academy of the Arts, BA.
2002 - 2003 Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien, Austria
1998 - 1999 Billedskolen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Sigurdur Gudjonsson, Galerie Adler, New York, USA
2007 Sigurdur Gudjonsson, Safn Reykjavík, Iceland
2007 Sigurdur Gudjonsson, Reykjavík Art Museum, Iceland
2006 Dark places, Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany
2006 Bleak - Trostlos, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen, Germany
2006 Deathbed, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2004 Host, Gallery Kling & Bang, Reykjavik, Iceland
2002 Darkness, Gallery Priestor, Bratislava (mit Magnus Arnason), Slovakia
2002 Cat, Gallery Kukur, Iceland
2002 Wonderboy, Gallery Nema Hvad, Iceland
2002 Saebjörnsson and Sara Riel, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany (cat)
Group Exhibitions
2008 Dreams of the Sublime and Nowhere, Safn Reykjavík, Iceland
2008 Black Mathematics, FIFI projects, Miami, USA
2008 Dreams of the Sublime and Nowhere, BOZAR Centre for fine arts, Brussels
2008 Galerie Stedefreund, Berlin, Germany
2007 Deathbed, Breed & host Ursula Blickle Videoarchiv, Kunsthalle Wien
2007 Crossing Border Festival, Den Haag, NL
2007 A jadrinum, Film Archive, Auckland, New Zealand (curated by Dr. Leonhard Emmerling)
2007 Icelandic Video Art, Borderline moving images festival, Beijing China
2007 100 Tage 100 Videos, GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007 Rekord, Oslo, Norway
2007 Prater Art Sessions, Prater Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2006 (with Hans Op de Beeck, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Nicolas Jasmin, Chris Miner)
2006 Vienna Biennale, Vienna, Austria
2006 100 Tage 100 Videos, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
2006 SEQUENCES real time festival, Reykjavík, Iceland
2006 Temporary Cities, National Centre for Contemporary arts NCCA, Moscow, Russia
2006 The Un-Homely, Galerie Adler, New York City, USA
2006 Contemporary Video Art from Iceland, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2006 Iceland Show, BUS Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2006 the end, my friend, Spielhaus Morrison Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2006 Islandia, Kültur Büro Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2005 Host, Berlin Liste, Klink&Bank invasion, Germany
2004 Etoiles Polares, Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium
2004 Nyskopun – Ny – Skopun,exhibition in a collaboration with Ice Tec, Reykjavík, Iceland
2004 Berlin North (in collaboration with Elin Hansdottir, Ásdis Sif Gunnarsdottir, Egil
2004 Saebjörnsson and Sara Riel), Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany (cat)
Collections
Reydan Weiss, Essen, Germany
Reykjavík Art Museum, Iceland
Private collections.
Bibliography
2008 Dreams of the Sublime and Nowhere, published by Reykjavik Art Museum (Cat.)
2004 Dreams of the Sublime and Nowhere, published by BozarExpo, Brussel (Cat.)
2004 Young Icelandic artist in D:gallery januar 2007 to April 2008, published by Reykjavik Art
Museum (Cat.)
2007 Prater Art Sessions, Spike Magazine Austria, March 30, 2007
2006 Sigurdur Gudjonsson: Dark Places, LIST Icelandic Art News no. 9, by Dr. Christian Schön
2006 Reykjavik, Art Review, by November Paynter, June 2006, p. 54
2006 Licht, Ton, Schnitt, Zeichnung, Illusion, Ritual - durchbuchstabiert, Main Echo, by Gundel-Maria Busse, May 3rd, 2006
2006 Island in Videos und Fotos, Frankfurter Neue Presse, by Gernot Gottwals, May 2nd, 2006, p. 27
2004 Berlin North, catalog Hamburger Bahnhof