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