Sigurður Guðjonsson - Biography

 
Sigurður Guðjonsson
*1975, Reykjavík
, IS
Lives and works in Reykjavik

2000 - 2003 Iceland Academy of the Arts, BA.
2002 - 2003 Akademie
der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria
1998 - 1999 Billedskolen
, Kopenhagen, Denmark



 
   

Solo Exhibitions
2010 Sigurdur Gudjónsson, Sudsudvestur, Reykjanesbaer, Iceland
        Sigurdur Gudjónsson, Alessandromarenaproject, Turin, Italy
        Event Nr. 3, Hladan, Vogar, Iceland
2009 Event Nr. 2, House of Ideas, Reykjavik, Iceland
        Event Nr. 1, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2008 Sigurdur Gudjonsson, Galerie Kunstagenten,
Gallery Video Lounge, Berlin, Germany
        Sigurdur Gudjonsson, Galerie Adler New York, USA
2007 Sigurđur Guđjónsson, Safn Reykjavík, Iceland
        Sigurður Guðjónsson, Reykjavík Art Museum, Iceland

2006 Dark places, Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany
       
Bleak - Trostlos, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen, Germany
        Deathbed, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt, Germany
2004
Host, Gallery Kling & Bang, Reykjavik, Iceland
        Darkness, Gallery Priestor, Bratislava, Slovakia (with Magnus Arnason)
        Cat
, Gallery Kukur, Iceland
        WONDERBOY, Gallery Nema Hvad, Iceland


Group Exhibitions

2010 NO-WHERE/NOW-HERE, Casa Masaccio, centro per l'arte contemporanea,
        San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy
2009 Shamanimal. Ritual and the non-human, Standpoint, London, UK
        Kling & Bang X, No Soul for Sale – A Festival of Independents, X Initiative, New York, USA
        Event Nr. 2, SEQUENCES Realtime Art Festival, Reykjavík, Iceland
        Fisheye International Experimental Film and Video Festival Rome, Italy
        (curated by Ilari Valbonesi)
        Northwave, book and video screening project during the opening of the Biennale di Venezia
        (curated by Lorella Scacco)
          
Dreams of the Sublime, Kunstsi museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland
2008 You can take the artist out of Iceland, but you can’t take Iceland out of the artist,
        Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norwegen
        Dalir og hólar, Island
        the building, e-flux video rental, Platz Der Vereinten Nationen 14a, Berlin, Germany
        Dreams of the Sublime and Nowhere, Safn Reykjavík, Iceland
        Black Mathematics, FIFI Projects, Miami, USA
        Dreams of the Sublime and Nowhere, BOZAR Centre for fine arts, Brussels
        Galerie Stedefreund, Berlin, Germany
        Á jaðrinum, Film Archive, Wellington, New Zealand (curated by Dr. Leonhard Emmerling)
2007 Deathbed, Breed & host Ursula Blickle Videoarchiv, Kunsthalle Wien
        Crossing Border Festival, Den Haag, Netherlands
        A jadrinum, Film Archive, Auckland, New Zealand (curated by Dr. Leonhard Emmerling)
        Icelandic Video Art, Borderline moving images festival, Beijing China
        Prater Art Sessions, Prater Vienna, Austria
        Rekord, Oslo, Norway
        100 Days 100 videos, GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
2006 100 Tage 100 Videos, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Germany
        Vienna Biennale, Vienna, Austria
       
SEQUENCES real time festival, Reykjavík, Iceland
       
Temporary Cities, National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow, Russia
        The Un-Homely, Galerie Adler, New York City, USA
        Contemporary Video Art from Iceland, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
        Iceland show, BUS Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
        the end, my friend, Spielhaus Morrison Galerie, Berlin, Germany (curated by Severin Dünser)
          
Islandia, Kültur Büro Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2005 Host, Berlin Liste, Klink&Bank invasion
2004 Etoiles Polares, Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium
        Nyskopun – Ny – Skopun,exhibition in a collaboration with Ice Tec, Reykjavík, Iceland
        Berlin North, (in Zusammenarbeit mit Elin Hansdottir, Ásdis Sif Gunnarsdottir, Egil
        Saebjörnsson and Sara Riel), Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany (cat)
2003 Behind the eyes, Bergen Kunsthalle, Norway
        Stye, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
        Uppnam, Einar Jonsson Sculpture Garden, Iceland
        Stye, Gallery 10, Húsavik, Iceland.
2002 IXI Soundperformance, Museums Quartier 21, Vienna
        Red, Uppsala Short Film Festival, Sweden
        Converter Projekt Part 2, The Living Art Museum, Iceland
2001 LOD, sound Performance in Buryzone, Bratislava, Slovakia
        Converter Projekt Part 1, Semper Depot, Vienna, Austria
        Polyfonia, Living Art Museum, Iceland
        Daddy goes all the way, Safnahusid, Husavik, Iceland
        Eagle Beagle, Living Art Museum, Iceland (in cooperation with Egill Saebjornsson)
        Honk, Living Art Museum, Iceland
        Best Hlemmur in the World, The electro company sound performance
2000 Dælan gengur, Olis,
Iceland
        Electro Company, The Yellow House, Iceland, sound performance


Collections
Reydan Weiss, Essen, Germany
Reykjavík Art Museum, Iceland
Private collections


Selected video works
2007 Breed, 17min, hdv/dvd
2006 Bleak, 25min, hdv/dvd
2006 Sárabeð/Deathbed, 25 min, hdv/dvd
2004 Host, length 42 min, dvcam/dvd
2004 Flesh, length 15 min, dv cam/dvd
2003 Stye, length 37 min dv cam/dvd
2002 Darkness, length 16 min, dv cam/dvd
2001 Leatherstreet, length 35 min, dv cam/dvd and audio cd
In collaboration with Gabriela Friðriksdóttir: 2005 West / Tetrologi, length 9min



Music
2002 Killed a man with his ass

       
The Beautiful Carrot
        Slím, in cooperation with Magnus Arnason
2001 Leatherstreet, in cooperation with Arnar Gudjonsson
        Loð, in cooperation with Magnus Arnason
1993 Abduction, Cranium



Bibliography
2009 Mise en abyme, Icelandic Art Today, by Shauna Laurel Jones, Hatje Cantz, 2009 (cat.)
        Northwave, by Lorella Scacco, Silvana Editoriale, 2009 (cat.)
2008 Dreams of the Sublime and Nowhere, published by Reykjavik Art Museum (Cat.)
        Dreams of the Sublime and Nowhere, published by BozarExpo, Brussel (Cat.)
        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
        Reykjavik, Art Review, by November Paynter, June 2006, p. 54
        Licht, Ton, Schnitt, Zeichnung, Illusion, Ritual - durchbuchstabiert, Main Echo, by Gundel-Maria
        Busse, May 3rd, 2006
        Island in Videos und Fotos, Frankfurter Neue Presse, by Gernot Gottwals, May 2nd, 2006, p. 27
2004 Berlin North, catalogue Hamburger Bahnhof
 

 
 
 
 
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