Egill Sæbjörnsson °1973 Iceland

education

1995 - 1996 Université Paris 8. St.Denis. France
1993 - 1997 The Icelandic College of Arts and Craft. Reykjavik

solo exhibitions (selection)

2013
Egill Sæbjörnsson, Hopstreet, Brussels

2012
Art Basel Miami Beach, With i8 Gallery Reykjavik, Miami
I8 gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland

2011
Pyramidion, Geirþrúður Finnbogadottir Hjorvar & Egill Sæbjörnsson
Double World-One World, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv
Hopstreet, Brussels

2010
Sassa Trülzsch, Berlin
41st Basel Art Fair, solo presentation with Ragnar Kjartansson, I8 Gallery, Basel.
Göttingen Kunstverein, Göttingen

2009
The Spirit of a Place & Narration, The Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
Art Basel Miami Beach, With i8 Gallery Reykjavik, Miami
Preview Berlin, Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Gent
‘Various Projections’,  Solo Project - Basel, Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Gent
‘Grey Still Life I & II’,  Art Brussels, Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Gent

2008   
Wall to Wall. In collaboration with curator Karolin Tampere. HISK. Ghent
Egill Sæbjörnsson. I8 gallery. Iceland

2007   
Lada-project. Egill Sæbjörnsson. Berlin
Garden Theater. Erste Haus am Platz. Torstrasse 111. Berlin
Three Daily Exercises. Kölnischer Kunstverein. Cologne “egillegillegill”. Cueto Projects,
Cur: Gyonata Bonvicini. New York
5 Bottles. Falkecharlotte. Ellen deBruijn Project. Amsterdam

2006   
Ping Pong Dance. SAFN. Museum for Contemporary Art. Reykjavik
Songs For the Houses. Anna-Catharina Gebbers. Bibliothekswohnung,Berlin, Mori. Gallerie Loyal. Kassel
Our Hands Are Like Leaves.Installation and performance. General Public.Berlin

2005   
An Idear for Two feet, 2 hands and 4 corners. Büro DC. Cologne
Mr. Piano and Mrs. Pile. Gallery 101. Reykjavik

2004   
Mr. Piano and Mrs. Pile. Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien. Berlin
The Sofa. Reykjavik Art Museum. Reykjavik

2003   
In the garden - Galleri Hlemmur – Reykjavik
Hola Mora III. Slunkariki – Isafjordur
You Take all My Time – Cooper Art Galleries, Dundee Contemporary Arts. Dundee

group exhibitions (selection)

2012
Reykjavik Art Museum, with Santiago Siera, Isa Melsheimer ..
Imaginäre Reisen, curated by Laurie de Chiara and Rebecca Raue
Kunstverein Nürnberg, 30 künstler-30 Raüme

2011
Emerging. Gallery Anhava. Helsinki
Jahresgaben. Künstlerhaus Bremen
Let the Rhythm Hit’Em. Kunstraum Kreuzberg. Cur: Mattthias Mayer
Hommage a Can. ABTART Stuttgart and Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Cur. Christoph Tannert
Birgir Andrésson and friends. Hafnarborg Art Museum. Reykjavik
Carnegie Art Award. CIAC, Centre International d’Art Contemporain, Carros/Nice
Stipendiaten des Berliner Senats. NGBK. Berlin

2010    
Rites without Myths, Impronte contemporary art, Milan, cur Ilari Valbonesi
FischGrätenMelkStand,  Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, cur: John Bock
Das Wesen im Ding,  Frankfurter Kunstverein, cur: Holger Kube Ventura
The First International Light Biennial, cur: Matthias Wegner, Ruhr Gebiet, Germany
Coup de Ville,  Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, cur. Jan Hoet & Stef Van Bellingen
Creating a Place, Neuer Sächsischer Kunstverein, cur. Ilina Koralova 

2009     
Enjoy, Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle, Belgium
Grey Still Life I, office-presentation, Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle, Belgium
Carnegie Art Award, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Kopenhagen, The Royal
College of Arts, Londen, UK

2008   
You gave me a mountain and I asked for the sky. Peter Lav gallery. Copenhagen
Reykjavik Art Festival. Concert and collaboration with Percusemble Berlin. Reykjavik

2007   
Berwick Film Festival. Northumberland, England
SMoCA, Scottsdale Museum For Contemporary Art. Arizona
Gegen dem Strich. Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien. Berlin
UKS. Young Artist´s Association. Oslo

2006   
Paris Photo. Caroussel de Louvre. Paris
The Endless Summer. Curated by Gyonata Bonvicini. West London Project Galeries. London
Momentum 06 – The 4th Nordic Festival Of Contemporary Art. Moss. Norway
Critics taste better. Korridor, Berlin
The Peninsula. Singapore History Museum. Singapore
Our House Is A House That Moves. Cur: Natasa Petresin. The Living Art Museum. Reykjavik
Cold Climate. Cur: George Doneo & Peter Lamb. The Living Art Museum. Reykjavik
Guds utvalda thjod. Kling & Bang. Reykjavik

2005   
Situations. Museum of Modern Art. Sydney
Beck´s Future Award. The soundtrack for “Close Up Gallery” by Daria Martin. ICA. London

2004   
New Tendencies. The National Gallery of Iceland. Reykjavik
Not in Heaven and Not on Earth. Museum of Modern Art. Skopje. Macedonia
Our House is A House That Moves. Curated by Natasa Petresin. Scuc gallery. Ljubliana
Sons and dottirs. TENT - Center for visual arts Rotterdam Witte de Withstraat. Rotterdam
Cold Climate. Finnish, British and Icelandic artists. APT Gallery, 6 Creek Side, Deptford. London

Frishespores und molekules. Sparwasser - Offensive for contemporary art and communication.      
Berlin
Berlin-North, Contemporary Artists from the Nordic Countries in Berlin. Hamburger Bahnhof –
Museum für gegenwart. Berlin
Instructions. Kunsthalle Wien. Austria

2003   
Behind the eyes. Bergen Kunsthalle. Norway
Hreinn Fridfinnsson – overview. Collaboration piece “Fish”. Safn-Museum for contemporary art. Reykjavik
Rotko – St.Petersburg. Russia
Electric Currents. Video art program. St-Petersburg. Russia DISSONANZE 2003, Roma, Italy
Smekkleysa – BadTaste, the musiclabel. Municipal Art Museum of Reykjavik
Multiplex. Language gallery. Dublin, Ireland
Daria Martin – soloshow. Close-up Gallery’s film soundtrack. Gallery Analix Forever. Geneva.
Switzerland
‘Inside Outliners’ – a probable anthology - Kunsthalle Lophem Belgium  (cur. Roland Patteeuw)
A – clip. A micro invention in cinema space. Berlin, London, Los Angeles
Sex and politics. Videoprogram organised by Gallery G.U.N for Gallery F15. Oslo
Southbound – Berlin based artists from the Nordic countries – in collaboration with Hamburger Bahnhof and Nifca, Berlin

public collections

Three Stones. Ingunn Wernersdottir Iceland
Hola Mora. SMoCA. Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Arizona. USA
Ping Pong dance. Safn – Petur Arason. Reykjavik. Iceland
The Box, Nathalie Fournier. Lyon
Ping Pong Dance. Nathalie Fournier. Lyon
The soundtrack of the work “Closeup Gallery” by Daria Martin. Tate Modern. UK
You Take all My Time .The Icelandic National Gallery. Reykjavik. Iceland
Flug. Icelandair Collection. Reykjavik.
Monkey Music.. Museum of Modern Art. Skopje. Macedonia.
Dans II. Gunnar Dungal, privat collection.
Kjós, Miklatún og Bollagata. The Icelandic National Gallery.
"The International Rock and Roll Summer of Egill Sæbjörnsson". Videos and CD, The Living Art Museum of Reykjavik.


events and performances (selection)

2007      
In the bag. Performance. Ellen de Bruijn Projects. Amsterdam
Three Daily Exercises. Commissioned by Kölnischer Kunstverein. Cologne
Concert with Sam Amidon. The Bowery Poetry Club. New York

2006  
An Idear 4 Two Feet, Two Hands & 4 Corners. De Appel. Amsterdam

2005  
Eine Band Aufgelöst. Rirkrit Tiranavije “Magazine Station Nr. IV”. Gallery  
Neugerriemschneider. Berlin
An Idear 4 Thwoo Feet, Two Hands & 4 Corners. Gallery Isabella Bortolozzi. Berlin
Skinn & Lak performance. Collaboration with Rooseum and Critical studies
department. Malmo
Listening Out. Conference on klangkunst. Transmediale 2005. Haus der Kulturen der welt. Berlin

2004  
Acting and singing for “A Triumph of a Heart” music video by Björk. Made by Spike Jonze
The Stairs, music performance. Maertz music festival. Hamburger Bahnhof National Gallery. Berlin

discography (selection)
 
2005  
Crazy Diamond. Soundtrack for the film “Closeup Gallery” by Daria Martin

2002  
Reproduced & Deper. Self release

2000  
Tonk of the lawn. Bad Taste Records, Iceland. SomeBizarre records, London

1999  
The International Rock n’roll Summer of Egill Sæbjörnsson