Egill Sæbjörnsson °73 Iceland

Graduated from the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts (now the Icelandic Academy of the Arts) in 1997 and studied at the University of Paris, St.Denis, from 1995 to 1996. Since 1999 he shares his time between Reykjavík and Berlin. His art is an unusual fusion of music, sound, video and installations in addition to which he often appears himself as part of his exhibition projects.

From the start of his career he has handled different media and expressive idioms with remarkable facility. He harnessed computers, projections and musical instruments in his performances where he himself took on a different person in each new context. He has a whole career in  music and has released his music with record companies and music is an integral part of his many performance projects.

In recent installations Egill has used video, sound and sculptural installations to create a sort of cabaret in the gallery with cut-out figures and artworks that speak and sing and even interact. There are numerous echoes from art history, including Dada evenings in the teens and twenties, and the artworks themselves comment out loud on such references. Egill’s exhibitions in Iceland include a large installation at the National Gallery in 2004, a solo exhibition in Gallery I8 and an exhibition at the Living Art Museum.