(Update 06.11.2003)
Egill Sæbjörnsson
born 1973 in Reykjavik, Iceland
Education:
1995 - 1996 Université Paris 8. St.Denis. France
1993 - 1997 The Icelandic College of Arts and Craft. Reykjavik
Solo exhibitions:
2003 Egill Sæbjörnsson - Galleri Hlemmur – Reykjavik - Iceland
2003 Egill Sæbjörnsson – Hola Mora III. Slunkariki – Isafjordur - Iceland
2003 You Take all My Time – Cooper Art Galleries, Dundee Contemporary Arts. Dundee
2002 The Happy Science – The bar at Dundee Contemporary Arts. Dundee
2002 Unnar & Egill Ny Verk – Kopavogur Art-museum. Iceland
2002 Unnar & Egill New Works. Westwerk. Hamburg
2002 Island Hoch Festival - Frisör BEIGE. Animation - Berlin
2000 Homebuddah - Galleri hlemmur, The wall. Reykjavik. Iceland
2000 New Works - Oneooone galleri. Reykjavik
2000 Egill Sæbjörnsson - DFKU. Odense. Denmark
1999 Catgarden -Gallery Urban Issue. Berlin
1999 Gallerie Schallschutz. With Ingirafn Steinarsson & Maggi Logi. Hanover. Germany
1998 Dangerous Liaisons - Gallery Fish. With Hreinn Fridfinnsson. Reykjavik
1998 Gulp-song - Gallery Gulp!. Reykjavik
1998 Stone - Cafe Mokka. Reykjavik
1998 Clay-horses - Gallery 20 m. Reykjavik
1997 Black Thousand Kronur Bill - Gallery Geysir. Reykjavik
1996 Up & Down - Gallery Kælir. Reykjavik
1996 Burn Baby Burn - Gallery Gulp!. Reykjavik
Group exhibitions:
2004 Berlin-North. Hamburger Bahnhof – National Galleries. Berlin
2003 Instructions. Kunsthalle Wien. Austria
2003 Behind the eyes. Bergen Kunsthalle. Norway
2003 Hreinn Fridfinnsson – overview. Collaboration piece “Fish”. Safn-Museum for contemporary art. Reykjavik
2003 Rotko – St.Petersburg. Russia
2003 Electric Currents. Video art program. St-Petersburg. Russia
2003 DISSONANZE 2003, Roma, Italy
2003 Smekkleysa – BadTaste, the musiclabel. Municipal Art Museum of Reykjavik
2003 Multiplex. Language gallery. Dublin, Ireland
2003 Daria Martin – soloshow. Close-up Gallery’s film soundtrack. Gallery Analix Forever. Geneva. Switzerland
2003 ‘Inside Outliners’ – a probable anthology - Kunsthalle Lophem Belgium (curator Roland Patteeuw)
2003 A – clip. A micro invention in cinema space. Berlin, London, Los Angeles
2003 Sex and politics. Videoprogram organised by Gallery G.U.N for Gallery F15. Oslo
2003 Southbound – Berlin based artists from the Nordic countries – in collaboration with Hamburger Bahnhof and Nifca, Berlin
2002 14 islenskir listamenn - Ljosarvirkjun. Iceland
2002 Here and now. Buro Friedrich. Berlin
2002 5 Kuenstler aus Skandinavien. Galerie Georg Nothelfer. Berlin
2002 My body is over the ocean. Alma Löv Art Museum. Sweden
2001 Right about now. Screening program in Beyond Paradise. Museum of Modern Art Stockholm.
2002 Art for Young Men. Helsinki City Art Museum. Helsinki
2001 Sound in Art. Gallery Priestor. Bratislava,
2001 Blick, a travelling video program. National Gallery of Sweden and Nifca
2001 Ars01 - Kiasma - The National Gallery of Finland – Finland
2001 Polyphony – musicart festival - The Living Art museum in Reykjavik
2001 Pestcontrol –by Hartmut Andryczuk. Gaertnerei Kreuzberg. Berlin
2001 Call me Sarajevo. Videoexhibition. Sarajevo
2001 Fullveldi – young artists in Iceland. Kopavogur Art Museum. Iceland
2000 Shoppin & Fuckin. Groupwork of 7 Icelandic artists and the theatergroup Egg-leikhusid at The Living Art Museum. Reykjavik, Iceland
2000 Eine deutsche Einkaufspassage. Project by Hlynur Hallsson, Carsten Greife and Daniel Schurer. Kunstraum-Podbi Park-Lister. Hanover. Germany
2000 www.orb.is Icelandic web art. The Icelandic Art Museum. Cur: Bragi Halldorsson. Reykjavik
2000 Nordic. Contemporary art from the Nordic countries. Kunsthalle Wien. Austria
2000 Der Hybride Garten. Cur: Hartmut Andryczuk. Kreuzberg Gaertnerei. Berlin
2000 Flakk or that extraordinary sensation of being abroad even when at home. Part of European Cultural City 2000. The Nordic House. Reykjavik
2000 It could be obsession. Rotor – association for contemporary art, Graz Austria
2000 Orgasm2000. The Art Museumof Akureyri. Iceland
1999 The Museum House Egilsstadir. Exhibition. 20 Icelandic artists. Iceland
1999 Trace: an environmental sound installation. The Banff Center for the Arts Media and Visual Arts.
Alberta. Canada
1998 Cosmopolitan Bonsai 2. Gallery Hotel. Zurich. Switzerland
1998 Station to Station. Hungarian and Icelandic artists. The Living Art Museum. Cur: Halldor Bjorn Runolfsson and Barnabas Bensic. Reykjavik
1998 -30/60+. Icelandic artists younger than 30 and older than 60. The Municipal Art Museum of Reykjavik
1998 Nordic Poles. Lucky Thirteen project. Ms.Stubniz. Stockholm
1998 In the Flesh. Exhibition on the body. The Living Art Museum. Reykjavik
1998 The 20th Anniversary of the L.A.M. The Living Art Museum. Reykjavik
1997 Art '97. Icelandic artists – saloon show. Hafnarhusid. Reykjavik
1997 Flax. Artists from the group Luckty Thirteen. Gallery Thomas Angell Trondheim
1997 Self-portraits of Icelandic Male Artists. Cafe Mokka. Reykjavik
1996 Final exhibition of Gallery Greip. Gallery Greip. Reykjavik
1996 Icelandic Cartoons. Together with Kristjan Oddur Sæbjörnsson. Gallery Greip. Reykjavik
1995 The department of mixed media ICAC. The Living Art Museum. Reykjavik
1993 The Independent Art Festival in Reykjavik. Laugavegur 22. Reykjavik
1992 Young Art Hitt Husid.. Reykjavik
Events and performances:
2003 Four Variations of Sorrow. Performance with Ragnar Kjartansson. Municipal Art Museum of Reykjavik
2003 Four Variations of Sorrow. Performance with Ragnar Kjartansson. Gallery Kling & Bang. Reykjavik
2003 Egill S – concert. Innipukinn – musicfestival. Reykjavik
2003 Egill S – concert. Municipal Art Museum of Reykjavik
2003 Egill S – concert. Goldmund – club. Berlin
2003 Rotterdam VHS-festival, Het Wilde Weten. Rotterdam. Holland
2003 Egill S & The Mammoths. Concert at Signal gallery. Malmo, Sweden
2003 Egill S & The Mammoths. Concert at the Golden Gate club, Berlin
2003 Egill S & The Mammoths. Music performance at Buro Friedrich, Berlin
2003 Egill S - Concert at Kunst und Technic. Berlin
2003 Two warm up concerts for the Danish band Sort Sol in Vega in Kopenhagen, Denmark
2003 You Take all My Time – performance in The Cooper Galleries at The Art college of Duncan og Jordanstone, Dundee, Scotland
2003 Artist’s talk at the Art college of Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee
2003 You Are My Loving Insane – VHS-Festival. Off-Corso. Rotterdam Film Festival
2003 You Are My Loving Insane – VHS-Festival. CBK Rotterdam (Art Centre Rotterdam)
2002 Austurbaer – concert with SKE- Reykjavik
2002 Skinn og lak – performance at the opening of the Nordic Film Festival, Dundee Contemporary
Arts – Dundee – UK
2002 You Take all My Time, performance at the opening of Unnar & Egill – Ny verk, Kopavogur Art
Museum, Iceland
2002 You Take all My Time, performance in Lisa Lounge on the Stardust deluxe evening with artists
working in sound and music. Berlin
2002 Musicperformance in Westwerk in connection with Unnar & Egill – Ny verk – Hamburg
2002 Musicperformance in NBI – Neue Berliner Initiatif - Berlin
2002 Musicperformance at Converter 2 – Music and art-festival – In collaboration with Franz Graf and Stromstrasse music label. The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik
2002 Musicperformance in Café Burger – Berlin
2002 Musicperformance in Knaack club – with MUM - Berlin
2002 Musicperformance at BuroFriedrich opening of Here and Now - Berlin
2002 Arcipelago Film Festival. You Are My Loving Insane. Rome - Italy
2002 Lisa Lounge – concert with Popchor Berlin - Berlin
2002 Musicperformance Berliner Festspiele. Grose Stimmgabe – part of “Island Hoch Festival” in Berlin
2002 Roter Salon – concert with Popchor Berlin - Berlin
2001 Musicperformance in Buryzone, Bratislava
2001 Musicperformance in Armani Studio. Vienna
2001 Musicperformance Converter 1 - music and art festival – in collaboration with Franz Graf and Stromstrasse music label. Art academy in Vienna
2001 Musicperformance in Dirk Bell club - Berlin
2001 Musicperformance in Ljubliana K4 club
2001 Musicperformance at Nifcastudios Suomenlinna
2001 Concert in NBI club Berlin
2001 Video for The Cultural night in Reykjavik.
2001 Skinn og lak. Polyphony festival ar The Lving Artmuseum in Reykjavik
2001 Eaglebeagle – concert at The Living Art museum Reykjavik
2001 Tonk – paperconcert – With Sigurdur Gudjonsson, Asdis Sif Gunnarsdottir and Bjarni Grimsson
2000 Batofar. Artists from Nordic countires. Paris. France
2000 Les boreals de Normandie. Dans I, II, III & IV. Installation and performance. France
2000 The Ghosthouse. Group-performances at the Yellow House. Reykjavik
2000 Broken music-performance. 50th anniversary of Halldor Bjorn Runolfsson, art critic and historian.
2000 Video-festival. Copenhagen. Denmark
2000 Tricktisch 7. Café R.Z. Videonight. Berlin
2000 Death Disco Club. Radiosendung am park. Live radio performance from a car. Org. by Klaus Weber. Berlin, Germany
2000 Öffene atelier. Barkenhoff, Worpswede. Germany
2000 Dans III. Festival for film. Liepaja. Kristine Briede. Lettland
2000 Death on two legs. The Nordic House. Reykjavik
2000 Dans III. Kunsthalle Wien. Autria
2000 Dans III. Rotor. Graz. Austria
1999 Rolling Snowball. Concert in Maria am Ostbahnhof with Andreas Berthling. Berlin
1999 Dans III. Performance. Goethe Institute Reykjavik Prasentiert Islandische Kultur in
Berlin. Org. by Wolfgang Mueller. Podevil. Berlin
1999 The International Rock and Roll Summer of Egill Sæbjörnsson. Video/Performance. Jazz-bar-
Dinstagsbar. Berlin
1999 The International Rock and Roll Summer of Egill Sæbjörnsson. CD release-party . Café Thomsen.
Reykjavik
1999 Dans III. Performance. FlitjenBar. Maria am Ostbahnhof. Berlin
1999 Dans III. Performance. Kunstverein Hanover. Hanover
1999 Dans III. Performance. Soirée Revue NeufNeuf. Le Frigo. Paris
1998 Dans III. In the Flesh. Performance. The Reykjavik Art Festival. The Living Art Museum.
Reykjavik
1997 Dance I. Performance/slides-show. Evening against drugs. The National Theater Cellar. Reykjavik
1997 Card-trick. CU-SeeMe performance via Internet. Connection between the show of Tar-get in The
Living Art Museum and Screens in Trondheim. Norway
1997 Fire/Desire. Performance at Café Solon Islandus. Reykjavik
1997 Princess Blut. Performance. / Dance I Performance. / Video: In a Windowsill. Four days festival.
Gallery Undir Pari. Reykjavik
1996 Burning down the gallery" Performance. Gallery Gulp. Hveragerdi. Iceland
1996 Singing from my diary. Performance. Candid Art Gallery. London
1995 Confrontations. Performance. The Nordic House. Reykjavik
1995 Ob-la-di, ob-la-da. Performance – singing the Beatle’s song. The Living Art Museum. Reykjavik
Collaborations:
2003 A Fantasic Room. Collaboration with Asdis Sif Gunnarsdottir, Sigurdur Gudjonsson, Elin Hansdottir and Sara Riel, for the exhibition Berlin North at Hamburger Bahnhof, National Galleries. Berlin
2003 Four Variations of Sorrow. Performance with Ragnar Kjartansson
2003 Sountrack for the film “Close-up Gallery” by artist Daria Martin (London)
2003 Ping Pong D’Amour. Music for the Artist’s made TV series. Together with Klaus Weber
2000 Translation and making of music for the project Collaboration by David TV, Paris France
2000 Music shop. Project by Alexander Rishaug. Trondheim Art Museum. Norway
1999 Poster for the Hall of Fame at Dinstagsbar, Schroederstrasse. Org: Klaus Weber. Mitte Berlin
1998 Eaglethorp meets... . Internet-project. Point Project. Trondheim. Norway
1997 Lucky Thirteen. Collaboration of 12 Nordic art-students who made a travelling art-academy. Two
months travel to 12 cities in Scandinavia and Iceland.
1997 AE. The Private Art-academy. Teachers: Halldór Björn Runólfsson, Art-historian and criticer.
OliverKochta, artist from Hamburg. Serge Comte, artist from France. Douglas Davis, artist from New York. Baldur Helgason, artist from Reykjavik
1997 Spela. Electro-music duo with Isak Eldh from Sweden
Works and texts published in Magazines:
2002 Marlon 02. Food and Recipies. Together with David TV - Berlin
2001 Article on the icelandic artscene. www.icelandculture.is
2000 eagle beagle – eaglestuff (photographs) Starship magazine. Berlin.
2000 L´homme qui vendait sa tete. Cinema sculpture. Paris. France
2000 Drawings “Black heads”.. Fukt-magasine for drawings. Trondheim. Norway
2000 Create you own fashionstory. Curated by Catherine Chevalier. Revue NeufNeuf. Paris
2000 Videostills from the video ´”Krush n’kil n’krád n’keil” by The Flower (Ingibjörg Magnadottir and Asdis Sif Gunnarsdottir) from The International Rock n'roll Summer of Egill Sæbjörnsson. Starship.Berlin
1999 Dance III, Stickers + Dans III audio drumtrack. Revue Neuf Neuf. Magazine. Paris
1998 Article about Reykjavik's art scene. Starship. Berlin
1998 Dance III, Pictures. NEID-Magazine, Berlin
1998 The Giant on the Bed. Photoseries. 101. Magazine on advanced cinema. Paris
1997 Lucky Thirteen. Two articles. Morgunbladid. Reykjavik
1997 Drawings Fjölnir. Magazine on arts. Reykjavik
1997 Advertisements for the City of Reykjavik. Fjölnir. Magazine on arts. Reykjavik
1997 The Athletic Girl. Photoseries. Studentabladid. Magazine of the University of Iceland
1996 The Giant on the Bed. Photoseries. Studentabladid. Reykjavik
1996 Hot Dog '96. With Gabriela Fridriksdottir. Studentabladid. Reykjavik.
Bibliography:
2003 Contemporary Arts. Hanna Styrmisdottir review.
2002 Berliner Zeitung – “Das Laecheln der Reisenden” by Jana Sittnick. Page 26 - Berlin
2002 TAZ – specialheft fuer Island Hoch Festival Berlin – photos - Berlin
2002 Beyond Paradise – Nordic artists travel east - catalogue
2001 Intro – musicmagazine. Germany. November issue.
2001 The Guardian – June 22, 2001
2001 NME – June 2001
2001 I mag Hong Kong – June issue
2001 Q magazine July 2001
2001 Ars01 catalogue. The National Gallery of Finland- Kiasma.
2000 Les Boréales – Les corps – Festival d’art et de litérature Nordiques proposé par le centre régional des lettres de basse-normandie – page 28 - France
2000 Rotor – yearbook – pages19 – 22 – text by Sabine Folie. Graz - Austria
2000 Flakk or that extraordinary sensation of being abroad even when at home. Catalog. The Nordic
House in Reykjavik. Published by The Nordic House in Reykjavik and NIFCA.
2000 Der Spiegel. 23/2000. Page 205. Grusel unter dem Billy Regal
2000 Sehnsucht nach Landschaft. Catalog. Kunstlerhauser Worpswede. Germany
2000 Nordic. Catalog. Kunsthalle Wien. Austria
1998 -30/60+. Catalog of the exhibition. The Municipal Art Museum of Reykjavik. Published by the Cultural
Committee of the City of Reykjavik
1998 In the Flesh. Catalog/book of the exhibition on arts and the human body. The Reykjavik Art Festival Published by The Icelandic Cultural Enterprise art.is
Discography:
2002 Reproduced & Deper – Egill S – 50 numbered copies - Reykjavik
2002 Safndiskur fra Smekkleysu – BadTaste - Reykjavik
2001 You Are My Loving Insane – single from Tonk of the lawn – SomeBizarre - England
2001 Death Disco Club- compilation. Klaus Weber - Berlin
2001 I´d rather shout back at... compilation CD. SomeBizarre. London UK
2001 Tonk of the lawn. UK and USA release. SomeBizarre records
2000 Tonk of the lawn. Released on Bad Taste Records in Iceland
2000 Rolling Snowball. From the exhibition Orgasm 2000 at The Art museum of Akureyri. Iceland
2000 The International Rock n’roll Summer of Egill Sæbjörnsson. Kunsthalle Wien Version.
1999 The International Rock n’roll Summer of Egill Sæbjörnsson
1997 DJ Egill. Collection of re-mixes from 1986 – 1988.
1999 Kjós, Miklatún and Bollagata. 3 QTVR works
1999 Catgarden. QTVR. Berlin
1999 Urban Issue. QTVR. For Urban Issue. Berlin
1999 Potsdamer Platz. QTVR. Berlin
2003 Nurture Your Senses
2003 Ceci n’est pas un negre. Production for A – clip project.
2003 You Take all My Time – performance. Musicvideo
2002 Animation (BEIGE)
2001 Skubbidubbidoo
2001 The Happy Science – double channel DVD video-installation
2001 You are my loving insane – musicvideo – animation
2000 I love you so – musicvideo. By Smoczek videos, Deborah Schamoni, Berlin
2000 Rolling Snowball – collaboration with The Flower – music video
1999 Oh I need Your Love Babe. Animated musicvideo
1999 Dyrarokk. Animated music video
1998 Dans III. Animation
1998 Stone. Animation
1997 Walking in a windowsill
1997 Slow motion in a corridor
1997 Slow motion with a ladder and talking
1997 Brushing teeth. Copenhagen
1997 Loneliness. Umea, Sweden
1997 Afraid of heights. Umea. Sweden
1997 Walks. Throndheim. Norway
Recidencies and stipends:
2004 Bethanien – Kunstlerhaus, Berlin. International Studio Program
2003 Artist’s working stipendium of Reykjavik’s City Counsil.
2003 Myndstef. Artist’s grant
2003 The Visual Arts Stipend Fond. Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. Iceland
2003 Sleipnir
2002 Sleipnir
2002 Nordic Residencies Program. Dundee Contemporary Arts. Nifca
2000 The Visual Arts Stipend Fond. Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. Iceland
2000 Sleipnir. Travel-grant
2000 Barkenhoff stiftung. Kunstlerhauser Worpswede. Germany
2000 Nifca Residencies 2000. Vilnius. Lithuania
1997 NKKK. Travel grant for the project "Lucky Thirteen".
1995 Erasmus – exchange program.
Representation in collections:
2001 Gunnar Dungal/Penninn – Dans II
2000 The National Gallery of Iceland – Kjós, Miklatún og Bollagata QTVR, CD-rom
1998 The Living Art Museum of Reykjavik. "The International Rock
and Roll Summer of Egill Sæbjörnsson". Videos and CD
Prizes: 2002 Pennastyrkurinn. For the work Dance III
1997 ART '97. 2nd prize. For the work Dance II
Contact:
Egill Sæbjörnsson
Brunnenstrasse 180
10119 Berlin
Germany
or:
Miklabraut 52
105 Reykjavik
Iceland
www.eaglestuff.net
www.egill.org