(Update 09.05.2002)
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 Visual Research Centre – Dundee Contemporary Arts – You Take all My Time - Scotland
2002 Kopavogur Art-museum. Ny Verk. With Unnar Orn Jonasson. Iceland
2002 Westwerk – Hamburg. Germany
2002 Frisör BEIGE, Auguststr. 83. Island Hoch Festival - Berlin
2000 Galleri hlemmur, The wall. Reykjavik. Iceland
2000 Oneooone galleri. Reykjavik
2000 DFKU. Odense. Denmark
1999 Gallery Urban Issue. Catgarden. Berlin
1999 Gallerie Schallschutz. With Ingirafn Steinarsson & Maggi Logi. Hanover. Germany
1998 Gallery Fish. With Hreinn Fridfinnsson. Reykjavik
1998 Gallery Gulp. Gulp-song. Reykjavik
1998 Cafe Mokka. Stone. Reykjavik
1998 Gallery 20 m. Clay-horses. Reykjavik
1997 Gallery Geysir. Black Thousand Kronur Bill. Reykjavik
1996 Gallery Kælir. Up & Down. Reykjavik
1996 Gallery Gulp. Burn Baby Burn. Reykjavik
Group exhibitions:
2003 Southbound – Berlin based artists from the Nordic countries – in collaboration with Hamburger Bahnhof and Nifca
2002 Ljosarvirkjun – 14 islenskir listamenn verda ser til skammar. Island
2002 Buro Friedrich – Here and now - Berlin
2002 Galerie Georg Nothelfer – 5 Kuenstler aus Skandinavien - Berlin
2002 Alma Löv Art Museum. My body is over the ocean. Sweden
2001 Museum of Modern Art Stockholm. Right about now. Screening program in connecting the exhibition Beyond Paradise – Nordic artist travel east.
2002 Helsinki City Art Museum. Art for Young Men. Helsinki
2001 Gallery Priestor. Sound in Art. Bratislava,
2001 National Gallery of Sweden in Stockholm - Nifca studios Suomenlinna Helsinki. Blick., a travelling video program
2001 Kiasma - The National Gallery of Finland. Ars01 – Third space – Finland
2001 The Living Art museum in Reykjavik - Polyphony – musicart festival
2001 Gaertnerei Kreuzberg - Pestcontrol –by Hartmut Andryczuk. Berlin
2001 Call me Sarajevo. Videoexhibition in Sarajevo
2000 The Living Art Museum. Reykjavik. Shoppin & Fuckin. Groupwork of 7 Icelandic artists and the theatergroup Egg-leikhusid., Iceland
2000 Kunstraum-Podbi Park-Lister. Eine deutsche Einkaufspassage. Project by Hlynur Hallsson,
Carsten Greife and Daniel Schurer. Hanover. Germany
2000 The Icelandic Art Museum. www.orb.is Icelandic web art.. Cur: Bragi Halldorsson. Reykjavik
2000 Kunsthalle Wien. Nordic. Contemporary art from the Nordic countries. Cur: Sabine Folie and Birgitte Kölle. Austria
2000 Kreuzberg Gaertnerei. Der Hybride Garten. Cur: Hartmut Andryczuk. Berlin
2000 The Nordic House. Flakk or that extraordinary sensation of being abroad even when at home. Part of European Cultural City 2000. Cur: Andrea Kroksnes and Per Gunnar Tværbak. Reykjavik.
2000 Rotor – association for contemporary art. It could be obsession – artists from East Europe
Margarethe & Anton Lederer. Graz. Austria
2000 The Art Museumof Akureyri Orgasm2000. Sexuality in art among Icelandic artists. Cur: Hannes Sigurdsson. Iceland
1999 The Museum House Egilsstadir. Exhibition. 20 Icelandic artists. Cur: Steingrimur Eyfjord. Iceland
1999 The Banff Center for the Arts Media and Visual Arts. Trace: an environmental sound installation.
Alberta. Canada
1998 Gallery Hotel. Cosmopolitan Bonsai 2. Zurich-Switzerland
1998 The Living Art Museum. Station to Station. Hungarian and Icelandic artists. Cur: Halldor Bjorn Runolfsson and Barnabas Bensic. Reykjavik
1998 The Municipal Art Museum of Reykjavik -30/60+. Icelandic artists younger than 30 and older than 60. Cur: Kristjan Steingrimur and Eirikur Thorlaksson
1998 Ms.Stubniz. Nordic Poles. Lucky Thirteen project. By Johann Waerndt. Stockholm
1998 The Living Art Museum.Reykjavik. In the Flesh. Exhibition on the body. The Reykjavik Art-FestivalCur: Hannes Sigurdsson. Reykjavik
1998 The Living Art Museum. The 20th Anniversary of the L.A.M. Reykjavik
1997 Hafnarhusid. Art '97. Icelandic artists – saloon show. Reykjavik
1997 Gallery Thomas Angell Flax. Artists from the group Luckty Thirteen. Trondheim
1997 Cafe Mokka. Self-portraits of Icelandic Male Artists. Reykjavik
1996 Gallery Greip. Final exhibition of Gallery Greip. Reykjavik
1996 Gallery Greip. Icelandic Cartoons. Together with Kristjan Oddur Sæbjörnsson. Reykjavik
1995 The Living Art Museum. The department of mixed media ICAC. Reykjavik
1993 Laugavegur 22. The Independent Art Festival in Reykjavik. Reykjavik
1992 Hitt Husid. Young Art. Reykjavik
Events and performances:
2002 Lisa Lounge – Stardust deluxe. Berlin based artsts that work with sound and music - Berlin
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:
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:
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 – 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.
2000 Kjós, Miklatún and Bollagata. 3 QTVR works
1999 Catgarden. QTVR. Berlin
1999 Urban Issue. QTVR. For Urban Issue. Berlin
1999 Potsdamer Platz. QTVR. Berlin
2002 Animation (BEIGE)
2001 Skubbidubbidoo
2001 Happy Science
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. Music and animation: Egill Sæbjörnsson
1999 Dyrarokk. Animated music video. Music and animation: Egill Sæbjörnsson
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:
2002 Nordic Residencies Program. Dundee. 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
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
Links:
www.eaglestuff.net
www.egill.org
Contact:
egillegill@yahoo.com