2023

Kaleidoscope: Icelandic 20th Century Art,

Reykjavik Art Museum, Kjarvalsstadir,

Reykjavik,

curators: Edda Halldórsdóttir, Markús Þór Andrésson,
Ólöf K. Sigurðardóttir

March 25.− August 7.

Það Liggur í Loftinu / Something Is About To Happen

Korpúlfsstadir, Reykjavik

Three man exhibition,

Þór Vigfússon – Rúrí – Níels Hafstein

March 4. – 26.

Hornsteinn

Listasafn Árnesinga / LÁ Art Museum,

Hveragerdi, Iceland

February to August 2023

Curators: Kristín Scheving, Zsóka Leposa

11. February – 20. August

2022

Are you glad if you can ask something? Networking between East and North.
LÁ Art Museum, Hveragerdi, Iceland. Opening June 4th
Curator: Zsóka Leposa

No. 4  Umhverfing, The Westfjord Peninsula – unconventional venues, Iceland
Opening in June,

Academy of the Senses

2021

Listval Christmas exhibition
Harpa Concert Hall, Reykjavik
December 4th- 29th, 2021

Multis December Exhibition – Svona gerum við
Hafnartorg, Reykjavik
December 2nd to 29th 2021

TI CON ZERO
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
Curators: Paola Bonani, Francesca Rachele Oppedisano and Laura Perrone
October 12, 2021–February 27, 2022

Abrakadabra – The Magic of Contemporary Art
Reykjavik Art Museum – Hafnahus, Reykjavik, Iceland
October 30. 2021 – March 20. 2022

Counter Cartographies: Living the Land
Anchorage Museum
Alaska
Curator: Francesca DuBrock
Oct. 8, 2021—Sept. 25, 2022

2020

Extra Tough: Women of the North,
Anchorage Museum,
Anchorage, Alaska,
Curator: Francesca Du Brock
November 6, 2020 – September 2021

Selected Works, Part II – Akureyri Art Museum
Akureyri, Iceland
Curators: Hlynur F. Þormóðsson and Þorbjörg Ásgeirsdóttir
05.12.2020-14.11.2021

Folklore
MUCEM, Marseilles, France
Curators: Jean-Marie Gallais, Marie- Charlotte Calafat
21. Oct. 2020 – 21. Feb. 2021

Folklore
Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
Curators: Jean-Marie Gallais, Marie- Charlotte Calafat
21. March – 21. Sept.
12.  June  – 04. October 2020

Fruits of Earth and Imagination
Safnasafnið / The Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum,
Svalbardseyri,  Iceland
6. June – 13. Sept. 2020

Some Favourites
The Living Art Museum
The Marshall House
Reykjavik, Iceland
1. Jan. – 23. Feb.

2019

Ocean Dwellers

Nr. 3 Umhverfing

Snæfellsnes peninsula, Iceland
multiple locations,
outdoors and indoors
22. June – 31. August

Konst-tid / Art-Time
Edsasdalen, Sweden
Performance project and exhibition
2. – 4. August

Útlína/Outline
Gerdarsafn – Kopavogur Art Museum,
Iceland
6. April – 2. June

2018

Cosmogonies. Au gré des éléments, MAMAC – Musée d’Art moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France, opening in June.

Faculty of Action – performance art festival.  Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden. Oct.

Art For Arctic’s Sake. Fordham University, Ildiko Butler Gallery, New York. Nov.

No Man‘s Land: Where Beauty Reigns Alone? Reykjavik Arts Festival 2018. Reykjavík Art Museum – Hafnarhus, Reykjavik.

Blossoming – Iceland’s 100 Years as a Sovereign State, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík. Opening July 17.

Nr. 2 Umhverfing.  Heilbrigdisstofnun Austur- lands, Menningarmidstod Fljotsdalsherads, Egilsstadir, Iceland, opening mid June.

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Other Hats: Icelandic Printmaking. National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, opening in May

2017

DIFFUSES SELBST Dieter Roth und andere Gescheiterte. LOFT – Raum für Kunst und Gegenwart,  Ansbach, Germany.  opening December 2nd

Other Hats: Icelandic Printmaking. International Print Center, New York,
opening in April.

Hverfing/ Shape Shifting. Verksmidjan Hjalteyri, Iceland,
opening in August.

A! Performance Festival, Akureyri Art Museum, Iceland.
August 31. – September 3.

Nr. 1  Umhverfing, Saudarkrokur Health Centre and Museum building, Iceland,
July 1st –  beginning of September

Since Then. Kamloops Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada,
opening in September

Sagas on Thin Ice

The Bakehouse

Miami, US, November 18th to January 21st 2018

2016

By Water

Amos Anderson Museum

Helsinki,

Finland, June.

Since Then – Núna / Now

Urban Shaman Con-

temporary Aboriginal Art

Winnipeg,  Canada, June

Rolling Snowball – 7

Djupivogur & Chinese European Art Center – CEAC,
Djupivogur,

Iceland, July

INSIGHT #3:

WATER WORKS
Art Center Hugo Voeten
Herentals, Belgium, March

Dulkápan

Artist’s Books

Núllid, Reykjavík,

Iceland, March

101 Questions to Women
Nýlistasafnið – The Living Art Museum,

Reykjavík, Iceland

2015

Primary Force – Iceland in water and colour

The Nordic Watercolour Museum
Skärhamn

Sweden – May 2015

Ákall / Challenge

LÁ Art Museum
Hveragerdi,

Iceland

2014

Upheaval – Icelandic Art around and after 1970
LÁ Art Museum
Hveragerdi, Iceland

…  Burning Bright

Tiger, tiger
STUX Gallery
New York

Iceland: Artists Respond to Space
Katonah Museum of Art
Katonah, NY, US,
Pari Stave

Rolling Snowball 5 – Djupivogur
Chinese European Art Center – CEAC,
Djupivogur, Iceland,
Ineke Gudmundsson

Not Quite Lysistrata
Art on Armitage
Platform Projects – Art Athina International Contemporary Art Fair
Athens, Greece,
Mary Ellen Croteau

Open Scene
Munich Film Museum, Munich, Germany,
Christian Schoen

O Wind, if Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
Gallery Stefan Stux
New York, US

Due North
The Icebox Space,

Crane Arts
Philadelphia, US,
Marianne Bernstein

2013

Embracing Impermanence – We came into this with a shovel in our hands
The Living Art Museum

Thorgerdur Olafsdottir  & Eva Isleifsdottir

Pathway – a Dialogue on Northern Issues /

Polku – vuoropuhelu pohjoisuudesta,
Rovaniemi Art Museum,

Rovaniemi, Finland

Social Videoscapes From the North,
Pro Artibus – Gallery Elverket,
Ekenäs, Finland,
Lorella Scacco

Pathway – Dialogues on Northern Issues
Oulu Art Museum
Finland

Social Videoscapes From the North,
Careof DOCVA
Milan, Italy
Lorella Scacco

2012

2011

Then And Now

National Gallery of Iceland

Reykjvaík, Iceland

Literacy
The Living Art Museum
Reykjavík, Iceland
Jón B. K. Ransú

Höhenrausch.2—Bridges in the Sky
OK Offenes Kulturhaus
Linz, Austria
Genoveva Rückert, Julia Stoff, Martin Sturm, Rainer Zendron

Perspectives—On the Borders of Art and Philosophy
Reykjavík Art Museum—Hafnarhús
Reykjavík, Iceland
Aðalheiður Lilja Guðmundsdóttir, Gunnar J. Árnason, Gunnar Harðarson, Hafþór Yngvason, Jón Proppé, Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir, Oddný Eir Ævarsdóttir, Ólafur Gíslason.

The Image of Thingvellir
LA Art Museum
Hveragerði, Iceland
Einar Garibaldi Eiríksson

Wetlands
i8 Gallery
Reykjavík, Iceland

50 Years of Icelandic Art at the Venice
Biennale
Reykjavík Art Museum—Kjarvalsstaðir
Reykjavík, Iceland
Laufey Helgadóttir

Visage of the Land: Water, Earth,
Sea And Sky
Kópavogur Art Museum—Gerðarsafn
Kópavogur, Iceland
Guðbergur Bergsson

2010

Art Feast-I
Handverk og hönnun
Reykjavík, Iceland

Iceland—The Nordic 3rd World
Country?
Färgfabriken Norr
Stockholm, Sweden
Jonatan Habib Engqvist

The Will as a Weapon—
Turning Point of the Seventies
Reykjavík Art Museum–Kjarvalsstaðir
Reykjavík, Iceland
Hrafnhildur Schram

Art Feast-I
Safnasafnið—The Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum
Svalbarðsströnd, Iceland
Magnhildur Sigurðardóttir, Niels Hafstein

Papierarbeiten im Kleinformat
Bretzenheim and Halle
Mainz, Germany
Dorothea van der Koelen

Castling—Intercurse With the Collection
The Living Art Museum
Reykjavík, Iceland

Art Cologne 2010
Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen
Cologne, Germany

One Hundred Years of Icelandic Art
LA Art Museum
Hveragerði, Iceland
Inga Jónsdóttir, Dagný Heiðdal, Rakel Pétursdóttir

2009

Rethink Kakotopia/RETHINK
Contemporary Art & Climate Change
Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center
Copenhagen, Denmark
Elisabeth Delin Hansen

When Ideas Become Form—30 Years of Gallery
Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen
Mainz, Germany

Islandbox—Icelandic Art at the Venice Biennale
Felleshus—Nordische Botschaften
Berlin, Germany
Matthias Wagner K

When Ideas Become Form—30 Years of Gallery
La Galleria Dorothea van der Koelen
Venice, Italy

Art Karlsruhe 2009—5 One-Man
Shows—5 Nations
Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen
Karlsruhe, Germany

10th Havana Biennial—Integration and
Resistance in the Global Age
overtures 4
Villa Manuela/Uneac, Havanna, Cuba
Serafine Lindemann/artcircolo

Several Friends
National Gallery of Iceland
Reykjavík, Iceland
Björn Roth, Halldór Björn Runólfsson,
Sigríður Melrós Ólafsdóttir

2008

Solitude—Landscape Opening Up—
honorary artist
Künstlerhaus Lukas,
Ahrenshoop, Germany
Gerlinde Creutzburg
Sequences—Festival (honorary artist)
Reykjavík Art Museum—Hafnarhús
Reykjavík, Iceland
Kira Kira (Kristín Björk Kristjánsdóttir)

One Hundred Years of Icelandic Art
Skaftfell Culture Center
Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Dagný Heiðdal, Rakel Pétursdóttir, Ólafur Ingi Jónsson, Halldór Björn Runólfsson, Daníel Björnsson, Guðmundur Oddur Magnússon, Þórunn Eymundardóttir

Open House – 2008
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Reykjavik
Iceland

By By Iceland
Akureyri Art Museum
Akureyri, Iceland
Hannes Sigurðsson

Pures Wasser
Kunstverein Villa Streccius Landau, Städtische Galerie Villa Streccius Landau,
Landau, Germany

2007

Bridge Art Fair Miami-07
Catalina Hotel
Miami Beach, USA
Mary Ellen Croteau

overtures Turkey 2007—Water between
Poetics and Politics
Proje 4L/Elgiz Museum of
Contemporary Art Istanbul, Turkey, Serafine Lindemann/artcircolo,
Christian Schoen

Ars Electronica 2007/overtures
Environmental Office, Second City—Marienstrasse
Linz, Austria

Gerfried Stocker, Christine Schöpf, Serafine Lindemann / artcircolo

overtures–A North to South Art Expedition along the Water
52nd International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia / Collateral Events, Venice International University,
San Servolo—Venice, Italy
Serafine Lindemann, Lorella Scacco,
Christian Schoen/artcircolo

Reyfi
Nordic House
Reykjavík, Iceland
Harpa Björnsdóttir

Borderline—Moving Images
2Kolegas/Screening
Beijing, China

Mini Vott
StartArt gallery
Reykjavík, Iceland

Falling Water—Pat Steirs, Ólafur
Elíasson, Rúrí, Hekla Dögg
Reykjavík Art Museum—Kjarvalsstaðir Reykjavík, Iceland
Hafþór Yngvason, Yean Fee Quay

700IS 2007
Hreindýraland Experimental Film
and Video Festival
Honorary artists, Steina Vasulka,
Finnbogi Pétursson, Rúrí
Egilsstaðir, Iceland
Kristín Scheving

Water in Art and Life
The Israel Museum,
The Ruth Youth Wing
Jerusalem, Israel
Hagit Allon

2006

The Collection, LAM
The Living Art Museum
Reykjavík, Iceland

Paris Photo—2006

Central Exhibition-
Stella Polaris, Guests of Honor Le Carrousel du Louvre
Paris, France
Andrea Holzherr

Videos from the North
Städtische Kunsthale
lothringer 13/spiegel
Munich, Germany
Christian Schoen

overtures on water
Sequences—Festival Tjarnarbíó
Reykjavík, Iceland
Serafine Lindemann / artcircolo
Christian Schoen

Mega vott
Hafnarborg—The Hafnarfjörður Center
of Culture and Fine Art
Hafnarfjörður, Iceland

God’s Chosen People
Kling og Bang gallery
Reykjavík, Iceland
Snorri Ásmundsson

Far-off Deceitful World
Saarijärvi Art Museum
Saarijärvi, Finland,
Torun Ekstrand

Clarities—Elina Brotherus, Þór
Vigfússon, Rúrí
Kópavogur Art Museum—Gerðarsafn
Kópavogur, Iceland
Guðbjörg Kristjánsdóttir

Mega Pop Gig—Björk, Zeena Parkins,
Mum, Damien Rice, Lisa Hannigan, Ghostigital, Damon Albarn, Ego, Magga, Stina Band, Mugison, Rass, Sigur Rós, KK, Ham, Hjálmar, Surprise guests
Laugardalur Sports hall
Reykjavík, Iceland

2005

Creator Vesevo
Vesuvius National Park
Ercolano, Italy
Jean-Noël Schifano

Geometrisk Abstraktion XXIV 2005
Konstruktiv Tendens
Stockholm, Sweden

Color-Tones
Johannes Gutenberg University
Mainz, Germany
Dorothea van der Koelen

Mythos und Naturgewalt Wasser
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung
Munich, Germany
Christiane Lange
Susann Waldmann

Collecting – Collection
The Reykjavík Academy
Reykjavík, Iceland
Kristinn G. Harðarson

But the Exciting Aspect is to Organize Matter –

Female Positions towards Sculpture
Gallery AREA
Vienna, Austria
Karin Sulimma, Nora Hermann, Elisabeth Kousal

Glampar/Blitz
Bluesky Artspace
Vienna, Austria

The Order of Nature
OK Center for Contemporary Art
Linz, Austria,
Genoveva Ruckert, Martin Sturm,
Hans-Peter Wipplinger

Inauguration show
Turpentine Gallery
Reykjavík, Iceland,
Viktor Smári Sæmundsson,
Sveinn Þórhallsson

Arte Fiera
Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen
Bologna, Italy

2004

Art Cologne
Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen,
Cologne, Germany

A Priori
Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen
Mainz, Germany

A Priori
La Galleria Dorothea van der Koelen
Venice, Italy

Northern European Contemporary Art
Pickled Art Center
Beijing, China,
Ineke Guðmundsson, Quin Jian

Arte Fiera
Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen
Bologna, Italy

2003

Iceland-China Film Week,
Contemporary movies
Chinese European

Art Center
Xiamen, China
Ineke Guðmundsson

Realism and Reality
National Gallery of Iceland
Reykjavík, Iceland

Ecca Femina
Reykjavík Art Museum—Hafnarhús
Reykjavík, Iceland
Harpa Björnsdóttir

Art Cologne
Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen
Cologne, Germany

Eight European Artists
CEAC—Chinese European Art Center
Xiamen, China
Ineke Guðmundsson, Quin Jian

Zahlen – Zeit – Zeichen/Numbers –
Time – Symbols
Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen
Mainz, Germany

La Galleria Dorothea van der Koelen
Venice, Italy

Light Festival
Gerðuberg Cultural Center
Reykjavík, Iceland

2002

Hypercraze 2002
The Living Art Museum
Reykjavík, Iceland

MHR-30
Reykjavík Art Museum—Hafnarhús
Reykjavík, Iceland
Auður Ólafsdóttir, Eiríkur Þorláksson

2001

Performance Week
The Living Art Museum
Reykjavík, Iceland

Socha A Objekt VI.
Staré Mesto
Bratislava, Slovenia

Dialogues with the Collection
The Living Art Museum
Reykjavík, Iceland,
Alda Sigurðardóttir, Benedikt G. Kristþórsson, Einar Garibaldi Eiríksson, Ingirafn Steinarsson & Sigurbjörg, Agnes Eiðsdóttir

2000

Kvikar myndir – Short Film Festival
The Living Art Museum
Reykjavík, Iceland
Bjargey Ólafsdóttir,

Böðvar Bjarki Pétursson

The Seven Virtues in Ancient and Modern Times,

Kristnihátíð,
Stekkjargjá  Thingvellir, Iceland
Hannes Sigurðsson

The Seven Virtues in Ancient and Modern Times
Akureyri Art Museum,
Hannes Sigurðsson

Millennium artwork, proposals
Reykjavík Art Museum—Hafnarhús
Reykjavík

1999

Stockholm Art Fair 1999
Central Exhibition—

Nordic Video
Stockholm, Sweden
Monica Nieckels, Michael Thouber, Per Bjarne Boym, Elisabeth Haitto Connah, Paula Toppila, Tiina Erkintalo

Eyjabakkar Performance
Eyjabakkar—North of Vatnajökull
glacier, Iceland

Düsseldorf Art Fair 1999, Düsseldorf, Germany

1998

The Coast Line
Reykjavík Art Festival
(Cultural Capital of Europe-2000)
Reykjavík, Iceland
Auður Ólafsdóttir
1998–2000

Chicago Art Fair
Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen
Chicago, USA

Time/Space – The Living Art Museum
20 Years
The Living Art Museum
Reykjavík, Iceland

Stiklað í straumum
Reykjavík Art Museum—Kjarvalsstaðir
Reykjavík, Iceland

Wien Art Fair
Galerie Peter Lindner
Vienna, Austria

Isländische Positionen der Gegenwart
Galerie Peter Lindner
Vienna, Austria

1997

Tiltekt
The Living Art Museum
Reykjavík, Iceland

Icelandic Art
Reykjavík Art Museum—Kjarvalsstaðir
Reykjavík, Iceland

20th Anniversary of Gallery
Suðurgata 7
The Living Art Museum
Reykjavík, Iceland
Halldór Ásgeirsson, Steingrímur Eyfjörð

The Reykjavík Association of Sculptors—25 Years
Reykjavík, Iceland

Art Cologne
Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen
Cologne, Germany

Isländische Positionen der Gegenwart
Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen
Mainz, Germany

1996

New Acquisitions
National Gallery of Iceland
Reykjavík, Iceland

New Acquisitions
Reykjavík Art Museum—Kjarvalsstaðir
Reykjavík, Iceland

1995

The Living Art Museum – 17 Years
The Living Art Museum
Reykjavík, Iceland
Áslaug Thorlacius, Eygló Harðardóttir &
Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir

Töredékek/Fragments – Contemporary
Icelandic Art
Ernst Muzeum
Budapest, Hungary
Gunnar Kvaran

Visual Resonances II
Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives
Den Haag, The Netherlands

Kuopion Tienoo 1995/Experimental
Environment Kuopio Art Museum and Public space
Kuopio, Finland,
Aija Jaatinien, Hannu Siren,
William Louis Sörensen, Rúrí

i8 gallery
Reykjavík
Iceland

Altitudes
Artemisia Gallery
Chicago, USA

1994

Jón Gunnar Árnason
The Living Art Museum
Reykjavík, Iceland
Kristinn E. Hrafnsson

Sculpture—Sculpture—Sculpture
Reykjavík Art Museum—Kjarvalsstaðir
Reykjavík Arts Festival, Iceland
Gunnar Kvaran

Plans for outdoor sculptures
Suðurnesja Comprehensive College
Keflavík, Iceland

Plans for outdoor sculptures with water
Botanic Garden
Reykjavík, Iceland

Plans for outdoor sculptures
Town Hall
Dalvík, Iceland

Plans for outdoor water-sculpture
Gvendarbrunnar
Reykjavík, Iceland
Salon Exhibition

Gallery Greip
Reykjavík, Iceland
Steingrímur Eyfjörð

Gallery Deiglan
Akureyri, Iceland
Steingrímur Eyfjörð

1993

Zeit-Sichten
Frauen-Museum
Bonn, Germany
Ingrid Helena Helmke

16 Days
The Living Art Museum
Reykjavík, Iceland
Steingrímur Eyfjörð, Ragnheiður
Ragnarsdóttir

777—Distance Communication-3
Storm
Amsterdam, Netherlands

777—Distance Communication-3
Kunstnernes Hus
Aarhus, Denmark

777—Distance Communication-3
Galeria Nova
Bratislava, Slovakia

777—Distance Communication-3
Deutsche Oper am Rhein
Duisburg, Germany

777—Distance Communication-3
Guelman Gallery
Moscow, Russia

777—Distance Communication-3
Kjarvalsstaðir Art Museum / Geysishús
Reykjavík, Iceland

777—Distance Communication-3
Aspex Gallery
Portsmouth, UK

1992

Hugsanir Ajatuksia Tanker/Thoughts
The Nordic Arts Center
Sveaborg, Finland
Halldór Björn Runólfsson

Wanås 1992
Wanås
Knieslinge, Sweden
Marika Wachtmeister

Dialogues
Center Canadien d’Architecture,
Montreal, Canada

Refill
Mokka kaffi
Reykjavík, Iceland
Hannes Sigurðsson

1991

Wish of Peace
Palazzo Lanfranchi
Pisa, Italy
Bruno Polacci

1990

Nordic Women Artists 1990
Central Exhibition
Stockholm Art Fair
Stockholm, Sweden
Aurél Schiller, Leif Ståhle

Estetica Diffusa 4
Centro Internazionale Multimedia,
Salerno, and Le Arie del Tempo,
Associazione Culturale,

Genoa, Italy
Sergio Iagulli