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Scopes of Inner Transit
Francisco Carolinum (solo)
Linz, Austria
Curated by: Susanne Watzenboeck
(solo)
Guðjónsson uses the potential of film as a medium that allows him to produce an interplay of image and sound, resulting in a maximum symbiosis of both sensory impressions. Complex soundscapes and rhythmic images involve viewers in a synesthetic experience that expands their own field of perception and generates a new kind of sensation. Scopes of Inner Transit, the artist’s first solo exhibition in Austria, features four recent works, including Guðjónsson’s contribution to the Icelandic Pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale, Perpetual Motion.
Unveiling the Universe: Art and Science Summit & 70 years of discoveries at CERN.
Enigma, a collaborative work by Sigurður Guðjónsson and composer Anna Þorvaldsdóttir will be performed live by the string quartet Ensemble Phoenix Basel at CERN, Geneva.
20.05 - 16.07.2023
Verksmiðjan, Center for Contemporary Art, Hjalteyri, Iceland
Iceland
Through an extensive installation involving moving images and sound, Guðjónsson will transform the 2000-square-metre space of the former factory into a multisensory sculpture. Philosopher Jóhannes Dagsson met the artist to discuss the installation and explore how it plays with time and energy.
Curatorial team: Arnar Freyr Guðmundsson, Hildur Rut Halblaub, Kristín Dagmar Jóhannesdóttir, Sigurður Guðmundsson og Þór Vigfússon.
Artists: Arnfinnur Amazeen, Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir, Emma Heiðarsdóttir, Guðlaug Mía Eyþórsdóttir, Helgi Þórsson, Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir, Hrafnkell Sigurðsson, Kristín Ómarsdóttir, Kristján Guðmundsson, Níels Hafstein, Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Sigurður Ámundason, Sigurður Guðjónsson, Sigurður Guðmundsson og Unnar Örn J. Auðarson
23.04–27.11.2022
La Biennale di Venezia
59th International Art Exhibition
Icelandic Pavillon 2022
Curated by Mónica Bello
Enigma performed by The Rhythm Method at the Planetarium at the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne, as part of the 2022 Lucerne Forward Festival
Vídeo Sigurður Guðjónsson.
Music Anna Þorvaldsdóttir
Sigurður Guðjónsson presents Transits, an exhibition that unveils the expressive and evocative dimension of the artist’s work. Transits explores the movements, fluxes and discrete drifts occurring in the material world. The selection making up the exhibition comprises both recent work and one new production. As a unified composition, all the works are rooted in the artist’s exploration of micro-landscapes and video imaging where the visible, the audible and the spatial form an unbroken whole. Guðjónsson is devoted to capturing the rhythms and signals contained in a surface or object, particularly when related to industrial devices or materials. The almost imperceptible transitions within the works are careful formed to reveal the rhythms, and the pulses. Transits invites us to think about the production of images, the complex insights into material, and the state of perpetual transformation of the world.
Perpetual Motion premiered earlier this year at the 59th edition of the Venice Biennale, where Guðjónsson represented Iceland. This exhibition at BERG Contemporary marks the first showing of the work outside of Venice.
This project has been realized in collaboration with the Icelandic Art Center and Mónica Bello, the curator of the Icelandic Pavilion.
On occasion of Guðjónsson’s contribution to the 59th Venice Biennale, the accompanying catalogue presents a cross-section of his growing oeuvre. With an essay by Mónica Bello.
Sigurður Guðjónsson has been appointed as Iceland’s representative at the 59th Venice Bienniale, to be held in 2022.
Trajectories performed by Lucy Yao at Areté Venue and Gallery in Brooklyn. Trajectories is a collaborative work between Sigurdur Gudjonsson and Anna Thorvaldsdottir, consisting of video constructed by Sigurdur and music for piano & fixed electronics composed by Anna.
Trajectories - International Festival for Experimental Music, Hamburg Jan 17 - Trajectories performed by Ju-Ping Song at Klub Katarakt in Hamburg, as part of the 2019 International Festival for Experimental Music. Trajectories (2014) is a collaborative work between Sigurdur Gudjonsson and Anna Thorvaldsdottir, consisting of video constructed by Sigurdur and music for piano & fixed electronics composed by Anna.
Gerðarsafn Kópavogur Art Museum
Doug Aitken, Charles de Meaux, Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Ange Leccia, Romain Kronenbourg, Lorna Simpson, Steina Vasulka, Dodda Maggý, Sigurður Guðjónsson
Curated by Pascale Cassagnau
Sigurður earned the award for his 2017 exhibition Inlight, which was on show in the chapel and morgue of the former St. Joseph’s Hospital in Hafnarfjörður. The award committee said that the exhibition is a visual experience in which the viewer becomes conscious of his/her own existence and body. The works Fuser 2017, Scanner 2017, and Mirror Projector 2017 [which made up Inlight] are mysterious and powerful at the same time, and trigger subtle sensations that are, nonetheless, full of allusions to mechanical activity.”
The exhibition is organized by The Embassy of Iceland in Copenhagen and The North Atlantic House on the occasion of the Centenary of Icelandic independence and sovereignty.
Curated by Heiðar Kári Rannversson
Sigurður Guðjónsson’s Tape 2016 will be exhibited at the ninth edition of Cinéphémère, a short film programme presented by FIAC and Fondation d’entreprise Ricard in Paris, from October 17 – 21. The Cinéphémère will screen films presented by LOOP Barcelona curated by Carolina Ciuti on Saturday October 20th. The films are screened in open and free access, in a nomad 14-seat movie theatre entirely equipped for this purpose, located on Avenue Winston Churchill, between the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais.
Trajectories performed by Edward Forstman at the Manhattan School of Music’s Ades Performance Space.
Trajectories (2014) is a collaborative work between Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Sigurdur Gudjonsson, consisting of three channel video constructed by Sigurdur and music for piano & fixed electronics composed by Anna.
Verksmiðjan á Hjalteyri Hjalteyri, Iceland
Doug Aitken, Charles de Meaux, Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Ange Leccia, Romain Kronenbourg, Lorna Simpson, Steina Vasulka, Dodda Maggý, Sigurður Guðjónsson
Curated by Pascale Cassagnau
Sigurður Guðjónsson opens his exhibition INLIGHT at Kleifar this coming Saturday, July 7th. INLIGHT was originally shown in the fall of 2017 in the chapel and morgue of St. Josephs Chapel, Hafnarfjörður and earned Sigurður the Icelandic Art Prize. The exhibition consists of three video works from 2017, Fuser, Scanner and Mirror Projector which will be installed in the outbuildings of Kleifar, a farm near Blönduós. In addition Sigurður will also be exhibiting an installation in the sheep shed of Kleifar consisting of his 2018 video work Lightroom. The exhibition is curated by the ASÍ Art Museum and organized in collaboration with the residents at Kleifar, Áslaug Thorlacius and Finnur Arnar.
For more information see the exhibition’s Facebook event.
Skaftfell, Center for Visual Art
Sigurður Guðjónsson, Tumi Magnússon, Unnar Örn Auðarson, Þórdís Aðalsteinsdóttir, Þórdís Jóhannesdóttir.
Curated by Aðalheiður Valgeirsdóttir and Aldís Arnardóttir
Reykjavik Art Museum
Including works by: Þórarinn B. Þorláksson, Ásgrímur Jónsson, Jóhannes S. Kjarval, Jón Stefánsson, Kristín Jónsdóttir, Ósk Vilhjálmsdóttir, Anna Líndal, Ólafur Elíasson, Einar Falur Ingólfsson, Rúrí, Georg Guðni, Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Sigurður Guðjónsson
Trajectories (2014) is a collaborative work between Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Sigurdur Gudjonsson, consisting of three channel HD video and stereo sound. The piece was commissioned by The Reykjavik Center for Visual Music and premiered at the festival of RCVM in January 2014.
SIGURÐUR GUÐJÓNSSON will be participating in the upcoming edition of NJORD 2018, taking place in Copenhagen in January 2018.
For NJORD 2018, SIGURÐUR GUÐJÓNSSON will present his work Trajectories (2014), a collaborative work between the artist and NJORD’s composer-in-residence, Anna Thorvaldsdóttir, consisting of three channel HD video and stereo sound. The piece was commissioned by The Reykjavik Center for Visual Music and premiered at the festival of RCVM in January 2014. Trajectories will have its Danish premiere at NJORD Biennale 2018.
Various places, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The Hafnarfjörður Centre of Culture and Fine Art
Curators: Þór Vigfússon and Sigurður Guðmundsson
Trajectories will be performed by Tinna Thorsteinsdóttir at the SpringWorkshop Hong Kong.
Artist residency with Hong Kong New Music Ensemble in collaboration with Cycle Music and Art Festival in Iceland.
Sigurður Guðjónsson takes part in Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival with four video works, Relief (2015) Balance (2013) Veil (2012) and Recorder (2010)
Premiere of a new collaboration piece S C A P E (2016) by artist Sigurður Guðjónsson, Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir and Nordic Affect.
Another North: Landscape Reimagined features the work of contemporary Nordic artists that use landscape to limn the boundary between the known and the unknown, reimagining it as a multivalent space at once familiar and otherworldly, visible and invisible. Comprising photographic and video works, the exhibition explores landscape as a place of complication, rather than revelation, and investigates channels into new ways of seeing.
The exhibition includes works by artists Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Ole Brodersen, Sigurður Guðjónsson, Simen Johan, Susanna Majuri, and Pentti Sammallahti.
Another North: Landscape Reimagined is organized and presented by the American-Scandinavian Foundation.
700IS Artist of the Month, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.Curated by Kristín Scheving
Trajectories | January 30th Trajectories, a new piece for video, piano & electronics will be premiered at the opening concert of Reykjavik Center for Visual Music festival at Harpa in Reykjavik. Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir will be performing on the piano and the work is a collaboration between visual artist Sigurður Guðjónsson and composer Anna Þorvaldsdóttir who makes the music part of the work. The concert starts at 10PM. You can find further information about the festival as well as the entire program here.
The Icelandic artist Sigurdur Gudjonsson (*1975 in Reykjavík, Iceland) works mainly with video and photography. He studied at the Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, an influence that also appears in his works which link the mythic landscapes of his homeland Iceland with the dark atmosphere of Viennese Actionism. Sigurdur Gudjonsson’s films are captivating in their unsettled ambiguity and eeriness. While his films avoid a linear narrative structure, sound, image, and editing are used as compositional means. The conjunction of concrete elements and grotesque images produces a interaction that evokes in the viewer a feeling of alienation, meaninglessness, and absurdity, and also generates a powerful physical and emotional depth.
Screeningprogram:“Insight” (2011), “Bleak” (2006), “Glasshouse” (2010), “Sleep” (2010) among others.