Egill Sæbjörnsson is a visual artist, musician, and architecture interventionist born in 1973 in Iceland and currently based in Berlin. He has been making artworks that bring together 3D environments, digital projections, technology, and sound since the 1990s. These range from small intimate installations in museum and gallery settings to larger-scale permanent architectural installations. Sæbjörnsson conceives his work as a technological continuation of painting and sculpture, exploring the space between the virtual and physical. His work is playful and humorous but always probes deeper ontological and philosophical questions. Sæbjörnsson gives regular performance lectures in which he explores the theoretical underpinnings of his practice. Sæbjörnsson’s works have been exhibited in The Martin Gropius Bau, Royal Academy of Art London, PS1 MoMA New York, The Watermill Center, Museum of Modern Art Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art Seoul, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Roma, The Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Amos Rex Museum, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Oi Futuro Rio de Janeiro, Biennale Dakar, and The National Gallery of Prague. He represented Iceland at The 57th Biennale Arte in Venice, and in 2019 he was nominated for the Ars Fennica Art Prize in Finland.
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1995 – 1996 Université Paris 8. St.Denis. France
1993 – 1997 The Icelandic College of Arts and Craft. Reykjavik
1995 – 1996 Université Paris 8. St.Denis. France1993 – 1997 The Icelandic College of Arts and Craft. Reykjavik
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2023 Egill Sæbjörnsson & Infinite Friends of the Universe. The National Gallery of Iceland. Cur: Arnbjörg María Danielsen
2023 The Girl from Ahlen – Part II. Kunstmuseum Ahlen. Ahlen.
2022 Object Species – Virtuality. KW Kunstwerke Berlin e.V. and The Living Art Museum Reykjavik. Part of KW Digital Platform series, curated by Nadim Samman. Reykjavik Art Festival.
2022 Egill Sæbjörnsson – Object Species: Sculptures. Kummelhomen together with Modern Museet, Vårberg Centrum, and Andys gallery, Stockholm. Cur: Torbjörn Johannson, Catrin Lundqvist, Maaike Gouwenberg and Andy Ludvigsson
2022 Object Species – Virtuality. Kunstwerke Berlin (KW) & The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik. Let’s get physical. Internet platform. Cur: Nadim Samman. Part of Reykjavik Art Festival
2021 Flower Vase IV. Die Raum. Berlin. Cur: Lotte Möller
2021 Gallery am Körnerpark Berlin. From Magma to Mankind. Cur: Maria & Natalia Petschatnikov
2019 The reading corner. Commissioned by Friends with books – art book fair. Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart (Museum of Contemporary Art), Berlin. Cur: Vanessa Adler & Savannah Gorton
2019 When the Trolls Came Rolling In. Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Dallas Art Fair. Organised by Soluna Festival and Brandon Kennedy. Dallas
2019 The Icelandic Arts Association. Reykjavik
2018 The Stairs. National Gallery of The Czech Republic. Cur: Adam Budak
2017 Ugh & Boogar – Jewelries. Gallery Anhava. Helsinki
2017 Ugh & Boogar – Jewelries. i8 Gallery, Reykjavik
2017 La Biennale de Venezia. 57th International Art Exhibition. Icelandic Pavilion
2016 The building as a being and the city as a stage. Hafnarborg. Hafnarfjordur, Iceland
2016 The Prince of Wales. Prince of Wales, Munich
2016 Samlung Dahlmann. Invited by Insitu. Time Bridge. Berlin
2015 The Egg or the Hen, Us or Them. Culturescapes Art Festival. Naturhistorisches Museum. Basel
2015 O lagarto. Oi Futuro Ipanema. Rio de Janeiro
2015 P.L.A.Y. with things. YoungGalleryProjects. Los Angeles
2014 Kunstmuseum Ahlen. Ahlen, Germany
2014 In Fantasy of Music. Hopstreet gallery. Brussels
2014 Balls. Gallery Anhava. Helsinki
2013 Hopstreet. Brussels
2012 i8 Gallery Reykjavik
2011 Double World – One World. Noga Gallery. Tel Aviv
2011 Stonegarden. Studio of Willem de Kooning Long Island NY. Invitation by Robert Wilson and Lisa de Kooning.
2011 The Egg or the Hen, Us or Them. Künstlerhaus Bremen
2011 Egill Sæbjörnsson. Hopstreet. Brussel
2011 Pyramidion. A joint show with Geirthrudur Hjörvar. Ingolstadt Kunstverein
2010 Gondolilies. Gallery Sassa Trülzsch. Berlin
2010 41st Basel Art Faire. Solo presentation with Ragnar Kjartansson. I8 Gallery. Basel.
2010 Animating Ideas. Kunstverein Göttingen. Göttingen
2010 Räumliche Echos. With Hrafnkell Sigurdsson. Cur: Walter Seidl. Steierischer Herbst. Austria
2009 The Spirit of a Place & Narration. Reykjavik Art Museum. Reykjavik
2009 Miami Basel Art Faire. Positions solo presentation. With I8 gallery Reykjavik. Miami
2009 Preview Berlin. Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Gent
2009 Various Projections. Solo Project – Basel Art Faire. Grusenmeyer Art Gallery. Gent
2009 Grey Still Lifes. Brussel Art Faire. Gruesenmeyer Art Gallery. Gent
2008 Original Handbags. Projektraum 4. Mannheim
2008 Pleasure Stones. I8 Gallery. Berlin Art Faire. Berlin
2008 Kugeln. Olschewski & Behm. Frankfurt
2008 Wall to Wall. In collaboration with Karolin Tampere. HISK. Ghent
2008 Egill Sæbjörnsson. I8 gallery. Iceland
2008 Blowing in the Wind. Cueto Project, New York. Brussels Art Faire. Brussels
2007 UKS. Young Artist´s Association. Oslo
2007 Lada-project. Egill Sæbjörnsson. Berlin
2007 Garden Theater. Erste Haus am Platz. Torstrasse 111. Berlin
2007 Three Daily Exercises. Kölnischer Kunstverein. Cologne
2007 “egillegillegill”. Cueto Projects, 21st Street New York. Cur: Gyonata Bonvicini. New York
2007 5 Bottles. Falkecharlotte. Ellen deBruijn Project. Amsterdam
2006 Ping Pong Dance. SAFN. Museum for Contemporary Art. Reykjavik
2006 Songs For the Houses. Anna-Catharina Gebbers | Bibliothekswohnung, Berlin,
2006 Mori. Gallerie Loyal. Kassel
2006 Our Hands Are Like Leaves. Installation and performance. General Public. Berlin
2005 An Idear for Thwoo feet, 2 hands and 4 corners. Büro DC. Cologne
2005 Mr. Piano and Mrs. Pile. Gallery 101. Reykjavik
2004 Mr. Piano and Mrs. Pile. Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien. Berlin
2004 The Sofa. Reykjavik Art Museum. Reykjavik
2003 In the garden – Galleri Hlemmur – Reykjavik
2003 Hola Mora III. Slunkariki – Isafjordur
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 – Oneoone 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 text goes here
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2023 Werkleitz Festival. Halle. Commissioned work for Mein Schatz (My Precious) in Mansfeld county.
2022 Intertwingled. The Role of the Rug in Arts, Crafts and Design. Galleria Nazionale di Roma. Cur: Martí Guixé & Inga Knölke
2022 Takeover. Martin Gropius Bau. Berlin Cur: Julia Moritz
2021 Acradacabra. Works from the collection. Reykjavik Art Museum. Iceland
2021 Festspiele. The Norwegian Art Centre. Harstad. Norway
2021 Play. Staatsgallerie Stuttgart. Cur: Laurie DeChiara
2021 Puls Island. Baerum Konsthall. Oslo.
2021 Faroe Islands. Video Exhibition. The Nordic House.
2021 Kjarval – endless return. Golden troll jewelries. Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik
2020 Art in General, NYC. Beyond the Nuclear Family. New York
2020 EMMA museum, The Museums collection show. Espoo. Finland
2019 Ars Fennica Prize. Nomination Show. Amos Rex Museum Helsinki
2019 Ars Fennica Prize. Nomination Show. Sven-Harry’s Museum, Stockholm
2019 Örebro Art Festival. Cur Jun-Hi Wennergren Nordling. Örebro, Sweden
2018 The Egg or the Hen, Us or Them, Prague
2018 Writing the Mountains. Biennale Gherdëina VI. Cur: Adam Budak
2018 Restless Matter. Cobra Museum. Amsterdam. Cur: Xander Karskens
2018 The Art of Simulation – Cur: Frank Motz. ACC Weimar
2018 This Rare Earth – Stories from Below. STUK. Belgium
2017 The Sun and the Rainfall. Galleria Zero. Milano
2017 Video Portraits. Total Museum of Contemporary Art. Seoul. Cur: Johann Nowak
2017 The Picture Draws Us. Kunstverein Muensterland. Cur: Jutta Meyer zu Riemsloh M.A.
2017 No Bleating. Art Exhibition in the sheep stable. Kleifar Blönduós
2017 Marshall House. Opening show of the Living Art Museum. Reykjavik
2016 On the Shoulders of Giants. Kunsthalle Mainz. Cur. Stefanie Böttcher
2016 Reykjavik Art Museum. Videoworks from the collection.
2016 Cycles Art Festival. Music on Music. With Áki Ásgeirsson and Magnús Jensson. Virtual Reality musical instrument, collaboration with Mundi and Ívar Emilsson. Gerðarsafn Iceland
2016 Vlieg & Kunstwerk. Concordia. Enschede
2015 Rocks, Stones and Dust. Cur: John Hampton. Justina M. Barnicke Gallery. Toronto
2015 Prototypes, Duplicates and Cast-offs. Assembly Line Projects. Chronus Art Center. M50, Shanghai
2015 homecomings: PROJECTIVE SPACE. Kurfürstenstrasse 13. Berlin
2015 One Hectare. Gleisdreick Park. Berlin
2015 Ystad Kunstmuseum. Sweden
2014 Artists Respond to Place. The Scandinavia House. New York
2014 Peninsula dotLand. A Space. Berlin
2014 Does Humor Belong to Art? Halle14. Leipzig. Cur: Frank Motz
2014 Artists Respond to Place. Katonah Museum of Art. New York
2014 Your Compound View. Selection from the collection 1970 – 2010. Reykjavik Art Museum
2014 Duck Soup. Gallery Nordenhake. Stockholm
2013 Nordic Outbreak. Danish Architecture Center.
2013 maneuvres. Voorkamer. Lier. Belgium
2013 Form Freiheit. Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwicshafen. Cur: Barbara Scheuermann
2013 8 Ways to overcome. Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade.
Cur: Stefanie Böttcher and Una Popovi
2013 Herberge Wüste Heimat. Herberge Grauer Hof. Acherleben. Cur: Peter Lang
2012 Imaginäre Reisen. Zeitgenössische Kunst Gans besonders für Kinder.
Cur: Laurie de Chiara & Rebecca Raue. Amerikahaus, Berlin
2012 Tadeusz Kantor Museum. Poland. Cur: Maaike Gouwenberg & Joanna Zielinska
2012 30 Künstler/30Räume. Albrecht Dürergesellschaft Nürnberger Kunstverein
2012 EMAF – European Media Art Festival. Osnabrück
2012 Biennale de Dakar – Dak’Art. Nordic Pavilion
2012 KAAP – Storm Foundation. Cur: Frank Koolen
2012 Exotic. Tallin Art Hall. Cur: Kirke Kangro
2012 Berlin Status. Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Cur: Christoph Tannert
2012 Gálgaklettur og órar sjónskynsins. Reykjavik Art Museum. Cur: Ólafur Gíslason
2011 Emerging. Gallery Anhava. Helsinki.
2011 Jahresgaben. Künstlerhaus Bremen
2011 Let the Rhythm Hit’Em. Kunstraum Kreuzberg. Cur: Mattthias Mayer
2011 Hommage a Can. ABTART Stuttgart and Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Cur: Christoph Tannert
2011 Birgir Andrésson and friends. Hafnarborg Art Museum. Reykjavik
2011 Carnegie Art Award. CIAC, Centre International d’Art Contemporain, Carros/Nice
2011 Stipendiaten des Berliner Senats. NGBK. Berlin
2010 Wintershow. I8 gallery. Reykjavik
2010 Fames/ Family Vaudeville. Darb 1718. Cur: Power Ekroth & Juan-Pedro Fabra Guemberena. Cairo
2010 Disasters of Peace. Iniators: Jana Müller / Alexej Meschtschanow. Umspannwerk Berlin-Tiergarten. Berlin
2010 FischGrätenMelkStand. Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin. Cur: John Bock
2010 Coup de Ville. Chambres des amis de 21. ciecle. Cur: Jan Hout and Stef van Bellingen. SintNiklaas. Belgium
2010 Cornered Rooms. Cur: Annabelle von Girsenwald. Waterside Projects London
2010 Projektion – Illusion. Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle. Freiburg
2010 Rites without myths. Cur: Ilari Valbonesi. Impronte Contemporary Art. Milano
2010 The First International Light Biennial. Ruhr Gebiet. Cur: Matthias Wegner. Germany
2010 Das Wesen im Ding. Cur: Holger Kuber Ventura. Frankfurter Kunstverein
2010 The Sophisticated Eye (Trompe l’oeil). Cur: Valeria Schulte Fischedick. Gallery Opdahl Berlin
2010 Face B. Cur: Daniela Franco. La Maison Rouge. Paris
2010 Radical Adults. Cur: Lotte Møller & Sebastiaan Schlicher. The Forgotten Bar. Berlin
2010 Gestures – Performance and Sound Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde
2010 Havarí. Icelandic Artists. Reykjavik
2010 Lightworks. Kunstverein Rosa Luxemburgplatz. Berlin
2010 Carnegie Art Award. National Gallery of Iceland. Reykjavik
2010 Carnegie Art Award. The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm
2010 Carnegie Art Award. Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
2010 Carnegie Art Award. 798 Art Space, Beijing, China
2010 Carnegie Art Award. Royal College of Art, London
2010 Carnegie Art Award. Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki
2009 Carnegie Art Award. Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
2009 Zeigen. An Audio Tour through Berlin by Karin Sander. Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin
2009 Jahresgaben 2009 – Kunstverein Arnsberg. Germany
2009 Lightworks. Kunstverein Rosa Luxemburgplatz. Berlin
2009 Scorpios Garten. Temporäre Kunsthalle. Berlin Cur: Kristine Roepsdorf
2009 Roubaix. OHNO productions & NEED company. France
2009 Le Sang de Poete. Bienale de Nantes. Hangar du FRAC NantesCur: Adam Budak and Laurence Gateau. Nantes
2009 Never Better Than Late The Elizabeth Foundation Cur: Trong Nguyen. New York
2009 Instituto Divorcidado – Wir verbessern ihre arbeit. Gallery Sandra Bürgel. Berlin
2009 Down to Earth. Strombeek Culture Center. Cur: Luk Lambrecht. Brussels
2009 List&Ast&List. The Nordic House in Reykjavik. Organised by Poul R. Weile
2008 Kling & Bang. At Frieze Art Fair. With Ingo Frolich. London
2008 You gave me a mountain and I asked for the sky. Peter Lav gallery. Copenhagen
2008 Reykjavik Art Festival. Concert and collaboration with Percusemble Berlin. Reykjavik
2007 Berwick Film Festival. Scotland
2007 Erste Haus am Platz. Kling & Bang / Torstrasse 111. “Tim – Der Eimar”. In collaboration with Ingo Froelich. Berlin
2007 Contemporary Scandinavian Art. SMoCA, Scottsdale Museum For Contemporary Art. Arizona
2007 Gegen dem Strich. Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien. Berlin
2006 Paris Photo. Caroussel de Louvre. Paris
2006 The Endless Summer. Curated by Gyonata Bonvicini. West London Project Galeries. London
2006 Momentum 06 – The 4th Nordic Festival Of Contemporary Art. Moss. Norway
2006 Critics taste better. Korridor, Berlin
2006 The Peninsula. Singapore History Museum. Singapore
2006 Our House Is A House That Moves. Cur: Natasa Petresin. The Living Art Museum. Reykjavik
2006 Cold Climate. Cur: George Doneo & Peter Lamb. The Living Art Museum. Reykjavik
2006 Guds utvalda thjod. Kling & Bang. Reykjavik
2005 Situations. Museum of Modern Art. Sydney
2005 Beck´s Future Award. The soundtrack for “Close Up Gallery” by Daria Martin. ICA. London
2004 New Tendencies. The National Gallery of Iceland. Reykjavik
2004 Not in Heaven and Not on Earth. Museum of Modern Art. Skopje. Macedonia
2004 Our House is A House That Moves. Curated by Natasa Petresin. Scuc gallery. Ljubliana
2004 Sons and dottirs. TENT – Center for visual arts Rotterdam Witte de Withstraat. Rotterdam
2004 Cold Climate. Finnish, British and Icelandic artists. APT Gallery, 6 Creek Side, Deptford. London
2004 Frishespores und molekules. Sparwasser – Offensive for contemporary art and communication. Berlin
2004 Berlin-North, Contemporary Artists from the Nordic Countries in Berlin. Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für gegenwart. Berlin
2004 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
2002 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 Museum of 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
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2017 – 2023 The Mother. A 15 meter tall and 15 meter wide dome with a swim/wade in entrance. Comissioner: Therme Art. Therme Bucharest extension
2021 1st Price in a competition for a cornerstone building for Urriðahollt in Garðabær municipality close to Reykjavik. Together with JÖRP architects, Tripoli architects, KRADS architects and Skjanni contractor company.
2021 Experimental House made of Icelandic local environmentally friendly materials. Commissioned by The University of Reykjavik, Iceland.
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2020 Moonlove. LP. The Vinyl Factoy. London
2020 Tonk of the lawn. Re-release on vinyl.
2017 Egill Sæbjörnsson featuring Ugh & Boogar.
2010 Egill S, Best of & Unreleased. Kunstverein Göttingen. Bernd Milla
2009 Egill S. Released by Borgin Records in Iceland
2007 Egill S. 5 songs. Limited edition of 50 cd´s
2007 Colette Nº8. Compilation of music by Collette. Paris
2006 The Ridel. Single in a limited edition
2006 La Chanson Longue. Limited edition
2005 Crazy Diamond. Containing the soundtrack for Daria Martin’s film “Closeup-Gallery”.
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.
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2021 1st Prize. Competition for a building for Urriðahollt in Garðabær municipality close to Reykjavik. Together with Tripoli architects, KRADS architects and Skjanni contractor company.
2019 Nomination for Ars Fennica
2018 Nomination for the Icelandic Art Prize
2016 Competition for a new building for The Icelandic Parliament in Reykjavik. Collaboration with PKdM architects. 3rd Prize
2013 Public artwork with light for Kunstmuseum Ahlen. 1st Prize
2012 Closed competition for a Light art work for Robert Koch Institute Berlin. 1st Prize
2010 Carnegie Art Award. Nomination
2004 Penninn award. 2nd place.
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2024 Egill Sæbjörnsson & Infinite Friends of the Universe.
Publishers: National Gallery of Iceland & Argobooks Berlin
2019 When The Trolls Went To Hellsinki. Ars Fennica Prize. Amos Rex Museum Helsinki.
Publisher: Argobooks Berlin
2017 How Egill Met the Trolls and Took Them to Venice. La Biennale Arte. Venice Biennale 2017. Publisher: Argobooks Berlin
2012 Stones according to Egill Sæbjörnsson. Text by various authors. Based on the exhibition The Egg and the Hen, Us or Them, Künstlerhaus Bremen, 2011
Publisher: Künstlerhaus Bremen and Revolver Verlag, Germany
2009 The Book.. Various authors. Semi monographic with special chapters on various themes in the works of Egill Sæbjörnsson
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2024 Egill Sæbjörnsson & Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir – Artist Talk. The National Gallery of Iceland
2022 Object species – Lecture Performance. Moderna Museet Film Club. Cur: Catrin Lundqvist. Stockholm
2021 Object species – Lecture Performance. Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart (Museum of Contemporary Art), Berlin. Part of the open call “Take the Space” within the program of “Institutions Extended” (2019-2022) created and executed by artist Marina Naprushkina.
2021 Flying Waters – Narracje Festival Gdansk. Cur: Karina Kottova & Piotr Sikora.
2021 Living Musicvideo. Winter Festival. Reykjavik. 12 Tonar.
2020 From Magma to Mankind. Lecture Performance about the origin of humans. Cur: Julia Katharina Thiemann. DasHaus. Ludwigshafen
2020 Gaia talk – A symposium. Egill Sæbjörnsson together with Therme Art’s CEO and curator Mikolaj Sekutowicz and the artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, the cultural and literary scholar Salome Rodeck, Danish artist Tue Greenfort, Mayan shaman Abuelo Antonio Oxté and curator of General Ecology at the Serpentine Galleries Lucia Pietroiusti.Therme Art. Held at König gallery, Berlin.
2019 When the Trolls Come Rolling In. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Greater Dallas Youth Symphony Orchestra. The Dallas Art Fair. Organised by Brandon Kennedy and Soluna Art Fair
2019 Therme Art Program. Podium at Cafe Bravo KW Berlin. Together with Simon di Pury and Mikolaj Sekutewich on the occasion of signing the commission of the art work The Mother
2019 Moonlove. Preview Concert for the Album of same name released at The Vinyl Factory. HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Theatre in Berlin. 20 Years of AmStart. Organised by Ran Huber
2019 School of Visual Arts Mastersprogram Lecture Series. Together with Katrín Inga Jónsdóttir Hjördísardóttir. School of Visual Arts. New York
2016 The Bakery VI. The Fantasy. Bookrelease by the Icelandic Center for Arts. Studio Egill Sæbjörnsson, Kinzigstrasse 18, 10247 Berlin
2016 The Bakery V. Architectural elements. The Building as a being and the city as a stage. Hafnarborg art museum. Cur: Annabelle von Grisewald. Iceland
2015 The Bakery IV. Everything Under the Sun. Aurora. Berlin
2015 Stones as Species: Bonnie Devine + Egill Sæbjörnsson (a guest of the Goethe-Institut). South Sitting Room, Hart House. Toronto
2015 Searching for the beast within the arts. Cronus Art Center. M50. Shanghai
2015 Artist talk. Friday series. Edinburg University of the arts (CHECK THE CORRECT NAME)
2015 Copenhagen Trilogy. Chart art fair, with i8 gallery. Copenhagen
2012 The Watermill. Artist in residency. Long Island. New York
2015 The Bakery IV. Everything Under the Sun. Aurora. Berlin
2015 The Bakery III. homecomings. PROJECTIVESPACE. Kurfürstenstrasse 3. Berlin
2014 The Bakery II. A baking event with Freitagsküche Frankfurt and Zeit für Brot. Cur: Annabelle von Girsenwald. Frankfurt
2014 The flying pancake. Cur: Annabelle von Girsenwald. Nordic Embassies. Berlin
2013 The Bakery. A one day event at Torstrasse 111, Berlin. Guests invited to make bread out of clay. Cur: Annabelle von Girsenwald
2013 Egill Sæbjörnsson & The Woomp Doomp Duo. Playing on the opening of Berlin Art Week.
2013 Projection onto the building of Danish Architecture Center, Copenhagen. Part of the exhibition Nordic Outbreak and Copenhagen Culture night 2013
2013 Manifesto. Performance with “Megaphone” an installation by Thomas Kilppert. Rosa Luxemburg Platz. Berlin
2012 On the Beach. A special version of “Einstein on the Beach” by Robert Wilson and Philipp Glass. Collaboration with Marcia Moraes and Robert Wilson.
2012 Recreating the world at the speechdesk III. Part of the exhibition “30 Räume / 30 Künstler”. Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft Nürnberger Kunstverein.
2011 Performance “Talk with a Stone”. Part of “Museum Night bamberg”. Naturkundemuseum Bamberg. Org: Matthias Mäuser
2011 Performance “Talk with a Stone” and an artist talk with Stefanie Böttcher, director of Künstlerhaus Bremen and Holger Kube Ventura, director of Frankfurter Kunstverein. Künstlerhaus Bremen
2011 Recreating the world at the speech desk II. Performed at the occation of 10 years aniversary of I love you work with Karolin Tampere. Landmark, Kunsthalle Bergen
2011 The Passion According to G.H. Sound and videowork. Teatro de Moura as part of the theaterfestival Escritas de Paysagem Evora. Dir: Marcia Moraes
2011 She Was a Fighter. Performance Clocktower Galleries New York
2011 She Was a Fighter. Presentation of a Musical project at The Watermill Center New York. New York
2011 Recreating the world at the speech desk. #4 Lecture Performance series at Johann König gallery Berlin
2011 Singing Performance. Drei Schwestern Bethanien. Berlin
2011 The Mind IV. With Marcia Moraes. Swiss Institute Rome
2011 What Got You Here Wont Get You There. Performance in collaboration with Marcia Moraes. Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart Berlin. Commissioned by Freunde Guter Musik for the series Music Works by Visual Artists. Maerz Musik 2011 & Berliner Festspiele
2010 The Crying Ladies. In collaboration with Marcia Moraes. Sassa Trülzsch
2010 The Mind – episode IV. Collaboration with Marcia Moraes. Performance at Pavel Haus, Austria. Steierischer Herbst
2010 The Mind – episode IV. Collaboration with Marcia Moraes. Performance at Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde
2010 The Mind – episode IV. Collaboration with Marcia Moraes. Performance at Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt.
2009 The Mind – episode III. Collaboration with Marcia Moraes. Performance and installation in the exhibition “The Tragedy of the applause”, organized by OHNO corporation at Condition Publique, Roubaix
2009 The Mind – episode II. Collaboration with Marcia Moraes. Sequences – festival, Reykjavik. Reykjavik Art Museum
2009 The Mind – episode II. Collaboration with Marcia Moraes. Scorpio’s Garten. Temporaere Kunsthalle Berlin
2009 Icelandic Airwaves Music festival. Concert with band. Idno. Reykjavik
2009 The Mind – episode I. Collaboration with Marcia Moraes. Commissioned performance by Neuer Berliner Kunstverein at it’s 40th birthday. Berlin
2009 Summerconcert. Fete de al Musique. Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin
2009 Video screening and book release of “Northwave. Overview of Nordic Video Art”
Cur: Dr Lorella Scacco. Scuola dei Calegheri.. Venice 53rd Bienal. Venice
2009 Time Table. Final introduction with Magnús Jensson. List&Ást&List. The Nordic House. Reykjavik
2009 Time Table. Primary introdcution with Magnús Jensson. List&Ást&List. The Nordic House. Reykjavik
2009 The Mind. A performance in collaboration with Marcia Moraes. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein – 40th anniversary. Berlin
2009 Concert at The Montagsbar. Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin.
2009 Singing. Bojan Sarcevic’s afterparty. Kleiner Krug. Mauerpark. Berlin
2008 Warm up Festival. P.S.1 MoMA. New York
2008 Concert at the opening party of Ernersto Neto at Gallery I8 during the Reykjavik Art Festival
2008 She Was a Fighter. Concert and bookrelease at Admiralspalast. Kuenstlerhauser Worspwede and Argobooks
2007 Three Daily Exercises. Commissioned by Kölnischer Kunstverein. Cologne
2007 In the bag. Performance. Gallery Ellen de Bruijn. Amsterdam
2007 Three daily Exercises. Performance commissioned by Kölnischer Kunstverein. Köln
2007 Concert with Sam Amidon. The Bowery Poetry Club. New York
2006 Warming up for Mocky. Knaack club. Berlin
2006 Airwaves. Bedroom Community. Concert at Idno. Reykjavik
2006 Loge, Berlin. Performance. Berlin
2006 Idear four thwoo feet & two hands & 4 corners. Momentum 4th Nordic Festival for Contemporary Art. Moss
2006 Idear four thwoo feet & two hands & 4 corners. DeApple. Amsterdam
2006 Idear four thwoo feet & two hands & 4 corners. Safn – Museum for Contemporary Art. Reykjavik
2006 Idear four thwoo feet & two hands & 4 corners. Bergen Kunsthall. Bergen
2005 Eine Band Aufgelöst. Rirkrit Tiranavije “Magazine Station Nr. IV”. Gallery Neugerriemschneider. Berlin
2005 Idear four thwoo feet & two hands & 4 corners. Performance. Gallery Isabella Bortolozzi. Berlin
2005 Skinn & Lak performance. Collaboration with Rooseum and Critical studies department. Malmo
2005 Listening Out. Conference on klangkunst. Transmediale 2005. Haus der Kulturen der welt. Berlin
2004 Acting and singing for “A Triumph of a Heart” music video by Björk. Made by Spike Jonze
2004 Peaches – warming up act at Klink & Bank, Reykjavik
2004 Fuck you Mitte. Berlin based singer/songwriters. King Kong club. AmStart. Berlin
2004 Pianoperformance at the opening of Not in Heaven and Not on Earth. Museum of Modern Art. Skopje
2004 Concert on the opening of Our House Is a House That Moves in Gallery Skuc, Ljubliana. Slovenia
2004 Musicperformance – Maertz music festival. Hamburger Bahnhof. Berlin
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 & The Mammoths. Radioshow at Raum3. Berlin
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
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2017 The Espressobar. Together with Ívar Glói Gunnarsson. Reykjavik
2017 – 2019 Kärahär. An extensive project with immigrants, unemployed persons and pensionists in Kristinehamn. Collaboration with Kvinnor tilsammans, IOGT, Värmalnds Rijkstheatern, Konsthall Kristinehamn and Andreas Brändström. The project was part of Creative Places by the Swedish Art Association and the Swedish Ministry of Culture.
2015 O lagarto. Collaboration with Marcia Moraes. A gigantic Pop-up Book project. Shown at Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro
2011 On the Beach. A special version of Einstein on the Beach by Robert Wilson and Philipp Glass. Together with Marcia Moraes, Robert Wilson, Philipp Glass, Hrafnhildur Árnadóttir aka Shoplifter, Gabriela Geluda and Jon Morris
2011 Borgríki. Use of the song “I Love You So” for the movie written and directed by Olaf le Fleur, Reykjavik
2011 The Passion According to G.H. Together with Marcia Moraes and Ingibjörg Magnadóttir. Teatro de Moura as part of the theaterfestival Escritas de Paysagem Evora. Dir: Marcia Moraes
2011 The World is Bigger Than You Think. Together with Marcia Moraes, Lisa Lie and Jeremy Woodruff. Theater Workshop at The Watermill Center, Long Island, New York
2011 What Got You Here Won’t Get You There. With Marcia Moraes, Adapter Ensemble and Áki Ásgeirsson. Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart Berlin. Commissioned by Freunde Guter Musik for the series Music Works by Visual Artists. Maerz Musik 2011 & Berliner Festspiele
2009 Time Table. Art project in collaboration with Magnús Jensson for “Ást&List&Ást” at The Nordic House Reykjavik. Part of Reykjavik Art Festival. Cur: Poul R. Weile
2009 The Mind. A performance made in collaboration with Marcia Moraes. Shown simultaneously in Rio de Janeiro and NBK in Berlin, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Reykjavik Art Museum and at La Condition Publique in Roubaix
2008 Wall to Wall. Collaboration with curator and artist Karolin Tampere
2004 Acting and singing with Björk Gudmundsdottir in “A Triumph of a Heart” music video by Björk. Directed by Spike Jonze
2003 Brjalrl. 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 ReykjavikSpela. Electro-music duo with Isak Eldh from Sweden
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2022 The Visual Arts Stipend Fond. Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. Iceland
2017 The Visual Arts Stipend Fond. Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. Iceland
2016 Project Grant from the Icelandic State
2011 The Willem deKooning recidency. Nominated by Robert Wilson for Liza deKooning. Long Island
2011 Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia, Bamberg
2011 Watermill Center and New York Theater Workshop
2011 Project grant from the Icelandic Art Center
2011 Artist’s grant of the Icelandic State
2010 Kunstlerstipendium des Berliner Senats
2010 Project grant from the Icelandic Art Center
2009 Artist´s grant of the Icelandic State
2008 Kunstlerbund Bonn. For a book project with Argobooks Berlin
2007 Artist´s grant of the Icelandic State. Half a year
2006 Artist´s grant of the Icelandic State. One year
2004 International artist studio programme at Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien. Berlin
2004 Artist´s grant of the Icelandic State. One year.
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
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2014 Steinkugel. Robert Koch-Institut. Seestrasse 10, 13353 Berlin
2014 Kaskade. Kunstmuseum Ahlen. Ahlen
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Art Counselling Board of Therme Art since 2017
Member of the Sculptor’s Association in Reykjavik MÍR since 2018
Member of BBK – Berufsband Bildender Künstler Berlin, since 2005