Artist Gallery

Curriculum vitae
Bjargey Ólafsdóttir
born 1972 in Reykjavík, Iceland
e-mail: bjargey@simnet.is
www.this.is/bjargey

Short Statement about my work:
I work in all media, whatever suits best the idea. I have used
photography, video, film, drawings, performances, sound, music etc.
I am a crossover artist, I like to go between art-forms and to connect
them.
My works are narrative by nature. I make up ironic, beautiful,
violent stories and visualise them.
I normally work on a couple of projects simultaneously.
At the moment I am mostly focusing on two things: film and sound. I
am making an exhibition that consists of a short-film and photographs
for the Reykjavik Art Museum. I am also making electronic music and
experimenting a lot with sound with Óli, together we form a band
called Glói.

Education
2003-2004 Kópavogur Music School , Electronic Music Studies
1997-2002 Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, mixed media department, M.A.
2000 University of Photography and Film, Gothenburg, Sweden
1996-1997 University of Art and Design, Photography department, Helsinki, Finland
1996 feb, mar Winchester School of Art and Design, England, fine Art
1994-1995 Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, Facultad de Bellas artes
1992-1996 Icelandic College of Art and Crafts, painting and mixed media departments

Selected Solo exhibitions
2005 “Do not let my fragile apperance deceive you” Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
2003 “Flying/dying” Gerðarsafn, Kópavogur, Iceland
2000 "Furs and emotions", installation, Galleri Nema Hvað, Reykjavík, Iceland
2000 "Blondes in Paris" installation, Galleri@hlemmur.is, Reykjavík, Iceland
1999 “False teeth” film and photographs, Alagalleria, Helsinki, Finland
1998 “False teeth” film and photographs, The Living art museum, Reykjavík, Iceland

Selected group exhibitions
2004 “E-flux video rental” E-flux, New York, USA
2004 “Sýn-Vision” Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
2003 “1978-2003: Icelandic Contemporary Art for half a century” The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
2003 “New times in Icelandic photography” Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2003 “Totally Motivated” Kunstverein Munchen, Germany
2003 “The Photographic gesture”Minnesota Center of Photography, Minneapolis, USA
2002 “Icelandic photography retrospective” Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
2002 “Man and city” Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2002 “The Tiger and the Polarbear, “Creepy-evil-gay (the bebop kid) galleri Sævar Karl, Reykjavík, Iceland
2002 “Opening hours” Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
2002 “Populated” IASPIS galleriet, Stockholm, Sweden
2001 “Die Macht der Gewohnheit” WUK Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
2001 "Blick", films, The Modern art museum, Stockholm, Sweden
2001 "Blick", films Nifca galleries, Helsinki Finland
2001 "Printemps de Septembré a Toulouse" film and photographs, Toulouse, France
2001 "Tiger and polarbear", installation, Slunkaríki, Ísafjörður, Iceland
2001 "Performances" performance, The Living art museum, Reykjavík
2001 "Bitch" photographs, The Yellow house, Reykjavík
2001 "Ready mades in the Yellow House" ready mades, The Yellow House, Reykjavík, Iceland
2001 "The future is now" part of the exhibition"Vision and reality" Louisiana museum of modern art, Denmark
2001 "The future is now" films, Nifca galleries, Helsinki, Finland
2000 "Open/Closed" photograph, galleri@hlemmur.is, Reykjavík, Iceland
2000 "a5 guests" Performance with Ragnar Kjartansson, Bergrummet under Sophiakyrkan, Stockholm, Sweden
2000 "Le(s) Nord(s)" films, Batofar, Paris
2000 "a5 invitational" Stockholm, Reykjavík, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Oslo, Trondheim, Bergen,
2000 "MARS"Glassbox, installation, Paris, France
2000 "Emotions, influence...." paintings, the Yellow house, Reykjavík, Iceland
2000 Stockholm Art Fair, presented by Galleri 1% from Denmark
1998 “Muu-media festival” films, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
1998 “Northern poles” film, MS-Stubnitz, Stockholm, Sweden
1998 “In the air” photographs, Kuvataideakatemia gallery, Helsinki, Finland
1998 “Northern wilderness” photographs, Oxford University Press gallery, England
1998 “Private parking” films, Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland
1996 “Documenta Gúlp” innstallation, The Living art museum, Iceland


Film projects (Writer/Director)
2005 Lost my head, super 16 mm, 7 min
2003 My Duvet, DV, 1 min for the Euroscreen project
1998 False teeth, 16mm, 3.45 min
1998 Jean 16mm, 4 min
1997 Sköna morgnar i Jönköpping, digital, 4 min

Selected Film festivals
2004 Nordisk Panorama, Reykjavík, Iceland
1999 Up and Coming filmfestival, Hannover, Germany
1999 Reykjavík short-film festival, Reykjavík, Iceland
1999 Palm Springs international film festival, USA
1998 Aix en Provence international short film festival, France,
1998 Blue sea film festival, Rauma, Finland
1998 Kill your Darlings, Stockholm, Sweden

Music and sound projects
2004 Iceland Airwavawes, Glói-concert
2003- Glói, electronic-music project with Ólafur Breiðfjörð
2004 “I want to be a DJ” project and a concert in KunstWerke in Berlin, Germany
2004 The composition “Chocolate” for piano and tape premiered at Salurinn Kópavogur, by Arne Jörgen Fæö
2004 The song “Gaypopstar” written in cooperation w. Ólafur Breiðfjörð , appears in the german film Jargo
2003- Cooperation with Ólafur Breiðfjörð , music making and performances in Klink &Bank, Iceland
2003 “Disturbances”Symposium of sound,space and movement. Music as structure, a workshop with the composer Bernhard Lang and the coreographer Xavier le Roy
2003 “I want to be a DJ” project for Kunstverein in Munich in cooperation with GIGOLO records.
2001 "It Sounds like art" Performance wih Melkorka Huldudóttir and the band Chiahuahua in the Modern Art Museum in Stockholm

Other projects
2004 “The theater of the Artists” Wrote/directed a play performed in Klink and Bank, Reykjavík
2003 “Euroscreen” a pan european video project
2002 “The Projects” A large scale installation concisting of 12 containers, male choir, dj, 3 film-projections, slides-show and a ghost-sculpture, made escpecially for the annual cultural night of the city of Reykjavik, sponsored by the shipping company SAMSKIP.
2001 Panel discussion on performance art with the coreographer Marten Spangberg and the artist Catti Brandelius in the Modern Art Museum in Stockholm
2001 Panel discussion on Film and Videon in art in the Modern Art Musum in Stockholm
2000 Reykjavík Cultural Capital, A theater installation called "I cought a vampire in Sweden"
2000 Curated a french art-film festival in the Yellow house, Reykjavík, Iceland
2000 Curating the filmprogram "Kvikar myndir" in The Living art museum in Iceland in cooperation with Böðvar Bjarki Pétursson, a program consisting of around 100 art and
short-films as well as computer games.

Grants
2005 Reykjavík City, Project grant
2004 Myndstef, Project Grant, Iceland
2004 Muggur, travel grant, Iceland
2004 Sleipnir, travel grant from Nordic institute for contemporary art
2004 Artist grant from the Ministry of Culture and education
2003 Production grant for a short film from The Icelandic Film Fund
2003 Artist grant from the Ministry of Culture and education
2003 Ministry of Culture and education, travel grant
2003 Sleipnir, travel grant from Nordic institute for contemporary art
2002 Ministry of Culture and education, travel grant
2001 Sleipnir, travel grant from Nordic institute for contemporary art
2001 Ministry of Culture and education, travel grant
2000 Scolarship from the Ministry of Education, Iceland
2000 Sleipnir, travel grant from Nordic institute for contemporary art
2000 Ministry of Culture and education, travel grant
1999 Sleipnir, travel grant from Nordic institute for contemporary art
1997-1998 CIMO scholarship
1997 The Nordic Cultural Fund, The Lucky thirteen project
1996-1997 ERASMUS stipendium

Residencies
2005 Dalsasen, Studio and a grant, Norway
2004 Nordic Air, Studio and a grant from Nifca in Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland
2004 Villa Bergshyddan, Stockholm, Sweden
2002 Skaftfell, cultural center, residency program, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2002 ACC,European studio program Weimar, Germany
2002 Sriðuklaustur, residency program, Iceland
2002 Straumur, residencie program, Iceland
2001 IASPIS, Studio and a grant from NIFCA in Stockholm, Sweden
1999 Kjarvalsstudio, a studio in Cite des Arts in Paris, France

Publications
2003 Article by Ombretta Argo, in Tema Celeste no 98
2002 White colours, young art in Iceland,Mueckenschweinverlag, Germany
2002 Opening hours, Statens Museum for Kunst, Catalouge
2001 Photographs published in German and French Vouge
2001 Printemps de Septembre-Théatres du Fantastique, Actes Sud, Catalouge
2001 Photograps published in the finnish magazine Sti
2000 Wrote an article in the nordic art review NU in cooperation with Unnar Jónasson

Teaching
2003 Guest teacher at the Icelandic Art Academy, Reykjavik, Iceland
2002 Guest teacher at The Royal Art Academy in Stockholm, Sweden
2002 Guest teacher at The Arts and industrial university, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden

Represented in Collections
Reykjavík Energy, Iceland
Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
The Icelandic National Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden

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