Bjargey Ólafsdóttir
Languages: Icelandic, English, Spanish, Swedish and Danish
e-mail: bjargeyolafsdottir@gmail.com
Education
2012-2015 Creative Writing, University of Iceland
2006-2007 Binger Film Institute, Screenwriting and Film directing, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1997-2002 Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, Mixed media department, M.F.A.
2000 University of Photography and Film, Gothenburg, Sweden
1996-1997 University of Art and Design, Photography department, Helsinki, Finland
1996 Winchester School of Art and Design, England, fine Art
1994-1995 Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, Facultad de Bellas Artes
1992-1996 Iceland Academy of the Arts, Painting and mixed media departments
Selected Solo exhibitions
2018 Double mirror, Ramskram Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland
2018 Dear Eternity, I think about you all the time, Cubus and EtCetera, Nordischer Klang Festival, Greifswald, Germany
2017 The singing nomad project, The purpose project, Gallerí Úthverfa Ísafjörður, Iceland
2017 The singing nomad project, The purpose project, Malongen Project space, Stockholm, Sweden
2015 Jóhanna, Warsaw Art photography festival, Palac Braniskich, Varsjá, Poland
2014 Johanna, Slunkaríki, Edinborg Cultural Center, Ísafjörður, Iceland
2011 Turmaline, XYZ Collective, Tokyo, Japan
2011 In the end all we care about is love, Kron kron, Reykjavík, Iceland
2010 Scintilla, BRAC, New York, USA
2009 Gold eaters-I read Italian Vogue and eat Polarbear meat with my fingers, Listasalur Mosfellsbæjar, Mosfell, Iceland
2009 Transmigration, Aldan Project Space, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2009 Escaping to Latin America, ASI Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
2009 Scintilla, The Reykjavík Museum of Photography, Reykjavík, Iceland
2008 Lost my head, Galeria Sicart, Barcelona, Spain
2007 Its all about happiness, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany
2007 Leave me alone I am trying to sleep, Traschi Galleri, Santiago de Chile, Chile
2006 Drawings, Skaftfell, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2005 Lost my head, Ystads Konstmuseum, Ystad, Sweden
2005 Do not let my fragile apperance deceive you, Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
2003 Flying/dying, Gerðarsafn, Kópavogur, Iceland
2000 Furs and emotions, Galleri Nema Hvað, Reykjavík, Iceland
2000 Blondes in Paris, Galleri@hlemmur.is, Reykjavík, Iceland
1999 False teeth, Alagalleria, Helsinki, Finland
1998 False teeth, The Living Art museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
Selected Film festivals
2017 Queensland Film Festival, Australia
2009 Gothenburg International Film Festival, Sweden
2007 IETFF, Monte Carlo, Monaco
2006 Stockholm International Film Festival, Stockholm, Sweden
2005 Reykjavik Shorts and docs, Reykjavik, Iceland
2004 Nordisk Panorama, Reykjavík, Iceland
1999 Up and Coming film festival, 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
Nominations
2009 Deutsche Börse Photography Award
2009 Leopold Godowsky, Jr. Color Photography Awards
2006 DV Icelandic cultural prize, filmmaking
2005 Eddan, Icelandic film and TV industry awards, Nominated for Best short film of the year
Music and sound projects
2011 Now now, Music-dance piece for Reykjavík Dance Festival and Jaðarber, Reykjavík Art Museum, Iceland
2008 Angelina, soundpiece for piano, trombone and voice, performed in Við Djúpið music festival, Ísafjörður, Iceland
2007 Vodou, pan scandinavian sound project, exhibitions in Norway and Sweden and a Vinyl record
2004 Iceland Airwaves, Glói-concert, Reykjavík, Iceland
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, Iceland
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 I want to be a DJ, project for Kunstverein in Munich in cooperation with GIGOLO records, Germany
2001 It Sounds like art, Performance wih Melkorka Huldudóttir and the band Chiahuahua in the Modern Art Museum in Stockholm, Sweden
Residencies
2020 Circolo Scandinavo, Rome, Italy
2019 Artist residency SNEHTA, Athens, Greece
2019 Artist residency in Källskär, The Åland islands
2019 LIA, Leipzig international art programme, Leipzig, Germany
2018 ISSP RIGA AIR, Riga, Latvia
2018 NNKS AIR, Kunstnerhuset Lofoten, Svolvær, Norway
2018 Fabrikken for Kunst og Design, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018 Óbvía, Setúbal, Portugal
2017 The Nordic Art Association (SE), Stockholm, Sweden
2016 ArtsIceland, Ísafjörður, Iceland
2015 TWOM, Sahara, Morocco
2014 Herhúsið, Siglufjörður, Iceland
2013 Dionysia, Þingeyri, Iceland
2012 NIDA, Lithunia
2011 The Shell, Hólmavík, Iceland
2011 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2010 Point B, New York, USA
2009 ISCP, International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York, USA
2009 Villa Berghyddan, Stockholm, Sweden
2009 Skaftfell, Cultural center, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2007 TRASCHI, Santiago, Chile
2007 Skaftfell, Cultural center, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2006 El Basilisco, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2005 Skaftfell, cultural center, residency program, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2005 Dalsåsen, Norway
2004 Nordic Air, Nifca, Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland
2004 Villa Bergshyddan, Stockholm, Sweden
2002 Skaftfell, Cultural center, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2002 ACC, European studio program Weimar, Germany
2002 Skriðuklaustur, Iceland
2002 Straumur, Iceland
2001 IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden
1999 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Publications
2018 Die Exilanten, Neue Nordische Novellen, Im grossen Kreis.
2015 Útlagarnir. Skíðblaðnir, A collection of short stories
2014 Norræna-a short story. TMM-litterary magazine
2014 Flæðarmál: A collection of poetry and short stories. Short stories
2013 Short stories: Ljónahurðin, MINOX, Myrkfælni. STÍNA, a magazine on art and litterature
2009 In the end all we care about is love. A drawing book.
2006 Article by Cristina Marchi in Art Presence, France
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
Represented in Collections
Goethe Institut Copenhagen, Denmark
National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
The Icelandic National Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
Museo de Bellas Artes de Santander, Spain
Reykjavík Energy, Iceland
Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden
National University Hospital in Reykjavík, Iceland
Reykjavík Museum of Photography, Iceland
Selected group exhibitions
2019 Yoko Ono, Peace is Power, Water Event, Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany
2019 Side Effects, LIA, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Þýskaland
2019 ISO 2019, Samsýning Félags íslenskra samtímaljósmyndara, Korpúlfsstöðum, Reykjavík, Iceland
2018 Umhverfing nr. 2, Safnahúsið, Egilsstaðir, Iceland
2018 Evolvement, Kling og Bang, Reykjavík, Iceland
2017 FÍSL, Höfn, Hornafjörður, Iceland
2017 Bout, The Reykjavík Art Museum, Iceland
2017 Nordic Matters, Southbank Centre, London, UK
2016 Moviebox, Museum Anna Nordlander, Skellefteå, Sweden
2016 Lightpaint, The National Gallery, Iceland
2015 Ísó, Ísafjörður, Iceland
2015 Relooking-Icelandic landscape photography, Stara galleria, Varsjá, Poland
2015 Framköllun, Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
2014 Icelandic Female photographers 1872-1913, The National Museum of Iceland
2014 The darkness within, SIM, Reykjavík, Iceland
2013 710IS Reindeerland, Nordic House, Reykjavík, Iceland
2012 Gallery 69, Lufthavna Performance Laboratorium, Oslo, Norway
2012 Genius Loci, Nida Art Colony, Nida, Lithuania
2011 True or False, Galerie Gaby Senn, Vienna, Austria
2011 True or False, FISAK, Istanbul, Turkey
2011 True or False, RIP, Arles, Atelier Reflexe & Dirk Bakker, France
2011 True or False, 8ème Salon & Niklas Schechinger Fine Art Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2011 The Icelandic suitcase gallery, Forfey festival, Fermanagh, Ireland
2011 Echo of The North, Galtarviti, Iceland
2011 Icelandscapes, Hay Hill Gallery, London, England
2011 CyprisIslandia, Stoa Aeshylou Arcade Gallery, Cyprus
2010 Christmas exhibition Kling and Bang, Kling and Bang, Reykjavík, Iceland
2010 Iceland-The Nordic third world country, Fargfabrikken Norr, Sweden
2010 Testimony, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
2010 Reference Point, The Goethe Institute Riga, Latvia
2010 No soul for sale, Tate Modern, London
2010 Peripheral vision, Kling & Bang gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
2009 Gallerí Havarí, Reykjavík, Iceland
2009 Alt_Cph, Kling og Bang, The alternative Art Fair Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009 No Soul for Sale, Kling & Bang, X-Initiative, New York
2009 Experencias 3, Museo de Bellas Artes, Santander, Spain
2009 Art films, Boras Museum of Art, Sweden
2009 Home Alone #3, series of shows in private spaces in New York
2008 Beyond the mind, Skaftfell, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2008 Botnik Space off #2, Skarholmen, Gerleborg, Sweden
2008 Traits de femmes, Gallery Claude Samuel, Paris, France
2008 VODOU, Gallery 54, Gothenburg, Sweden
2008 Drawings, Galeria Sicart, Barcelona, Spain
2007 VOUDOU-Galleri Bastard, Oslo, Norway
2007 ARTEBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006 Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006 El Basilisco, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006 Landscape and folklore, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
2006 Sequences, The real time festival, Reykjavík, Iceland
2006 Icelandic Videoart, KunstWerke Berlín, Germany
2006 Cold Hearts, Icelandic film and video, travelling exhibition, USA
2006 Hit the North, Nordic Film and Video Art, travelling exhibition
2005 Patricide and Witchtime, Nordic house, Iceland
2005 Tolerate me, Supermarket of Art, Warsaw, Poland
2005 E-flux video rental, Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2005 E-flux video rental, The Moore Space, Miami, USA
2005 E-flux video rental, KunstWerke, Berlín, Germany
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, Reykjavík, 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, Reykjavík, Iceland
2002 The Tiger and the Polarbear, Creepy-evil-gay (the bebop kid), Gallerí 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, The Modern Art Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
2001 Blick, Nifca galleries, Helsinki, Finland
2001 Printemps de Septembré a Toulouse, Toulouse, France
2001 Tiger and polarbear, Slunkaríki, Ísafjörður, Iceland
2001 Performances, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
2001 Bitch, The Yellow house, Reykjavík, Iceland
2001 Ready mades in the Yellow House, The Yellow House, Reykjavík, Iceland
2001 The future is now, Vision and reality, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
2001 The future is now, Nifca galleries, Helsinki, Finland
2000 Open/Closed, Galleri@hlemmur.is, Reykjavík, Iceland
2000 Le(s) Nord(s), films, Batofar, Paris, France
2000 a5 invitational, Travelling exhibition: Stockholm, Reykjavík, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Oslo, Trondheim, Bergen.
2000 MARS, Glassbox, Paris, France
2000 Emotions, influence....The Yellow house, Reykjavík, Iceland
2000 Stockholm Art Fair, presented by Galleri 1% from Denmark
1998 Muu-media festival, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
1998 Northern poles, MS-Stubnitz, Stockholm, Sweden
1998 In the air, Kuvataideakatemia gallery, Helsinki, Finland
1998 Northern wilderness, Oxford University Press gallery, England
1998 Private parking, Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland
1996 Documenta Gúlp, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
Masterclasses
2019 16 mm contact printing with Richard Tuohy og Diönnu Barrie (Australia)
2019 Void Impromptu, Book and zine workshop with João Linneu og Myrto Steirou
2018 Sound as space with Maksims Šenteļevu, Latvia
2018 16 mm kvikmynda-litfilmuframköllun vinnustofa hjá Tomaz Burlin (Frakkland)
2018 Paradis Conversation, Collage vinnustofa hjá Michael Holland og Andrejs Strokins
2018 Cyanotype vinnustofa hjá Hennu Tyrväinen
2016 Haraldurinn-Comedy writing with Dóra Jóhannsdóttir
2016 Art Department Masterclass, Masterclass in Art Directing for film, Vilnius and Reykjavík
2015 Fieldworks, Theater masterclass með Philippe Quesne
2014 Flaherty film seminar, USA
2014 New Communities, Mindgroup, Hamlets lost car key’s and the plague of fantasies, Denmark
2013-14 Haraldurinn with Dóra Jóhannsdóttir. Improv Masterclass.
2013 Theater development Masterclass at the National Theater of Iceland
2011 ISSP, International Summer School of Photography, Latvia
2010 ISSP, International Summer School of Photography, Latvia
2008 Creative writing with Þorvaldur Þorsteinsson
2008 The Comic toolbox with Jeff Greenstein, John Vorhaus and John Barber
2006 Spacing out, Masterclass in Directing, Nordscen with Adrian Heathfield,Vilnius.
2006 Arista-Story development workshop, Sirolo, Italy
2006 Screenwriting Masterclass by Mick Casale, Icelandic Filmcentre, Reykjavík
2005 Space and composition, workshop on physical/visual stage dramaturgy with Adrian Heathfield
2005 Break the Ice, Nordscen, Cross-disciplinary art meeting, Reykjavik, Iceland
2005 Berlinale Talent Campus, Berlinale Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
2003-2004 Kópavogur Music school, Electronic Music Studies, Iceland
2003 Disturbances, Symposium of sound, space and movement. Music as structure, workshop with the composer Bernhard Lang and the choreographer Xavier le Roy
Grants
2019 The Icelandic Art center, project grant
2019 Muggur, travel grant
2019 Kulturkontakt Nord, Mobility grant
2019 Letterstedtska grant
2019 Center of Icelandic Art, travel grant
2019 Muggur, travel grant
2019 Goethe Institut, Copenhagen, Project grant
2018 Myndstef, travel grant
2018 The Writers union of Iceland, travel grant
2018 Icelandic Litterature centre, travel grant
2017 The Swedish-Icelandic cultural fund
2018 The writers union of Iceland, travel grant, Icelandic Litterature centre, travel grant
2016 Myndstef, project grant
2016 Muggur, travel grant
2015 Myndstef, travel grant
2015 Muggur, travel grant
2013 The Icelandic Art center, project grant
2013 Myndstef, project grant
2013 Artist grant from the Ministry of Culture and education
2012 Myndstef, travel grant
2012 Turkish Cultural Foundation
2011 Kulturkontakt Nord, Mobility grant
2011 Center of Icelandic Art, travel grant
2011 Myndstef, travel grant
2011 Reykjavík city, project grant
2011 The Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation
2011 Artist grant from the Ministry of Culture and education
2010 Icelandic Filmcentre, Development grant
2010 STEF, Composers Grant
2010 The Icelandic Literature fund
2010 Letterstedtska grant
2010 Center of Icelandic Art, travel grant
2009 Kulturkontakt Nord, Mobility grant
2009 Muggur, travel grant
2008 Center of Icelandic Art, travel grant
2008 Kulturkontakt Nord, Mobility grant
2008 Penninn, cultural grant
2008 Muggur, travel grant
2008 Kulturkontakt Nord, Mobility grant
2008 The Swedish-Icelandic fund
2008 Icelandic Filmcentre, Development grant
2008 Muggur, travel grant
2008 Center of Icelandic Art, travel grant
2007 Icelandic Filmcentre, Development grant
2007 Center of Icelandic Art, travel grant
2007 Travel grant from the Ministry of Culture and education
2007 Myndstef-cultural grant
2007 Margret, cultural grant
2006 Sleipnir, travel grant from Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art
2006 Muggur, travel grant
2006 Center of Icelandic Art, travel grant
2006 Travel grant from the Ministry of Culture and education
2005 Sleipnir, travel grant from Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art
2005 Artist grant from the Ministry of Culture and education
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 The Icelandic-Finnish Cultural Foundation
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
2000 Letterstedtska 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