Artist statement:
What I’m interested in is the observation and analysis of socio-economic trends and cultural changes in my environment and translating it into narrative structures of rich visual symbology. I’m deep into a process that involves creating my own personal iconographical system or mythology at the same time as I’m researching the mythologies of contemporary times that have already been created around me. This research has until now manifested itself as mixed-media installations and documentaries. I want to continue to explore the media of video, film, photography, print and sculpture while mixing the humorous, performative and the dead serious. I believe the local is the global, the personal is the universal and my works will continue to reflect that.
My diverse background in fine art, filmmaking, design and academia allows me to stand on the crossroads of academic and aesthetic work but also different art genres. I’m interested in making experiments with the boundaries, expanding them, minimizing, and mixing them together and then spitting them out again. Thus I choose to collaborate with individuals and artists of different backgrounds to create the necessary dialogue needed to expand my own vision on the issues involved.
–Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir, 2009
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Awards
2009 Cultural Price of DV for best Icelandic film in 2008 (Jury prize)
2008 PENNINN award for emerging artists in Iceland
_____Edda, Icelandic Academy Awards for best documentary film
_____Silver Fox for best documentary at Reykjavik Short and Docs (Jury prize)
Audience award for best documentary and Skjaldborg Film Festival, Iceland
Solo exhibitions
2011 January Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2010 April NKD, Berlin, Germany.
Jan-Feb
PROGRAM, Berlin, Germany.
2007 July ESKANDAL, Barcelona, Spain. Installation.
2006 October Sequences real time festival. KronKron, Reykjavik, Iceland. Installation.
Grants and Recognition (selected)
2010 The Visual artists’ Stipend Fund. The Icelandic Government.
2009 Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany. Exhibition grant for "Hops Hopsi" at PROGRAM, Berlin.
Icelandic Visual Art Copyright Association project grant
Muggur, residency grant from The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists
2008 The Visual artists’ Stipend Fund. The Icelandic Government.
2007 Project and art grants from Memory fund of Margrét Björgólfsdóttir, Center for Icelandic Art, Islandsbank Culture Fund, The Student Innovation Fund and Icelandic Art Academy.
2006 Project and art grants from Center for Icelandic Art, Icelandic Film Centre, Mjolkursamsalan ltd., VISA Iceland and Baugur Group.
2003-2005 Project and art grants from the Nordic Institute For Contemporay Art, Icelandic Film Centre, Islandsbank Culture fund, Icelandic Visual Arts Copyright Association, The Icelandic Ministry of Social Affairs and The Art and Cultural Fund.
Screenings and Film Festivals
2010 March Reindeerland film festival, Egilstadir, Iceland. Shortlisted for Best Icelandic short.
2009 The Scandinavia House. The American-Scandinavian Foundation. NYC.
_____Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival
_____Expresión en Corto International Film Festival Mexico, Official selection.
_____Thessoloniki, Greece. A-level film festival. Official selection.
_____FAMU, Prague, Czech Republic, for students
_____Gothenburg, Sweden. A-level film festival. Official selection.
2008 YLE, Finland and RUV, Iceland (National TV)
_____Nordic Film Days Lübeck, Germany. Official selection.
_____27th Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden. Official selection.
_____Nordisk Panorama, 5 cities film festival, Malmö, Sweden. Official selection.
_____Short and Docs, Reykjavík – Winner of the best documentary.
_____Haskolabio cinema in Reykjavik Public regular screenings.
_____Skjaldborg Icelandic documentary film festival - Audience award for Best Film. Only award of the festival.
2006 Club der Polnischen Versager, Torstrasse, Berlin, Germany.
_____“Cold Hearts”, Monkey Town, Willimsburg, NYC, USA. Curated by
Package Deals.
2005 Galapagos Art Space, Williamsburg, NYC, USA.
_____Public library, Charlstone, South-Carolina, USA.
2004 Garage Cinema, side program of Nordisk Panorama.
Group exhibitions (selected)
2010 May until July EXKURS. Isländische Kunst in auBergewöhnlichen Zeiten, in Felleshus, Scandinavian Embassy in Berlin. Curated by Markús Þór Andrésson.
2007 Graduation exhibition from Icelandic Academy of the Arts Reykjavík, Iceland.
2006 Grand Narrative at Galerie Bergstub'l. Curated by Carrie Roseland at BootLab, Berlin, Germany.
_____Gallery Signe Vad, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curated by Lina Björn.
2005 KlinK and BanK Invasion at Berliner Liste
_____Old Vitra Design Museum, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Nína Magnúsdóttir. Sponsored and supported generously by Thyssen-Bornesmisza Art Contemporary.
_____Garnival, Reykjavík Cultural Night / Visual art and music in the garden at Thorsgata 6., Reykjavik, Iceland. Curated by Hulda Ros Gudnadottir and Berglind Jona Hlynsdottir.
_____Strange Attractors, deliberate disguises, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland. Curated by Signal in the heavens, Reykjavik Art Festival. Shared the space with Thomas Hirschhorn.
_____Purgatory, Gallery Boreas & Galapagos Art Space, NYC, USA. Curated by Signal in the heavens.
2001 Digitarts – MA degree show at Middlesex University. Interactive design, The Bridge Gallery, Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London, UK.
Residencies
2007-2008 Reykjavik Academy, Reykjavik.
2004-2005 Klink and Bank, Reykjavik
Lecturing and Artist/Directors Talk
2009 March FAMU, Prague, Czech Republic – A talk about The Cornershop documentary.
2008 Dec. Icelandic Film and TV Academy – A talk about The Cornershop documentary.
2007 Nov. Provincialism seminar, Hamar, Norway – participant in a seminar.
June "Befitting, befogging, beguiling and bethinking." at Provincialism, international seminar at the Reykjavik Academy
Publications (selected)
(texts and visuals by the artist)
2008 The Faroe Islands Art Museum. ISBN: 978-99918-987-4-2 Befitting, befogging, beguiling and bethinking in The Provincialists, 2008 (essay p. 67).
2007 July/Aug, Icelandic Art News. Published by Center for Icelandic Art. Article about the annual Sequences International Real-time art festival. My photo that they have been using as a promotional material e.g. on their on-line invitations and other promotional material. summer www.provincialists.com
"Befitting, befogging, beguiling and bethinking" – lecture delivered at the Reykjavik Academy about my artwork and curatorial project, 02.06.07
02.06. Morgunblaðið/Lesbók – cultural special of the Morning Paper. Kjálkinn út, an extract article I wrote about my art work and curatorial projects. Printed with other articles on the day of the Provincialism international seminar at Reykjavik Academy.
Degrees, workshops and conferences (selected)
2010 February PhDarts Conference ‘The Artist as Researcher’
Royal Academy of the Arts, The Hague, Netherlands.
2007 B.A.
Icelandic Academy of the Arts Visual Art.
2006 summer
UdK, Berlin. Visual Art with Professor Katharina Sieverding.
2004-Jan.'05 Twelve for the Future, workshop for young nordic documentary talents.
European Documentary Network, very selective.
2001 M.A. Design for interactive media School of Arts,
Landsdown Centre for electronic arts Middlesex University, London
1999 B.A. Social Anthropology,
University of Iceland.
Selected bibliography
2009 NEON, German magazine. Interview and discussion about the work Don’t stop me now.
2008 19.06-now various media articles and reviews about the Cornershop
19.06 Afternoon Radio at National Radio Chanel 2/Film review
**** review (full house) by film critic Olafur H. Torfason.
17.06 24 stundir/ Film critic in the Street paper
15.06 **** critic by the film critic. Morgunbladid/Film critic in the Morning news paper Til heiðurs hornkaupmönnum þjóðarinnar – **** critic on The Cornershop documentary by film critic Sæbjörn Valdimarsson
15.06 Fréttablaðið/Culture section of the Afternoon paper Kaupmennirnir á horninu – one page interview and article by Hanna Björk Valsdóttur about the Cornershop documentary.
31.05 Morgunblaðið/Culture section of the Morning news paper. Að brjóta niður mörk – interview and article by Einar Falur Ingólfsson about DÍÓNÝSÍA.
30.05 Víðsjá/ The culture radio program on National Radio channel 1 (RÚV). Culture and Art. Interview by Guðni Tómasson about the DÍÓNÝSÍA project.
17.05 Kvika/ The film radio program on National Radio channel 1 (RÚV). Interview by the documentary club Homer about the Cornershop documentary.
15.05 Kastljós/ News program at the The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (RÚV). Interview by Thóra Tómasdóttir about the Cornershop documentary.
14.05 Víðsjá/ The culture radio program on National Radio channel 1 (RÚV). Interview by Haukur Ingvarsson about the Cornershop documentary.
2007 14.04. Fréttablaðið/Culture section of the Afternoon paper. Ad rækta gardinn sinn – Article written by Kristrún Hauksdóttir. An interview about DÍÓNÝSÍA.
2006 11.11. Morgunblaðið/Lesbók – cultural special of the Morning Paper. Skvett úr koppnum á Sequences - a review of the Sequences International Real-time Festival that took place in Reykjavik in October 2006. Written by art critic Thora Thorisdottir with a special mention of my solo exhibition in KronKron.
2005 May Reaching for the Stars. Just to Surrender. A catalogue for the Signal in the Heavens curatorial project. Part three called Purgatory at Gallery Boreas, NYC in April 2005 and part three called Strange Attractors, deliberate disguises at the Living Art Museum in Reykjavik in May 2005.
This and That
2007- now Dionysia international cross-genre residency in Iceland, director and founder
2008 till Sept. Reykjavik Art Museum, assistant to the museum curator
2001- 2008 Producer of documentary film
the Cornershop and
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
2000 - 2006 Design Puffin hoodies. Berlin (BestShop), Reykjavík (KronKron) and Barcelona (Eskandal).
Set design for the Icelandic Opera, TV commercial, etc.
Various websites