MARGRÉT H. BLÖNDAL
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MARGRÉT H. BLÖNDAL
Aerotics / Loftleikur 3 Sep - 10 Oct 2020 i8 Gallery'My works are installations. I work across media and form. Sometimes I turn the medium around, approaching sculptures as drawings or drawings as sculptures. Text becomes a frame, words define...Read more -
Late Summer Show
Margrét H. Blöndal, Ásgerður Búadóttir, Eyborg Guðmundsdóttir, Kristín Jónsdóttir frá Munkaþverá, Arna Óttarsdóttir, Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Karin Sander, Júlíana Sveinsdóttir 22 Aug - 19 Oct 2019 i8 Gallery -
MARGRÉT H. BLÖNDAL
7 Jan - 5 Mar 2016 i8 GalleryLanguage is in the thrall of equivalences and allusion. We say what something is by saying what it reminds us of, of what it is like. We talk in likenesses....Read more -
MARGRÉT H. BLÖNDAL, SILVIA BÄCHLI
Open; Wait 19 May - 30 Jun 2012 i8 GalleryA light shines on the ground, the outline of a doorway. You step forward, drawn by its hesitant oblong shape, the door open just a crack to make a towering...Read more
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Margrét H. Blöndal: Liðamót / Ode to Join
National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland 28 May - 2 Oct 2022The exhibition Liðamót / Ode to Join comprises on the one hand drawings made with oil and powdered pigments, and on the other three-dimensional pieces...Read more -
Margrét H. Blöndal: Pollur-Spegill
Skaftafell Art Center, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland 7 Oct - 26 Nov 2017The solo exhibition pollur – spegill by Margrét H. Blöndal, is ongoing from Oct 7 – Nov 26 in the Skaftfell Art Center. The exhibition...Read more -
Margrét H. Blöndal: Manifesta 7
Manifattura Tabacchi, Rovereto, Italy 19 Jul - 2 Nov 2008Margrét H. Blöndal’s sculptures and installations are spatial poems, woven using diverse fabrics and materials found in everyday life. Her work is emotive, sensual, and...Read more -
Margrét H. Blöndal: Touching the Membrane
Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland 8 Nov - 31 Dec 2007The exhibition Touching the Membrane does not dwell on the literal implications suggested by its title. Though it underlies Margrét H. Blöndal’s fundamental idea, her...Read more
b. 1970 in Reykjavik
Lives and works in Reykjavik
EDUCATION
1994-1997
MFA Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
1989-1993
BFA The Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts, Reykjavik, Iceland
1986-1989
The Reykjavik School of Visual Arts, Reykjavik, Iceland
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Liðamót/ Ode to Join, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, (forthcoming)
2021
e n t r a n c e, Gallery Thomas Fischer, Berlin, Germany
2020
Aerotics / Loftleikur, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland
2018
Hemiola, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
2017
Zug, Galerie Thomas Fischer, Berlin, Germany
pollur - spegill, Skaftfell Art Center, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2016
Borð, Outvert Art Space, Ísafjörður, Iceland
Margrét Blöndal, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
2015
Flóra Culture House, Akureyri, Iceland
Meander, Galerie Thomas Fisher, Berlin, Germany
Felldur/Field, Sequences VII, Harbinger, Reykjavik, Iceland
Meeding oder Wedding, with Huginn Thór Arason, Stöpullinn, ASÍ Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2014
OUT, Kompan, Althýduhúsið, Siglufjördur, Iceland
Hrafnseyri at Arnarfjörður, Cultural Center, Iceland
2012
Open; Wait, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland (with Silvia Bächli)
Schlag, Galerie Thomas Fischer, Berlin, Germany
2011
Suðsuðvestur, Reykjanesbær, Iceland
2009
Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Texas, USA (curated by Gavin Morrisson)
2008
Nicolas Krupp Gallery, Basel, Switzerland (with Daniel Hunziker)
Project Room, Warehouse, Contemporary Art, Teramo, Italy
2007
Touching the Membrane, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
Gallery Box, Akureyri, Iceland
Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
Solvent Space, Richmond, Virginia, USA
Sieves, Mother´s Tankstation, Dublin, Ireland
2005
Nicolas Krupp Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Dandruff Space and Shroud, Brooklyn, New York, USA (with Roni Horn)
Material time work time life time, Reykjavík Art Festival, Iceland
2004
Filiale Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Safn, Reykjavik, Iceland
2003
Kunstraum/Wohnraum, Akureyri, Iceland
2002
The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2000
Institute of Visual Arts INOVA, Milwaukee, WI, USA
1999
Galerie im Alcatraz, Hallein, Austria
1998
Villa Minimo, Hannover, Germany
Gallery Sævar Karl, Reykjavik, Iceland
1996
Center Square Art Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
1994
Livingston Gallery, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Abrakadabra, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
Góðir Gestir - group show with Icelandic artists, Cecilia Hillström Gallery, Sweden
2020
Landvist, Stóri - Klofi, Rangárþing Ytra, Iceland
2019
Late Summer Show, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
Sequences IX - Really, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
Nr. 3 Umhverfing, Snæfellsnes peninsula, Iceland
2018
Cycle Music and Art Festival, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2017
VISUAL RESONANCE - Cycle Music and Art Festival, Gerðarsafn - Kópavogur Art Museum, Iceland
Rolling Snowball/9, Djúpivogur, Iceland
Flair, Fridman Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
Entangled: Threads & Making, Turner Contemporary, Kent, UK
2016
Cycle Music and Art Festival, Gerdarsafn - Kópavogur Art Museum, Iceland
Traces of Water (Curated by Ágústa Kristófersdóttir and Birgir Snæbjörn Birgisson), Harfnarborg, Reykjavik, Iceland
2015
Visual Resonance - Kommentierte Musik II, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
Distant Moods on a Blue Evening, Cesis Art Festival, Latvia
Flóra, Akureyri, Iceland
Ausstellungsraum Klingertal, Basel, Switzerland
2014
Cacences of Line and Color, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
Stöpullinn, with Huginn Thór Arason, ASÍ, Reykjavik.
2013
Elemental, Boden Arts Center, Boden, Sweden
Variety 2: Margins and Circles, with Motoko Dobashi, Franziska Furter & Yukiko Suto, Lullin + Ferrari,
Zürich, Switzerland
2012
Zeichnungen im Salon Dahlmann, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany
Hangman´s Rock – The Delirium of Vision, Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavík, Iceland
2011
Imagine being here now, The 6th Momentum Biennial, Moss, Norway
Text, Gallerie Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany
2010
Regionale 11, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz, Switzerland
2009
Possibilities, The Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
Quiet Revolution, Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, UK; Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK; MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
2008
The Icelandic Visual Art Awards, Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland
Manifesta 7, Trentino Alto, Italy (curated by Adam Budak)
Loftnet, Co-Lab, Copenhagen, Denmark
Elefante Negro, Diego Rivera Anahuacalli Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
2007
Skyldi ég vera thetta sjálfur, Ketilhusid, Akureyri, Iceland
2006
Icelandic Visual Arts Awards, Museum of Akureyri, Akureyri, Iceland
Ruin – A dangerous obsession and the culture of excess, Mother's Tankstation, Dublin, Ireland
Strip – images in line, Kunstverein Baselland, Muttenz, Switzerland (curated by Rolf Bier)
2005
Buenos Dias Santiago – an exhibition as expedition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
(curated by Jean-Paul Felleyand Olivier Kaeser)
Volcana, Icelandic Panorama, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Manitoba, Canada (curated by
Kevin Kelly)
FABRYKA FANTASMAGORII, Site-Ations, Lodz, Poland
Tívolí, The LÁ Art Museum, Hveragerði, Iceland (curated by Markús Þór Andrésson and Thurídur Sigurdardóttir)
New Icelandic Art, The National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik
2004
Aldrei-nie-never, Galerie Kuckei + Kuckei Berlin, Germany
2003
Handlungsanweisungen / instructions, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (permanent intallation)
DeVishal, Exhibition Space for Contemporary Art, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Wollenmaiden, HÚS Project, Dublin, Ireland
Jimmie Durham's workshop, Eikaas Galerie, Jölster, Norway
The Nordic Biennal, Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden
2002
Don, The Locker Plant, Marfa, Texas, USA
MYND, The Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik Art Festival, Iceland
My Body is Over the Ocean, Alma Löv Museum, Sweden
2001
CAMP, Lejre, Denmark
MYND, Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
“I would like to see...”, selected by Sjón, Gerduberg, Reykjavik, Iceland
2000
Non Stop Beautiful Ladies, Marfa, Texas, USA
This Earth is a Flower, Construction in Process, Lodz, Poland
Norden, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
From here to there, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany (curated by Sabine Russ and Gregory Volk)
Tölöö-bay garden, Helsinki Cultural City 2000, Finland
Österreich / Island 7/6, Eisernes Haus, Graz, Austria
Gallery Articule, Montréal, Canada
1999
Kultur Bahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf, Germany
7/6 Austria / Iceland, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
Summit, Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria
Etwas, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany
1998
Vacation, with Steingrímur Eyfjörd and Gudlaugur K. Óttarsson, Gallery Sævar Karl, Reykjavik, Iceland
Station to Station, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
-30/+60, The Municipal Gallery of Reykjavík, Iceland
Gallery North, Copenhagen, Denmark
Lundur, Lunds Konsthall, Sweden
1997
Visual Arts´ 97, Reykjavik Art Museum – Hafnarhús, Reykjavik, Iceland
A4 Hlynur Hallsson, Otto Plank Galleri, Bergen, Norway
1996
MFA, 420 West Broadway, New York, USA
1995
17 Years, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
1994
Gallery Greip, Reykjavík, Iceland
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2009-2010
Artist in Residence, Foundation Laurenz House, Basel, Switzerland
2009
Guðmunda Kristinsdóttir Art Prize
2008
Nominated for The Icelandic Visual Arts Awards, Reykjavik, Iceland
2006
Nominated for The Icelandic Visual Arts Awards, Reykjavik, Iceland
NKD Nordic Artists´ Centre, Dale, Norway
2005
Art Omi, International Artist Residency, New York, USA
2002
The Richard Serra Prize, Iceland
2000
Artist in Residence, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, USA
1995-1996
Teaching Assistantship, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, USA
1994-1996
Fulbright Scholarship