Opening event:
Tuesday, 28. November 2006, 7 p.m.
Exhibition dates:
29. November 2006 - 26. January 2007
GALLERY hours:
Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 8 p.m.
With her drawings, sculptures, musical experiments and videos the Icelandic artist Gabriela Fri�riksd�ttir creates a cosmos strongly related to surrealism, populated by hybrid, mystical and sexually charged beings. The themes of her mysterious worlds ever circulate central aspects of being and transience and draw intensively from Nordic legends and a specific natural mysticism. Her enquiring mind for irrationalism and enigma is reflected by the material that she uses for her sculptures. Thus her works incorporate unusual materials such as mud, hay or dough and fur, plaster or found pieces of wood. Gabr�ela Fri�riksd�ttir, who is representing her home country on the Venedig Biennale 2005 with a complex video installation sets focus on her drawings and sculptures for this exhibition.
Biography
Gabr�ela Fri�riksd�ttir was born 1965 in Reykjav�k, Iceland. She studied at the Kunstakademie Islands (1994-1997), at the Akademie der Sch�nen K�nste in Prag (1998) and Le Botteghi del Arte, Suvero. She represents Iceland at the Biennale Venedig 2005. She acquired several scholarships and prizes, e.g. the repeated promotion by state, the Myndstef Award Islands 2005 and the project scholarship of the CIA.IS - Center for Icelandic Art.
| 2002 | Operazione Dramatica, Gerdarsafn museum, Kopavogur, Island (E) My body is over the ocean, Alma Low Museum of Art, Ostra Amtervik, Schweden Operazione poetica continue, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Island |
| 2003 | "Teikningar/Drawings, Galerie Sch�n, Bochum (E.) Behind the eyes, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Schweden Over the bridge of optmism, Reykjavik Art Museum Prague Biennale / Global Suburbia, Narodni v Praze, National Museum Prag Operazione poetica IV, Billboard project, Copenhagen, Amager Landevej Breadhead / Operazione poetica II, Woolenmaiden House, The Project, Dublin Operazione pathetico, Circuit 7, CCCB, Barcelona (E.) |
| 2004 | Melank�l�a; Spielhaus Morrison Galerie, Berlin (E.) Spielhaus Morrsion Galerie, Berlin Where do we go from here, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York Katharsis, The Reykjavik Arts Festival, Icelandic National Gallery, Reykjavik Sons and Dottir, Tentplaza Center for Visual Art, Rotterdam Les spectacles vivants, Centre Pompidou, Paris Katharsis, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik (E.) Noonday demons, CCA, Glasgow |
| 2005 | Versations/Tetral�g�a, Isl�ndischer Pavillon, La Biennale di Venezia (E.) To Samekh, Water Events-Horizontal Memories Yoko Ono, Astrup Fearnly Museum of Modern Art, Oslo |
| 2006 | Versations/Tetral�g�a, Reykjav�k Arts Museum (E.) Inside the core, Migros Museum f�r Gegenwartskunst, Z�rich (E.) Remember who you are, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA Through the looking glass, Gallery Bob von Oursow, Zurich |
