elín hansdóttir
1980 Born in Reykjavík, Iceland.
education
2003 – 2006 KHB -Weissensee; Magister.
1999 – 2003 Iceland Academy of the Arts; BA.
solo exhibitions
2010
i8 galleri, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2009
Elín Hansdóttir, project room 1/9unosunove, Rome, Italy
PARALLAX, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland.
TWO POINT FIVE, Program, Berlin. Collaboration with choreographer Margrét Bjarnadóttir.
PATH, Maribel Lopez Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2007
BOOK SPACE, Reykjavík City Library, Iceland.
2006
TAKING TIME, Sequences realtime festival, Iceland.
BOOK SPACE, public libraries Berlin & Hamburg.
HERE ELSEWHERE, rec gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2005
UNTITLED (Nafnlaust), Material Time/ Work Time/ Life Time, Reykjavik Arts Festival, Iceland. In collaboration with Neulant van Exel, Darri Lorenzen and Anne Kockelkorn.
SPOT, Gallery Box, Akureyri, Iceland.
2004
YOU, The Arnesinga Art Museum, Iceland.
group exhibitons
2010
Biennale für Internationale Lichtkunst, Germany.
2009
RETHINKING THE IMPLICIT, Den Frie Utsillingsbyggning, Copenhagen, Denmark.
SPACE REVISED – Verbleib Unbekannt, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Germany.
2008
PLEINAIRISM, i8 Galleri, Iceland.
ART AGAINST ARCHITECTURE, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik
Arts Festival.
2007
BERLIN NOIR, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, USA.
FRIEZE PROJECTS, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK.
CONSEQUENCES AND PROPOSALS, Biennale of Young Artists, Tallin, Estonia.
BETWEEN TWO DEATHS, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany.
SEVERAL DOZEN SECONDS OF BADLY DEVELOPED FILM, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
EXHIBITION´S RUINS/ EMOTIONAL LANDSCAPES, Safn, Iceland.
2005
NEW ICELANDIC ART II, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
PRAYING FOR SILENCE, Ludwigsburger Kunstverein, Germany.
2004
BERLIN NORTH, Hamburger Bahnhof National Museum, Berlin, Germany.
other projects
2009
KOMPLEX, artist residency founded with artist Darri Lorenzen for the Alfred Toepfer Foundation, Germany.
NACRE, 10th Spire, Skanu Mezs, Riga. Installation for music by Hildur Ingveldardóttir Guðnadóttir.
2008
RUNWAY, Sequences real-time Art Festival, Iceland. Installation for music by Hildur Ingveldardóttir Guðnadóttir.
HELIX, Sequences real-time Art Festival, Iceland. Collaboration with musician Úlfur Hansson.
bibliography
2009
Book: Schoen, Christian. “Icelandic Art Today”, published by Hatje Cantz.
2008
Article: Heisler Eva, “Elín Hansdóttir”, in ART PAPERS nov/dec issue.
Article: Wagner K.Matthias, “Elín Hansdóttir”, in Grrrh Nr.8.
Article: Kockelkorn Anne, “Realitätsvorschlag”, in: Bauwelt 16, p. 2-3.
2007
Project: CMYK, in collaboration with Darri Lorenzen, curated by Walead Beshty, Cabinet Magazine, Issue 27, p. 34.
Article: Blumenstein Ellen, “Watchlist”, in: Monopol Magazin, Nr.8, p. 19.
Article: Kockelkorn Anne, “Fiktive Grenzen”, in: BaunetzWoche#30, p. 3-9. (www.baunetz.de)
Catalogue: Between Two Deaths, published by Hatje Cantz, p.
180-183 & p. 277-278.
2006
Article: Brener Julie, “Lost in Place”, in: ARTnews, no.10 (November issue).
2005
Book: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Interviews. Published by Eidastoll, p.56-60.
Catalogue: Material Time/Work Time/Life Time, ed. Jessica Morgan and Björn Roth, published by Eidastoll and Revolver. p. 50-53.
2004
Catalogue: You, published by Elin Hansdottir and The Arnesinga Art Museum.
Catalogue: Berlin North, ed. Gabriele Knapstein, published by Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin.
grants
2009 Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist in Residence, San
Francisco.
2008 Residency at NKD Dale, Norway.
2007 Minningarsjóður Margrétar for the project BOOK
SPACE (National Library of Iceland).
Penninn art grant, Iceland.
2005 Study scholarship linked to the Henrik-Steffens Prize,
Alfred Toepfer Foundation, Germany.
DAAD study scholarship.
2004 Stipend from the Gudmunda Andrésdóttir Foundation,
National Gallery of Iceland.