Gabriela Fridriksdottir

1971    born in Reykjavik, Iceland

1993-1994 RYMI School of Art, Reykjavik, Iceland

1994-1997     The Icelandic Academy of Art, Reykjavík. Bachelor of Arts in Sculpture

lives in Reykjavik


Solo Exhibitions

2008    `Coagula, Flowers of Evil still bloom´, Cueto Project, New York, USA
            `The black Spider´, Schauspielhaus/Migros Museum Zurich, CH
            `Ouroboros´, Bob van Orsouw Gallery, Zurich, CH
            `Ouroboros´, National Gallery, Reykjavik, IS

2007    `Ouroboros´, Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin, D
            `Inside the Core/Tetralogia´, Void Gallery, Derry, IRL    
            `Tetralogia, Tekningar/drawings´, Prospectif Cinema at Centre Pompidou, Paris, F

2006     `Inside the Core´, The Osram Gallery, Drawings and Sculptures, Munich, D
             `Inside the Core´, Migros Museum, Zürich, CH
             `Versations Tetralogia´, Reykjavik Art Museum, IS

2005    `Versations Tetralogia´, Icelandic Pavilion, la Biennale di Venezia, I
            `Operazione Oesophagus and the Foodprocessors´, Akureyri Art Museum, Island (with Matthew Barney), ISL

2004     `Melankólía´, Spielhaus Morrison Galerie, Berlin, D
             `Katharsis´, Gallery i8, Reykjavik, ISL

2003     `Teikningar/Drawings´, Gallery Schoen, Bochum, D
             `Teikningar/Drawings´, Designed by M/M Paris. Published by Bad Taste, F

2001     `Animal Inside Animal Outside´, Gallery Saevar Karl, Reykjavik, ISL
             `Art and Real Estate´, Husvangur Real Estate Office, Reykjavik, ISL

2000     `Operzione Drammatica´, Gerdarsafn Museum, Kópavogur, ISL

1999      `Are You Ready to Rock II´, The Old Warehouse, Westmann-Islands, ISL
              `Are You Ready to Rock I´, Gallery Slunkariki, Isafjordur, ISL
              `Persons And Feelings´, Gallery Saevar Karl, Reykjavik, ISL


Group Exhibitions

2009   `ISLANDBOX - Icelandic Art at the Venice Biennal´,
            Gemeinschaftshaus der Nordischen Botschaften, Berlin, D
            `Transaquania - Out of the blue´, The Blue Lagoon, ISL
            `Mythologies´, Haunch of Venison, London GB
            `Kings, Gods & Mortals´, Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin, D

2008    `Life? Biomorphic shapes in sculpture´, Kunsthaus, Graz, A
            Nuit blance, Maison Rouge, Paris, F
            `Tree of Signs, Gabriela Fridriksdottir & MM/Paris, Urridaholt,
            Reykjavik, ISL
            `Edges of Darkness´, Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin, D
            `Streymid/La Durée´, National Gallery Reykjavik, ISL


2007    `Der Symbolismus und die Kunst der Gegenwart´, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, D
            `La Chaine´,BankArt 1929, Yokohama, J
            `Ausgezeichnet´, Kunstverein Freiburg, D
            `Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?´, Auckland Festival of the Arts, Mankau City, Auckland, NZ
    
2006    `Remember who you are´, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
            `Through the Looking Glass´, Gallery Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, CH

2005    `Sketch in Motion´, Sketch Gallery Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, CH
            `I still Believe in Miracles II, Musée dart Moderne de la Ville de Paris, F
            `To Samekh´, Walter Events-Horizontal Memories, Yoko One
            `Astrup Fearnly Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, N

2004     `Noonday Demons´, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland, GB
             `Parallele 64´, Art Contemporain Islandais, Espace d'art Contemporain Gustave Fayet, Sérignan, F
             `Les Spectacles Vivants´, Centre Pompidou, Paris, F
             `Loveless´, Minami Aoyama Minato-Ku Tokyo, J
             `Where Do We Go From Here´, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York,USA
             `ICE´, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, B
             `Sons and Dottirs´, Tentplaza Center for Visual Art, Rotterdam, NL

2003     `Behind The Eyes´, Bergen Kunsthalle, Bergen, N
             `Woolenmaiden Hus´, Project, Dublin, IRL
              Prague Biennale, Narodni v Praze/National Museum Prague, CZ Republic
             `Women 2003 / Billboard Project´, Amager Landevej, Copenhagen, DK

2002     `My Body is Over The Ocean - The Sea´, The Alma Löv Museum, S
              Group Exhibition, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, ISL

2000      Group Exhibition, Skaftfell Cultural Center, Seydisfjordur, ISL
              Sculptures By Silfurtun, Gardabaer, ISL
             `Sovereignty´, Gerdarsafn Museum, Kópavogur, ISL
             `Occurrence´, Hverfisgata, Reykjavik, ISL
             `The Seven Cardinal Virtues´, Thingvellir, Icelandic National Park
             `Orgasm 2000´, The Art Museum, Akureyri, ISL

1999      Maggógabb Inc. Present: Art, Gallery 101, Reykjavik, ISL
              (in collaboration with Magnus Sigurdarson)
             `Icelandic Bone in a Swedish Sock´, Gallery 54, Gothenburg, S

1998     `Station to Station´, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, ISL
              (Co-operation with Egill Sæbjörnsson and Haraldur Jonsson) 



Public Collections

National Gallery of Iceland
Reykjavik Art Museum
SAFN Collection, Reykjavik
Osram GmbH, München
Migros Museum, Zurich

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