Visual artist Amsterdam/Reykjavík/Basel.
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Co-creator of recidency project/artist summer camp Laumulistasamsteypan with Helena Aðalsteinsdóttir and Arna María Kristjánsdóttir.
Co-creator and co-curator of GSM exhibition space in frequencies with Helena Aðalsteinsdóttir.
Co-creator of at7 project space.
Member of Palazzina exhibition space.
Current / upcoming:
Selected exhibitions and events:
Revolt against the sun! Diploma exhibition Institute Art Gender Nature, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, September 2025.
It's No Longer Possible to Map Any Distance, group exhibtion, Austellungsraum Klingental, Basel, May-June 2025.
After the sun - Forecasts from the North, group exhibtion, Gammel Strand, Copenhagen, 2024.
After the sun - Forecasts from the North, group exhibtion, AKG Buffalo Museum, USA, 2024.
Fountains without Water, group exhibition, De Apotheek and W139, Amsterdam, 2023.
The Messengers, solo exhibtion, LungA Festival Seyðisfjörður, 2023.
The Messengers at the group exhibition 'Eavesdrop - my friends fill in the silence', SET Lewisham, London, 2023.
The publication SLEEP MODE published by Artfinger Pub, 2022.
Einnar nætur gaman - this is not a private party, event and exhibition with Laumulistasamsteypan, Open project space, Reykjavík, Iceland, 2022.
Anthems of the Windpipe, Laumulistasamsteypan's summer camp, Hrisey, Iceland, 2022.
A Twitch and a Tug at Prospects, group exhibition by Mondriaan Fonds at Art Rotterdam, 2022.
Snertitaug solo exhibition at the Reykjavik Art Museum, 2022.
Tumble-humble-weed at Happyhour Gallerí, 2022.
All These Elephants exhibited in the group show Architecture of Goodbye at Laurel Project Space, 2021.
I feel asleep, solo exhibition as a part of the series 'Messages from the Deep' by GSM exhibition space in frequencies and Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee radio, 2021.
Kept Between the Toes at Sterrentuin ii, group exhibition, Den Haag, 2021.
Ten of Moods with Bergur Anderson at the Pole, 2021, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Greetings Across the Ocean, group exhibition, The North Atlantic House, 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark.
The Jeopardy, exhibition with Laumulistasamsteypan, 2020, Palanga Street Radio.
Anomia, a night of moving images by artists, Kling og Bang, 2020.
The Goatcast, online screenings by Cashmere Radio, 2020.
Comp Ass at Art Rotterdam, 2020.
Hvers vegna syngja fuglar? / Why do birds sing?, as a part of Haustlaukar / Autumn Bulbs by Reykjavík Art Museum, 2019. Exhibited at Vesturbæjarlaug and Breiðholtslaug, Reykjavík, Iceland.
The All Seeing Ad, exhibited in Cosmos Carl - platform parasite, 2019.
Jester's Pool Laumulistasamsteypan, Middlesex Presents project space, 2019, London, the UK.
Four Cups: Spheres of Substantial Solidity and Precarious Subliminal Stimuli - A Conference, made in collaboration with Susan van Veen, at7 project space, 2018, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
KAFFIPÁSA, 6 day coffee-break by Laumulistasamsteypan, the Living Art Museum, 2018, Reykjavík, Iceland.
To that special someone, anniversary show of at7 project space, 2018, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Ég hef þig í vasanum / I got you, in Djúpþrýstingur, the Living Art Museum, 2018, Reykjavík, Iceland.
Allir þessir fílar I & II / All these Elephants I & II at Sequences Art Festival, 2017, Reykjavík, Iceland.
Texts, interviews and publications:
No Exits Mag, interviewed by Jessie Krish, 2023.In her work, Á. Birna Björnsdóttir (she/they, Reykjavík 1990) is interested in natural cycles, technology and the disparity between embodied experiences and factual knowledge.
Her sculptural installations take place on a wide material scale; the intangible, invisible and indiscernible play an important role contrasted with the solid, voluminous and technological. Frequently engaging forces such as sunlight, electricity and electromagnetic fields in her work, she sees them as co-creators; treating collaboration as material and materials as collaborators.
Smart phones, screens and solar panels regularly appear in her installations raising questions around how our digital lives are rooted in material reality and where we situate ourselves and our devices within this thing called nature.
Collaboration is further woven into Björnsdóttir's practice as she has co-directed multiple artist run platforms such as Laumulistasamsteypan (IS), GSM exhibition space in frequencies (IS), at7 project space (NL) and Palazzina (CH).
Björnsdóttir holds a BFA from Gerrit Rietveld Academie and an MFA from Institute Art Gender Nature. She received the Motivational Award of the Icelandic Art Awards in 2023. Her work has been exhibited for example at Kunsthaus Baselland, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Gammel Strand, Ausstellungsraum Klingenthal, the Reykjavík Art Museum, W139, Prospects - Art Rotterdam, Laurel Project Space, LungA festival, Sequences VIII, the Living Art Museum and Kling & Bang Reykjavík.