The Icelandic Love Corporation
The Icelandic Love Corporation is a group of three artists: Sigrún Hrólfsdóttir (1973), Jóní Jónsdóttir (1972) and Eirún Sigurdardóttir (1971). They graduated from the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts in 1996. Since then they have lived and studied in New York, Berlin and Copenhagen and are currently based in Reykjavik.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Seigla/Endurance – Norr 11, Reykjavík,Iceland
2020
Vatn og Olía / Water and Oil – NoNo Fest – Galleri NordNorge, Harstad, Norway
Heel Kick / Hælspyrna – Multis.is, Mjólkursamsalan Snorrabraut, Reykjavík, Iceland
2019
Water and Blood / Vatn og blóð – National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik
Valores – in collaboration with Kiyoshi Yamamoto, KRAFT, Bergen, Norway
The Newest Testament / Nýjasta testamentið – Hverfisgalleri, Reykjavík, Iceland
2018
Aqua Maria Announciation / Aqua María boðun, Torgið Neskirkja, Reykjavík
Aqua Maria – Video Video, The Nordic House, Faroe Islands
2017
Baby shower for Mary – part three of The Mary’s trilogy, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö Sweden
2016
Love Conquers All – as part of the series New Nordic//, ARoS Focus, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark Psychography / Sálnasafn – as part of Everybody’s Spectacular Performance Festival, Reykjavík, Iceland
2015
Embody, Pinksummer, Genova, Italy
2014
The Icelandic Love Corporation, The National Gallery of Iceland
2011
Think Less – Feel More, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmo, Sweden
Origin, Pinksummer Gallery, Genova, Italy
2010
Tight, Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjörður Art Museum, Iceland
Tight, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki
2009
Black Swans, Kling&Bang, Reykjavik
ILC, Platform Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Hospitality III, CAST Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
Hospitality II, The Darling Foundry, Montreal, Canada
2008
Hospitality, Safnasafnid, Svalbardsströnd, Iceland
The Tent Lady’s Hospitality, ArdBia, Berlin
2007
ILC, Hafnarhusid, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
2006
Eruption – Corruption, ArdBia, Galway, Ireland
2005
Invasion – Expansion, Sudsudvestur, Keflavik, Iceland
2004
Cardiac Circus, i8 gallery, Reykjavik
Cardiac Circus, Art Statements, Basel Art Fair, Switzerland
The Icelandic Love Corporation, Jack the Pelican Presents, New York
2003
Behind the Eyes, Galerie Zink&Gegner, Munich, Germany
Behind the Eyes, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik
Sympathy, Galleri Verkligheten, Umeå, Sweden
2002
Places of Worship, Leisure Club Mogadishni, Copenhagen
2001
The Icelandic Love Corporation, Galleri Hlemmur, Reykjavik
2000
Ongarden, i8 gallery, Reykjavik
1999
Hope, OneOOne Gallery, Reykjavik
Higher Beings, Gallery GUK, Garden, Udhus, Kitchen, Selfoss, Leijre, Hannover
1998
The Future is Beautiful, Gallery Sævar Karl, Reykjavik
1997
Freedom – Beauty – Freetime, Gerduberg Cultural Center, Reykjavik
1996
Laboratory L.O.V.E, Café Mokka, Reykjavik
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
In Good Company. Films by International Art Collectives – Centro de Cultura Audiovisual, Gran Canaria
Staged Moments – National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
2021
Fjölfeldi – hlutfeldi – margfeldi, Reykjanes Art Museum, Iceland
Turbulence – LÁ Art Museum, Hveragerði, Iceland
Kjarval and the Contemporary – Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík
2020
Landscapes of Trauma: a Reflection on Wonder – Reykjanes Art Museum, Iceland
Billboard Festival Istanbul, Turkey
When Globe Means Home – This Is Our Story, Gallerie dell Prigioni, Imago Mundi Museum, Treviso, Italy
After All – Gerðarsafn Kópavogur Art Museum, Iceland
Reflections of the Sea – Felleshus, Berlin
2019
Human Condition – Draft of Contemporary Art History in Iceland – Reykjavík Art Museum
Aqua Maria – Video Video – Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018
Imago Mundi – Art Theorema #1, Benetton Foundation and Fabrica, Salone degli Incanti, Trieste, Italy
2017
Terrains of the Body- Photography from the National Museum of Women in the Arts-Whitechapel Gallery, London
Love Songs – Collaboration with Ensamble Adapter and Juliana Hodkinson, Cycle Music and Art Festival, Iceland Snowball 9 – Djúpvogur, Iceland
Treasures of a Nation – Selected works from the collection, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík
Bout – Video Works from the Collection, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavík
2016
Borrowed Time: Icelandic Artist Look Forward – Scandinavia House, New York
Art For Action, Icelandic Art in the service of sustainability – The United Nations, New York
2015
WildwomanWoodooGrannyDoilyCrochet – Björk, MoMA, New York
Attic and Evolution, Challenge – Arnesinga Art Museum, Hveragerði, Iceland
Billboard Festival, Casablanca, Morocco
2014
Think Less Feel More (film) and Connect Adjust Repeat (performance) – Theseus Temple, OnSite, Vienna, Austria
Nest – Selected works from the Collection, The National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik
Tent Lady – Your Compound View, selection from the collection, Hafnarhúsið, Reykjavik Art Museum
Faces – Icelandic Portraiture, Akureyri Center for Visual Arts, Iceland
2013
Bombshell – The Biggest Minority in the World, Verkstedhallen Svartlamon, Trondheim, Norway
Investigation of the Soul – Merry Melancholy – Nordic Station, Eskilstuna Konstmuseum, Sweden
The Third Dimension – Personal Structures, Palazzo Bembo, 55th Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte. La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2012
Web – (I)ndependent People), Reykjavik Art Festival, Hafnarhusid, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
Dynasty (film) – Great Outdoors, Pace Digital Gallery, New York
The Tent Lady’s Hospitality – She’s Here, Fotogalleriet, Oslo
The Tent Lady’s Hospitality – She’s Here, Kamarade, Stockolm
Kleina – Museum of Longing and Failure, New York
WildWomanVoodooGrannyDoilyCrochet – Arnesinga Art Museum, Hveragerdi, Iceland
Hreiður – MHR 40 year. Kling og Bang, Reykjavik
Thank You – Galleri 69, Oslo
2011
Woman, Off the Beaten Path, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, USA
The Tent Lady’s Hospitality, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Chamarande, France
Portraet Nu, Det Nationalhistoriske Museum, Frederiksborg Slot, Denmark
2010
Dynasty and DejaVu (Creation – Corruption – Celebration Remix) – Nordens U-land?, Fargfabriken, Östersund, Sweden
Woman, Off the Beaten Path, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City
Dynasty, Following People and Drinking Milk, Hafnarborg, Listasafn Hafnarfjarðar, Iceland
2009
Thank You, Lífróður, Hafnarborg, Listasafn Hafnarfjarðar, Iceland
Woman, Off the Beaten Path, Stenersen Museum, Oslo
Indeed, of course!, Brennið þið vitar! Gardskagaviti Lighthouse, Iceland Arts Festival
Zeitgeist, Fashion Biennale, Arnheim
Dreams of the Sublime in contemporary Icelandic Art, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland
2008
From Another Shore: Recent Icelandic Art, Scandinavia House, New York
Dynasty, Australian Cinematheque, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Dreams of Sublime and Nowhere, Reykjavik Art Museum, Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik
Photofestival, Toronto
As the Sun Rises, The Drake Hotel, Toronto
Dreams of Sublime and Nowhere, BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
Envisioning Change, Ministry of Culture, Salle d’Expositon, Quai Antoine, Monaco
2007
Dynasty, Envisioning Change, NWM, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
The Tent Lady, The Tent Show, Nikolaj Kunsthallen, Copenhagen
Dynasty, World Environment Day, The Natural World Museum, Nobel Peace Center, Oslo
Mother Earth, The Natural World Museum, San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco
The Believers, MassMoca, Massachusetts, USA
2006
Sympathy and Thank You, MIACA, Tokyo
Thank You and Sympathy, The Singing Swinging North, ParisPhoto, Carousel de Louvre, Paris
Sequences, in collaboration with Nepco, Reykjavik
Icelandic Video Art, Kunst-Werke, Berlin
Cold Climates, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2005
Tivoli, Arnesinga Art Museum, Hveragerdi, Iceland
2004
New Icelandic Art, Icelandic National Museum, Iceland
Nordic Art, Museum Kuppersmuhle, Duisburg
IJs/Ice, Museum Dhondt – Dhaenens, Ghent, Belgium
Where Do We Go From Here, Gallery Tanya Bonakdar, New York
Sons and Dottirs, Tent, Rotterdam
Brooklyn EUphoria, Volume, Brooklyn, New York
Cold Climates, A.P.T. Gallery, London
Boys and Girls, Zacheta Gallery, Warzaw
Berlin North, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Where Do We Go From Here? Comment rester Zen, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
2003
Behind the Eyes, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
Thank You, video screening, Culture Night, National Gallery, Reykjavik
LA International, LAtch Gallery, Los Angeles
Seasons of Icelandic Photography, Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik Art Museum
Praguebiennale1, National Gallery, Prague
Comment Rester Zen, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
Greyscale/CMYK, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Billboardprojekt – www.women2003.dk, Copenhagen
Multiples x 7“ – Project, Dublin
2002
Seasons of Icelandic Photography, Moscow House of Photography, Moscow
Greyscale/CMYK, Tramway, Glasgow
Madness, Artcite, Windsor, Canada
Peepshow, The Lusty Lady, Seattle, San Francisco
Women Good Enough to Eat, Roebling Hall, New York
2001
Disklo and Hotel Paradise, Anteprima Bovisa, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan
Melody, Multikulturiimaja on wheels, Sanatorium, Narva-Joesuu, Estonia
Face-Painting, Summer camp, PushFirmaBeige, Helsinki
2000
White, Black, Grey, Independence Day, Gerdarsafn, Kopavogur, Iceland
Hope, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Sete, France
@, Icelandic National Art Museum, Reykjavik
Women Good Enough to Eat, Viva Scanland, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, N-Ireland
Ongarden, LKW, Kunst in der Stadt, Kunstverein Bregenz, Austria
1999
Women good enough to eat, Get Together, Kunst als Teamwork, Kunsthalle Vienna
Higher Beings, An Icelandic Bone in a Swedish Sock, Gallery 54, Gothenburg
Higher Beings, Midnight Walkers and City Sleepers, Red Light District, Amsterdam
1998
Hotel Paradise, -30/60+, Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik Art Museum
A Fresh Start II, Momentum Biennial, Moss, Norway
A Fresh Start, In The Flesh, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik
1997
Women good enough to eat, Myndlist 97, Hafnarhusid, Reykjavik Art Museum
PERFORMANCE
2022
Witness – Performance Nebula, Reykjavík Art Museum
Masters of Ceremony / Athafnakonur – Friendship Wedding Ceremony / Vinagifting aldarinnar for Tara Njála and Silfrún Una, Klömbrum, Blönduósi, Iceland
2021
SUÐ with Tara Njála and Silfrún Una – King og Bong í Kling og Bang, Kling og Bang, Reykjavík
2020
Love – Life – Art, NoNo Fest – Galleri NordNorge, Harstad, Norway
Heart Chakra, privat party, Reykjavík
2019
The Tour, Transart19 Festival – Bozano, Italy
Valores – in collaboration with Kiyoshi Yamamoto – KRAFT, Bergen, Norway
Love Songs – in collaboration with Ensemble Adapter and Juliana Hodkinson – Borealis Music Festival, Bergen Norway
2018
Power Pearls – Design March, The National Gallery of Iceland
Aqua Maria Announciation / Aqua María boðun, Torgið Neskirkja, Reykjavík
Aqua Maria – Art group of Reykjavík 2018 a formal announciation by Reykjavík City’s Department of Culture and Tourism, Iðnó Theater Reykjavík
2017
Baby Shower for Mary – part three of The Mary’s trilogy, Lilith Performance Studion, Malmö Sweden
Mary Comes to Town – part two of The Mary’s trilogy, A! performance festival Akureyri Iceland
Mary Says Hallo – part one of The Mary’s trilogy, Siglufjörður, Iceland
2016
Human Ceremony – Aros Art museum, Arhus Denmarks
Psychography / Sálnasafn – Everybody´s Spectacular Performance Festival, Reykjavík, Iceland
2015
Mesh – Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
Ceremony Harmony – Cycle Music and Art Festival, Kópavogur, Iceland
Cermony Harmony – Cycle Music and Art Festival at Import Project Berlin, Germany
2014
Connect Adjust Repeat – Theseus Temple. OnSite, Vienna, Austria
Think Less Feel More – The National Gallery of Iceland
2012
President Performance – for Þóra Arnórsdóttir, Idno, Reykjavik, Iceland
2011
Think Less Feel More – Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö, Sweden
2011
Think Less – Feel More, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö, Sweden
2010
DejaVu (Creation – Corruption – Celebration Remix) – Nordens U-land?, Fargfabriken, Östersund, Sweden
Power, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2009
Eruption – Corruption, Live Action New York, The Scandinavia House, New York
VIP, Rethink, Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark
VIP, The Darling Foundry, Montreal, Canada
Kleinur, The Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada
2008
Intimacy Circus, Sirkus, a Kling&Bang project, Frieze Art Fair, London
VIP, ID Lab, Reykjavik Art Museum, Hafnarhusid,, Reykjavik
Poodle Circus – recitation, BIL 80 years anniversary, Reykjavik Art Museum,Hafnarhusid, Reykjavik
Intimacy Circus – recitation, on Karl Holmquist’s stage, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik
The Butterfly Effect, For Unifem, The Free Masons House, Reykjavik
2007
Nordic performance, with Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson, Norraena Félagid, Hafnarhusid, Reykjavik
2006
Eruption – Corruption, ArdBia, Galway, Ireland
Tree Destruction Activity, HAETTA, Laugardalsholl, Reykjavik
2005
Eruption – Corruption, Se!Next, Tromsoe, Norway
Eruption – Corruption, Break the Ice, Nordscen, City Hall, Reykjavik
Eruption – Corruption, Artistic Strategies, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Creation – Corruption – Celebration, Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt
2004
Eruption – Corruption, Dosensos, The Empire, London
Eruption – Corruption, Icelandic Embassy, Berlin
Intimacy Circus, Nordic Excellence, Stockholm, Sweden
Intimacy Circus, IJs/Ice, Museum Dhont-Dhanens, Ghent, Belgium
Intimacy Circus, Motel Mozaique Festival, Rotterdam
Intimacy Circus, Jack the Pelican Presents, New York
Crystal Rain, with Ragnar Kjartansson, Klink&Bank, Reykjavik
Crystal Rain, with Ragnar Kjartansson, Boys and Girls, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw
Crystal Rain, with Ragnar Kjartansson, Berlin North, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
2003
Crystal Rain, with Ragnar Kjartansson, opening of Nordatlantisk Brygge, Copenhagen
Crystal Rain, with Ragnar Kjartansson, Behind the Eyes, Bergen Kunsthall
Ceremony Harmony, Feast/Hospitality, Rum 46, Aarhus, Denmark
Requiem, with The Reykjavik Fire Department, Reykjavik
Lottery, V-day, City Theatre, Reykjavik
2002
Sympathy, Greyscale/CMYK, Tramway, Glasgow
Ceremony Harmony, Converter project ll, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik
Thank You, Mosaik, RUV National Television, Reykjavik
Rendez-vous, ILC and The Reykjavik Fire Department, Open air, Reykjavik
Show girls, Strompleikurinn, National Theatre, Reykjavik
2001
Higher Beings Love Champagne, The Cargo Club, London Art Week, Lotta Hammer Gallery, London
Higher Beings Love Fireworks, Hoxton Square, London Art Week, Lotta Hammer Gallery, London
Pancakes for Everybody, Airstreams, Kunsthall Basel
Homemade World, Konfekt, cultural program, TV Skjar 1, Iceland
Poem, Y2K, Caen, France
2000
Higher Beings, We are the world, we are the children” and “Blow Job” – Batofar, Paris
Global Bath and ILC promo video, Shoot Film Festival, Malmo, Sweden
Heart Attack, in collaboration with musician Megas, The Kitchen Motors, Hotel Borg, Reykjavik
Blow Job, LKW, Kunst in der Stadt, Kunstverein Bregenz, Austria
1999
Higher Beings, Odense Performance Festival, Denmark
Higher Beings, Wish moment, Kjarvalsstadir, Cultural Night, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik
Art on the Run, Montevideo, Amsterdam
Stand by your man, Gallery Asbæk, Copenhagen
1998
Speech, -30/60+, Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik
Wish Kit on the Beach, Axis Mundi, performance/rock festival, Kristiansand, Norway
Blow Job II, Gekko, Munchenbryggeriet, Stockholm
Global Love and Teaset, Double Pleasure Gallery, New York
Revival II, Brooklyn Bridge, New York
1997
Ice – Fire – Desire, Oslo Band Stand, Gallery Struts, Oslo
Interactive Tenderness, Aircondition, Copenhagen
A Bookstore Captured in Love, Mál og Menning Bookstore, Cultural Night, Reykjavik
Blow Job, On Iceland, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik
Love Kit, BSI bus depot and the domestic airport, Reykjavik
The rescue of a tea set, Tacheles, Berlin
Global Love, Roter Salon, Berlin
Good evening, Iceland Today, TV Stöd 2, Iceland
1996
Angel Performance, Performance Night, National Theatre Basement, Reykjavik
Kiss Performance, Dagsljós, RUV National Television, Reykjavik
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2005
Mother Nature, for Landsvirkjun The National Power Company, Vatnsfellsvirkjun
2002
Treasure, for Reykjavik Tech Collage Borgarholtsskoli
ARTWORKS IN MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS
Mask for Björk – Volta”Moma Museum of Art, New York Dynasty (video) – Icelandic National Museum
Thank You (video) – Icelandic National Museum
Hotel Paradise (Sculpture) – Icelandic National Museum The Tent Lady (sculpture) – Reykjavik Art Museum
The Tent Lady’s Hospitality (video) – Reykjavik Art Museum
The Eggs (c-print) – The Buhl Collection, New York
The Eggs (c-print) – Nordic Watercolour Museum, Sweden
Nest (sculpture) – Icelandic National Museum
Ether (c-print) – Icelandic National Museum
Duel in the desert) (c-print) – Íslandsbanki Art Collection, Iceland
Madness (Sculpture) – Reykjavík Art Museum
Madness (video) – Reykjavík Art Museum
Higer Beings in Gothenburg (photograph) – Icelandic National Museum
Where Do We Go From Here? (c-print) – The Womans Museum of the Arts, Washington Where Do We Go From Here (c-print) – TBA21, Vienna
Woman Good Enough to Eat (photographs) – Reykjavík Art Museum Woman Good Enough to Eat (video) – Reykjavík Art Museum
PUBLICATIONS
2016
Love Conquers All! – published by Aros Artmuseum, Arhus Denmark, ISBN 9788792184467
2010
Tight – published by Amos Anderson Museum, Helsinki, Finnland, ISBN 978-952-19531-79-0
2007
The Icelandic Love Corporation – published by Reykjavik Art Museum, ISBN 9979-769-31-9
2004
Cardiac Circus – cat. i8 gallery, for the Art Statements, Basel Art Fair, published in Reykjavik
2003
Corporate Mentality – Aleksandra Mir, published by Lukas and Sternberg, ISBN 0-9711193-1-7
The Icelandic Love Corporation – interview and short stories by Francis McKee, Published by Nifca and Diamond Hearts Projects, ISBN 951-8955-69-7, Glasgow
PRIZES
2018
Art group of Reykjavík
2011
Portrett Nu! – Innovative prize
2008
DV Culture Prize – nomination
2007
The Green Leaf Award – The Natural World Museum, UN World Environment Day
2006
DV Cultural Prize – nomination
2001
Disclo – visitors choice top ten, Anteprima Bovisa, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan
1997
Women good enough to eat – Best work according to visitors, Art ´97 Hafnarhusid, Reykjavik
RESIDENCES
2008
The Darling Foundry, Montreal
ArdBia Berlin, Prenzlauerberg, Berlin
2002
Network North/NIFCA studios, Glasgow, Scotland
2001
NIFCA studios, Sveaborg, Finland