Artist
Heiðrún G. Viktorsdóttir (b.1990) graduated with a B.A. degree from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2015. Heiðrún has worked as a curator and organized events in various spaces. In 2016, she was nominated for the DV Cultural Prize for artistic direction in Ekkisens Artspace, and in 2018 she was a part of the planning team for the Straumar Art Festival in Flateyri. Heiðrún has participated in group exhibitions in Iceland and abroad, including in close collaboration with the art collective Computer Spirit. From 2018-2021, Heiðrún worked at Outvert Artspace and ArtsIceland as a project manager where she curated the group exhibitions KOLEFNI and Mörsugur. Heiðrún now lives in Reykjavík, where she works independently as an artist.
The primary sources of inspiration in Heiðrún’s creativity is the consciousness of herself as gender, the human body, ethereal connections to nature, and the existential self. Heiðrún creates artworks by looking at the body from a spiritual perspective where she examines the limits of the human body between the physical and intangible By listening to her instinct and subconscious, she creates a channel where the existential self and the body can flourish independently in the form of creativity.
CV
Education
2022-2023 Japanese studies at Háskóli Íslands. 2012-2015 Bachelor’s degree, Iceland Academy of the Arts, fine arts department. 2014 Exchange studies, Eesti Kunstiakadeemia, painting department.
Selected exhibitions
2022 Group exhibition, Bakað brauð í hamstola heimi, Eiðismýri, Reykjavík.
2020 Group exhibition, FOKHELT, Neðri Tunga in Ísafjörður.
2019 Group exhibition, Artists with anxiety, Núllið Gallerí, part of Crazy Culture festival on celebration for the 40th year birthday of Geðhjálp mental health institution, Reykjavík.
2018 Rúmelsi 3# : Ekkisens - Stream, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík. 2018 Axis (performance) at Straumar Art festival, Flateyri.
2017 Performance, Monad, Plan B Art Festival, Borgarnes. 2017 Group exhibition, Aftur í líkamann, Algera Studio, Reykjavík.
2016 Performance event at Culture night, Útrásarbrunnur, Vitatorg Reykjavík. 2016 Group exhibition, Stream in a puddle, Gallerii Metropol and Landnámssetrið, Tallinn and Borgarnes. 2016 Group exhibition, Grapevine happening: videoart from various artists, Húrra, Reykjavík.
2015 Publication and group exhibition in gallery Super and Ekkisens, SUPER #4, Vienna and Reykjavík. 2015 Group exhibition, Kynleikar, Ekkisens gallerí, Reykjavík City Hall and Tjarnarbíó. 2015 Opening night at Kynleikar in Tjarnarbíó, The pearl (performance). 2015 Group exhibition, Hústaka II og Bólfesta, Bergstaðastræti 25, Ekkisens, Reykjavík. 2015 Group exhibition, Einfalt og erótískt líf, Páli Ívans frá Eiðum residence, Reykjavík. 2015 Group exhibition, Hávaði II, Ekkisens gallerí, Reykjavík. 2015 Group exhibition, 100 ára kosningaréttur kvenna á Íslandi, 19. júní, Reykjavík City Hall. 2015 Group exhibition, Fjöltengi, Ekkisens gallerí, Reykjavík.
2014 Solo exhibition, Varðandi skynjun á litum, Já list! húsið( JL húsið), Reykjavík. 2014 Group exhibition, Bækur!/Books!/Rammatud!, Gallery Horse, Tallinn. 2014 Group exhibition, Tilfinningaleg frystikista, Hótel Kaffistofa gallerí, Reykjavík.
2013 Group exhibition, Hávaði, Hótel Kaffistofa, Reykjavík. 2013 Performance by Magnús Pálsson recreated at Reykjavík Art Festival, Þrígaldur Þursavænn, Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík.
Curation and other projects
2021 CARBON - KOLEFNI, group exhibition in collaboration with scientists and artists, curated in Gallerí Úthverfa, Ísafjörður. 2020 Mörsugur, group exhibition, curated in Gallerí Úthverfa, Ísafjörður. 2019 Mörsugur, group exhibition, curated in Gallerí Úthverfa, Ísafjörður. 2019 1-month stay at CACiS, El Forn de la Calc artist residency in Catalonia. 2019 Marina Abramovic Institute, participated in Cleaning the House performance workshop. 2018 Straumar Art Festival at Flateyri, part of the organization team. 2016 Útrásarbrunnur, performance event during Culture Night in Reykjavík, curated and organized in co-operation with Sigþóra Óðinsdóttir. 2016 Artistic director for the project Dýróður, held in Reykjavík City Hall at The Children Culture Festival in Reykjavík 2015 Kynleikar group exhibition, curated in Ekkisens Artspace, Ráðhús Reykjavíkur and Tjarnarbíó in co-operation with Sigþóra Óðinsdóttir. 2015 Opening night for Kynleikar in Tjarnarbíó, organized in co-operation with Sigþóra Óðinsdóttir, a seminar, and a performance event participated by various scholars and artists. 2015 Editor of Listvísi Art Magazine, the 5th edition, in co-operation with Andrea Ágústa Aðalsteinsdóttir. 2015 Hávaði II, Ekkisens Artspace, Reykjavík, assistant curator with Freyja Elíf Logadóttir. 2015 Fjöltengi, Ekkisens Artspace, curator with Andrea Ágústa Aðalsteinsdóttir. 2014 Tilfinningaleg frystikista, curator alongside Andrea Ágústa Aðalsteinsdóttir. 2013 Performance by Magnús Pálsson recreated at Reykjavík Art Festival, Þrígaldur Þursavænn, part of director team, Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík.
Nomination and grants
2022 Project grant from Seltjarnarnesbær for the exhibition Bakað brauð í hamstola heimi. 2019 Muggur travel grant for 1 month stay at the CACiS El Forn de la Calc art residency, Catalonia. 2018 Project grant from Fjórðungssamband Vestfirðinga for the art festival Straumar. 2016 DV magazine Culture Prize nomination for artistic approach in curating Ekkisens gallery. 2016 Muggur travel grant for Stream in a puddle, Tallinn. 2016 KÍM travel grant for Stream in a puddle, Tallinn. 2015 Project grant from Reykjavík City for the group exhibition Kynleikar.
Media
2018 Sýningaropnun: Rúmelsi #3: STREYMI, Ekkisens í Nýló, Icelandic Times. 2015 Anton Helgi Jónsson, Brundur og rofnar samfarir, Kvennablaðið. 2015 Viktor Pétur Hannesson, Karlmenn í rauðum sokkum, Nútíminn. 2015 Ísland í dag, Kynleikar in Reykjavík City Hall. 2015 Kári Tulinius, So What’s This “Controversial” Art In City Hall I Keep Hearing About?, The Reykjavik Grapevine 2015 Friðrik Indriðason, Pönkið lifir í listinni, Kjarninn. 2015 Víðsjá, Fjöltengi, radio interview.