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1995 – 1996 Université Paris 8. St.Denis. France

1993 – 1997 The Icelandic College of Arts and Craft. Reykjavik

1995 – 1996 Université Paris 8. St.Denis. France1993 – 1997 The Icelandic College of Arts and Craft. Reykjavik

2026 Espressobar. Swiss Institute at Art Genève. With Theo Triantafyllidis & Polina Milou. Cur: Stefanie Hessler

2026 My Friend the Art. The North Atlantic House. Copenhagen. Cur: Silke Calmar Dinesen

2023 Egill Sæbjörnsson & Infinite Friends of the Universe. The National Gallery of Iceland. Cur: Arnbjörg María Danielsen

2023 The Girl from Ahlen – Part II. Kunstmuseum Ahlen. Ahlen.

2022 Object Species – Virtuality. KW Kunstwerke Berlin e.V. and The Living Art Museum Reykjavik. Part of KW Digital Platform series, curated by Nadim Samman. Reykjavik Art Festival.

2022 Egill Sæbjörnsson – Object Species: Sculptures. Kummelhomen together with Modern Museet, Vårberg Centrum, and Andys gallery, Stockholm. Cur: Torbjörn Johannson, Catrin Lundqvist, Maaike Gouwenberg and Andy Ludvigsson

2022 Object Species – Virtuality. Kunstwerke Berlin (KW) & The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik. Let’s get physical. Internet platform. Cur: Nadim Samman. Part of Reykjavik Art Festival

2021 Flower Vase IV. Die Raum. Berlin. Cur: Lotte Möller

2021 Gallery am Körnerpark Berlin. From Magma to Mankind. Cur: Maria & Natalia Petschatnikov

2019 The reading corner.  Commissioned by Friends with books – art book fair. Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart (Museum of Contemporary Art), Berlin. Cur:  Vanessa Adler & Savannah Gorton

2019 When the Trolls Came Rolling In. Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Dallas Art Fair. Organised by Soluna Festival and Brandon Kennedy. Dallas

2019 The Icelandic Arts Association. Reykjavik

2018 The Stairs. National Gallery of The Czech Republic. Cur: Adam Budak

2017 Ugh & Boogar – Jewelries. Gallery Anhava. Helsinki

2017 Ugh & Boogar – Jewelries. i8 Gallery, Reykjavik

2017 La Biennale de Venezia. 57th International Art Exhibition. Icelandic Pavilion

2016 The building as a being and the city as a stage. Hafnarborg. Hafnarfjordur, Iceland

2016 The Prince of Wales. Prince of Wales, Munich

2016 Samlung Dahlmann. Invited by Insitu. Time Bridge. Berlin

2015 The Egg or the Hen, Us or Them. Culturescapes Art Festival. Naturhistorisches Museum. Basel

2015 O lagarto. Oi Futuro Ipanema. Rio de Janeiro

2015 P.L.A.Y. with things. YoungGalleryProjects. Los Angeles

2014 Kunstmuseum Ahlen. Ahlen, Germany

2014 In Fantasy of Music. Hopstreet gallery. Brussels

2014 Balls. Gallery Anhava. Helsinki

2013 Hopstreet. Brussels

2012 i8 Gallery Reykjavik

2011 Double World – One World. Noga Gallery. Tel Aviv

2011 Stonegarden. Studio of Willem de Kooning Long Island NY. Invitation by Robert Wilson and Lisa de Kooning.

2011 The Egg or the Hen, Us or Them. Künstlerhaus Bremen

2011 Egill Sæbjörnsson. Hopstreet. Brussel

2011 Pyramidion. A joint show with Geirthrudur Hjörvar. Ingolstadt Kunstverein

2010 Gondolilies. Gallery Sassa Trülzsch. Berlin

2010 41st Basel Art Faire. Solo presentation with Ragnar Kjartansson. I8 Gallery. Basel.

2010 Animating Ideas. Kunstverein Göttingen. Göttingen

2010 Räumliche Echos. With Hrafnkell Sigurdsson. Cur: Walter Seidl. Steierischer Herbst. Austria

2009 The Spirit of a Place & Narration.  Reykjavik Art Museum. Reykjavik

2009 Miami Basel Art Faire. Positions solo presentation. With I8 gallery Reykjavik. Miami

2009 Preview Berlin. Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Gent

2009 Various Projections. Solo Project – Basel Art Faire. Grusenmeyer Art Gallery. Gent

2009 Grey Still Lifes. Brussel Art Faire. Gruesenmeyer Art Gallery. Gent

2008 Original Handbags. Projektraum 4. Mannheim

2008 Pleasure Stones. I8 Gallery. Berlin Art Faire. Berlin

2008 Kugeln. Olschewski & Behm. Frankfurt

2008 Wall to Wall. In collaboration with Karolin Tampere. HISK. Ghent

2008 Egill Sæbjörnsson. I8 gallery. Iceland

2008 Blowing in the Wind. Cueto Project, New York. Brussels Art Faire. Brussels

2007 UKS. Young Artist´s Association. Oslo

2007 Lada-project. Egill Sæbjörnsson. Berlin

2007 Garden Theater. Erste Haus am Platz. Torstrasse 111. Berlin

2007 Three Daily Exercises. Kölnischer Kunstverein. Cologne

2007 “egillegillegill”. Cueto Projects, 21st Street New York. Cur: Gyonata Bonvicini. New York

2007 5 Bottles. Falkecharlotte. Ellen deBruijn Project. Amsterdam

2006 Ping Pong Dance. SAFN. Museum for Contemporary Art. Reykjavik

2006 Songs For the Houses. Anna-Catharina Gebbers | Bibliothekswohnung, Berlin,

2006 Mori. Gallerie Loyal. Kassel

2006 Our Hands Are Like Leaves. Installation and performance. General Public. Berlin

2005 An Idear for Thwoo feet, 2 hands and 4 corners. Büro DC. Cologne

2005 Mr. Piano and Mrs. Pile. Gallery 101. Reykjavik

2004 Mr. Piano and Mrs. Pile. Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien. Berlin

2004 The Sofa. Reykjavik Art Museum. Reykjavik

2003 In the garden – Galleri Hlemmur – Reykjavik

2003 Hola Mora III. Slunkariki – Isafjordur

2003 You Take all My Time – Cooper Art Galleries, Dundee Contemporary Arts. Dundee

2002 The Happy Science – The bar at Dundee Contemporary Arts. Dundee

2002 Unnar & Egill Ny Verk – Kopavogur Art-museum. Iceland

2002 Unnar & Egill New Works. Westwerk. Hamburg

2002 Island Hoch Festival – Frisör BEIGE. Animation – Berlin

2000 Homebuddah – Galleri hlemmur, The wall. Reykjavik. Iceland

2000 New Works – Oneoone galleri. Reykjavik

2000 Egill Sæbjörnsson – DFKU. Odense. Denmark

1999 Catgarden  -Gallery Urban Issue. Berlin

1999 Gallerie Schallschutz. With Ingirafn Steinarsson & Maggi Logi. Hanover. Germany

1998 Dangerous Liaisons – Gallery Fish. With Hreinn Fridfinnsson. Reykjavik

1998 Gulp-song –  Gallery Gulp. Reykjavik

1998 Stone – Cafe Mokka. Reykjavik

1998 Clay-horses – Gallery 20 m. Reykjavik

1997 Black Thousand Kronur Bill – Gallery Geysir. Reykjavik

1996 Up & Down – Gallery Kælir. Reykjavik

1996 Burn Baby Burn – Gallery Gulp. Reykjavik text goes here

2023 Werkleitz Festival. Halle. Commissioned work for Mein Schatz (My Precious) in Mansfeld county.

2022 Intertwingled. The Role of the Rug in Arts, Crafts and Design. Galleria Nazionale di Roma. Cur: Martí Guixé & Inga Knölke

2022 Takeover. Martin Gropius Bau. Berlin Cur: Julia Moritz

2021 Acradacabra. Works from the collection. Reykjavik Art Museum. Iceland

2021 Festspiele. The Norwegian Art Centre. Harstad. Norway

2021 Play. Staatsgallerie Stuttgart. Cur: Laurie DeChiara

2021 Puls Island. Baerum Konsthall. Oslo.

2021 Faroe Islands. Video Exhibition. The Nordic House.

2021 Kjarval – endless return. Golden troll jewelries. Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik

2020 Art in General, NYC. Beyond the Nuclear Family. New York

2020 EMMA museum, The Museums collection show. Espoo. Finland

2019 Ars Fennica Prize. Nomination Show. Amos Rex Museum Helsinki

2019 Ars Fennica Prize. Nomination Show. Sven-Harry’s Museum, Stockholm

2019 Örebro Art Festival. Cur Jun-Hi Wennergren Nordling. Örebro, Sweden

2018 The Egg or the Hen, Us or Them, Prague

2018 Writing the Mountains. Biennale Gherdëina VI. Cur: Adam Budak

2018 Restless Matter. Cobra Museum. Amsterdam. Cur: Xander Karskens

2018 The Art of Simulation – Cur: Frank Motz. ACC Weimar

2018 This Rare Earth – Stories from Below. STUK. Belgium

2017  The Sun and the Rainfall. Galleria Zero. Milano

2017  Video Portraits. Total Museum of Contemporary Art. Seoul. Cur: Johann Nowak

2017  The Picture Draws Us. Kunstverein Muensterland. Cur: Jutta Meyer zu Riemsloh M.A.

2017 No Bleating. Art Exhibition in the sheep stable. Kleifar Blönduós

2017 Marshall House. Opening show of the Living Art Museum. Reykjavik

2016 On the Shoulders of Giants. Kunsthalle Mainz. Cur. Stefanie Böttcher

2016 Reykjavik Art Museum. Videoworks from the collection.

2016 Cycles Art Festival. Music on Music. With Áki Ásgeirsson and Magnús Jensson. Virtual Reality musical instrument, collaboration with Mundi and Ívar Emilsson. Gerðarsafn Iceland

2016 Vlieg & Kunstwerk. Concordia. Enschede

2015 Rocks, Stones and Dust. Cur: John Hampton. Justina M. Barnicke Gallery. Toronto

2015 Prototypes, Duplicates and Cast-offs. Assembly Line Projects. Chronus Art Center. M50, Shanghai

2015 homecomings: PROJECTIVE SPACE. Kurfürstenstrasse 13. Berlin

2015 One Hectare. Gleisdreick Park. Berlin

2015 Ystad Kunstmuseum. Sweden

2014 Artists Respond to Place. The Scandinavia House. New York

2014 Peninsula dotLand. A Space. Berlin

2014 Does Humor Belong to Art? Halle14. Leipzig. Cur: Frank Motz

2014 Artists Respond to Place. Katonah Museum of Art. New York

2014 Your Compound View. Selection from the collection 1970 – 2010. Reykjavik Art Museum

2014 Duck Soup. Gallery Nordenhake. Stockholm

2013 Nordic Outbreak. Danish Architecture Center.

2013 maneuvres. Voorkamer. Lier. Belgium

2013 Form Freiheit. Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwicshafen. Cur: Barbara Scheuermann

2013 8 Ways to overcome. Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade.

Cur: Stefanie Böttcher and Una Popovi

2013 Herberge Wüste Heimat. Herberge Grauer Hof. Acherleben. Cur: Peter Lang

2012 Imaginäre Reisen. Zeitgenössische Kunst Gans besonders für Kinder.

Cur: Laurie de Chiara & Rebecca Raue. Amerikahaus, Berlin

2012 Tadeusz Kantor Museum. Poland. Cur: Maaike Gouwenberg & Joanna Zielinska

2012 30 Künstler/30Räume. Albrecht Dürergesellschaft Nürnberger Kunstverein

2012 EMAF – European Media Art Festival. Osnabrück

2012 Biennale de Dakar – Dak’Art. Nordic Pavilion

2012 KAAP – Storm Foundation. Cur: Frank Koolen

2012 Exotic. Tallin Art Hall. Cur: Kirke Kangro

2012 Berlin Status. Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Cur: Christoph Tannert

2012 Gálgaklettur og órar sjónskynsins. Reykjavik Art Museum. Cur: Ólafur Gíslason

2011 Emerging. Gallery Anhava. Helsinki.

2011 Jahresgaben. Künstlerhaus Bremen

2011 Let the Rhythm Hit’Em. Kunstraum Kreuzberg. Cur: Mattthias Mayer

2011 Hommage a Can. ABTART Stuttgart and Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Cur: Christoph Tannert

2011 Birgir Andrésson and friends. Hafnarborg Art Museum. Reykjavik

2011 Carnegie Art Award. CIAC, Centre International d’Art Contemporain, Carros/Nice

2011 Stipendiaten des Berliner Senats. NGBK. Berlin

2010 Wintershow. I8 gallery. Reykjavik

2010 Fames/ Family Vaudeville. Darb 1718. Cur: Power Ekroth & Juan-Pedro Fabra Guemberena. Cairo

2010 Disasters of Peace. Iniators: Jana Müller / Alexej Meschtschanow. Umspannwerk Berlin-Tiergarten. Berlin

2010 FischGrätenMelkStand. Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin. Cur: John Bock

2010 Coup de Ville. Chambres des amis de 21. ciecle. Cur: Jan Hout and Stef van Bellingen. SintNiklaas. Belgium

2010 Cornered Rooms. Cur: Annabelle von Girsenwald. Waterside Projects London

2010 Projektion – Illusion. Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle. Freiburg

2010 Rites without myths. Cur: Ilari Valbonesi. Impronte Contemporary Art. Milano

2010 The First International Light Biennial. Ruhr Gebiet. Cur: Matthias Wegner. Germany

2010 Das Wesen im Ding. Cur: Holger Kuber Ventura. Frankfurter Kunstverein

2010 The Sophisticated Eye (Trompe l’oeil). Cur: Valeria Schulte Fischedick. Gallery Opdahl Berlin

2010 Face B. Cur: Daniela Franco. La Maison Rouge. Paris

2010 Radical Adults. Cur: Lotte Møller & Sebastiaan Schlicher. The Forgotten Bar. Berlin

2010 Gestures – Performance and Sound Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde

2010 Havarí. Icelandic Artists. Reykjavik

2010 Lightworks. Kunstverein Rosa Luxemburgplatz. Berlin

2010 Carnegie Art Award. National Gallery of Iceland. Reykjavik

2010 Carnegie Art Award. The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm

2010 Carnegie Art Award. Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo

2010 Carnegie Art Award. 798 Art Space, Beijing, China

2010 Carnegie Art Award. Royal College of Art, London

2010 Carnegie Art Award. Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki

2009 Carnegie Art Award. Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen

2009 Zeigen. An Audio Tour through Berlin by Karin Sander. Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin

2009 Jahresgaben 2009 – Kunstverein Arnsberg. Germany

2009 Lightworks. Kunstverein Rosa Luxemburgplatz. Berlin

2009 Scorpios Garten. Temporäre Kunsthalle. Berlin Cur: Kristine Roepsdorf

2009 Roubaix. OHNO productions & NEED company. France

2009 Le Sang de Poete. Bienale de Nantes. Hangar du FRAC NantesCur: Adam Budak and Laurence Gateau. Nantes

2009 Never Better Than Late  The Elizabeth Foundation Cur: Trong Nguyen. New York

2009 Instituto Divorcidado – Wir verbessern ihre arbeit. Gallery Sandra Bürgel. Berlin

2009 Down to Earth. Strombeek Culture Center. Cur: Luk Lambrecht. Brussels

2009 List&Ast&List. The Nordic House in Reykjavik. Organised by Poul R. Weile

2008 Kling & Bang. At Frieze Art Fair. With Ingo Frolich. London

2008 You gave me a mountain and I asked for the sky. Peter Lav gallery. Copenhagen

2008 Reykjavik Art Festival. Concert and collaboration with Percusemble Berlin. Reykjavik

2007 Berwick Film Festival. Scotland

2007 Erste Haus am Platz. Kling & Bang / Torstrasse 111. “Tim – Der Eimar”. In collaboration with Ingo Froelich. Berlin

2007 Contemporary Scandinavian Art. SMoCA, Scottsdale Museum For Contemporary Art. Arizona

2007 Gegen dem Strich. Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien. Berlin

2006 Paris Photo. Caroussel de Louvre. Paris

2006 The Endless Summer. Curated by Gyonata Bonvicini. West London Project Galeries. London

2006 Momentum 06 – The 4th Nordic Festival Of Contemporary Art. Moss. Norway

2006 Critics taste better. Korridor, Berlin

2006 The Peninsula. Singapore History Museum. Singapore

2006 Our House Is A House That Moves. Cur: Natasa Petresin. The Living Art Museum. Reykjavik

2006 Cold Climate. Cur: George Doneo & Peter Lamb. The Living Art Museum. Reykjavik

2006 Guds utvalda thjod. Kling & Bang. Reykjavik

2005 Situations. Museum of Modern Art. Sydney

2005 Beck´s Future Award. The soundtrack for “Close Up Gallery” by Daria Martin. ICA. London

2004 New Tendencies. The National Gallery of Iceland. Reykjavik

2004 Not in Heaven and Not on Earth. Museum of Modern Art. Skopje. Macedonia

2004 Our House is A House That Moves. Curated by Natasa Petresin. Scuc gallery. Ljubliana

2004 Sons and dottirs. TENT – Center for visual arts Rotterdam Witte de Withstraat. Rotterdam

2004 Cold Climate. Finnish, British and Icelandic artists. APT Gallery, 6 Creek Side, Deptford. London

2004 Frishespores und molekules. Sparwasser – Offensive for contemporary art and communication. Berlin

2004 Berlin-North, Contemporary Artists from the Nordic Countries in Berlin. Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für gegenwart. Berlin

2004 Instructions. Kunsthalle Wien. Austria

2003 Behind the eyes. Bergen Kunsthalle. Norway

2003 Hreinn Fridfinnsson – overview. Collaboration piece “Fish”. Safn-Museum for contemporary art. Reykjavik

2003 Rotko – St.Petersburg. Russia

2003 Electric Currents. Video art program. St-Petersburg. Russia

2003 DISSONANZE 2003, Roma, Italy

2003 Smekkleysa – BadTaste, the musiclabel. Municipal Art Museum of Reykjavik

2003 Multiplex. Language gallery. Dublin, Ireland

2003 Daria Martin – soloshow. Close-up Gallery’s film soundtrack. Gallery Analix Forever. Geneva. Switzerland

2003 ‘Inside Outliners’ – a probable anthology – Kunsthalle Lophem Belgium  (curator Roland Patteeuw)

2003 A – clip. A micro invention in cinema space. Berlin, London, Los Angeles

2003 Sex and politics. Videoprogram organised by Gallery G.U.N for Gallery F15. Oslo

2003 Southbound – Berlin based artists from the Nordic countries – in collaboration with Hamburger Bahnhof and Nifca, Berlin

2002 14 islenskir listamenn – Ljosarvirkjun. Iceland

2002 Here and now. Buro Friedrich. Berlin

2002 5 Kuenstler aus Skandinavien. Galerie Georg Nothelfer. Berlin

2002 My body is over the ocean. Alma Löv Art Museum. Sweden

2002 Right about now. Screening program in Beyond Paradise. Museum of Modern Art Stockholm.

2002 Art for Young Men. Helsinki City Art Museum. Helsinki

2001 Sound in Art. Gallery Priestor. Bratislava

2001 Blick, a travelling video program. National Gallery of Sweden and Nifca

2001 Ars01 – Kiasma – The National Gallery of Finland – Finland

2001 Polyphony – musicart festival – The Living Art museum in Reykjavik

2001 Pestcontrol –by Hartmut Andryczuk. Gaertnerei Kreuzberg. Berlin

2001 Call me Sarajevo. Videoexhibition. Sarajevo

2001 Fullveldi – young artists in Iceland. Kopavogur Art Museum. Iceland

2000 Shoppin & Fuckin. Groupwork of 7 Icelandic artists and the theatergroup Egg-leikhusid at The Living Art Museum. Reykjavik, Iceland

2000 Eine deutsche Einkaufspassage. Project by Hlynur Hallsson, Carsten Greife and Daniel Schurer. Kunstraum-Podbi Park-Lister. Hanover. Germany

2000 www.orb.is  Icelandic web art. The Icelandic Art Museum. Cur: Bragi Halldorsson. Reykjavik

2000 Nordic. Contemporary art from the Nordic countries. Kunsthalle Wien. Austria

2000 Der Hybride Garten. Cur: Hartmut Andryczuk.  Kreuzberg Gaertnerei. Berlin

2000 Flakk or that extraordinary sensation of being abroad even when at home. Part of European Cultural City 2000. The Nordic House. Reykjavik

2000 It could be obsession. Rotor – association for contemporary art, Graz  Austria

2000 Orgasm2000. The Art Museum of Akureyri. Iceland

1999 The Museum House Egilsstadir. Exhibition. 20 Icelandic artists. Iceland

1999 Trace: an environmental sound installation. The Banff Center for the Arts Media and Visual Arts. Alberta. Canada

1998 Cosmopolitan Bonsai 2. Gallery Hotel. Zurich. Switzerland

1998 Station to Station. Hungarian and Icelandic artists. The Living Art Museum. Cur: Halldor Bjorn Runolfsson and Barnabas Bensic. Reykjavik

1998 -30/60+. Icelandic artists younger than 30 and older than 60. The Municipal Art Museum of Reykjavik

1998 Nordic Poles. Lucky Thirteen project. Ms.Stubniz. Stockholm

1998 In the Flesh. Exhibition on the body. The Living Art Museum. Reykjavik

1998 The 20th Anniversary of the L.A.M. The Living Art Museum. Reykjavik

1997 Art ’97. Icelandic artists – saloon show. Hafnarhusid. Reykjavik

1997 Flax. Artists from the group Luckty Thirteen. Gallery Thomas Angell Trondheim

1997 Self-portraits of Icelandic Male Artists. Cafe Mokka. Reykjavik

1996  Final exhibition of Gallery Greip. Gallery Greip. Reykjavik

1996 Icelandic Cartoons. Together with Kristjan Oddur Sæbjörnsson. Gallery Greip. Reykjavik

1995  The department of mixed media ICAC. The Living Art Museum. Reykjavik

1993 The Independent Art Festival in Reykjavik. Laugavegur 22. Reykjavik

1992 Young Art Hitt Husid. Reykjavik

2017 – 2023 The Mother. A 15 meter tall and 15 meter wide dome with a swim/wade in entrance. Comissioner: Therme Art. Therme Bucharest extension

2021 1st Price in a competition for a cornerstone building for Urriðahollt in Garðabær municipality close to Reykjavik. Together with JÖRP architects, Tripoli architects, KRADS architects and Skjanni contractor company.

2021 Experimental House made of Icelandic local environmentally friendly materials. Commissioned by The University of Reykjavik, Iceland.

2020 Moonlove. LP.  The Vinyl Factoy. London

2020 Tonk of the lawn. Re-release on vinyl.

2017 Egill Sæbjörnsson featuring Ugh & Boogar.

2010 Egill S, Best of & Unreleased. Kunstverein Göttingen. Bernd Milla

2009 Egill S. Released by Borgin Records in Iceland

2007 Egill S. 5 songs. Limited edition of 50 cd´s

2007 Colette Nº8. Compilation of music by Collette. Paris

2006 The Ridel. Single in a limited edition

2006 La Chanson Longue. Limited edition

2005 Crazy Diamond. Containing the soundtrack for Daria Martin’s film “Closeup-Gallery”.

2002 Reproduced & Deper – Egill S – 50 numbered copies – Reykjavik

2002 Safndiskur fra Smekkleysu – BadTaste – Reykjavik

2001 You Are My Loving Insane – single from Tonk of the lawn – SomeBizarre – England

2001 Death Disco Club- compilation. Klaus Weber – Berlin

2001 I´d rather shout back at… compilation CD. SomeBizarre. London UK

2001 Tonk of the lawn. UK and USA release. SomeBizarre records

2000 Tonk of the lawn. Released on Bad Taste Records in Iceland

2000 Rolling Snowball. From the exhibition Orgasm 2000 at The Art museum of Akureyri. Iceland

2000 The International Rock n’roll Summer of Egill Sæbjörnsson. Kunsthalle Wien Version.

1999 The International Rock n’roll Summer of Egill Sæbjörnsson

1997 DJ Egill. Collection of re-mixes from 1986 – 1988.

2021 1st Prize. Competition for a building for Urriðahollt in Garðabær municipality close to Reykjavik. Together with Tripoli architects, KRADS architects and Skjanni contractor company.

2019 Nomination for Ars Fennica

2018 Nomination for the Icelandic Art Prize

2016 Competition for a new building for The Icelandic Parliament in Reykjavik. Collaboration with PKdM architects. 3rd Prize

2013 Public artwork with light for Kunstmuseum Ahlen. 1st Prize

2012 Closed competition for a Light art work for Robert Koch Institute Berlin. 1st Prize

2010 Carnegie Art Award. Nomination

2004 Penninn award. 2nd place.

2024 Egill Sæbjörnsson & Infinite Friends of the Universe.

Publishers: National Gallery of Iceland & Argobooks Berlin

2019 When The Trolls Went To Hellsinki. Ars Fennica Prize. Amos Rex Museum Helsinki.

Publisher: Argobooks Berlin

2017 How Egill Met the Trolls and Took Them to Venice. La Biennale Arte. Venice Biennale 2017. Publisher: Argobooks Berlin

2012 Stones according to Egill Sæbjörnsson. Text by various authors. Based on the exhibition The Egg and the Hen, Us or Them, Künstlerhaus Bremen, 2011

Publisher: Künstlerhaus Bremen and Revolver Verlag, Germany

2009 The Book.. Various authors. Semi monographic with special chapters on various themes in the works of Egill Sæbjörnsson

2024 Egill Sæbjörnsson & Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir – Artist Talk. The National Gallery of Iceland

2022 Object species – Lecture Performance. Moderna Museet Film Club. Cur: Catrin Lundqvist. Stockholm

2021 Object species – Lecture Performance. Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart (Museum of Contemporary Art), Berlin. Part of the open call “Take the Space” within the program of “Institutions Extended” (2019-2022) created and executed by artist Marina Naprushkina.

2021 Flying Waters – Narracje Festival Gdansk. Cur: Karina Kottova & Piotr Sikora.

2021 Living Musicvideo. Winter Festival. Reykjavik. 12 Tonar.

2020 From Magma to Mankind. Lecture Performance about the origin of humans. Cur: Julia Katharina Thiemann. DasHaus. Ludwigshafen

2020 Gaia talk – A symposium.  Egill Sæbjörnsson together with Therme Art’s CEO and curator Mikolaj Sekutowicz and the artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, the cultural and literary scholar Salome Rodeck, Danish artist Tue Greenfort, Mayan shaman Abuelo Antonio Oxté and curator of General Ecology at the Serpentine Galleries Lucia Pietroiusti.Therme Art. Held at König gallery, Berlin.

2019 When the Trolls Come Rolling In. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Greater Dallas Youth Symphony Orchestra. The Dallas Art Fair. Organised by Brandon Kennedy and Soluna Art Fair

2019 Therme Art Program. Podium at Cafe Bravo KW Berlin. Together with Simon di Pury and Mikolaj Sekutewich on the occasion of signing the commission of the art work The Mother

2019 Moonlove. Preview Concert for the Album of same name released at The Vinyl Factory. HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Theatre in Berlin. 20 Years of AmStart. Organised by Ran Huber

2019 School of Visual Arts Mastersprogram Lecture Series. Together with Katrín Inga Jónsdóttir Hjördísardóttir. School of Visual Arts. New York

2016 The Bakery VI. The Fantasy. Bookrelease by the Icelandic Center for Arts. Studio Egill Sæbjörnsson, Kinzigstrasse 18, 10247 Berlin

2016 The Bakery V. Architectural elements. The Building as a being and the city as a stage. Hafnarborg art museum. Cur: Annabelle von Grisewald. Iceland

2015 The Bakery IV. Everything Under the Sun. Aurora. Berlin

2015 Stones as Species: Bonnie Devine + Egill Sæbjörnsson (a guest of the Goethe-Institut). South Sitting Room, Hart House. Toronto

2015 Searching for the beast within the arts. Cronus Art Center. M50. Shanghai

2015 Artist talk. Friday series. Edinburg University of the arts (CHECK THE CORRECT NAME)

2015 Copenhagen Trilogy. Chart art fair, with i8 gallery. Copenhagen

2012 The Watermill. Artist in residency. Long Island. New York

2015 The Bakery IV. Everything Under the Sun. Aurora. Berlin

2015 The Bakery III. homecomings. PROJECTIVESPACE. Kurfürstenstrasse 3. Berlin

2014 The Bakery II. A baking event with Freitagsküche Frankfurt and Zeit für Brot. Cur: Annabelle von Girsenwald. Frankfurt

2014 The flying pancake. Cur: Annabelle von Girsenwald. Nordic Embassies. Berlin

2013 The Bakery. A one day event at Torstrasse 111, Berlin. Guests invited to make bread out of clay. Cur: Annabelle von Girsenwald

2013 Egill Sæbjörnsson & The Woomp Doomp Duo. Playing on the opening of Berlin Art Week.

2013 Projection onto the building of Danish Architecture Center, Copenhagen. Part of the exhibition Nordic Outbreak and Copenhagen Culture night 2013

2013 Manifesto. Performance with “Megaphone” an installation by Thomas Kilppert. Rosa Luxemburg Platz. Berlin

2012 On the Beach. A special version of “Einstein on the Beach” by Robert Wilson and Philipp Glass. Collaboration with Marcia Moraes and Robert Wilson.

2012 Recreating the world at the speechdesk III. Part of the exhibition “30 Räume / 30 Künstler”. Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft Nürnberger Kunstverein.

2011 Performance “Talk with a Stone”. Part of “Museum Night bamberg”. Naturkundemuseum Bamberg. Org: Matthias Mäuser

2011 Performance “Talk with a Stone” and an artist talk with Stefanie Böttcher, director of Künstlerhaus Bremen and Holger Kube Ventura, director of Frankfurter Kunstverein. Künstlerhaus Bremen

2011 Recreating the world at the speech desk II. Performed at the occation of 10 years aniversary of I love you work with Karolin Tampere. Landmark, Kunsthalle Bergen

2011 The Passion According to G.H. Sound and videowork. Teatro de Moura as part of the theaterfestival Escritas de Paysagem Evora. Dir: Marcia Moraes

2011 She Was a Fighter. Performance Clocktower Galleries New York

2011 She Was a Fighter. Presentation of a Musical project at The Watermill Center New York. New York

2011 Recreating the world at the speech desk. #4 Lecture Performance series at Johann König gallery Berlin

2011 Singing Performance. Drei Schwestern Bethanien. Berlin

2011 The Mind IV. With Marcia Moraes. Swiss Institute Rome

2011 What Got You Here Wont Get You There. Performance in collaboration with Marcia Moraes. Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart Berlin. Commissioned by Freunde Guter Musik for the series Music Works by Visual Artists. Maerz Musik 2011 & Berliner Festspiele

2010 The Crying Ladies. In collaboration with Marcia Moraes. Sassa Trülzsch

2010 The Mind – episode IV. Collaboration with Marcia Moraes. Performance at Pavel Haus, Austria. Steierischer Herbst

2010 The Mind – episode IV. Collaboration with Marcia Moraes. Performance at Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde

2010 The Mind – episode IV. Collaboration with Marcia Moraes. Performance at Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt.

2009 The Mind – episode III. Collaboration with Marcia Moraes. Performance and installation in the exhibition “The Tragedy of the applause”, organized by OHNO corporation at Condition Publique, Roubaix

2009 The Mind – episode II. Collaboration with Marcia Moraes. Sequences – festival, Reykjavik. Reykjavik Art Museum

2009 The Mind – episode II. Collaboration with Marcia Moraes. Scorpio’s Garten. Temporaere Kunsthalle Berlin

2009 Icelandic Airwaves Music festival. Concert with band. Idno. Reykjavik

2009 The Mind – episode I. Collaboration with Marcia Moraes. Commissioned performance by Neuer Berliner Kunstverein at it’s 40th birthday. Berlin

2009 Summerconcert. Fete de al Musique. Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin

2009 Video screening and book release of “Northwave. Overview of Nordic Video Art”

Cur: Dr Lorella Scacco. Scuola dei Calegheri.. Venice 53rd Bienal. Venice

2009 Time Table. Final introduction with Magnús Jensson. List&Ást&List. The Nordic House. Reykjavik

2009 Time Table. Primary introdcution with Magnús Jensson. List&Ást&List. The Nordic House. Reykjavik

2009 The Mind. A performance in collaboration with Marcia Moraes. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein – 40th anniversary. Berlin

2009 Concert at The Montagsbar. Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin.

2009 Singing. Bojan Sarcevic’s afterparty. Kleiner Krug. Mauerpark. Berlin

2008 Warm up Festival. P.S.1 MoMA. New York

2008 Concert at the opening party of Ernersto Neto at Gallery I8 during the Reykjavik Art Festival

2008 She Was a Fighter. Concert and bookrelease at Admiralspalast. Kuenstlerhauser Worspwede and Argobooks

2007 Three Daily Exercises. Commissioned by Kölnischer Kunstverein. Cologne

2007 In the bag. Performance. Gallery Ellen de Bruijn. Amsterdam

2007 Three daily Exercises. Performance commissioned by Kölnischer Kunstverein. Köln

2007 Concert with Sam Amidon. The Bowery Poetry Club. New York

2006 Warming up for Mocky. Knaack club. Berlin

2006 Airwaves. Bedroom Community. Concert at Idno. Reykjavik

2006 Loge, Berlin. Performance. Berlin

2006 Idear four thwoo feet & two hands & 4 corners. Momentum 4th Nordic Festival for Contemporary Art. Moss

2006 Idear four thwoo feet & two hands & 4 corners. DeApple. Amsterdam

2006 Idear four thwoo feet & two hands & 4 corners. Safn – Museum for Contemporary Art. Reykjavik

2006 Idear four thwoo feet & two hands & 4 corners. Bergen Kunsthall. Bergen

2005 Eine Band Aufgelöst. Rirkrit Tiranavije “Magazine Station Nr. IV”. Gallery Neugerriemschneider. Berlin

2005 Idear four thwoo feet & two hands & 4 corners. Performance. Gallery Isabella Bortolozzi. Berlin

2005 Skinn & Lak performance. Collaboration with Rooseum and Critical studies department. Malmo

2005 Listening Out. Conference on klangkunst. Transmediale 2005. Haus der Kulturen der welt. Berlin

2004 Acting and singing for “A Triumph of a Heart” music video by Björk. Made by Spike Jonze

2004 Peaches – warming up act at Klink & Bank, Reykjavik

2004 Fuck you Mitte. Berlin based singer/songwriters. King Kong club. AmStart. Berlin

2004 Pianoperformance at the opening of Not in Heaven and Not on Earth. Museum of Modern Art. Skopje

2004 Concert on the opening of Our House Is a House That Moves in Gallery Skuc, Ljubliana. Slovenia

2004 Musicperformance – Maertz music festival. Hamburger Bahnhof. Berlin

2003 Four Variations of Sorrow. Performance with Ragnar Kjartansson. Municipal Art Museum of Reykjavik

2003 Four Variations of Sorrow. Performance with Ragnar Kjartansson. Gallery Kling & Bang. Reykjavik

2003 Egill S – concert. Innipukinn – musicfestival. Reykjavik

2003 Egill S – concert. Municipal Art Museum of Reykjavik

2003 Egill S & The Mammoths. Radioshow at Raum3. Berlin

2003 Egill S – concert. Goldmund – club. Berlin

2003 Rotterdam VHS-festival, Het Wilde Weten. Rotterdam. Holland

2003 Egill S & The Mammoths. Concert at Signal gallery. Malmo, Sweden

2003 Egill S & The Mammoths. Concert at the Golden Gate club, Berlin

2003 Egill S & The Mammoths. Music performance at Buro Friedrich, Berlin

2003 Egill S – Concert at Kunst und Technic. Berlin

2003 Two warm up concerts for the Danish band Sort Sol in Vega in Kopenhagen, Denmark

2003 You Take all My Time – performance in The Cooper Galleries at The Art college of Duncan og Jordanstone, Dundee, Scotland

2003 Artist’s talk at the Art college of Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee

2003 You Are My Loving Insane – VHS-Festival. Off-Corso. Rotterdam Film Festival

2003 You Are My Loving Insane – VHS-Festival. CBK Rotterdam (Art Centre Rotterdam)

2002 Austurbaer – concert with SKE- Reykjavik

2002 Skinn og lak – performance at the opening of the Nordic Film Festival, Dundee Contemporary

Arts – Dundee – UK

2002 You Take all My Time, performance at the opening of Unnar & Egill – Ny verk, Kopavogur Art

Museum, Iceland

2002 You Take all My Time, performance in Lisa Lounge on the Stardust deluxe evening with artists

working in sound and music. Berlin

2002 Musicperformance in Westwerk in connection with Unnar & Egill – Ny verk – Hamburg

2002 Musicperformance in NBI – Neue Berliner Initiatif – Berlin

2002 Musicperformance at Converter 2 – Music and art-festival –  In collaboration with Franz Graf and Stromstrasse music label. The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik

2002 Musicperformance in Café Burger – Berlin

2002 Musicperformance in Knaack club – with MUM – Berlin

2002 Musicperformance at BuroFriedrich opening of Here and Now – Berlin

2002 Arcipelago Film Festival. You Are My Loving Insane. Rome – Italy

2002 Lisa Lounge – concert with Popchor Berlin – Berlin

2002 Musicperformance Berliner Festspiele. Grose Stimmgabe – part of “Island Hoch Festival” in Berlin

2002 Roter Salon – concert with Popchor Berlin – Berlin

2001 Musicperformance in Buryzone, Bratislava

2001 Musicperformance in Armani Studio. Vienna

2001 Musicperformance Converter 1 –  music and art festival – in collaboration with Franz Graf and Stromstrasse music label. Art academy in Vienna

2001 Musicperformance in Dirk Bell club – Berlin

2001 Musicperformance in Ljubliana K4 club

2001 Musicperformance at Nifcastudios Suomenlinna

2001 Concert in NBI club Berlin

2001 Video for The Cultural night in Reykjavik.

2001 Skinn og lak. Polyphony festival ar The Lving Artmuseum in Reykjavik

2001 Eaglebeagle – concert at The Living Art museum Reykjavik

2001 Tonk – paperconcert – With Sigurdur Gudjonsson, Asdis Sif Gunnarsdottir and Bjarni Grimsson

2000 Batofar. Artists from Nordic countires. Paris. France

2000 Les boreals de Normandie. Dans I, II, III & IV. Installation and performance. France

2000 The Ghosthouse. Group-performances at the Yellow House. Reykjavik

2000 Broken music-performance. 50th anniversary of Halldor Bjorn Runolfsson, art critic and historian.

2000 Video-festival. Copenhagen. Denmark

2000 Tricktisch 7. Café R.Z. Videonight. Berlin

2000 Death Disco Club. Radiosendung am park. Live radio performance from a car. Org. by Klaus Weber. Berlin, Germany

2000 Öffene atelier. Barkenhoff, Worpswede. Germany

2000 Dans III. Festival for film. Liepaja. Kristine Briede. Lettland

2000 Death on two legs. The Nordic House. Reykjavik

2000 Dans III. Kunsthalle Wien. Autria

2000 Dans III. Rotor. Graz. Austria

1999 Rolling Snowball. Concert in Maria am Ostbahnhof with Andreas Berthling. Berlin

1999  Dans III. Performance. Goethe Institute Reykjavik Prasentiert Islandische Kultur in Berlin. Org. by Wolfgang Mueller. Podevil. Berlin

1999 The International Rock and Roll Summer of Egill Sæbjörnsson. Video/Performance. Jazz-bar-Dinstagsbar. Berlin

1999 The International Rock and Roll Summer of Egill Sæbjörnsson. CD release-party . Café Thomsen. Reykjavik

1999 Dans III.  Performance. FlitjenBar. Maria am Ostbahnhof. Berlin

1999 Dans III.  Performance. Kunstverein Hanover. Hanover

1999 Dans III.  Performance. Soirée Revue NeufNeuf. Le Frigo. Paris

1998 Dans III. In the Flesh.  Performance. The Reykjavik Art Festival. The Living Art Museum. Reykjavik

1997 Dance I.  Performance/slides-show. Evening against drugs. The National Theater Cellar. Reykjavik

1997 Card-trick. CU-SeeMe performance via Internet. Connection between the show of Tar-get in The Living Art Museum and Screens in Trondheim. Norway

1997 Fire/Desire. Performance at Café Solon Islandus. Reykjavik

1997 Princess Blut. Performance. / Dance I Performance. / Video: In a Windowsill. Four days festival. Gallery Undir Pari. Reykjavik

1996 Burning down the gallery” Performance. Gallery Gulp. Hveragerdi. Iceland

1996 Singing from my diary. Performance. Candid Art Gallery. London

1995 Confrontations. Performance. The Nordic House. Reykjavik

1995 Ob-la-di, ob-la-da. Performance – singing the Beatle’s song. The Living Art Museum. Reykjavik

2017 The Espressobar. Together with Ívar Glói Gunnarsson. Reykjavik

2017 – 2019 Kärahär. An extensive project with immigrants, unemployed persons and pensionists in Kristinehamn. Collaboration with Kvinnor tilsammans, IOGT, Värmalnds Rijkstheatern, Konsthall Kristinehamn and Andreas Brändström. The project was part of Creative Places by the Swedish Art Association and the Swedish Ministry of Culture.

2015 O lagarto. Collaboration with Marcia Moraes. A gigantic Pop-up Book project. Shown at Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro

2011 On the Beach. A special version of Einstein on the Beach by Robert Wilson and Philipp Glass. Together with Marcia Moraes, Robert Wilson, Philipp Glass, Hrafnhildur Árnadóttir aka Shoplifter, Gabriela Geluda and Jon Morris

2011 Borgríki. Use of the song “I Love You So” for the movie written and directed by Olaf le Fleur, Reykjavik

2011 The Passion According to G.H. Together with Marcia Moraes and Ingibjörg Magnadóttir. Teatro de Moura as part of the theaterfestival Escritas de Paysagem Evora. Dir: Marcia Moraes

2011 The World is Bigger Than You Think. Together with Marcia Moraes, Lisa Lie and Jeremy Woodruff. Theater Workshop at The Watermill Center, Long Island, New York

2011 What Got You Here Won’t Get You There. With Marcia Moraes, Adapter Ensemble and Áki Ásgeirsson. Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart Berlin. Commissioned by Freunde Guter Musik for the series Music Works by Visual Artists. Maerz Musik 2011 & Berliner Festspiele

2009 Time Table. Art project in collaboration with Magnús Jensson for “Ást&List&Ást” at The Nordic House Reykjavik. Part of Reykjavik Art Festival. Cur: Poul R. Weile

2009 The Mind. A performance made in collaboration with Marcia Moraes. Shown simultaneously in Rio de Janeiro and NBK in Berlin, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Reykjavik Art Museum and at La Condition Publique in Roubaix

2008 Wall to Wall. Collaboration with curator and artist Karolin Tampere

2004 Acting and singing with Björk Gudmundsdottir in “A Triumph of a Heart” music video by Björk. Directed by Spike Jonze

2003 Brjalrl. Collaboration with Asdis Sif Gunnarsdottir, Sigurdur Gudjonsson, Elin Hansdottir and Sara Riel, for the exhibition Berlin North at Hamburger Bahnhof, National Galleries. Berlin

2003 Four Variations of Sorrow. Performance with Ragnar Kjartansson

2003 Sountrack for the film “Close-up Gallery” by artist Daria Martin (London)

2003 Ping Pong D’Amour. Music for the Artist’s made TV series. Together with Klaus Weber

2000 Translation and making of music for the project Collaboration by David TV, Paris France

2000 Music shop. Project by Alexander Rishaug. Trondheim Art Museum. Norway

1999 Poster for the Hall of Fame at Dinstagsbar, Schroederstrasse. Org: Klaus Weber. Mitte Berlin

1998 Eaglethorp meets… . Internet-project. Point Project. Trondheim. Norway

1997 Lucky Thirteen. Collaboration of 12 Nordic art-students who made a travelling art-academy. Two months travel to 12 cities in Scandinavia and Iceland.

1997 AE. The Private Art-academy. Teachers: Halldór Björn Runólfsson, Art-historian and criticer. OliverKochta, artist from Hamburg. Serge Comte, artist from France. Douglas Davis, artist from New York. Baldur Helgason, artist from ReykjavikSpela. Electro-music duo with Isak Eldh from Sweden

2022 The Visual Arts Stipend Fond. Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. Iceland

2017 The Visual Arts Stipend Fond. Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. Iceland

2016 Project Grant from the Icelandic State

2011 The Willem deKooning recidency. Nominated by Robert Wilson for Liza deKooning. Long Island

2011 Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia, Bamberg

2011 Watermill Center and New York Theater Workshop

2011 Project grant from the Icelandic Art Center

2011 Artist’s grant of the Icelandic State

2010 Kunstlerstipendium des Berliner Senats

2010 Project grant from the Icelandic Art Center

2009 Artist´s grant of the Icelandic State

2008 Kunstlerbund Bonn. For a book project with Argobooks Berlin

2007 Artist´s grant of the Icelandic State. Half a year

2006 Artist´s grant of the Icelandic State. One year

2004 International artist studio programme at Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien. Berlin

2004 Artist´s grant of the Icelandic State. One year.

2003 Artist’s working stipendium of Reykjavik’s City Counsil

2003 Myndstef. Artist’s grant

2003 The Visual Arts Stipend Fond. Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. Iceland

2003 Sleipnir

2002 Sleipnir

2002 Nordic Residencies Program. Dundee Contemporary Arts. Nifca

2000 The Visual Arts Stipend Fond. Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. Iceland

2000 Sleipnir.  Travel-grant

2000  Barkenhoff stiftung. Kunstlerhauser Worpswede. Germany

2000 Nifca Residencies 2000. Vilnius. Lithuania

1997 NKKK. Travel grant for the project “Lucky Thirteen”.

1995 Erasmus – exchange program

2014 Steinkugel. Robert Koch-Institut. Seestrasse 10, 13353 Berlin

2014 Kaskade. Kunstmuseum Ahlen. Ahlen

Art Counselling Board of  Therme Art since 2017

Member of the Sculptor’s Association in Reykjavik MÍR since 2018

Member of BBK – Berufsband Bildender Künstler Berlin, since 2005