Born 1943, Baer Dölum, Iceland
Lives and works in Amsterdam
Selection solo exhibitions
1971 Galerie 845, Amsterdam
1974 Galleri Sum, Reykjavik, Iceland
1976 Galerie Gaëtan, Geneva, Switzerland
1977 Seriaal, Amsterdam
1979 Galerie Helen van der Meij, Amsterdam
1979 Galerie Bama, Paris, France
1984 Galerie Bama, Paris, France
1986 Galerie Bama, Paris, France
1987 Le Magasin/Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France, cat.
1988 Nordic Art Centre, Helsinki, Finland
1988 Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
1989 Galleri Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
1990 Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris, France
1991 Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
1992 Galleri Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
1992 Rhythms in space, ICA, Amsterdam, cat.
1993 Listasafn Islands National Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland, cat.
1993 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, cat.
1994 Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris, France
1994 Galerie Camille von Scholz, Brussels, Belgium
1994 Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland
1994 Ultima Thule, Amsterdam
1995 Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway
1995 Galerie Ingólfsstreaeti 8, Reykjavik, Iceland
1996 Galerie A. von Scholz, Berlin, Germany
1996 Galeri Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
1997 Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris, France
1997 Galerie Corridor, Reykjavik, Iceland
1998 Collection, Another Place, Amsterdam
1999 Recent works by Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Galleri Anhava, Helsinki, Finland
1999 Galerie I 8, Reykjavik, Iceland
1999 Touches and Catches, Galerie A.von Scholz, Berlin, Germany
2000 Carnegie Art Award 2000, Helsinki, Oslo, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Reykjavik, cat.
2000 Galerie Papillon-Fiat, Paris, France
2002 Domaine de Kerguéhennec, France, cat.
2003 Safn Collection, Reykjavik, Iceland
2003 Galleri i8, Reykjavik, Iceland
2006 Galerie Papillon, Paris, France
2007 Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom, cat. **** Hreinn Fridfinnsson in Serpentine Gallery
2007 Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
Selection group exhibitions
1965 SUM 1, Asmundarsalur, Reykjavik
1973 Biënnale de Paris, Paris
1975 Kunstmuseum, Luzern
1977 Ça va?, Ça va?, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, cat.
1978 Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
1978 Personal Worlds, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, cat.
1982 Sleeping Beauty-Art Now, Scandinavia Today, Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Port of History Museum, Philadelphia, cat.*
1983 Sleeping Beauty-Art Now, Scandinavia Today, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, cat.*
1983 Ars '83, Athenaeum Taidemuseo, Helsinki, cat.
1986 Nordanad, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, cat.
1988 Listasafan Islands, Reykjavik
1989 Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik
1989 Borealis 4, Nordisk Kunstcentrum, Sveaborg, Helsinki; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, cat.
1989 Utopies 89 - l'Europe des Créateurs, Grand Palais, Paris, cat.
1989 Vele parels voor een lijn, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
1989 Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris
1990 Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, cat.
1990 New Nordic Art, The Central House of Artists, Moscow, cat.
1991 Six logos around a carpet, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
1991 Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris
1991 Europäische Werkstatt Ruhrgebiet '91, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, cat.
1991 Kunst, Europa 1991, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, cat.
1992 Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
1992 Artscape Nordland, Arctic Circle, cat.
1993 Edities & unica, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
1994 Wanäs, Sweden
1995 Tekeningen & tekeningen, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
1995 Pas pour la galerie, Galerie Camille von Scholz, Brussels
1995 Maisons-Cerveaux, FRAC, Reims, cat.*
1996 Maisons Cerveaux, Noisel, cat.*
1996 Sirva, Musée de la Charité, Marseille
1999 Natures Mortes, Galerie Papillon Fiat, Paris
1999 Museum of Foreign Art, Riga
1999 Ásmundarsalur, Reykjavík
2000 Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
2000 64°N. - 20°V, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
2000 Árátta, Listasafn Kópavogs, Reykjavík, Iceland, cat.
2000 Norden, Kunsthalle, Wien, cat.
2000 Amateur. variable research initiative 1900 - 2000, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, cat.
2000 In the mirror of time and space, Ásmundur Salur I., Reykjavik
2000 Interplay, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
2001 Biënnale Leuven; De Keeshond hapt, Leuven, België
2001 Mélanges, Kerguéhennec, France
2001 Götenborgs internationella konstbiennal; Erfarenhet Upplösning, Göteborg, cat.
2002 Somewhere over the rainbow, FRAC Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lčs-Rouen, France
Selected bibliography
1978 Personal Worlds, Amsterdam
1982 Sleeping Beauty - Art Now, Scandinavia Today, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1986 Iceland, Adelstein Ingólfsson, Northern Poles, Blřndal
1986 Nordanad, 15 Samtida, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
1987 Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble
1988 Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Nordiskt Konstcentrum, Helsinki
1988 Nylisasafnid 10 are, Listasafn Islands og Nylisasafnid, Reykjavik
1988 Aldarspegill, Islenskmyndlist i eigu safnsins 1900-1987, Listafan Islands, Reykjavik
1989 Borealis 4, Nordisk Kunstcentrum, Sveaborg, Helsinki; Louisiana Mus. of Modern Art, Humlebaek
1989 SÚM 1965-1972, Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik
1990 The Nordic '60´s, Nordiskt Konstmuseum, Helsinki
1991 Europäische Werkstatt Ruhrgebiet '91, Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen
1993 Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Listafasn Íslands, Reykjavík
1995 Maisons-Cerveaux, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims; La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel
2000 Amateur/Eldsjäl, Göteborgs Kontmuseum, Göteborg
2000 Árátta, Listasafn Kópavogs, Reykjavík
2001 Erfarenhet Upplösning, Göteborgs internationella konstbiennal, Göteborg
2002 Hrein Fridfinnsson, Domaine de Kerguéhennec
Selected articles
1984 Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Gaëlle Dupont-Viau, Art Press, no. 81, May
1988 Laufey Helgadottir in Conversation with Hreinn Fridfinnsson in Amsterdam, Laufey Helgadottir, Siksi, no. 2
1989 Sacred and enchanted places, Gertrud Sandquist, in cat. Borealis 4/Installations
in space, Nordiskt Konstcentrum, Sveaborg, Helsinki; Louisiana Mus. of Modern Art, Humlebaek
1990 L'essence des choses, Maiden Bouissed, Beaux-Arts, no. 80, June
1991 Hreinn Fridfinnsson. Galerie Claudine Papillon, Miriam Rosen, Artforum International, February, no. 5
1991 Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Hervé Legros, Art Press, no.154, January
1991 Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Miriam Rosen, Art Forum International, no. 6, volume 29, Febr.
1991 Kunst Island 1991, Sabine Moll, in Kunst, Europa, Island, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
1992 Oeroude aardse band met het melancholieke landschap van IJsland, W. Ellenbroek, De Volkskrant, December 1
1993 Rhythms in Space, Laufey Helgadóttir, Siksi, the Nordic Art Review, no. 1
1993 Siksi, the Nordic Art Review, no. 3
2000 Amateur. variable research initiative 1900 - 2000, Exhibition newsletter # 2, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg
**** click here: Hreinn Fridfinnsson in Arts Guardian U.K.
2007
Interviews
1987 Interview between Jean-Hubert Martin and Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Jean-Hubert
Martin, in cat. Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble
1988 ...Still thinking in Icelandic, Carolus Enckell, interview, Taide, no. 5, voume 28
* = exhibition on tour
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