Kristján Gudmundsson

Kristján Gudmundsson was born in 1941 on Snæfellsnes Peninsula. He lives and works in Reykjavik.

Solo exhibitions (selected)
2020 Mostly Drawings, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, IS
2016 Olympic Drawings, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, FI
2015 Rappaz Museum, Basel, CH
2015 i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, IS
2015 Marc Straus, New York, US
2014 Tourist Poems & Olympic Drawings, Gallery Gamma, Reykjavík, IS
2014 Exhibition Seconds, Skúrinn, Reykjavik, IS
2014 Faster and Slower and Cause and Consequence (including works by Donald Judd), Safn, Berlin, DE
2013 Dessins & Dessins Olympiques, Galerie Martine Thibault de la Châtre, Paris, FR
2011 i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, IS
2011 Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, NL
2010 Paintings in Grey and White Frames, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, FI
2010 Paintings and Drawings, Galleri Riis, Oslo, NO
2010 Galleri Andersson Sandström, Umeå, SE
2010 Paintings in Grey and White, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California, US
2010 Kristján Gudmundsson, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, US
2009 National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík, IS
2007 Drawings I-XV & Other Works, Safn, Reykjavik, IS
2007 Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, FI
2006 Blue Transmission, Galleri Riis, Oslo, NO
2005 New Works, Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umeå, SE
2004 Architecture, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, IS
2004 New Works, Listasafn Árnesinga, Hveragerdi, IS
2004 Drawings, Sleeper Gallery, Edinburgh, SC
2003 Slunkaríki, Ísafjördur, IS
2003 AP Galerie, Amsterdam, NL
2003 Kompan, Akureyri, IS
2002 Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, DE
2002 Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
2001 Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik Art Museum - Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik, IS
2000 Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, FI
1999 i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, IS
1999 Galleri Riis, Oslo, NO
1999 Slunkaríki, Isafjördur, IS
1998 Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, FI
1997 i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, IS
1997 Galleri Gulp, Reykjavík, IS
1996 Galleri Saevar Karl, Reykjavík, IS
1996 Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umeå, SE
1996 Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, FI
1996 Galleri Hulda Ágústdóttir, Reykjavík, IS
1995 Slunkaríki, Ísafjördur, IS
1994 Galleri F 15, Moss, NO
1994 Retrospective, Rooseum, Malmö, SE
1994 Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft & Institut für Moderne Kunst, Nürnberg, DE
1994 Sjö teikningar cid fundna syningarska, Gallerí Sævar Karl, Reykjavík, IS
1993 Galleri Riis, Oslo, NO
1993 Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam, NL
1993 Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, DE
1993 Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, DE
1993 Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, NL
1992 Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, FI
1992 Galerie Miller-Nordenhake, Cologne, DE
1992 Galleri II, Reykjavík, IS
1992 Galleri Gangur, Reykjavík, IS
1991 Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt am Main, DE
1991 Slunkaríki, Isafjördur, IS
1991 Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, SE
1991 Galerie Dörrie-Priess, Hamburg, DE
1991 Gallerí Krókur, Reykjavík, IS
1989 Teikningar/drawings 1972-88, Reykjavik Art Museum - Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavík, IS
1989 Galleri Riis, Oslo, NO
1989 Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, NL
1988 Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, SE
1987 Slunkaríki, Ísafjördur, IS
1987 Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, NL
1987 Drawings and Sculpture, Ásmundarsalur, Reykjavík, IS
1987 Kristján Guðmundsson/Andrea Tippel, Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam, NL
1986 Galerie "A", Amsterdam, NL
1986 Between Poetry and Measurement, American Scandinavian Foundation, New York, US
1986 Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, NL
1985 Gallery Gudmundur Árnason, Reykjavík, IS
1983 ASÍ Art Museum, Reykjavík, IS
1982 The Red House, Akureyri, IS
1981 Safnahúsid, Húsavík, IS
1981 Rádhúsid, Dalvik, IS
1978 Gallery SÚM, Reykjavík, IS
1978 Library of Ísafjördur, Ísafjördur, IS
1975 Seriaal, Amsterdam, NL
1975 Gallery SÚM, Reykjavík, IS
1975 Paleis voor Schone kunst, Brussel, BE
1975 Kunstmuseum, Luzern, CH
1974 IN-OUT-CENTER, Amsterdam, NL
1973 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
1973 IN-OUT-CENTER, Amsterdam, NL
1972 Galerie 845, Amsterdam, NL
1972 Gallery SÚM, Reykjavík, IS
1972 Galerie Balderich, Mönchengladbach, DE
1972 Galerie Fignal, Amsterdam, NL
1970 Galleri SÚM, Reykjavík, IS
1969 Galleri SÚM, Reykjavík, IS
1968 Mokka, Reykjavík, IS
           
 
Group exhibitions (selected)
2021 Inconsistent Ways of Seeing, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE
2019 Rúllandi snjóbolti / 12, Djúpivogur, IS
2019 Really, Sequences IX, Kling & Bang, Reykjavik, IS
2019 Cutting Edges: Nordic Concrete Art from the Erling Neby Collection, Scandinavian House, New York, US
2017 Rolling Snowball/9, Djúpivogur, IS
2017 1hv (w/ Örn Alexander Ámundason), Reykjavik, IS
2017 Literally – Concrete Poetry in Iceland from 1957 to the Present Day, Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjörður, IS
2016 TEXT, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, IS
2015 Selected Portraits from the Collection of the National Gallery of Iceland – From the Rustic to the Selfie, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, IS
2014 Rolling Snowball 5, Djúpivogur, IS
2014 Franz Graf: See What Sees You, The Belevedere, Vienna, AT
2014 DRAWN, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, DE
2014 Your Compound View – Selection from the collection from 1970-2010, Reykjavik Art Museum, IS
2013 Works on Paper, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, IS
2013 Embracing Impermanence, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, IS
2013 B.A.B.E. – The Best Artist Books and Editions, Immanence – Espace d’art Contemporain, Paris, France
2013 Elemental, Boden Arts Center, Boden, Sweden
2012 Hangman´s Rock – The Delirium of Vision, Reykjavík Art Museum - Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavík, IS
2012 Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974, MOCA Los Angeles, USA; Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE
2012 Explorateurs, Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte‐Croix des Sables d'Olonne, FR
2012 Minning um Myndlist, ASÍ Art Museum, Reykjavik, IS
2012 To Make a Show It Takes A Thought and More than One Word, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, NL
2012 Galleri Riis, Oslo, NO
2011 Arbeiten Aus dem Bleistiftgebiet, Van Horn, Düsseldorf, DE (curated by Gregor Hildebrandt)
2011 Perspectives - On the Borders of Art and Philosophy, Reykjavik Art Museum – Hafnarhus, IS
2011 A for Artist / E for Exhibitions, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, NL
2011 TEXT, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, DE
2011 Faster and Slower Lines - From the Collection of Pétur Arason and Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavik, IS
2011 Kind Of Nice, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, FI
2011 The Erling Neby Collection, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, NO
2011 Rolling Snowball, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, CN
2010 Winter Show, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, IS
2010 straumur / burðarás, Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, IS
2010 Carnegie Art Award, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, IS; The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, SE; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO; 798 Art Space, Beijing, CN; Royal College of Art, London, UK; Kunsthalle Helsinki, FI; Centre International d´Art Contemporain, Carros/Nice, FR
2010 Abstract, Almost Abstract II, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, NL
2010 Starter Works from the Vehbi Koç Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Arter ‐ Space for Art, Istanbul, TR
2009 Carnegie Art Award 2010, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
2009 Central Periphery (curated by Alan Johnston), RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2009 Latte in Watte, Galleri Riis, Oslo, NO
2009 In Deep Water, Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjörður, IS
2009 Islands & Ghettos, Über territoriale Segregation in Städten des 21. Jahrhundert, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin, DE; NGBK / Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, DE
2009 Several Friends, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, IS
2008 Ad Absurdum - Energies of the Absurd From Modernity to Contemporary Art, Marta Herford, DE
2008 Dreams of the Sublime and Nowhere, Reykjavík Art Museum - Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik, IS  
2008 Icelandic Art, with Thor Vigfusson, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, US
2008 Islands & Ghettos, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, DE
2008 No TV on Thursdays, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, NL
2008 Lika för lika, Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle, SE
2007 Drawing A Tiger, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, DE  
2007 Colour First, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, NL
2007 Im Fluss, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, DE
2007 Gjensyn og fremtiden (Future Revisited), Vigeland museet, Oslo, NO
2006 In Between - from the collection, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, SE
2006 Regarding facts, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, NL
2006 Næsti bar, with Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Reykjavik, IS (curated by Ólafur Ó. Lárusson)
2005 Material Time, Life Time, Work Time, Reykjavík Arts Festival, Gerðarsafn - Kópavogur Art Museum, IS
2005 Skyndikynni, Reykjavíkurakademían, Reykjavík, IS
2005 Winterly Cold, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, NL
2005 Touché, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, DE
2003 Sea and Music, Xiamen, CN
2003 Meistarar Formsins, Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, IS
2002 BLUE, Place Arte Contemporanea, Cavagnolo, IT
2002 D.R.A., Álafoss, Mosfellsbær, IS
2002 Carnegie Award, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
2001 D.R.A., City Gallery, Pece, HU
2001 Drawing Iceland, Galleri 54, Gothenburg, SE
2001 Tegnerforbundet, Oslo, NO
2001 Nothing, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden; Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, LT
2000 In the Mirror of Space & Time, Ásmundarsalur, Reykjavík, IS
2000 Galleri áhaldahús, Vestmannaeyjar, IS
2000 64 N-20 V, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, SE
2000 Dieter Roth Akademie, Ackermannshof, Basel, CH
2000 Painting, Galerie Micheal Sturm, Stuttgart, DE
1999 Drei Kuenstler aus Island, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, DE
1999 HH 1, Xiamen, CN
1999 Ainsi de Suite 3, Centre régional d´Art Contemporain, Séte, FR
1999 Galerie Artek, Helsinki, FI
1999 Hommage á Dieter Roth, Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne; NORD LB Galerie, Braunschweig, DE
1999 00, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, NL
1998 Ground, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria; Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, IS
1998 Galerie Peter Lidner, Vienna, AT
1998 Losse werken, rake klappen, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, NL
1998 10 years 1988-1998, Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, SE
1997 Absence/Presence, Kópavogur Art Museum, Kopavogur, IS
1997 Ground, Ground, Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney, SC
1997 Jahresmuseum 1997, Kunsthaus, Mürzzuschlag, AT
1997 Gúlp á hvolfi, Gallerí Gúlp, Reykjavik, IS
1996 Antarctica Brahma, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, AT
1996 AQUELO, The Nordic Arts Centre, Helsinki, FI
1995 La Hora del Norte, Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain; Pia Almoina, Barcelona, ES
1995 Art Festival, Seydisfjördur, IS
1995 AQUELO, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, AT
1995 Galerie d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, IT
1995 Botngróður, IS
1994 Ludwig Gosewitz und seine isländischen Freunde, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, DE
1994 Juxtaposition, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
1994 Det nordiska önskemuseet, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, SE
1992 Das steinerne Licht, Ostee-Biennale 1992, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, DE
1992 Art Festival, Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjördur, IS
1992 Kunst, Europa-Island, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, DE
1992 Borealis V, Porin taidemuseo, Pori, FI
1992 Trans / Mission, Rooseum, Malmö, SE
1992 We won’t party alone, St. Gallen Kunstverein, St. Gallen, CH
1992 Von Angesicht zu Angesicht, Gegenwartskunst aus dem Ostseeraum, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, DE; Kunsthalle Latvija, Riga, LV; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
1990 The 8th Sidney Biennale, Sidney, AU
1990 Northlands, The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
1990 The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, IE
1990 Noli me tangere, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Sion, CH
1990 The Art of Drawing, Kunsterns Hus, Oslo, NO
1990 End of the Century, Museum for Decorative Arts, Moscow, RU
1990 Bridges, Persons & Lindell Gallery, Helsinki, FI
1990 Threshold, Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, NO
1990 Worlds 90, Joensuun Art Museums, FI
1990 11 cities, 11 nations, Friesland Hal, Leeurwarden, NL
1989 Resource Kunst, Akademie der Künste West-Berlin, Germany; Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, DE
1989 SÚM 1965-72, The Municipal Museum, Reykjavík, IS
1989 The Living Art Museum 10th anniversary, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík, IS
1988 Reykjavík Arts Festival, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, IS (with Donald Judd & Richard Long)
1988 Både /och, The Nordic Arts Center, Sveaborg, Helsinki, FI
1987 Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, DK
1987 Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, NL (with John M. Armleder & Arno Van der Mark)
1986 Bone in a cold oven, The Nordic Arts Center, Sveaborg, Helsinki, FI
1985 Nordic House, Reykjavík, IS
1985 Konst i Norden, The Nordic Arts Center, Sveaborg, Helsinki, FI
1985 A nordic quintessence, ASF Gallery, New York, US
1984 Time – The 4th Dimension, Société des Espositions du palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, BE; Geneva, CH; Mannheim, DE; London, UK
1984 ICELAND: The art revealed, Franklin Furnace, New York, US
1984 10 visitors, Reykjavík Arts Festival, Reykjavik Art Museum - Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavík, IS
1983 The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, IS
1982 La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT (with Jón Gunnar Árnason)
1981 The Red House, Akureyri, IS (with Sigrídur Gudjónsdóttir)
1981 Malmoe, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, SE
1978 Elva moderna islänska konstnärer, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, SE
1977 Ça va? Ça va?, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR
1975 Galerie Waalkens, Finsterwolde, NL
1975 Kunstmuseum Luzerne, Luzerne, CH
1974 H2O, St. Nikolaj Kirkje, Copenhagen, DK
1974 Frans Hals Museum , Haarlem, NL
1973 8e biennale de Paris, Musée d´Art Moderne, Paris, FR
1973 Omaha Flow System, Joslin Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, US
1972 SÚM, Reykjavík Art Festival, Galleri SÚM, Reykjavík, IS
1972 Communications, Gallery Inhibodress, Sidney, AU
1972 IN-OUT-CENTER, Amsterdam, NL
1971 SÚM IV, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam, NL
1971 SÚM II & SÚM III, Galleri SÚM, Reykjavík, IS
1968 Nordisk Ungdomsbiennale, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, FI
 
 
Works in collections
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FI
Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, BE
City of Espoo, FI
B.K.R., Amsterdam, NL
National Gallery of Iceland, IS
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE
Städisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, DE
Safn, Reykjavik, IS
Saastamoinen Foundation, Helsinki, FI
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, SE
Reykjavik Art Museum, IS
The Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn, SE
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Puteaux, FR
Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, NO
Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, IS
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Skjerstad Kommune, NO
Frankel Foundation, Michigan, US


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