hringvellIR / THINGVELLIR TURNING (2018)
Thingvellir National Park, 2019.
Gerdarsafn Art Museum, Kópavogur Iceland. Cycle Music & Art Festival, Inclusively Exclusive
hringvellIR / THINGVELLIR TURNING (2018)
Thingvellir National Park, 2019.
Gerdarsafn Art Museum, Kópavogur Iceland. Cycle Music & Art Festival, Inclusively Exclusive
hringvellIR / THINGVELLIR TURNING (2018)
Thingvellir National Park, 2019.
Gerdarsafn Art Museum, Kópavogur Iceland. Cycle Music & Art Festival, Inclusively Exclusive
ANNA RÚN TRYGGVADÓTTIR
Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir is a visual artist working with kinetic sculptural installations, material performances, as well as photography, drawing, and film. Tryggvadóttir explores power dynamics between agencies within the making and exhibiting of her work. Nurturing time-dependent behaviour of raw materials within staged settings, her works invite repeat engagement and speak to cyclical transitions. She uses the performative as a tool of entanglement between the materials, the mechanisms, the staging, and the viewer, bringing together all elements in an unfolding collective becoming. Tryggvadóttir carves out situations that nurture and challenge inter-relationships, particularly those underlying the human perspective towards the natural world.
Her work has been presented in a number of group exhibitions, including Idavöllur 2021 at the Reykjavík Art Museum, Time Matter Remains 2021 at the Nordic House in Reykjavik, Earth Bodies at the Geology Museum UNAM Mexico City, Disko Arts Festival Greenland, and Cycle Music & Arts Festival Berlin. She had a solo exhibition, An Ode -poriferal phases, at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin in 2020, concluding a one-year artist residency. In 2021, Tryggvadóttir was awarded the Gudmunda Art Price for outstanding Icelandic Woman Artist.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 An Ode -poriferal phases Kunstlerhaus Bethanien DE
2017 Garden Reykjavik Art Museum Iceland IS
2016 Matteri in motion Hverfisgallerí IS
2015 Internal ASÍ Art Museum IS
2014 Render & React -approaching a subconscious sensory system THE MAI, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Time Matter Remain Trouble The Nordic Culture House IS
2021 Rohkunstbau Schloss Lieberose Spreewald Germany DE
2021 Idavöllur Reykjavík Art Museum Iceland IS
2021 Searching for the Shapes Within. Persons Projects Berlin DE
2020 VISTA POINT. RE-CONNECTING NATURE Kunstverein Potsdam Germany DE
2019 Pavillion Nordico Buenos Aires AR
2019 Earth-bodies Museo De Geología UNAM MX
2019 Grýla The Nordic Culture House IS
2018 Hringvellir - Thingvellir Turning Inclusive Nation
Thingvellir National Park Iceland & Gerðarsafn Art Museum IS
2018 Turning Points Cryptopian States, Cycle Music & Art Festival DE
2017 Snörun / Ensnare Disko Arts Festival GL
2016 Traces of Water Hafnarborg Museum IS
RESIDENCIES
2019 | 2020 Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin one year residency
2016 Banff Canada
The Art of Stillness | Cross-disciplinary residency With Pico Iyer
AWARDS - GRANTS
2021 Gudmunda Art Price for outstanding Female Artists
Reykjavík Art Museum | National Gallery of Iceland | Akureyri Art Museum
2012 Andrésdóttir Price for Further Studies
The National Gallery of Iceland
2011 Concordia University International Tuition Award 2009-2011
Concordia University Montreal Canada
FILM DIRECTOR
2019 DIVE -rituals in water
Documentary | Directed by Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir
Elín Hansdóttir & Hanna Björk Valsdóttir
EDUCATION
2014 MFA Concordia University Montreal Canada
2014 BA Iceland University of the Arts
Links to external texts:
BE27 Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Magazine
by Federica Bueti
Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir / Interaction and Unitiy: Or, The Process of Applying Paint to a Surface,
Kunstforum Norway no 01. year 2019
interview by Maria Veie Sandvik
By Andri Snær Magnason. Published in Artzine
Interview. Human Nature: Berlin Art Link