Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir (b. 1980, Reykjavík) is an Icelandic visual artist working across kinetic installations, material performances, photography, drawing, and film. Based between Reykjavík and Berlin, she creates environments where natural processes—such as the movement of salt, the life cycle of dying trees, or the shifting influence of earths magnetic field—are invited to unfold as active participants.

Her practice engages with the dynamic interplay between materials, mechanisms, and human presence, allowing raw elements to shape the work as much as the artist herself. These staged systems highlight the impermanence and interdependence of all things, encouraging repeated encounters that reveal gradual change and layered meaning.

By challenging traditional boundaries between artist and material, Tryggvadóttir constructs experiences that shift perception. Her installations offer a space to reconsider relations and relationships as systems of reciprocal support—not as observers, but as part of a shared and evolving system.

Her work has been presented at the National Gallery of Iceland, The Reykjavik Art Museum, Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, and internationally from Mexico City to Greenland. In 2021, she received the Guðmunda Art Prize, recognizing her significant contributions to the Icelandic art scene.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Multipolar, National Gallery of Iceland

2022 Chromatic, Gallery Gudmundsdottir Berlin Germany

2022 Temple Of Materialised Histories

Staatstheater Kassel Germany as part of: Temple Of Alternative Histories.

2022 Temple Of Alternative Histories. Interdiciplinary project at the Staatstheater Kassel, Artistic Directors: Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir | Þorleifur Örn Arnarsson | Cassandra Edlefsen Lasch in collaboration with the Staatstheater Kassel, University of Kassel and Scientists for Future Kassel.

2022 Three Norths, Gallery Gudmundsdottir Berlin Germany

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

2024 Floating Fixed Points, Avesta Art Sweeden | Curator | Charlotte Wells

2024 Garden -strata, Sudhaus - Salzkammergut Austria | Curator | Gottfried Hattinger

2023 Abundance, Tendenser Biennale Moss Noregi | Curator | Ki Nurmenniemie

2022 high tide - low tide, Hafnarborg Museum | Curator | Sigrún Alba Sigurðardóttir

2021 Dialogue, Kanye&Kage Art Space, Berlin Germany | Curator | Sabine Bärenklau