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Professional Experience

2024

University of Iceland, Art Criticism and Curation, MA Exhibition Making, Mediation and Curatorship, in collaboration with Iceland University of the Arts and Reykjavík Botanic Garden

2023

Iceland University of the Arts, MA Fine Arts Seminar III, MA Curatorial Practice Seminar III, Foundations in Exhibition Making

Pressure Point Veronica Brovall, Workshop at Flæði and exhibition at Annabelle’s home
Home as Land, Home as Island: Traversing Cultures, Annabelle's home
Laura Skehan
Homing the Home, Annabelle's home
Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson and Atagata
Annabelle's home, Reykjavík
Initiator of project space and curator

Supervisor Curatorial Practice
Iceland University of the Arts

2022
Technische Universität - Fakultät VI – Architecture for Health, Berlin
MA Design Studio’s PiV for Prof. Lars Steffensen’s Seminar Women’s Shelters

2021
TORG Listamessa, Reykjavík
Curatorial assistance for SÍM’s art fair (Association of Icelandic Visual Artists) Technische Universität Fakultät VI – Architecture for Health, Berlin
MA Design Studio’s PiV for Prof. Lars Steffensen’s Seminar Ageing and Architecture

2020
The House Project Meets Home, Amsterdam
Talk as part of Hreinn Fridfinnsson - Midnight Jump curated by Corinne Groot and Rob van de Ven (Zapp Productions) at ROZENSTRAAT – a rose is a rose is a rose

2019
YGGDRASIL, Berlin
Assisted Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir for the presentation of the divination card deck

Cozy Catastrophe, Haus1 Berlin
Co-curated the exhibition invited by in_conversation_with Arnar Ásgeirsson, Agata Mickiewicz

2013 – 2019
Co-curated homecomings (2013) and homecomings: PROJECTIVE SPACE (2015) exhibitions, homecomings, etc. (2014) symposium and co-edited homecomings, 1,2,3, etc. (2019) publication with Archive Books, Berlin
Øystein Aasan, Saâdane Afif, Kirsty Bell, benandsebastian, Luis Berríos-Negrón, Bettina Buck, Adam Budak, Anton Burdakov, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Valérie Chartrain, Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Samuel Dowd, Eric Ellingsen Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Dr. Melanie Franke, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Hadley+Maxwell, Elín Handsdòttir, Lasse Schmidt Hansen, Karl Holmqvist, Emma Waltraud Howes, Hervé Humbert, Susanne Kriemann, Tanaz Modabber, Florian Neufledt, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Sophia Pompéry, Mareike Riedel, Egill Sæbjörnsson, Tomás Saraceno, Dr. Ursula Ströbele, Marco Thiella & Chiara Zanella, Alvaro Urbano, Katharina Wendler

2018 – 2020
Terminal (TXL), Postwerk, Berlin
Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir, Rebecca Erin Moran, Borghildur Indriðadóttir
Terminal (KEF) (cancelled due to Covid-19)
Curator of workshop with the International Lunar Exploration Working Group, Amsterdam, Earth Science Institute, Reykjavik and UdK Architecture Department, Berlin at Hafnarborg – the Hafnarfjörður Center of Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarfjörður

2018
Earth Homing: Reinventing Turf Houses, Seltjanarnes
Curated the exhibition and public program
Ann-Sofie Nielsen Gremaud, Anna Júlía Friðbjörnsdóttir, Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir / Daniel Leeb, Birgir Andrésson, Borghildur Indriðadóttir, Claudia Hausfeld, Elín Hansdóttir, Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir, Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir, Hrólfur Karl Cela, Hrönn Gunnarsdóttir, Kolbeinn Hugi, Kristín Loftsdóttir, Ólafur Sveinn Gíslason, Ólöf Nordal, Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Sean Patrick O’Brien, Sigrún Davíðsdóttir, Sigurjón B. Hafsteinsson, Sólveig Aðalsteinsdóttir, Steingrímur Eyfyörð, Unnar Örn

2018
Journey to Home, Reykjavík
Co-curated the exhibition for the Reykjavík Arts Festivals
Arna Óttarsdóttir, Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir, Auður Ómarsdóttir, Anna Hallin & Olga Bergmann, Claudia Hausfeld, David Zehla, Egill Sæbjörnsson & Ívar Glói, Eygló Harðardóttir, Helgi Þorgils Friðjónsson, Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir, Hrafnkell Sigurðsson, Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir, Rebecca Erin Moran, Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson & Agata Mickiewicz, Theresa Himmer, Arnar Ásgeirsson, Emilija Škarnutyé, Kathy Clark, Erin Honeycutt

2017
Cycle Festival for Music and Art, Reykjavík
Three-day turf workshop
Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson, Ólöf Nordal, Ann-Sofie Gremaud, Magnús Jensson, Claudia Hausfeld, Guðjón Stefán Kristinsson

2017
W.A.I.D.W.M.L. (What am I Doing with My Life)
Tour Manager für Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson‘s performances in Berlin, Venice, Athens, Amsterdam, Brussels, Reykjavík
Bergur Thomas Anderson, Örn Alexander Ámundason, Arnar Ásgeirsson, David Bernstein, Jokūbas Čižikas, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Geraldine Geffriaud, Indriði Arnar Ingólfsson, Árni Jónsson, Thomas Myrmel, Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir, Anat Spiegel

2015 – 2017
Sculpture Projects Münster 2017
Assistant to Hreinn Friðfinnsson

2016
ICA Miami
Conducted interviews with John Miller and Thomas Bayrle

2013 – 2016
Rosa Barba, Berlin
Research Assistant

2013 – 2018
Berlin Art Walk, Context Travel Tours
Contemporary art tours in Berlin Mitte

2013
Sole Searching, Laura Mars Grp., Berlin
Curated exhibition
Veronica Brovall, Sonja Gerdes, Zoë Claire Miller

2012
Babette, Infernoesque, Berlin
Curated solo exhibition Emer O’Brien

2011 – 2012
Galerie Neu, Berlin
Art transport, sales, production, participation at Art Basel, abc, Art Cologne, Gallery Weekend

2010
Cornered Rooms, Waterside Project Space, London
Curated exhibition
Hreinn Friđfinnsson, Karim Noureldin, Anna Ostoya, Damien Roach, Egill Sæbjörnsson, Patrick Tuttofuoco

Poetic Corners: From Modernist Spaces to Homecomings
Curated seminar
Alice Gavin, Elizabeth Guthrie, Elia Ntaousani, Stephan Trüby

2007 – 2010
Pilar Corrias Gallery, London
Cofounder and director of the gallery, artist assistance and production, book keeping, personal assistance, participation at Art Basel Miami Beach

2007
Serpentine Gallery, London
Research Assistant for Hans Ulrich Obrist
Park Nights and Experiment Marathon in collaboration with Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen

2007 – 2008
HomeBodies, Birkbeck College, London
Curated conference
Shumon Basar, B. A. Irawati Firth, Ida Wentzel Winther, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Marko Daniel, Linda Gieres HomeBodies, Atelierfrankfurt, Frankfurt am Main

Curated exhibition
Francesca Bancalari, Ola Bielas, Keren Cytter, Teresa Gillespie, Jonas Jensen, Dirk Krecker, Charlotte Smith

2005 – 2006
Home, Frankfurt am Main
Curated home is where the heart is, home is where the hurt is, homing desire Ioan Godeanu, Tamara Henderson, Denise Mawila, Anna Ostoya, Giovanna Sarti

2004 – 2006
Historisches Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Library of the Generations
Inventory of biographical, historical, and academic submissions with MuseumsPlus, project initiated by the artist Sigrid Sigurdsson

2004 – 2006
Evangelische Stadtakademie, Frankfurt am Main
Assistant to Project Manager
Organization of art and cultural exhibitions and events

2002 – 2005
Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt am Main
Assistant to Director
Exhibition logistics, artist assistance, participated at Art Cologne

2002 – 2003
Jüdisches Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Researcher
Developed three generational based exhibition designs for Juden in Deutschland 1945 – 2000: Konzeptionelle Überlegungen zu einer Wanderausstellung (Jews in Germany 1945 – 2000 Conceptual Reflections for a Traveling Exhibition), exhibition was never realized

2002
Manifesta 4, Frankfurter Kunstverein
Tours in German and English

2001
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
Exhibition logistics for Jeff Wall – Figures and Places
Public relations, project group Braubachstrasse-Kulturmeile in cooperation with the city of Frankfurt

2000
Jüdisches Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Intern
Exhibition design, production and installation for the exhibition Ostend – Blick in ein jüdisches Viertel

Degrees

2001
Magister Artium, Universität Tübingen
Majors: Empirische Kulturwissenschaft, American Studies

1996

Bachelor of Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Major: Women’s Studies, Minor: Art History and Criticism
First Prize: Renaissance Women - Historical and Religious Subjects and Objects of Art

Education

2006 – 2010
PhD student, London Consortium, Birkbeck College
Humanities and Cultural Studies, Frederick Kiesler: Curator or Exhibition Designer?

1996 – 2001
Universität Tübingen, Germany
Studied German as a foreign language, art history, cultural studies, and American studies

1998, 1999
Student at NOI♀SE Summer School in Turku/Åbo, Finland and Utrecht, The Netherlands
Utrecht Universität, Diasporic Identities and Mediated Cultures: Gender, History and Representations
Åbo Akademi University/University of Turku, Gendered Subjects: Rethinking Citizenship, Identity and Knowledge

1997 – 1998
Research project Tanzlust at Ludwig-Uhland-Institut für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft, traveling exhibition in a remodeled bus and exhibition catalog

1990 – 1992
Bradford College, Massachusetts
Studied psychology and philosophy, Dean’s List for academic achievement