Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir Explained

Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir
Birth Date:23 September 1959
Birth Place:Iceland
Occupation:Art curator
Chairman of the Art Museum of the University of Iceland
Associate professor of art history and theory, University of Iceland
Alma Mater:Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne, art history[1]
University of Iceland, history

Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir (born 23 September 1959[2] in Reykjavík) is an Icelander art curator.[3] She specializes in contemporary art, photography, history of photography[4] [5] [6] and fashion.[7] She is full professor of art history and art theory at the University of Iceland.

Career and works

Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir began her career as an independent researcher and free-lance curator. She became an assistant professor in Art history at the University of Iceland in 2008.[8]

She has written extensively on modern and contemporary art, photography, history of photography, and fashion, and has been the curator for several exhibitions related to Icelandic art in various European countries.[9]

She has been chairman of board of the University of Iceland Art Museum since 2015.[10]

She received the Fjöruverðlaunin price in 2009 in the category "Best non-fiction".[11]

Books and major articles

Curator and co-curator

She has worked with a number of artists including Anne Herzog, Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir & Mark Wilson,[30] Halldór Ásgeirsson, Icelandic Love Corporation, Kristleifur Björnsson, Olga Bergmann, Ólöf Nordal,[31] Pétur Thomsen, Sigurður Guðmundson,[32] Sigurður Guðjónsson,[33] Hlynur Hállsson[34] Spessi, et al.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir | Starfsfólk HÍ . Starfsfolk.hi.is . 2016-03-16.
  2. Próf 1982–1984. Árbók Háskóla Íslands 1982–1984. 37. Háskóli Íslands. 1984. 25 April 2017. Þórir. Þórðarson.
  3. Web site: Fire and Ice - artnet Magazine . Artnet.com . 2005-07-14 . 2016-03-16.
  4. History of Photography . 23 . 1999 . Sigriður Zoëga 1889–1968: Icelandic Studio Photographer . 10.1080/03087298.1999.10443794 . Sigurjónsdóttir. Æsa. 28–35.
  5. History of Photography . 23 . 1999 . French photography in nineteenth-century Iceland . 10.1080/03087298.1999.10443792 . Sigurjónsdóttir. Æsa. 10–17.
  6. Web site: Ventes aux enchères Paris Auguste Houzé de l'Aulnoit (1824-1892) Autoportrait vers 1851 Daguerréotype 1/2 plaque, 1 . Catalogue.drouot.com . 2016-03-16.
  7. Web site: Iceland . Berg Fashion Library . 2016-03-16.
  8. Web site: Háskóli Íslands - starfsfólk. hi.is. 2017-08-07.
  9. Web site: Publications | Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir . Uni.hi.is . 2012-09-22 . 2016-03-16.
  10. Web site: Listasafn. 2017-08-07. hi.is . 2017-08-07.
  11. Web site: Verðlaunahafar fyrri ára | Fjöruverðlaunin – bókmenntaverðlaun kvenna . Fjoruverdlaunin.wordpress.com . 2016-03-16.
  12. Web site: Transmettre l'art – Les presses du réel (livre) . Lespressesdureel.com . 2016-03-16.
  13. Sigurjónsdóttir, Æsa. "Magnús Pálsson et le département New Art à Reykjavík, 1975-1984: ‘Teaching: the Maddest Artform’," in Transmettre l’art. Figures et méthodes – Quelle histoire? Kihm, Christophe and Mavridorakis, Valérie eds. Dijon: Les presses du réel, 2014, 129 – 151.
  14. Fashion Theory . 15 . 2011 . The New Nordic Cool: Björk, Icelandic Fashion, and Art Today . 10.2752/175174111X12954359478807 . Sigurjónsdóttir. Æsa. 2. 239–258. 194022921 .
  15. Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, "Nation, nature, reality". The history of art in Iceland from late 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century, Vol 2, ed. by Ólafur Kvaran, Reykjavík: National Museum of Iceland and Forlagið, 2011, pp. 8-84.
  16. Icelandic Art Today. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz 2009.
  17. Web site: Herkunft? Fiktion!. 23 September 2016 .
  18. https://wirtschaftsagentur.at/kreativwirtschaft/curated-by-vienna/curated-by-vienna-2016/kuratorinnen-und-kuratoren/aesa-sigurjonsdottir/
  19. Web site: Listasafn Reykjavíkur - Marginalia – texts, sketches, and doodles in Kjarval's art. 2019-01-24. 2015-06-29. http://wayback.vefsafn.is/wayback/20150629064236/http://artmuseum.is/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-2182/3369_read-1988/date-1805/. bot: unknown.
  20. Web site: (Re)construction of Friendship | Art Space Reconstruction . Artspacereconstruction.wordpress.com . 10 March 2014. 2016-03-16.
  21. Web site: Dubious Friendships. On the "(Re)construction of Friendship" exhibition in Riga . Echo Gone Wrong . 2014-09-29 . 2016-03-16.
  22. Platt . Kevin M. F. . Lyric Cosmopolitanism in a Postsocialist Borderland . Common Knowledge . 2015 . 21 . 2 . 305–326 . 10.1215/0961754X-2872391 . 147697877 . .
  23. Web site: TRACKS IN SAND - SIGURJÓN ÓLAFSSON RETROSPECTIVE | Exhibitions | English | Listasafn Íslands . Listasafn.is . 2016-03-16.
  24. Web site: FNAGP . Fnagp.fr . 2016-03-16.
  25. Web site: Pierre Vanni . Pierrevanni.tumblr.com . 2013-07-24 . 2016-03-16.
  26. Web site: studija . Studija.lv . 2010-08-15 . 2016-03-16.
  27. Web site: David D'Arcy reports from the Reykjavik Arts Festival - artnet Magazine . Artnet.com . 2016-03-16.
  28. Web site: News — Nordic Council of Ministers' Office in Latvia . Norden.lv . 2016-03-16.
  29. Web site: Ignacio Villarreal . Dreams of the Sublime and Nowhere in Contemporary Icelandic Art . Artdaily.com . 2008-08-05 . 2016-03-16.
  30. Web site: New Book: You Must Carry Me Now–The Cultural Lives of Endangered Species | Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts . Litsciarts.org . 22 November 2015. 2016-03-16.
  31. Web site: Skeletons in History's Closet: seminar January 12 2015 « The New North Atlantic . Thenewnorthatlantic.com . 2016-03-16.
  32. Web site: MABA . Maba.fnagp.fr . 2013-12-09 . 2016-03-16.
  33. Web site: Sigurður Guðjónsson, Sigurdur Gudjónsson, Sigurdur Gudjonsson . Sigurdurgudjonsson.net . 2016-03-16.
  34. Web site: HLYNUR HALLSSON - (IS-D) - plasticien/Visual artist « Platonique, revue d'images d'art contemporain, visual contemporary art magazine . 2016-01-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160204183826/http://www.platonique.net/hlynur-hallsson-plasticienvisual-artist/ . 2016-02-04 . dead .

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