Gallery Gudmundsdottir (DE)

Gallery Gudmundsdottir is an Icelandic contemporary art gallery based in Berlin. With a focus on feminine aesthetics and research-driven practices, the gallery presents work that engages with materiality, environmental imaginaries, and global systems of extraction and circulation. Interdisciplinary in nature, the program spans sculpture, installation, moving image, and sound, creating space for dialogue across artistic and theoretical fields. It explores narratives—ordinary, extraordinary, untold, or unheard—that reflect shifting social, ecological, and political conditions. Championing distinctive voices from the Far-Nordic region, Gallery Gudmundsdottir offers a fresh and vital perspective in the contemporary art scene.

Joachimstraße 17
10119 Berlin
Germany
+49 1577 2712770

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Curated for
CHART

For CHART 2025, Gallery Gudmundsdottir presents a group of artists whose practices span generations and geographies—Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir, Anna Júlía Friðbjörnsdóttir, Björg Þorsteinsdóttir, and Endre Aalrust. Their works, which range from installation, drawing, and sculpture to painting and film, share a concern with presence, disappearance, and transformation. Whether through experimental processes, emotional subtext, or poetic use of material, each artist negotiates systems—ecological, linguistic, bodily, or social—that shape the way we relate to the world and each other. The presentation draws subtle threads between past and present, irony and sincerity, hand and machine, inviting reflection on what it means to be entangled, vulnerable, and alive.

Endre Aalrust (NO)

Endre Aalrust is a Norwegian artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. His multidisciplinary practice interrogates power structures within intimacy, language, and politics, often employing humor, discomfort, and sentimentality. In his painting, Aalrust appropriates imagery from memes, dating apps, and lifestyle culture, blending traditional genres with digital-era vernacular. His works teeter between irony and sincerity, prompting viewers to question their own reactions—whether touched, amused, or unsettled.

Endre Aalrust (b. 1973, Norway) lives in Berlin. Educated at the Academy of Fine Art in Oslo. Works across film, painting, and text. Exhibitions include Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Museo By Art Matters (China), and Oslo Kunstforening. Collections include Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Museum By Art Matters (China), Oslo Kommune, and NTNU.

Untitled

Oil on canvas, oak frame, 60x50 cm
2025

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A Sudden Gust of Wind

Oil on canvas, oak frame, 60 x 50 cm
2025

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Critical Reflection

Oil on canvas, oak frame, 60 x 50 cm
2025

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Looking Back

Oil on canvas, oak frame, 60 x 50 cm
2025

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Untitled

Oil on canvas, oak frame, 60 x 50 cm
2025

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Endre Aalrust in his studio

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Björg Thorsteinsdóttir (IS)

Björg Thorsteinsdóttir (1940–2019) was an internationally recognized Icelandic artist whose prolific practice spanned painting, printmaking, collage, photography, and watercolor. Educated in Reykjavík, Stuttgart, and Paris—including at Atelier 17 under S.W. Hayter—she developed an experimental and process-oriented approach that defined her career. Over five decades, she held more than 30 solo exhibitions in Iceland, Norway, and France, and her work is part of major public collections, including the National Gallery of Iceland, the Reykjavík Art Museum, and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. Internationally awarded and widely exhibited, Thorsteinsdóttir left behind a distinctive and materially rich body of work.

Björg Þorsteinsdóttir (1940–2019, Iceland) studied in Reykjavík, Stuttgart, and Paris (École des Beaux-Arts, Atelier 17). Her prolific career spanned 50+ years with solo shows in Iceland, France, Germany and Norway. Her work is held, among others, by all major museums in Iceland, Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris), and Museo Nacional de Grabado (Madrid).

Untitled

Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 100 cm
Ca. 1982–1987

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Untitled

Acrylic on canvas, 95 x 105 cm
ca. 1982–1986 95

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Untitled

Acrylic on canvas, 80 x 105 cm
ca. 1982–1985

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Untitled

Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 90 cm
ca. 1982–1985

Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Gudmundsdottir

Untitled

Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 90 cm
ca. 1982–1985

Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Gudmundsdottir

Portrait of Björg Thorsteinsdóttir

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Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir (IS)

Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir is an Icelandic visual artist working between Reykjavík and Berlin. Her practice spans kinetic installation, material performance, drawing, film, and photography, often incorporating natural processes such as the movement of salt or the life cycle of trees. Through staged systems, she explores interdependence, impermanence, and the shifting boundaries between artist, material, and audience. Her works invite viewers into shared environments of slow transformation and layered meaning.

Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir (b. 1980, Iceland) lives in Berlin and Reykjavík. She studied at Concordia University (Montreal) and the Iceland University of the Arts. Her kinetic installations have been exhibited widely internationally such as The National Gallery of Iceland, Museo De Geología in Mexico, Salzkammergut Austria. Recipient of the Guðmunda Art Prize (2021).

Magnetic Allure

Watercolour, paper, magnet
2023

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Magnetic Allure

Watercolour, paper, magnet
2023

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Magnetic Allure

26 x 60,5 cm, unique work
2023

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Magnetic Allure

26 x 60,5 cm, unique work
2023

Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Gudmundsdottir

Magnetic Allure

26 x 60,5 cm, unique work
2023

Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Gudmundsdottir

Portrait of Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir

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Anna Júlía Friðbjörnsdóttir (IS)

Anna Júlía Friðbjörnsdóttir is an Icelandic artist working across sculpture, installation, and drawing to explore the poetics of material, perception, and cultural memory. Her practice weaves together hand-crafted and industrial processes, engaging historical and contemporary narratives through a sensitive interplay of form and concept.

Anna Júlía Friðbjörnsdóttir (b. 1973, Iceland) lives in Berlin and Reykjavík. Educated at Manchester Metropolitan University and London Guildhall University. Works in sculpture, installation, and drawing. Exhibited at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík Art Museum. Collections include the National Gallery of Iceland and Reykjavík Art Museum.