THE ICELANDIC LOVE CORPORATION / GJÖRNINGAKLÚBBURINN

Jóní Jónsdóttir and Eirún Sigurðardóttir are the current members of the art collective The Icelandic Love Corporation (ILC) an art group established in 1996 by Jóní, Eirún and Sigrún Hrólfsdóttir. Sigrún was a member from 1996-2016 and Dóra Ísleifsdóttir was a member from 1996-2001

Solo exhibitions

2024
Vagus Symphony / Flökkusinfónía - with The Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, Harpa Concert Hall, Reykjavík, Iceland

2023
Written in Blood / Blóðuga líf - Gallery Gudny Gudmundsdottir, Berlin, Germany
Through the Portal / Skilaboð að handan - Gallery Port, Reykjavík, Iceland

2022
Endurance / Seigla - Norr 11, Reykjavík,Iceland

2020
Water and Oil / Vatn og Olía - NoNo Fest - Galleri NordNorge, Harstad, Norway
Heel Kick / Hælspyrna - Multis.is, Mjólkursamsalan Snorrabraut, Reykjavík, Iceland

2019
Water and Blood / Vatn og blóð - National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik
Valores - in collaboration with Kiyoshi Yamamoto, KRAFT, Bergen, Norway 
The Newest Testament / Nýjasta testamentið  - Hverfisgalleri, Reykjavík, Iceland

2018
Aqua Maria Announciation / Aqua María boðun, Torgið Neskirkja, Reykjavík
Aqua Maria - Video Video, The Nordic House, Faroe Islands 

2017  
Baby shower for Mary - part three of The Mary’s trilogy, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö Sweden 

2016  
Love Conquers All – as part of the series New Nordic//, ARoS Focus, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark Psychography / Sálnasafn – as part of Everybody's Spectacular Performance Festival, Reykjavík, Iceland 

2015   
Embody - Pinksummer Gallery, Genove, Italy
Think Less Feel More / Hugsa minna skynja meira -  Bíó Paradís Cinema, Reykjavík 

2014
Think Less Feel More / Hugsa minna skynja meira - National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik 

2012   
Pertti - Nanso Group, Nokia, Finland 

2011   

Origin - Pinksummer gallery, Genove, Italy
Think Less Feel More - Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö, Sweden 

2010   
Tight - Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjörður Art Museum, Iceland
Tight - Amos Anderson Museum, Helsinki, Finland 

2009   
Black Swans / Svartir svanir - Kling&Bang Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
Dynasty - Platform Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Hospitality - CAST Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
Hospitality - The Darling Foundry, Montreal, Canada

2008
Hospitality / Gestrisni - Safnasafninu, Akureyri, Iceland

2007   
The Icelandic Love Corporation / Gjörningaklúbburinn - Hafnarhúsið, retrospective at the Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland

2006
Eruption Corruption - ArdBia, Galway, Ireland 

2005   
Invasion Expansion / Innrás úrtrás - Sudsudvestur, Keflavik, Iceland

 2004   
Cardiac Circus - i8 gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
Cardiac Circus - Art Statements, Basel Art Fair, Switzerland
The Icelandic Love Corporation - Jack the Pelican Presents, New York 

2003   
Behind the Eyes - Galerie Zink&Gegner, Munich, Germany
Behind the Eyes / Á bak við augun - The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik
Sympathy - GalleriVerkligheten, Umeå, Sweden

2002
Places of Worship - Leisure Club Mogadishni, Copenhagen 

2001
The Icelandic Love Corporation / Gjörningaklúbburinn - Galleri Hlemmur, Reykjavik

2000
Ongarden / Framgarður -  i8 gallery, Reykjavik

1999
Hope / Von - OneOOne Gallery, ReykjavikHigher Beings - Gallery GUK, Garden, Udhus, Kitchen, Selfoss, Leijre, Hannover1998
The Future is Beautiful / Framtíðin er fögur - Gallery Sævar Karl, Reykjavik 

1997
Freedom Beauty Freetime / Frelsi frítími fegurð - Gerðuberg Cultural Center, Reykjavik 

1996
Laboratory L.O.V.E / Rannsóknarstofan Á.S.T. - Café Mokka, Reykjavik

group exhibitions

2024
148 artworks from Arion Bank art collection - Borgartun, Reykjavík
Lend me wings. Vigdís Finnbogadóttir – life and impact - The Vigdís International Centre, The Telegraph Station, Reykjavík
Catch Me If You Can - ERES Projects, München, Germany

2023
Our Art - Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
Kaleidoscope: Icelandic 21st Century art - Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
Kollegar - Gallery Port, Reykjavík, Iceland
Resistance / Viðnám - The House of Collections, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland

2022
In Good Company. Films by International Art Collectives - Centro de Cultura Audiovisual, Gran Canaria
Staged Moments - National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland

2021
Fjölfeldi - hlutfeldi - margfeldi, Reykjanes Art Museum, Iceland
Turbulence - LÁ Art Museum, Hveragerði, Iceland
Kjarval and the Contemporary - Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland

2020
Landscapes of Trauma: a Reflection on Wonder - Reykjanes Art Museum, Iceland
Billboard Festival Istanbul, Turkey
When Globe Means Home - This Is Our Story, Gallerie dell Prigioni, Imago Mundi Museum, Treviso, Italy
After All - Gerðarsafn Kópavogur Art Museum, Iceland 
Reflections of the Sea - Felleshus, Berlin, Germany

2019
Human Condition - Draft of Contemporary Art History in Iceland - Reykjavík Art Museum
Aqua Maria - Video Video - Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark

2018  
Imago Mundi - Art Theorema #1, Benetton Foundation and Fabrica, Salone degli Incanti, Trieste, Italy

2017
Terrains of the Body- Photography from the National Museum of Women in the Arts-Whitechapel Gallery, London
Love Songs - Collaboration with Ensamble Adapter and Juliana Hodkinson, Cycle Music and Art Festival, Iceland Snowball 9 - Djúpvogur, Iceland
Treasures of a Nation - Selected works from the collection, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík
Bout - Video Works from the Collection, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavík

2016   
Borrowed Time: Icelandic Artist Look Forward - Scandinavia House, New York
Art For Action, Icelandic Art in the service of sustainability – The United Nations, New York

2015
WildwomanWoodooGrannyDoilyCrochet - Björk, MoMA, New York
Attic and Evolution, Challenge - Arnesinga Art Museum, Hveragerði, Iceland
Billboard Festival, Casablanca, Morocco

2014
Think Less Feel More (film) and Connect Adjust Repeat (performance) - Theseus Temple, OnSite, Vienna, Austria
Nest - Selected works from the Collection, The National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik
Tent Lady - Your Compound View, selection from the collection, Hafnarhúsið, Reykjavik Art Museum
Faces - Icelandic Portraiture, Akureyri Center for Visual Arts, Iceland

2013    
Bombshell - The Biggest Minority in the World, Verkstedhallen Svartlamon, Trondheim, Norway
Investigation of the Soul - Merry Melancholy - Nordic Station, Eskilstuna Konstmuseum, Sweden
The Third Dimension - Personal Structures, Palazzo Bembo, 55th Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte. La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

2012    
Web - (I)ndependent People), Reykjavik Art Festival, Hafnarhusid, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
Dynasty (film) - Great Outdoors, Pace Digital Gallery, New York
The Tent Lady's Hospitality - She's Here, Fotogalleriet, Oslo
The Tent Lady's Hospitality - She's Here, Kamarade, Stockolm
Kleina - Museum of Longing and Failure, New York
WildWomanVoodooGrannyDoilyCrochet - Arnesinga Art Museum, Hveragerdi, Iceland
Hreiður - MHR 40 year. Kling og Bang, Reykjavik
Thank You - Galleri 69, Oslo

2011    
Evolution and The Tent Lady's Hospitality - Endemis ósýn, Gerdarsafn, Kopavogur, Iceland
Ether - Then and Now, National Gallery of Iceland
Mother Earth - Grenzen anderer Natur – Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Island, Frankfurter Kunsverein
Woman - Off the Beaten Path, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, USA
Dynasty and The Tent Lady's Hospitality - Rolling Snowball/2-Quanzhou, Quanzhou, China
Map - Somewhere Along Those Lines, Reykjanes Art Museum, Reykjavnes, Iceland
Oskupokinn Ikarus - Oskupokar, Spark Design Space, Reykjavík, Iceland
The Tent Lady’s Hospitality - Centre d’Art Contemporain, Chamarande, France
Amos - Portraet Nu, Det Nationalhistoriske Museum, Frederiksborg Slot, Denmark

2010     
DejaVu (Creation - Corruption - Celebration Remix) - Nordens U-land?, Fargfabriken, Östersund, Sweden
Woman - Off the Beaten Path, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City
Dynasty - Following People and Drinking Milk, Hafnarborg, Listasafn Hafnarfjarðar, Iceland

2009    
Thank You - Lífróður, Hafnarborg, Listasafn Hafnarfjarðar, Iceland
Woman - Off the Beaten Path, Stenersen Museum, Oslo
Dynasty - Rethink, Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen
Indeed, of course! - Brennið þið vitar! Gardskagaviti Lighthouse, Iceland Arts Festival
Zeitgeist - Fashion Biennale, Arnheim, Netherland
Dreams of the Sublime in contemporary Icelandic Art - Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland

2008
From Another Shore: Recent Icelandic Art  - Scandinavia House, New York
Dynasty - Australian Cinematheque, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Dreams of Sublime and Nowhere - Reykjavik Art Museum, Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik
As the Sun Rises - The Drake Hotel, Toronto
Dreams of Sublime and Nowhere - BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
Envisioning Change - Ministry of Culture, Salle d’Expositon, Quai Antoine, Monaco

2007
Dynasty - Envisioning Change, NWM, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
The Tent Lady - The Tent Show, Nikolaj Kunsthallen, Copenhagen
Dynasty - World Environment Day, The Natural World Museum, Nobel Peace Center, Oslo
Mother Earth - The Natural World Museum, San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco
The Believers - MassMoca, Massachusetts, USA

2006
Sympathy and Thank You - MIACA, Tokyo
Thank You and Sympathy - The Singing Swinging North, ParisPhoto, Carousel de Louvre, Paris
Sequences - in collaboration with Nepco, Reykjavik
Icelandic Video Art - Kunst-Werke, Berlin
Cold Climates - The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik,  Iceland

2005
Tívolí - LA Art Museum, Hveragerði, Iceland

2004
New Icelandic Art - Icelandic National Museum, Iceland
Nordic Art - Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg
IJs/Ice - Museum Dhondt - Dhaenens, Ghent, Belgium
Where Do We Go From Here? - Gallery Tanya Bonakdar, New York
Sons and Dottirs - Tent, Rotterdam
Brooklyn EUphoria - Volume, Brooklyn, New York
Cold Climates - A.P.T. Gallery, London
Boys and Girls - Zacheta Gallery, Warzaw
Berlin North - Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Where Do We Go From Here? - Comment rester Zen, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund

2003
Behind the Eyes - Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
Thank You, video screening - Culture Night, National Gallery, Reykjavik
LA International - LAtch Gallery, Los Angeles
Seasons of Icelandic Photography - Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik Art Museum
Praguebiennale1 - National Gallery, Prague
Comment Rester Zen - Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
Greyscale/CMYK“ - Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Billboardprojekt  - www.women2003.dk - Copenhagen
Multiples x 7 - Project, Dublin

2002
Seasons of Icelandic Photography - Moscow House of Photography, Moscow
Greyscale/CMYK - Tramway, Glasgow
Madness - Artcite, Windsor, Canada
Peepshow - The Lusty Lady, Seattle, San Francisco
Women Good Enough to Eat - Roebling Hall, New York

2001
Disklo and Hotel Paradise - Anteprima Bovisa, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan
Melody - Multikulturiimaja on wheels, Sanatorium, Narva-Joesuu, Estonia
Face-Painting - Summer camp, PushFirmaBeige, Helsinki

2000
White, Black, Grey - Independence Day, Gerdarsafn, Kopavogur, Iceland
Hope - Centre d’Art Contemporain, Sete, France
@ - Icelandic National Art Museum, Reykjavik
Women Good Enough to Eat  - Viva Scanland, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, N-Ireland
Ongarden - LKW, Kunst in der Stadt, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria

1999
Women good enough to eat - Get Together, Kunst als Teamwork, Kunsthalle Vienna
Higher Beings - An Icelandic Bone in a Swedish Sock, Gallery 54, Gothenburg
Higher Beings - Midnight Walkers and City Sleepers, Red Light District, Amsterdam

1998
Hotel Paradise - -30/60+, Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik Art Museum
A Fresh Start II - Momentum Biennial, Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway
A Fresh Start I - In The Flesh / Flögð og fögur skinn, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik

1997
Women good enough to eat - Myndlist 97, Hafnarhusid, Reykjavik Art Museum

Grants

2024
Artist Salary, The Icelandic Government

2023
Icelandic Film Centre
The Icelandic Visual Copyright Association
Myndlistarsjóður, Project grant, The Icelandic Government
Muggur, Travel grant

2022
Artist Salary, The Icelandic Government
Myndlistarsjóður, Project grant, The Icelandic Government
Myndstef, Project grant

2021
Artist Salary, The Icelandic Government
Myndlistarsjóður, Project grant, The Icelandic Government
Department of Culture and Tourism, project grant,  Reykjavík City

2020
Artist Salary, The Icelandic Government
Myndstef, Project grant
Myndlistarsjóður, Project grant, The Icelandic Government
Muggur, Travel grant

2019
Artists Salary, The Icelandic Government
Norsk-Islandsk Kultursamarbeid
Norsk Kulturrad

2018
Myndstef, Travel/education grant
Department of Culture and Tourism, project grant

2017
Artists Salary, The Icelandic Government
Myndlistasjóður, Project grants, The Icelandic Government

2016
Myndstef, Project grant
Myndlistarsjóður, Project grant, The Icelandic Government
Department of Culture and Tourism, project grant, Reykjavík City

2015
Artists Salary, The Icelandic Government

2014
Artists Salary, The Icelandic Government
Myndstef, Project and Travel grant

2012
Myndlistarsjóður, Project grant,
Artists Salary, The Icelandic Government

2011
Artists Salary, The Icelandic Government
Myndstef, Travel/education grant

2009
Muggur, Travel grant
Myndstef, Travel/education grant

2008
Canadian Arts Council

2007
Muggur, Travel grant
Artists Salary, The Icelandic Government

2006
Travel Grant, Center for Icelandic Art

2005    
Artists Salary, The Icelandic Government

2004    
Artists Salary, The Icelandic Government   
Reykjavik Culture Commitee 
Islandsbanki       

2003    
Artists Salary, The Icelandic Government   
Travelgrant 

2002    
Sleipnir, travel grant
Icelandic Film Fund, production grant

2001    
Sleipnir, travel grant       
Icelandic Ministry of Culture, travel grant

2000    
Reykjavik Art Fund        
Sleipnir, travel grant         
Icelandic Government Art Fund, travel grants            

1999    
Reykjavik, Art Fund       
2 x Sleipnir, travel grant   

1998    
Sleipnir, travel grant

PUBLICATIONS

2016    
Love Conquers All! - published by Aros Artmuseum, Arhus Denmark, ISBN 9788792184467

2010    
Tight - published by Amos Anderson Museum, Helsinki, Finnland, ISBN 978-952-19531-79-0

2007    
The Icelandic Love Corporation - published by Reykjavik Art Museum, ISBN 9979-769-31-9

2004    
Cardiac Circus - cat. i8 gallery, for the Art Statements, Basel Art Fair, published in Reykjavik

2003
Corporate Mentality - Aleksandra Mir, published by Lukas and Sternberg, ISBN 0-9711193-1-7
The Icelandic Love Corporation - interview and short stories by Francis McKee, Published by Nifca and Diamond Hearts Projects, ISBN 951-8955-69-7, Glasgow

LECTURES AND SEMINARS

2024
Icelandic Academy of the Arts – Fine Art Department

2021
Icelandic Academy of the Arts – Theatre Department

2018
Icelandic Academy of the Arts – Fine Art
The Reykjavík School of Visual Art

2017
Icelandic Academy of the Arts – Theatre Department
Reykjavik Art Museum – Iceland

2016
Borgarholt Collage – Iceland

2015
Armuli Collage – Iceland

2014
LungA – Seyðisfjörður Iceland
Iceland Academy of the Arts – Theatre Department and Fine Arts Departments

2012
Icelandic Academy of the Arts – Fine Arts Department

2010
Borgarholt Collage, Design department, Iceland

2008    
Bergen National Akademi of the Arts, Norway
Sircolo Scandinavio, Residence, Rome, Italy

2003    
Icelandic Academy of the Arts

2002    
Breidholt College, Fine Arts department, Iceland      
Edinborough School of Art, Scotland         
Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland

2001    
Helsinki Art Academy, Finland

2000
ILC/Herzblut - University of Weimar, Germany
Icelandic Academy of the Arts, Fine Arts and Drama departments