Further Information

Hulda Ros Gudnadottir is a contemporary visual artist and a filmmaker born in Reykjavík, Iceland but based in Berlin, Germany. Currently she holds an invitation as artist-in-residence for one year at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. She works predominately on long-term projects; creative documentaries, large mixed-media installations and interdisciplinary collaborative projects. The subject of her works touches upon socio-economic issues from a personal perspective and comes to life through a practice and public exhibition based process that she defines as research. Her most recent solo exhibition was at Berlinische Galerie - Museum of Modern Art - in Berlin as part of the 12 x 12 video program. Previously she has also exhibited solo at Reykjavik Art Museum and
ASI Art Museum in Reykjavik and Kunstkraftwerk in Leipzig and Program in Berlin. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions and screenings at galleries, project spaces and film festivals in countries such as USA, Mexico, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, UK, France, Poland, Serbia, Greece, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Japan and Hong Kong.
www.huldarosgudnadottir.is
Berliner Zeitung (German print/online)
Deutschlandradio Kultur 'Feature am Freitag' (radio in German)
Icelandic Art Center blog (interview in English)

Hulda has collaborated several times with the curator Jonatan Habib Engqvist and Cycle festival art director Guðný Guðmundsdottir. Jonatan is a curator and theorist with a background in Philosophy and Aesthetic theory. He has curated number of large international exhibitions, including biennales, but also group and solo exhibitions at prestigious art institutions. Gudný studied violin performance and musicology in Reykjavík, Freiburg and Berlin. She has founded several festivals, including Cycle Music and Art Festival. She has also served as artistic director of Nordic Music Days in Reykjavik in 2016

ALL IS FULL OF LOVE AND ESPECIALLY PUFFIN LOVE

Despite having shown in many museums the exhibition at KB is one of the more significant ones until now. For the first time the artist will have the opportunity to show a large mixed-media installation in a high-profile venue frequented by art enthusiastic audiences, curators and museum directors from all over the world. As is well known Künstlerhaus Bethanien is one of the most respected art institutions in the art city of Berlin, and in Europe. For this exhibition the artist has worked with curator Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Cycle festival art director Gudny Gudmundsdottir, sociologist Sara Öldudóttir and cultural-historian Ann-Sofie Gremaud on the conceptual development of ALL IS FULL OF LOVE - a mixed media video installation on two floors that is an investigation that addresses the role of the colonial relation of Iceland-Denmark in identity formations and conditional effect where a constellation triangle of ART, FISH and TOURISM is evolving around the figure of the ARTIST AS A PUFFIN. The exhibition opens on the 17th of January 2019 in collaboration with Cycle Music and Art Festival.

www.cycle.is
www.bethanien.de

30 PIECES OF PUFFIN LOVE

As a special edition of the exhibition the artist has in collaboration with multiple expert Spring Xu of Shanghai Xiyuan Imp. and Exp. Co. Ltd. in Shanghai, China, designed a soft sculpture that very much resembles typical souvenir tourists bring home from their Iceland trip. Those souvenirs are bought in shops that have been given the name 'Puffin Shops' by the local people as the name for shops catering for the 2.000.000 tourists traveling on the island of 350.000 inhabitants every year. The installation at Künstlerhaus Bethanien will be partly a puffin shop and this online shopping part of the installation. By purchasing a multiple you are doing a performance. The PUFFIN LOVE soft sculpture is as seductive as the inspiration and is an ideal artistic Christmas present 2018.

The soft sculpture multiple similar to mass-produced souvenirs has a label. The label says 'All is Full of Love, Studio Hulda Rós Guðnadóttir, Made in China'. In the box on the left side the multiple will be numbered 1-30/30.