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Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir opnaði einkasýninga "Drift" í Gallerí CC Í Malmö Svíþjóð. Hún mun einnig taka þátt í stuttmyndadegi “Kortfilmdagen" þann 21 December. Sýningarsjóri er Arngrímur Borgþórsson.

The exhibition Drift presents new works by Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir.

Concerned about the concept of margins in our every day life and the systems we live within that define our existence. Hekla turns the focus to the Atlantic ocean and its margins where it meets other seas and oceans and how and where it drifts to. In Malmö, for example, one can see the meeting of the Atlantic and the Baltic sea.

Hekla examines basic systems and directs the viewer’s attention to place and time. She intends to stretch our ideas of here and now and uses art as a free and open space where everyone may set their own standards. Her works are a play on the border between the everyday and the magical, where unexpected transformations invite us to perceive existence in new light.

Hekla studied at the Icelandic School of Fine Arts and Crafts from 1991 to 1994. She studied with Renate Anger for one year at the University of the Arts in Kiel, Germany, and one year with Thomas Bayrle at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Frankfurt am Main. After her studies in Germany, Hekla went to the United States to study at the California Institute of the Arts, where she graduated with a BFA degree in 1997 and an MFA degree in 1999. Ever since graduation, Hekla Dögg has been active in exhibitions and has shown in museums and other venues both locally and abroad, including the recent mid-career show Null Island at the the Reykjavík Museum of Art and others at the Icelandic National Gallery, the Tate Modern Museum in London,Truck Contemporary Art Center in Calgary Canada. OMR Gallery Mexico City, Frac Normandie and Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art in Genoa Italy, Malmö Konsthall in Sweden and Kling & Bang Reykjavik Iceland. Hekla held the position of professor of art at the Iceland University of the Arts from 2012 to 2022 and is one of the founders and a member of the artist-run space Kling & Bang.