Kórverk fyrir Höfn (fyrirmæli um gjörning) / An Choral Performance at Höfn (Instructions for Performance)

Þorvaldur Þorsteinsson
Fæddur/born: 1960 in Akureyri Iceland
Heima/Address: Rekjavík Iceland and Los Angeles, USA
Sími/Tlf. +354 822-3699 (Reykjavik)
+1 323 871 1650 (Los Angeles)
e-mail: mypocket@this.is
Homepage: www.this.is/mypocket

Nám/Education:
1977-81 School of Fine Art, Akureyri, Iceland
1981-82 University of Iceland (Icelandic and Literature)
1983-87 Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts, Reykjavik (BA)
1987-89 Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, Holland (Master)

Einkasýningar/Solo Exhibitions and Projects:
2003 SOLO EXHIBITION in Konsthallen, Gothenburg, Sweden
2000 The Corridor, Reykjavik, Iceland. (WAITING ROOM)
2000 Kvarnen, Konstföreningen, Söderhamn, Sweden. (ONE MOMENT) (With Mats Holm, Kjartan Einarsson and Gunnar Thorsteinsson)
2000 Galerie Nemo, Eckernförde, Germany. (LIEDERABEND/with Norbert Weber)
1999 Gallery Saevar Karl, Reykjavik, Iceland. (VISITING HOUR) (With Arnaldur Halldorsson, Helena Jonsdottir and Skyjum ofar)
1999 Cultural Center, Reykjavik Iceland (RETROSPECTIVE show at the invitation of the City of the Reykjavik in which works of the last 10 years were introduced, and a seminar held for discussion of artists career.)
1999 Galerie van den Berge, Goes Holland (VISITING HOUR/with Arnaldur Halldorsson, Helena Jonsdottir and Skyjum ofar)
1998 Fish Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland (CELEBRITY STREET MAP) (With Joni Jonsdottir)
1998 Gallery 20m2, Reykjavik, Iceland (CONCERT)
1999 United Airlines flight between LA and NY, USA, Galleri Hallson. (MARILYN)
1998 Photography room, Listagil (Arts Canyon), Akureyri. (TOUCH/with photographer Hördur Geirsson)
1997 Gallery i8, Reykjavik, Iceland (ICELANDIC ART)
1996 ETERNAL LIFE, Akureyri Municipal Art Museum, Iceland (NEXT BAZAAR…/ACTIVITIES (with Arnaldur Halldorsson)/ONE MINUTE PICTURES (with Thorsteinn J)/ACADEMIES (with Pall A Palsson and Rannveig Helgadottir)/EXCHANGED WORKS/IMAGES OF MARY/THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO ART/Newspaper (with Stefan Jon Hafstein)
1996 Norska Husid, Stykkisholmur, Iceland (BLUE PICTURES)
1996 Gallery+ Akureyri, Iceland (BLUE PICTURES)
1995 Galleri gúlp, Reykjavik, Iceland (THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO
ART/Shoebox)
1995 Gallery Greip, Reykjavik, Iceland (FRAMED PICTURES)
1995 The Window, Akureyri, Iceland (STATUS)
1995 Hörri´s second floor, Seydisfjördur Art Festival, Iceland (YOU NAME IT)
1995 Galerie Van den Berge, Goes, Holland (BRUIKLEENEN)
1994 The Pearl, Reykjavik, Iceland (POETRIOTICS/with Birgir Andresson, Leifur Thorsteinsson and Ingibjorg Bjornsdottir)
1994 Lumen Travo Galerie, Amsterdam, Holland (STATUS)
1993 Mokka, Reykjavik, Iceland
1993 The Corridor, Reykjavik, Iceland (NEO-GEO READY MADES)
1993 Slunkariki, Isafjördur, Iceland (ART/TRASH)
1992 Cultural Centre, Reykjavik, Iceland (ART/TRASH)
1992 Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
1992 Mokka, Reykjavik, Iceland (OPENINGS)
1991 Lumen Travo Galerie, Amsterdam, Holland (STATE)
1991 Galerie NEMO, Eckernförde, Germany (STATE)
1990 MA, Akureyri
1990 Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (with Guillaume Bijl)
1989 Lumen Travo Galerie, Amsterdam, Holland
1989 Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, Holland
1989 Eight installations in Credit Lyonnais Bank, Holland (BANKFORM)
1989 De Gele Rijder, Arnhem, Holland (with Britta Huttenlocker)
1988 Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, Holland (OFFICE)
1988 Vocational high school, Olafsfjordur, Iceland
1987 Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland (with Hubert Noi)
1986 Althydubankinn, Akureyri, Iceland
1985 MA, Akureyri, Iceland
1982 School of Fine Art, Akureyri, Iceland

Samsýningar/Group Exhibitions and Projects:
2002 CONCERT - AUSTRIAN VERSION for an exhibition at Schloss Grafenegg, Vienna, Austria.
2002 NEW INSTALLATION for an exhibition in Akureyri Art Museum, Iceland
2002 NEW INSTALLATION for the Reykjavik Art Festival at the exhibition MYND at Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
2002 PHOTO-PROJECT for an exhibition in GERDARSAFN, Iceland (with Ivar Brynjolfsson, Hrafnkell Sigurdsson, Daniel Magnusson and Spessi)
2002 ROOM DESIGN -Art Hotel Winston, Amsterdam. Holland
2001 MYND, Icelandic Contemporary Art, in Henie Onstad Art Center, Oslo, Norway
2001 & 2002 BLICK Nordic Video Show (JESUS IS CLOSER TO HOME)
2001 INTERFERENCE, Palazzo delle Papesse, SIENA, ITALY
2001 MILANO-EUROPA 2000 PACK/TRIENNALE Contemporary Art Centers in Milano, Italy (THE MOST REAL DEATH 2001, in collaboration with Helena Jonsdottir)
2001 366/2000 Art Projcet. MUKA Gallery, Auckland, New Seeland
2001 OMSTILLING (fourth version) Rovaniemi, Finland (SHAME ON YOU, ROVANIEMI, video)
2001 SHOOT - moving images by artists, Batanien Berlin, Germany (JESUS IS CLOSER TO HOME/With Olafur Johannesson and Ragnar Santos)
2001 OMSTILLING (third version) Finland (THE MOST REAL DEATH)
2000 Töölönlahti Bay Art Garden, Helsinki, Cultural City of Europe. (MUSIC HALL/with Tapani Rinne)
2000 @, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik Cultural City of Europe (with Finnbogi Petursson, Omar Stefansson, Asmundur Asmundsson, Haraldur Jonsson, Michael Young, Katrin Sigurdardottir, The Icelandic Love Corporation, Torfi Olafsson, Hannes Sigurdsson and others)
2000 AMATEUR/ELDSJÄL Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden (DOCUMENT ON DISAPPEARANCE/with five artists from Valand College of Arts, Gothenburg, Sweden)
2000 “THE FUTUR IS NOW Nordic Video Archive, Stockholm, Sweden (JESUS IS CLOSER TO HOME/with Olafur Johannesson and Ragnar Santos)
2000 OMSTILLING (second version) Norrköping Konstmuseum, Sweden
(THE MOST REAL DEATH)
2000 SHOOT - moving images by artists, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden (JESUS IS CLOSER TO HOME/with Olafur Johannesson and Ragnar Santos)
2000 ORGASM, Akureyri Municipal Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland (HOME, SWEET HOME)
1999 Kulturbahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf, Germany (VISITING HOUR/with Arnaldur Halldorsson, Helena Jonsdottir and Skyjum ofar)
1999 OMSTILLING, Cophenhagen, Denmark
1999 WELCOME TO THE ART WORLD, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany.
(YOUR FREE TRIP TO ICELAND/with Helga Bra Arnadottir, Tomas Tomasson, Ragnar Th Sigurdsson and many more)
1999 MIDNIGHT WALKERS - CITY SLEEPERS, Amsterdam, Holland. (JESUS IS CLOSER TO HOME/With Olafur Johannesson and Ragnar Santos)
1998 MARIA MAGDALENA, VROUW+MAN=RAADSEL, Maria Magdalena Church, Goes, Holland (SEARCHING FOR MARIA MAGDALENA IN GOES)
1998 JUNGE KUNST INTERNATIONAL Overbeck Gesellsachft Lübeck, Germany. (LANDMINES)
1998 BITCHES AND BEAUTIES, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland (THE BATH HOUSE) (With Linda Petursdottir)
1998 NUIT BLANCHE, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France (FOR THE UNKNOWN ARTIST)
1997 NORDICA, Helsinki, Finland (DREAM OFFICE)
1996 CONTAINER 96, Copenhagen, Denmark (PHONE)
1996 National Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
1996 Gallery Greip, Reykjavik, Iceland
1995 STREETS, Helsinki Art Hall, Finland (WELCOME/with Arnaldur Halldorsson)
1995 FOREST FLORA, Hallormsstadur, Iceland (LERKI/BIRKI)
1995 PORT OF ART, Kotka, Finland (THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO
ART/Tower/with Studio Granda, Architects, Reykjavik Iceland)
1995 YOUNG BRITISH ARCHITECTS, London, England. (HOUSE OF 19/with Studio Granda, Architects, Reykjavik Iceland)
1994 SCULPTURE, SCULPTURE, SCULPTURE, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland (THE A-SHIFT/with Arnaldur Halldorsson)
1994 SOMMERBEELDEN, Goes, Holland (THE GOLDEN GATE/with Marcel Zalme)
1994 “THE MALE IMAGE, Cultural Center, Reykjavik, Iceland (SITUATION)
1993 “7x7” (Group show in seven countries)
1993 16 DAYS, Video & performance, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
1993 EQUILIBRIUM, Riga, Latvia (STATUS/with Larus Karl Ingason)
1992 THREE ICELANDIC ARTISTS, Galleriet, Vaxjö, Sweden (With Birgir Andresson and Hannes Larusson) (ART/TRASH)
1992 NORDSKEN, Konsthallen, Gothenburg, Sweden
1992 CONTEMPORARY ICELANDIC SCULPTURE, Reykjavik Art Festival, Kringlan (Shopping Mall) Reykjavik, Iceland
1991/1992 AURORA, Nordic Art Centre Helsinki, Finland/Kulturhuset Stockholm, Sweden
1991 KLIMAAT, Lumen Travo Galerie, Amsterdam, Holland (STATE/with Larus Karl Ingason)
1991 Galerie Van den Berge, Goes, Holland
1991 BUILT ON WATER, Goes, Holland (BRIDGE, Goes)
1991 Foire d´Art Actuel Brussel
1991 LITTLE THINGS MEAN A LOT, Momentary Modern, Amsterdam, Holland
1990 FOR REAL NOW, Hoorn, Holland (BRIDGE, Hoorn)
1990 GARDEN SHOW, Reykjavik Art Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland (HOUSE)
1990 ZELFPORTRETTEN, Rumpff Gallery, Haarlem, Holland (FROM THE SELFPORTRAIT SERIES)
1989 Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
1987 IBM, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
1986 YOUNG AKUREYRI ARTISTS, The Sports Hall, Akureyri, Iceland (Collaborative work with Gunnar Thorsteinsson)
1983 UM, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland

Performances:
2001 THE CHAIR Sound installation/performance at the 2001 Performance festival, THE LIVING ART MUSEUM, Reykjavik, Iceland
1999 THE SALESMAN, GUSTAV GUSTAVSSON, at a Performance evening at the Café Theatre, Reykjavik, Iceland
1998 CELEBRITY STREET MAP, opening performance at Fish Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland (with Joni Jonsdottir, Sigurjon Kjartansson and Jon Gnarr)
1996 NEXT BAZAAR IS ON SATURDAY AT 3 O´CLOCK. Part of the exhibition Eternal Life at the Akureyri Municipal Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland
1990 “Your portrait (all in) now 200 franks only” Aalst, Belgium
1988 “Can language problem be creative force?” (Lecture given in Icelandic for people who didn’t understand a word of the language) Maastricht, Holland

Sound installations:
2000 HOME SWEET HOME, at the ORGASM exhibition, Municipal Art Museum Akureyri 1998/99 CONCERT, Gallery 20 m2 Reykjavik; Galerie NEMO, Eckernförde, Germany; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter Oslo, Norway and at Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena, Italy
1995 THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO ART - at the exhibition Port of Art, Kotka, Finland
1989 IK BEEN LISA, Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, Holland

Viðurkenningar, styrkir / Awards, grants:
2000 BEST CHILDREN’S BOOK 2000 - Award from the Booksellers’ Guild for “Are you Betterby...”
2000 Closed competition for architectural collaboration at the University College of Education, Reykjavik
2000 Artist in residence, in IASPIS studio, Gothenburg Sweden
2000 Closed competition for outdoor millennium sculpture in Reykjavik
2000 6-month writer’s stipend from the Icelandic Ministry of Culture.
1999 BEST CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE YEAR 1998 - Award from Reykjavik City for the book “My name is Betterby but you can call me Bobo”
1998 Artist in residence, Vilnius, Lithuania
1997 Nomination for the DV cultural prize, for visual art.
1997 SERRA PRIZEWINNER Award from the Richard Serra Fund
1996 3-year visual artists stipend, from the Icelandic Ministry of Culture.
1994 6-month writer’s stipend, from the Icelandic Ministry of Culture
1993 Nomination for the DV cultural prize, both for visual arts and literature.
1993 6-month visual artists stipend, from the Icelandic Ministry of Culture
1993 Closed competition for sculpture in centre of Seydisfjordur, Iceland
1992 VISA Iceland Cultural prize, for visual art.
1991 Closed competition for sculpture in Reykjavik City Hall, Iceland

Verk í eigu safna / Works in public and/or private collection:
Reykjavik Art Museum, National Gallery of Iceland, Akureyri Municipal Art Museum, The Living Art Museum Reykjavik, PTT Holland, City of Hoorn, Holland, Ignatius Ziekenhuis Breda Holland.
Book-works in the collection of Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, Victoria and Albert Museum in London and in private collections in Holland, Belgium, Germany, U.S.A. and Russia.

Annað / others:
Television - Video - Radio
2001 SHAME ON YOU ROVANIEMI A video loop, made in Iceland, for the exhibition OMSTILLING in Rovaniemi, Finland.
2001 THE MOST REAL DEATH 2001 22 minute video. Made in Milano, in collaboration with HELENA JONSDOTTIR, for the Exhibition MILANO-EUROPA 2000 at PACK/TRIENNALE Art Centers in Milano, Italy
2001 THE MOST REAL DEATH, 24:31 minute video made at the Art Gallery in Norrköping,Sweden for the exhibition OMSTILLING (concept, direction)
2000 DOCUMENT ON DISAPPEARANCE 28 min. (made in collaboration with 5 students of the Valand College of Arts in Gothenburg, for the exhibition AMATEUR at the Gothenburg Art Museum.)
1999 MITTENS FOR GRANDFATHER (10 min) Icelandic State TV (story and script)
1999 JESUS IS CLOSER TO HOME 28 min. documentary/with Olafur Johannesson and Ragnar Santos (Script)
1997 AS I SAID (Teleplay, 20 min) State Television (Script)
1997 BUILT TO LAST (Teleplay, 20 min) State Television (Script)
1997 HEAVILY MORTGAGED (Teleplay, 20 min) State Television (Script)
1995/1996 THE POCKET THEATRE, 15 weekly Performances on Icelandic State TV (story, script and direction)
1994/1996 CHILDREN´S HOUR, 52 X 5-6 minute scetches (script)
1993 I WOULD LIKE… with Brynja X. Vifilsdottir. 3-minute video (script/direction)
1992 “And Then the Fool Woke up” (15 min. play) Icelandic State TV (story, script & direction)
1991/1992 THE POCKET THEATRE, (52 weekly radio performances) Channel 2 (script and perfomance)
1989/1990 “Radio or 103 right answers”/“Could you be more specific?”/“Eight stories”/13 acts for TV (script, direction, recording direction)
1988 “Dr. Livingstone I presume” (script, direction, recording direction)

Stage Plays:
2002 THERE WAS A CHILD IN THE VALLEY… (45 minutes play for teenagers.) The STOPP THEATRE GROUP, Reykjavik, Iceland (Story, script)
2002 THE FARTING HILL (45 minutes children play). MOGULEIKHUSID, Childrens Theatre, Reykjavik, Iceland (Story, script)
2002 AND BJÖRK, OF COURSE... (120 minutes contemporary drama.) Directed by Benedikt Erlingsson. Commissioned from the Reykjavik City Theatre and developed in a workshop with actors from the theatre and Benedikt Erlingsson. (Story, script)
1999 ELLY, ALWAYS GOOD (Monologue, 20 minutes) performed at the Theatre of the Icelandic
School of Drama, Reykjavik (Story, script)
1999 Fairy-Tale about Love (Full length version of the play from '96) Performed at the Café Theatre, Reykjavik (Story, script, songtexts)
1999 IN THE AUDIENCE (A play made from a selection of Pocket Plays and the one act play In the Honour of the Occasion) Flensborg School, Hafnarfjordur. Arrangement and direction: Stefan Jonsson
1998 ME AND MY BOY (Drama) Performed at the Hermodur and Hadvor Theatre, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland. (Story, script)
1997 LIVE (Drama, 120 min.) performed at the Flugfélagið Loftur Theatre, Reykjavik, Iceland. (Story, script)
1996 Fairy-Tale about Love (Monologue, 20 min.) performed at the Theatre of the Icelandic School of Drama, Reykjavik (Story, script)
1996 I WAS ASKED TO BE HERE (Monologue, 50 min.) Created by Sigrun Sol Olafsdottir and Gudjon Pedersen from texts by Thorvaldur Thorsteinsson. Shown in the Café Theatre and on tour in Iceland and abroad. Actor, Sigrun Sol; Director, Gudjon Pedersen.
1995 TALESPIN (Drama, 110 min.) performed at the Theatre of the Icelandic School of Drama, Reykjavik. (Story, script)
1993 THE MESSAGE POUCH (Fairy-Tale Musical, 120 min.) performed on the main stage of the National Theatre in Reykjavik, '93-'94. (Story, script, lyrics)
1992 IN HONOUR OF THE OCCASION (One-act play, 30 min.) performed by the Pinter Theatre in Reykjavik. (Story and script)
1989 - An Ad-opera, 40 minutes program for the annual celebration of the Icelandic Advertising Office Association
1987 - An Ad-opera, 40 minutes program for the annual celebration of the Icelandic Advertising Office Association
1983 - An Ad-opera, 20 minutes program for the annual celebration of the Icelandic Advertising Office Association
1981 - Summer Review in Akureyri - Review with songs, 40 min. (script and actor with Hermann Arason)

Books:
2003 BETTERBY #3 (novel, Bjartur, Reykjavik)- in progress
2001 KNITTENS FOR GRANDFATHER (Childrens book, illustrated by Snorri Freyr Hilmarsson) 2001 GENTLEMAN’S TALE (novel, Bjartur, Reykjavik)
2000 ARE YOU BETTERBY? I HAVE AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE (Novel. Bjartur, Reykjavik)
1998 MY NAME IS BETTERBY BUT YOU CAN CALL ME BOBO (Novel. Bjartur, Reykjavik)
1998 ART WORKS (Texts and photographs, Reykjavik) Artworks 1991-1997
1996 6 WORKS (Texts and photographs, Reykjavik)
1992 AN ANGEL IN THE AUDIENCE (Texts, Bjartur, Reykjavik)
1991 STATES (Cut photographs. Galerie NEMO, Eckernförde)
1989 OPENINGS (Changed photographs, Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht)
1988 GAMES (Voss Forlag, Amsterdam)
1988 MEMOIRS (Voss Forlag, Amsterdam)
1988 FAIRY TALES (Voss Forlag, Amsterdam)
1988 JOKES (Voss Forlag, Amsterdam)
1987 HUNDRED EVENTS (Texts & reproductions of own paintings, own publication, Reykjavik)
1986 THE MESSAGE POUCH (Children’s book, text & illustrations. MM, Reykjavik)
1985 TWENTY-TWO OLD FRIENDS (Own publication, Reykjavik) Drawings

Teaching, lectures and courses including:
2000-2001 Guest professor at the Art Academy of Stuttgart, Germany
1991-2000 Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts Reykjavik; Icelandic University of Arts; Icelandic University of Education; University of Iceland Extramural Programme; California Institute for the Arts, Valencia California USA; Art Center, Pasadena, California USA; AKI Enschede Holland; The Art Academy of Vilnius, Lithuania; Valand College of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden

Other:
From 1981 Copy writer and later creative director at GSP Advertising and PR Agency in Iceland.
From 1991 Owner and director of the Pocket Theatre.
From 1994 Head curator at MIT (Museum of Imaginary Totality)
2001 CURATOR for John Baldessari show WHILE SOMETHING IS HAPPENING HERE, SOMETHING ELSE IS HAPPENING THERE, at the Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland