ÞÓRA SIGURÐARDÓTTIR
TIME – SPACE – SUBSTANCE
17.05.2025 – 07.09.2025
Galleries 02 03 04 05
The exhibition presents new works rooted in Thóra Sigurðardóttir’s (born 1954) decades-long interest in substance, space, and drawing. The body—its sensitivity, matter, position, and motion—is an important subject for Thóra. Her work draws attention to the natural world of organisms: carbon and metals, calcium; organic membranes, fibers, and waste.
“In an effort to make sense of the chaotic fumbling of our being, we draw latitude and longitude lines and impose them on maps, draw plans, keep diaries and design buildings; we live and breathe inside and outside the lines.”
Thóra was born and raised in Akureyri and holds degrees from the Icelandic College of Art and Crafts (1981) and Denmark’s Jutland Academy of Art (1991). Thóra has shown her work in many solo and group exhibitions, including a solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Iceland in 2024. Her work resides in public and private collections in Iceland, Europe, and North America, including the Living Art Museum, the Reykjavik Art Museum, BBK Berlin, and the Drawings and Prints Collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Ann-Sofie Gremaud writes a text in the exhibition catalogue. The project is supported by the Icelandic Art Center, the Icelandic Visual Art Copyright Association, the Muggur Travel Fund, and the Visual Artists’ Salary Fund.
