press release ENG - Hopstreet Gallery Brussels

“In the Fantasy of Music”
Egill Sæbjörnsson
6 November – 20 December 2014
Egill's Art Recipe:
1 kg Animation
5 tons objects
86 video projectors
1 deci-liter Pop Music
1 deci-liter Experimental Sound
Dash of Performance
3 spoons of Sponge Bob-Squarepants
5 Mona Lisa’s
2-3 Art theories
3 meters Sex in geothermal wirlpool
Mix together and add your own imagination
Get a fresh haircut
Egill Sæbjörnsson (°73 Reykjavik, Iceland) lives and works in Berlin.
Sæbjörnsson recently opened two permanent outdoor video installations. One for the Robert
Koch-Institute, Berlin and the second for Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Westfalen, Germany.
Exhibitions: Frankfurter Kunstverein, PS1-Moma, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, The
Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Reykjavik Art Museum,
Kunstverein Nürnberg, Albert Dürer Gesellschaft, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum Für Gegenwart
Berlin, i8 Gallery Reykjavik, Hopstreet Gallery Brussels, Anhava Gallery, Helsinki, Johann König
Berlin and Nordenhake Stockholm.
Sæbjörnsson, together with Marcia Moraes was invited by Robert Wilson to design scenes for a
special adaptation of "Einstein on the Beach" in 2012.