Sæbjörnsson uses Ūgh and Bõögâr to scrutinise our relationship with reality. Their activities in Venice included a massive social media campaign of which we cannot know whether it was about something real or if it was plain nonsense. Does the perfume that was sold on the net even exist? What do we really know about the world offered to us by the media, and social media? How many of us have met Putin?

Works and performances by Egill Sæbjörnsson have been shown at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, the Frankfurter Kunstverein, the Kölnischer Kunstverein, the Baryshnikov Art Center in New York, Oi Futuro in Rio de Janeiro, PS1/MoMa in New York, the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney. Sæbjörnsson has held gallery exhibitions in, among other venues, Gallery i8 in Reykjavik, Hopstreet Gallery in Brussels, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi and Galerie Johann König in Berlin. He was shortlisted for the Carnegie Art Award in 2010. Works by Egill Sæbjörnsson are included in numerous private public collections around the world. His most recent public works of art are Steinkugel at the Robert Koch Institute and Cascade, a large light installation on the façade of Kunstmuseum Ahlen. In 2011, Sæbjörnsson collaborated with Marcia Moraes and Robert Wilson on a renewed production of Wilson’s legendary Einstein on the Beach.

– Ilona Anhava for Galerie Anhava“