Transmediale Kunst: Bjarki Bragason
Bjarki Bragason (1983) studied
fine art at the Iceland Academy of the Arts, Universität der Künste Berlin and completed an MFA at the California Institute
of the Arts in Los Angeles in 2010.
In his work, Bjarki focuses on collisions in time, tracing
paradigm shifts through investigating the site of shifts, be it in geology, botany or architecture. Bjarki has held numerous
solo exhibitions and has participated in group exhibitions internationally. Among solo exhibitions are Past Understandings
at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, and Desire Ruin at the Naturhistorisches Museum, in Vienna, The Sea at the Schildt Foundation
in Tammisaari, Finland, and Part of a Part of a Part at the ASÍ museum in Reykjavik. Recent group exhibitions include Kingdom:
flora, fauna, fable at the Reykjavik Art Museum, Imagine the Present at St. Paul St. Gallery in Auckland and Infrastructure
of Climate at Human Resources Gallery, Los Angeles. In March this year his work will be featured in the MIT art book series
on work which investigates the weather and climate change. Bjarki has curated exhibitions and taken part in artistic research
projects in collaboration with artists, architects, archeaologists and earth scientists. He has been board member of the Living
Art Museum in Reykjavik, an artist run museum which has for 40 years been focused on experiments in art, and since 2013 runs
a gallery in a small late-Baroque cabinet in his home, titled ca. 1715. Bjarki is Assistant Professor and BA Programme Director
at the fine arts department at the Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavik where he is based.
In the talk Bjarki
Bragason will discuss his recent work and research methods