Egill Saebjörnsson

Egill Saebjörnsson’s work focuses on experimentation with sound and music, whereby he also makes frequent use of illustrations, photography and performance. He often combines a number of artistic media in order to arrive at his calculated effect in the wide sphere between the art world and the music business.
This is also true of Egill Saebjörnsson’s new installation at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, which combines such diverse elements as a cardboard dummy piano, a singing bush and concrete rock music. Saebjörnsson – whose videos have already appeared on MTV and VIVA – brought out the much-acclaimed album “Tonk of the Lawn” four years ago and landed his first Icelandic hit with the song “I love you so”. His work repeatedly extends into the music industry with its production forms and, vice versa, it infiltrates products of the pop industry into art. At our open studios event on 21st January 2005, Egill Saebjörnsson will be giving a live concert together with Helgi Svavar Helgason (drums), David Jonsson (keyboard) and the Berlin artist and musician Frank Frede (bass).