Birta Gudjonsdottir

Birta Gudjonsdottir (b. 1977. She/her) is a curator and artist living in Iceland.
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2024-2026, She was a Director of Svavarssafn Art Museum, Iceland.
2023, She was a Co-curator, Biennale Cairo -Something Else, Egypt.
2020, Artistic Director of art festival Art without Borders, festival of people with disabilities, Iceland.
She was a Curator of the Icelandic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2019; exhibition Chromo Sapiens;Shoplifter.
2013-2018, Chief Curator at the National Art Museum of Iceland (Listasafn Íslands), Reykjavik.
2015, Co-curator of Momentum – Nordic Art Biennial of Contemporary Art. Moss, Norway.
2013, Guest-curator of the Nordic Triennial of Art. Eskilstuna, Sweden.
2009-2011, Director of The Living Art Museum - Nýló, Reykjavik.
2008-2009, Artistic Director of exhibition space 101 Projects, Reykjavik.
2008, Curator´s assistant at MuHKA; Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, Belgium.
2005-2008, Co-director-& Curator atSAFN, Private Contemporary Art Collection, Reykjavik.

Birta Gudjonsdottir has independently curated over 40 exhibitions in Amsterdam, Basel, Berlin, Boden, Cairo, Oslo, Melbourne, Moss, New York, Paris, St. Petersburg, Rotterdam, Venice, Zürich and all art museums and most art spaces in Iceland.

In 2011 she participated in the Curatorial Intensive Program of ICI; Independent Curators International, New York.
In 2011 she participated in The Cornwall Workshop, organised by Tate Museum St. Ives.
2007-2008, Participation in the Nordic Baltic Curatorial Platform project, FRAME, Finland.

Birta has been on advisory boards of the Icelandic Art Center, Reykjavik Art Museum and The Icelandic Academy of the Arts, and a board member of the Association of Art Historians, The Association of Art Theory in Iceland, The Reykjavik Art Museum, The Visual Arts Council of Iceland and the Association of Icelandic Artists.

From 2002-2013 she operated non-profit home-gallery Dwarf Gallery in Reykjavik.
Birta is a member of IKT, International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, The Association of Art Theory in Iceland and SÍM; Association of Icelandic Artists. Birta is a co-founding boardmember of The Association of Curators in Iceland.