Exhibition of Gu\u00f0r\u00fan Bergsd\u00f3ttir’s (1970-2024) works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bergsd\u00f3ttir developed a unique style in her embroidery works which relate to both craft traditions and geometric abstract art and appeal to people in countless ways. A survey exhibition featuring Bergsd\u00f3ttir’s works opens at Ger\u00f0arsafn on April 30, 2025, curated by Hildigunnur Birgisd\u00f3ttir. A book about the artist’s career and works will be published by her family parallel to the exhibition.
Bergsd\u00f3ttir was born in Reykjav\u00edk in 1970. She began making art in her thirties using a needle, yarn, and canvas in her own distinctive way, thus making the work for which she is best known. She worked directly onto the canvas, stitch by stitch, bit by bit, without a pre-designed pattern. Previously, Bergsd\u00f3ttir had also created drawings in a not unsimilar way with patterns drawn with marker on paper.
Over an 18-year period, Bergsd\u00f3ttir created 66 embroidery pieces. Her work evolved from straight lines and squares into smaller and more organic forms until form nearly vanished, and she only placed one cross-stitch in each colour at a time on the surface. In Bergsd\u00f3ttir’s latest works, this creates the feeling of the surface vibrating.
Bergsd\u00f3ttir exhibited her works many times as part of the festival Art Without Borders and at various museums and exhibition venues from 2003 to 2023, and she was chosen as the honorary artist of Art Without Borders in 2011. She held both solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions during her career and succeeded with her outstanding works in breaking visible and invisible walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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