Books, articles, curatorial publications and talks
My academic and curatorial writing is published mostly in English, French and Icelandic, a few academic papers have been translated into Russian and Polish. Here are some exemples of academic publications, exhibition catalogues, and art criticism. A more complete bibliography is listed below.
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- “Fashion that Came in from the Cold War”. In Faces of Colonialism in the Fashion Spread”, in Fashioned in the North, Anna Dahlgren (ed.), Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2020, pp. 31-48
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- Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “Craft and Care in Period of Crises”, Earth, Wind, Fire, Water, Randi Grov Berger and Tonje Kjellevold (eds.) Oslo: Arnoldsche, 2020, 116 – 119.
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- STARA #12 / 2019
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- Í bókinni Fegurðin er ekki skraut fjalla átta listfræðingar, sýningastjórar og aðrir fræðimenn um íslenska samtímaljósmyndum út frá ólíkum sjónarhornum og setja í samhengi við alþjóðlega strauma í ljósmyndun, myndlist, heimspeki og listasögu. Í bókinni er jafnframt að finna fjölda ljósmynda eftir marga helstu ljósmyndara landsins.
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- “New Maps for Networks: Reykjavik FLUXUS– A Case of Connections”. In Narratives Unfolding: National Art Histories in an Unfinished World, Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2017, pp. 189 – 208
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- Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, Sigríður Zoëga Studio Photographer in Reykjavík. Reykjavík: National Museum of Iceland, 2000
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- Dreams of the Sublime in Contemporary Icelandic Art, Reykjavík: Reykjavík Art Museum, 2008
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- Islande en vue. Photographes français en Islande 1845-1900. Reykjavík: JPV publishers, 2000
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- “Ólöf Nordal. Musée islandique”, Ólöf Nordal: Musée Islandique. Reykjavík: National Gallery of Iceland, 2012, pp. 4-16
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- “Magnús Pálsson et le département New Art à Reykjavík 1975-1984. Teaching: the Maddest Artform”. In Transmettre l’art – Figures et méthodes – Quelle histoire. Paris: Les presses du réel, 2013, pp. 129 –151
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- Til gagns og til fegurðar: sjálfsmyndir í ljósmyndum og klæðnaði á Íslandi 1860-1960. Reykjavík: National Museum of Iceland, 2008
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- Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, Michael Langkjær(eds.), Images in Time: flashing forward, backward, in front and behind photography in fashion, advertising and the press, Bath: Wunderkammer Press/Bath Spa University, 2011
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- Talk to Me! Latvian Contemporary Art in Akureyri Art Museum, 2019
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- Ieva Epnere, Green School, 2017. Installation for Talk to Me! Listasafn Akureyrar 2019
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- “Hot Spots in Cold War. Visual Agendas, and Relocated Narratives in Cold War Photography”. In On Display: Visual Politics, Material Culture. Munster/New York: Waxmann, 2016, pp. 145 – 167
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- “Dissecting patriarchy in the intimacy of the archive through the work of RAMESCH DAHA, TATIANA LECOMTE, MIRANDA PENNELL”, EIKON – International Magazine for Photography and Media Art, # 100, 2018
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- Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “Sophie Calle. Where is the Truth? “, EIKON – International Magazine for Photography and Media Art (German /English), # 107 / 2019
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- “When the Water Falls – Finding ‘Nowhere’ in the Precarious, Poetic and Political Waters of Iceland,” FOAM – International Photography Magazine, Issue 50/Water, Amsterdam 2018, 227 – 232
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- “When the Water Falls – Finding ‘Nowhere’ in the Precarious, Poetic and Political Waters of Iceland,” FOAM – International Photography Magazine, Issue 50/Water, Amsterdam 2018, 227 – 232
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- “The New Nordic Cool”. In Russian Fashion Theory. The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture, Taylor & Francis: Moscow, 2019
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- Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “Rethinking Sigurjón Ólafsson´s Place in the Danish Avant-Garde Through the Retrospective Exhibition Tracks in Sand”. In Featuring Modernism in the Work of Sculptor Sigurjón Ólafsson, Reykjavík: Háskólaútgáfan, 2017, pp. 67-75
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- Spor í sandi / Tracks in Sand. Retrospective Exhibition of Sigurjón Ólafsson’s works, Reykjavík: National Gallery of Iceland, 2014
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- Curated by_ Vienna 2017, Gallery Raum mit Licht
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- “A Strange Place Called Nowhere”, iprn – European Research Network. Changing Faces /Shifts: Archives in Dialogue and New Identities in Documentarism. Jyväskylä: Univeristy of Jyväskylä/University of Sunderland/iprn, 2006, 39-46
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- Interplay. Sigurjón Ólafsson & Finn Juhl. Thinking across sculpture and design, Reykjavík: Listasafn Sigurjóns Ólafssonar, 2015
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- Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir and Karlis Verpe (introduction and eds.), (Re)Construction of Friendship. Riga European Capital of Culture. Riga: Art Space, 2014
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- Ange Leccia, La Mer, Akureyri Art Museum, 2018
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- Ange Leccia, La Mer, National Gallery Iceland, 2017
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- “Blákalt stefnumót við raunveruleikann í 111 Reykjavík”, Spessi. 111, Reykjavík: Forlagið, 2018
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- En Thule froiduleuse with artists Sigurður Guðmundsson, Sigurður Guðjónsson, Kristleifur Björnsson og Ólöf Nordal. Cover design by Pierre Vanni
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- Kjarval. Út á spássíuna – textar, skissur og pár í list Kjarvals. Kjarvalsstaðir – Listasafn Reykjavíkur 19.6 2015 – 3. janúar 2016.
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- “ Þjóð, náttúra, raunveruleiki / Nation, Nature, Reality”, The History of Art in Iceland from late 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century, Vol 2, Ólafur Kvaran (ed.), Reykjavík: National Museum of Iceland and Forlagið, 2011, 8-84
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- Kristleifur Björnsson, “Every Other Day- Melabúðin”, Reality Check, Reykjavík Art Festival, 2010
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “From National Identity to Post-Industrial Crises. Two Faces of the National Photobook”, in Photography Bound (Silvana Editoriale and Fotogaleriet Oslo, 2023).
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, „Íslensk myndlist í erlendri gagnrýni. Frá Georg Gretor til Gregorys Volk“, Ritið 3/ 2023.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “The Guerrilla Paradigm or “Feminist Avant-Garde” – Towards an Alternative Feminist Canon“, in A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975, Vol. 41. Editors: Benedikt Hjartarson, Tania Ørum, Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam, and Laura Luise Schultz (Leiden: Brill, 2022), 447–474.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, „Sjónarspil tegundanna: Hvalurinn í öllum sínum (líf) myndum", Ritið 1/2020. https://ritid.hi.is/index.php/ritid/article/view/91
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir and Ólöf K. Sigurðardóttir (eds.), Aðgát. Borghildur Óskarsdóttir (Reykjavík: Listasafn Reykjavíkur, 2024.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir and Ólöf K. Sigurðardóttir (eds.), Rauðir þræðir/Read Threads. Hildur Hákonardóttir. Reykjavík: Listasafn Reykjavíkur, 2023.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir (ed..), Óræð lönd: Samtöl í sameiginlegum víddum. Snæbjörnsdóttir / Wilson. Debatable Lands. Dialogs From Shared Worlds, Kópavogur: Gerðarsafn, 2021.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir og Sigrún Alba Sigurðardóttir (ritstj.), Fegurðin er ekki skraut. Ísensk samtímaljósmyndun, Reykjavík: Fagurskinna/Bjartur, 2020.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir og Astrida Rogule (eds.), Talaðu við mig!/ Runā ar mani! / Talk to Me! Sýningarskrá gefin út í samvinnu við Latvian National Museum of Art í Riga, í tengslum við samnefnda sýningu í Listasafninu á Akureyri 1.6. - 22.9. 2019, Riga: Apgads, 2019.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, "Imigrants in Olso", Oslo Biennalen 2019-2024. https://www.oslobiennalen.no/participant/hlynur-hallson/
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “Craft and Care in Period of Crises”, Earth, Wind, Fire, Water, Oslo: Arnoldsche, 2020, 110-119. https://www.norwegiancrafts.no/projects/earth-wind-fire-water
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, in A World History of Women Photographers, eds. Luce Lebart og Marie Robert. London: Thames & Hudson, 2022.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, in Une histoire mondiale des femmes photographes, Luce Lebart et Marie Robert (eds.), Paris: Textuel, 2020, p. 54, 129, 351. https://www.editionstextuel.com/livre/une-histoire-mondiale-des-femmes-photographes
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, "Agonistic Interventions and Political Discourse in the City", in Sculpture. Anti-Monument: Non-Traditional Forms of Commemoration, Orónsko: Centre of Polish Sculpture and UAP (University of the Arts in Poznan, 2020, 317-328. https://www.ahice.net/publications/detail/project/sculpture-today-4-anti-monument-non-traditional-forms-of-commemoration-2019/
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, "Sjónarspil tegundanna: Hvalurinn í öllum sínum (líf) myndum" Ritið 1/2020 https://ritid.hi.is/index.php/ritid/article/view/91
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “Fashion that Came in from the Cold War. Faces of Colonialism in the Fashion Spread”, Fashioned in the North, Anna Dahlgren (ed.), Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2020, 31- 48.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, "„Land mitt! Þú ert sem órættur draumur. Óráðin gáta. Fyrirheit!“ Um ódauðleika ægifegurðarinnar í Íslandsmyndabókum", í Fegurðin er ekki skraut, Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir and Sigrún Alba Sigurðardóttir (eds.), Reykjavík: Bjartur, 2020, 11-48.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “Úr femíniskum faðmi Hrafnhildar Arnardóttur í (kolefnis) fótspor Chromo Sapiens á Feneyjatvíæringnum vorið 2019 /
“From the Feminist Embrace of Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir To the (Carbon)Footprint Of Chromo Sapiens At the Venice Biennial In Spring 2019”, STARA 12 /2019, 47 - 59.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “Fundnir hlutir og týndur tími í Leiðréttingum SigurðarÁrna Sigurðssonar / Found Objects and Lost Time in Sigurður Árni Sigurðsson’s Corrections”, Sigurður Árni Sigurðsson. Leiðréttingar, Reykjavík: Hverfisgallerí, 2019.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, "Aðdráttarafl upprunans", Ólöf Nordal. Úngl, Reykjavík: Listasafn Reykjavíkur, 2019, 135-163.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “The New Nordic Cool”, Russian Fashion Theory. The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture, Taylor & Francis: Moscow, 2019, 35 - 59. http://eng.nlobooks.ru/node/29
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, " Genvurdering af Sigurjón Ólafssons placering i dansk avantgardes kunsthistorie", Sigurjón Ólafsson. Mangfoldig modernisme, Anne Blond og Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir (eds.), Tønder: MSJ. Kunstmuseet i Tønder, 2019, 105 - 119.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, "Sophie Calle. Where is the Truth? ", EIKON - International Magazine for Photography and Media Art (German /English), # 107 / 2019, 32-39. https://www.eikon.at/content/en/zeitschrift_detail.php?zeitschrift_id=134
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “Avons-nous encore besoin de héros nordiques ?”, Perspective [Online], 1 | 2019 https://journals.openedition.org/perspective/13554
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, "Avons-nous encore besoin de héros nordiques ? Une analyse des généalogies artistiques et des filiations masculines entre Dieter Roth et Ragnar Kjartansson," Perspective 2019/1 https://journals.openedition.org/perspective/13554 https://journals.openedition.org/perspective/13606
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, "Óræð inngrip og pólitísk orðræða í borginni. Listaverkið í almannarými og áhrif útisýninga í Reykjavík." Ritið 2/2018, 75 - 103.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “When the Water Falls – Finding ‘Nowhere’ in the Precarious, Poetic and Political Waters of Iceland,” FOAM – International Photography Magazine, Issue 50/Water, Amsterdam 2018, 227 – 232. https://issuu.com/foam-magazine/docs/fm__50
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, "Dissecting patriarchy in the intimacy of the archive through the work of RAMESCH DAHA, TATIANA LECOMTE, MIRANDA PENNELL", EIKON - International Magazine for Photography and Media Art, # 100, 2018, 57 – 67.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “New Maps for Networks: Reykjavik FLUXUS– A Case of Connections.” In Narratives Unfolding: National Art Histories in an Unfinished World, edited by LANGFORD MARTHA, 189-208. Montreal;London; Chicago: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. Accessed May 26, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1q1xtdj.14.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “Blákalt stefnumót við raunveruleikann í 111 Reykjavík", Spessi. 111, Reykjavík, Forlagið, 2018.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, ,,Vatn á landi. Á ferð um Þjórsárbakka með Borghildi Óskarsdóttur",. Borghildur Óskarsdóttir, Þjórsá, Listasafn Árnesinga, 2018, 2-7.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “Rethinking Sigurjón Ólafsson´s Place in the Danish Avant-Garde Through the Retrospective Exhibition Tracks in Sand”, Featuring Modernism in the Work of Sculptor Sigurjón Ólafsson, Reykjavík: Háskólaútgáfan, 2017, 67-74.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “Hot Spots in Cold War. Visual Agendas, and Relocated Narratives in Cold War Photography”, On Display: Visual Politics, Material Culture. Munster/New York: Waxmann, 2016, 145 - 167.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir og Abigail Solomon-Godeau, “Well, What is Photography? http://correspondencias.fotocolectania.org/en/2016-en/#when-photography
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “Iceland.” European History of Photography vol. I, II and III, Bratislava: Central European House of Photography, 2010 - 2016.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “Outsides and insides of the exhibition Trout Fishing in America and Other stories”, Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson, You Must Carry Me Now- The Cultural Lives of Endangered Species, Göteborg: Förlaget 284, 2015.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, "Manetic Memories", STARA 7 / 2016, 60-61.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, Interplay. Sigurjón Ólafsson & Finn Juhl. Thinking across sculpture and design, Reykjavík: Listasafn Sigurjóns Ólafssonar, 2015.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir og Karlis Verpe (introduction and éditors), (Re)Construction of Friendship. Riga European Capital of Culture. Riga: Art Space, 2014. https://artspacereconstruction.wordpress.com/reconstruction-of-friendship/
http://echogonewrong.com/dubious-friendships-on-the-reconstruction-of-friendship-exhibition-in-riga/
| Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, Spor í sandi / Tracks in Sand. Retrospective Exhibition of Sigurjón Ólafsson's works, Reykjavík: National Gallery of Iceland, 2014. https://www.listasafn.is/syningar/nr/315 |
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “Magnús Pálsson et le département New Art à Reykjavík 1975-1984. Teaching: the Maddest Artform”, Transmettre l’art – Figures et méthodes – Quelle histoire. Paris: Les presses du réel, 2013, 129 –151.
https://www.lespressesdureel.com/ouvrage.php?id=2708
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “Ólöf Nordal. Musée islandique”, Ólöf Nordal: Musée Islandique. Reykjavík: National Gallery of Iceland, 2012, 4-16.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, Michael Langkjær (eds.), Images in Time: flashing forward, backward, in front and behind photography in fashion, advertising and the press, Bath: Wunderkammer Press/Bath Spa University, 2011.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “The New Nordic Cool: Björk, Icelandic Fashion and Art Today.” Fashion Theory, 2011:15:2, pp. 239-258.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “ Þjóð, náttúra, raunveruleiki / Nation, Nature, Reality”, The History of Art in Iceland from late 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century, Vol 2, Ólafur Kvaran (ed.), Reykjavík: National Museum of Iceland and Forlagið, 2011, 8-84.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion. Vol. 8.
Berg Publishers, London, 2010, 356 – 362.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir (et. al), Icelandic Art Today. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz 2009.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, Dreams of the Sublime in Contemporary Icelandic Art. Reykjavík Art Museum, and Bozar Brussels, 2008.
https://listasafnreykjavikur.is/sites/default/files/syningarskra/2008draumarumaegifegurdiislenskrisamtimalistbok.pdf
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, Without Trace: Photography by Katrín Elvarsdóttir. Reykjavík: National Museum Iceland, 2007.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “Walking the line”, Locations – Spessi. New York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 2007.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, iprn – European Research Network. Changing Faces /Shifts: Archives in Dialogue and New Identities in Documentarism. Jyväskylä: Univeristy of Jyväskylä/University of Sunderland/iprn, 2006, 39-46.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir and Ólafur Páll Jónsson (introduction and eds.), Art, Ethics and Environment: A Free Inquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “A Strange Place called “Nowhere.”” Sense in Place. Site-ations International. Cardiff: University of Wales/UWIC, 2006.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “Roots of the Rúntur” by Rob Honstra. Camera Austria 5/2006.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “Story-lines” by Robert Frank. Camera Austria 90/2005.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, Til gagns og til fegurðar: sjálfsmyndir í ljósmyndum og klæðnaði á Íslandi 1860-1960. Reykjavík: National Museum of Iceland, 2008.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, Islande en vue. Photographes français en Islande 1845-1900. Reykjavík: JPV publishers, 2000 (French-Icelandic bi-lingual edition)
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, Sigríður Zoëga Studio Photographer in Reykjavík. Reykjavík: National Museum of Iceland, 2000.
Through the Lens. Documentary film: Sigríður Zoega and August Sander. Directors: Gréta Ólafsdóttir and Susan Muska. Producer Nýja Bíó/RUV, 2000.
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “French Photography in Nineteenth-century Iceland.” History of Photography, Vol 23. 1. Spring 1999. Taylor & Francis Ldt., London, Washington DC, pp. 10-17. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03087298.1999.10443792
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, “Sigríður Zoëga: Icelandic Studio Photographer.” History of Photography, Vol 23. 1.Spring 1999. Taylor & Francis Ldt., London, Washington DC, pp. 28-35. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03087298.1999.10443794