I am the recipient of the Icelandic Art Prize Motivational Award of the Year 2020 for my ambitious and powerful contribution to the Icelandic art scene in 2019.
After graduating in 2016 from the Iceland University of the Arts’ MFA program, I have exhibited in various art institutions in Iceland and abroad, such as the 5th International Biennale for Young Art, Deep Inside, curated by Nadim Samman. While primarily focusing on my art practice, I create interactive stage designs for concerts and installations with new media artist Raphaël Alexandre (here is our website). I also have a collaboration-based curatorial practice: in 2020, the musician Julius Pollux and I curated Vestur í bláinn, a collective exhibition about immigration in Iceland, spread in different locations in Reykjavík.
Also, I am a board member of The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, since 2019.
_ Listen to Out There, episode 2 “In the studio with Claire Paugam”, created and produced by the Icelandic Art Center _
ongoing
Blindspot, group exhibition curated by Daria Sól Andrews, Reykjavik City Library,
13/03 - 24/04
upcoming
- 2021: Haldalda, concert at Mengi Art space, Reykjavik - date to be announced -
stage design with Raphaël Alexandre, a collaboration with composer and musician Sóley Sigurjósdóttir and cellist Heiður Lára Bjarnadóttir
- 2021: Attempting the Embrace n°31, solo exhibition part of the D-salur series at the Reykjavik Art Museum
Curated by Aldís Snorradóttir, 23/09 - 07/11 2021
education
2016 - Master of Fine Arts, Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavik
2014 - DNAP (National Diploma of Fine Arts, BA degree), School of Fine Arts of Nantes Métropole, France
2012 - BTS (two year technical degree) of Graphic Design, Duperré School of Design, Fashion and Creation, Paris, France
solo and duo exhibitions
2021 - upcoming: Attempting the Embrace n°31, solo exhibition part of the D-salur series at the Reykjavik Art Museum, curated by Aldís Snorradóttir, 23/09 - 07/11 2021
2020 - Shapeless Vibrations, duo exhibition with Valgerður Ýr Magnúsdóttir, Midpunkt Art Space, Kópavogur, Iceland
2019 - Pouring Inside, Off Venue of Sequences IX Art festival, Flaeði Art Space, Reykjavik
2019 - Versatile Uprising, collaboration with Raphaël Alexandre, Wind and Weather Window Gallery, Winter Light Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland
2018 - Slippery Edges, Listastofan Art Space, Reykjavík, Iceland
2018 - Entre des formes incertaines, residency restitution, L'Attrape-couleurs art space, Lyon France
2017 - MIDSCAPE, Listastofan Art Space, Reykjavik, Iceland
group exhibitions
2021 - Blindhæð/Blindspot, group exhibition curated by Daria Sól Andrews, Reykjavik City Library, 13/03 - 24/04
2020 - Vestur í bláinn, multidisciplinary collective project about immigration in Iceland, created with Julius Pollux Rothlaender, 10 public locations in Reykjavík
2020 - Le Boudoir / Dyngjan, Alliance Française de Reykjavik, Reykjavik
2019 - Opnening exhibition of Exxistenz - Skynlisasafnið, Reykjavik.
Curated by Johanne Christensen and Serena Swanson
2019 - WE RUINED EVERYTHING, group exhibition co-curated with Maryna Daniel, Listastofan Art Space, Reykjavik
2019 - The Factory #4, group exhibition, collaboration with Raphaël Alexandre, The Factory, Djúpavík, Iceland.
Curated by Emilie Mørkeberg Dalum
2019 - + ou - SEXE, Galerie B+, Lyon, France. Curated by Gilles Maignaud
2018 - SEX SELF, Ekkisens art space, Reykjavík, Iceland.
Curated by Maria-Carmela Rasso, Katerina Blahutova & myself
2018 - 16e Biennale d'arts actuels - 16th Biennale of contemporary arts - CRAC Champigny-sur-Marne, France
2018 - Líkamleiki, Icelandic Photography Festival, Gerðarsafn Kópavogur Art Museum, Kópavogur, Iceland.
Curated by Brynja Sveinsdóttir
2017 - Salon Parcours d'Artistes 2017, Art Festival, Les Passerelles, Pontault-Combault, France.
Curated by Marcus Philippe
2017 - PLAN-B, International Art Festival, Borganes, Iceland
2016 - Deep Inside, 5th International Biennale for Young Art, Trekhogornaya Manufactory, Moscow.
Curated by Nadim Samman
2016 - Fine Art/Design Degree Show MA 2016, Gerðarsafn Art museum of Kópavogur, Iceland.
Curated by Daníel Björnsson
2016 - …[BÆNG]…, old Kling og Bang gallery, Reykjavik
2015 - Lets the Flavour Flow, old Kling og Bang gallery, Reykjavik
2015 - Ahh now it all makes sense, Listaháskóli Íslands, Reykjavik
2015 - CLAIRE MATHILDE ZUZANA, Kaffistofa gallery, Reykjavik
2014 - Première tentative, Collectif Nu(L), Nantes, France
2013 - Rattrapage, Dulcie Gallery, Nantes, France
2013 - Archiculture, festival of Art and Architecture, Ecole Supérieure Nationale d'Architecture de Nantes, France
artist residencies
2018 - Röstin Residency, Þórshöfn, Iceland
2018 - L'Attrape-couleurs, art space, Lyon, France
2017 - SASSO Artist Residency, Vairano, Switzerland
2016 - NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland
press
2020 - RÚV TV, Meninngin culture program, interview about Vestur í bláinn
2020 - RÚV webiste, West into the Blue, all over Reykjavik by Alexander Elliott
2020 - RÚV rás 1, radio, Lofthelgi - 8. september 2020
2020 - Stundin, “Gera röddum innflytjenda hátt undir höfði” by Gabríel Benjamin, Iceland
2019 - Artzine, “IT’S BUZZING WITH ENERGIES”: UNPACKING THE EURO-ICELANDIC ART EXCHANGE by Claire-Julia Hill
2019 - Artzine, “The last exhibition at Listastofan” by Ana Victoria bruno
2019 - Artzine, "Versatile Uprising: Lifandi Formleysa" by Sólveig Eir Stewart
2019 - The Reykjavík Grapevine, #2 - 2019, "Versatile Uprising" by Tara Njála Ingvarsdóttir, Iceland
2018 - RÚV radio, Vidsja show, "Tilraun að faðmlagi í janúar" by Starkaður Sigurðarson, Iceland (on air 29/01/2018)
2017 - UMBIGO art and design magazine, issue #63, "Claire Paugam - Attempting the Embrace" by Barabara Valentina, Portugal
2017 - Capacious Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, "Forgotten rituals of yearning" by Agnieszka Anna Wolodzko, USA
2017 - THE ICEVIEW TI online, Icelandic art and literature magazine
2017 - JIR - Femmes magazine, "L'analogie visuelle comme processus créatif" by Laïla Bapoo, article based on a conference I gave about my art practice, Reunion Island, France
2016 - Interview for RÚV (Icelandic TV channel) Kastljós program "https://www.clairepaugam.com/Attempting-the-Embrace-n-26"
publication
2021 - ”What about playfulness?” article published in Art in Iceland magazine #1
2020 - Podcast Out There, episode 2 “In the studio with Claire Paugam”, created and produced by the Icelandic Art Center
2020 - Poem and video piece published in the 4th issue of Ós Journal literary magazine, Ós Pressan, Reykjavík
2020 - Catalogue of the Icelandic Art Prize 2020
2018 - Exhibition catalogue 16e Biennnale d'Arts Actuels CRAC of Champigny-sur-Marne, France
2018 - Poem published in Murder Magazine vol II "Erotic/ System", Reykjavik - Los Angeles
2018 - Exhibition booktlet Líkamleiki, Icelandic Photography Festival, Gerðarsafn Kópavogur Art Museum
2017 - Exhibition catalogue Salon Parcours d'Artistes 2017, Les Passerelles, Pontault-Combault, France
2017 - Guest editor for the first issue THE ICEVIEW art and literature magazine, Iceland
2016 - Third issue "Surprise Edition" of Pseudoscienza art magazine, Vienna, Austria
2016 - Exhibition catalogue, Deep inside, 5th International Biennale for Young Art
2016 - Exhibition catalogue, Fine Art/Design Degree Show MA 2016, published by the Iceland Academy of the Arts
2016 - L'Enseignement de San Francisco by Colin Thil, published by Martian's Parlor Entertainment
talks
2020 - Collaborations in Contemporary Art: Claire Paugam & Julius Pollux
talk about our collaboration and our exhibition Vestur í bláinn, a conversation with Hannah Styrmisdóttir
Iceland University of the Arts
2020 - Vestur í bláinn - Artists’ talk, with Bára Bjanadóttir, Úavon, Hugo Llanes and Eva Bjanadóttir, Reykjavik City Library - Grófinn
2020 - Vestur í bláinn - Artist talk, with Ewa Marcinek, Reykjavik City Library - Gerðuberg
2019 - Meeting Claire Paugam, talk about my art practice to the MA Design students of the Iceland University of the Arts
2019 - Embodying Experiences talk with curator Brynja Sveinsdóttir for HugarFlug, the Iceland University of the Arts annual conference
2018 - Meeting Claire Paugam, talk about my art practice to the MA and 3rd year BA fine arts students of the Iceland Academy of the Arts
2018 - Artist talk for the exhibition Líkamleiki / Embody, Icelandic Photography Festival, Gerðarsafn art museum, Kópavogur, Iceland
2017 - Rencontre avec Claire Paugam, Ecole Supérieure des Arts de la Réunion, Reunion Island, France
2017 - Rencontre avec Claire Paugam, lycée Victor Duruy, Paris, France
2016 - Exhibiting at the Young Art Biennale for the MA students of Fine Arts of the Iceland Academy of the Arts, with María Dalberg and Veronika Geiger
curatorial projects
2020 - Vestur í bláinn, multidisciplinary collective project about immigration in Iceland,
created and curated with Julius Pollux Rothlaender, 10 public locations in Reykjavík
2020 - Le Boudoir / Dyngjan, group exhibition, Alliance Française de Reykjavik (French Council), Reykjavik
2020 - Regenerate #2 - Physical Newness, group exhibition curated with Maria-Carmela Raso, Gallery Port, Reykjavik
2019 - WE RUINED EVERYTHING group exhibition co-curated with Martyna Daniel, Listastofan Art Space, Reykjavik
2019 - assistant of Becky Forsythe for the group exhibition Soft Landing - graduation show of the Master of Fine Arts from the Iceland University of the Arts - Nýlistasafnið / The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik
2018 - SEX SELF group exhibition co-curated with Maria-Carmela Raso & Katherina Blahutova, Ekkisens Art Space, Reykjavík, Iceland
2017 - Chapter One - Water (The Spirit of Man) Aishling Muller's solo exhibition, Listastofan Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland
2016 - Collective curation …[BÆNG]…, a collaboration between students from the Iceland Academy of the Arts and the Media Art School of Cologne, old Kling og Bang gallery, Reykjavik
2015 - Collective curation Lets the Flavour Flow, old Kling og Bang gallery, Reykjavik
2015 - Collective curation Ahh now it all makes sense, Listaháskóli Íslands, Reykjavik
2015 - assistant of Hulda Stefansdóttir for Dynamics of Darkness in the North, The Nordic House, Reykjavik
stage design with Raphaël Alexandre
2021 - upcoming: Haldalda with electronic sound artist Sóley Sigurjónsdóttir and cellist Heiður Lára Bjarnadóttir at Mengi Art space, Reykjavik - date to be announced -
2019 - BLESS BLESS LISTASTOFAN, Iðnó concert hall, Reykjavik
2019 - Lunga Warm Up Party #2019, multidisciplinary event, Iðnó concert hall, Reykjavik
2019 - MSEA EP release concert, featuring KRÍA and Oyama, Iðnó concert hall, Reykjavik
2018 - Weird Kids #5 featuring Special-K, Madonna and Child, SiGrún, Mengi art space, Reykjavik
music videos
2019 - FEEL IT INSIDE a song by Discipline aka Rex Pistols, co-directed with Katerina Blahutova
2018 - SEX SELF a song by MSEA, co-directed with Katerina Blahutova
2017 - CHANGES a song by Eceteraband
performances
2016 - Zuzana Kleinerová's graduation show, Faculty of Fine Arts of Brno, Czech Republic
2015 - Yodel, group performance lead by Doreen Kutzke and Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir, Einar Jónsson Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
video screening
2018 - Attempting the Embrace n°27, Skotleyfi á skynfærin: Videotek #2, Húrra, Reykjavík, Iceland.
Curated by Birkir Karlsson
2016 - Attempting the Embrace n°28, with dancer Lydia Zimmer, Borginn, Skagaströnd, Iceland
Other
2021 - Design of the RVK Feminist Film Festival awards 2021
2017 - Teacher assistant of Esther Hoareau at L’Ecole Supérieure d’Art de la Réunion, Reunion Island
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