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Selection solo exhibitions
1971 Galerie Fignal, Haarlem, Netherland
1971 Galerie Balderich, München-Gladbach, Germany
1972 In-Out Center, Amsterdam
1972 Galerie 845, Amsterdam
1973 Galerie Fignal, Amsterdam
1973 In-Out Center, Amsterdam
1974 Galleri Sum, Reykjavik, Iceland
1976 Galerie Gaëtan, Geneva, Switzerland
1976 Galerie Elsa von Honolulu, Ghent, Belgium
1977 Seriaal BV, Amsterdam
1977 Galleri Sudurgata 7, Reykjavik, Iceland
1979 Galerie Helen van der Meij, Amsterdam
1979 Galerie Bama, Paris, France
1980 Galerie Helen van der Meij, Amsterdam
1984 Galerie Bama, Paris, France
1985 Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam
1986 Galerie Bama, Paris, France
1987 Le Magasin/Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France, cat.
1987 Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam
1988 Nordic Art Centre, Helsinki, Finland
1988 Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
1989 Galleri Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
1989 Galleri Slunkariki, Isafurdur, Iceland
1990 Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris, France
1991 Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
1992 Galleri Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
1992 Rhythms in space, ICA, Amsterdam, cat.
1993 Listasafn Islands National Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland, cat.
1993 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, cat.
1994 Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris, France
1994 Galerie Camille von Scholz, Brussels, Belgium
1994 Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland
1994 Ultima Thule, Amsterdam, cat.
1995 Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway
1995 Galerie Ingólfsstreaeti 8, Reykjavik, Iceland
1996 Galerie A. von Scholz, Berlin, Germany
1996 Galeri Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
1997 Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris, France
1997 Galerie Corridor, Reykjavik, Iceland
1998 Collection, Galerie van Gelder/Another Place, Amsterdam
1999 Recent works by Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Galleri Anhava, Helsinki, Finland
1999 Galerie i8, Reykjavik, Iceland
1999 Touches and Catches, Galerie A.von Scholz, Berlin, Germany
2000 Carnegie Art Award 2000, Helsinki, Oslo, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Reykjavik, cat.
2000 Galerie Papillon-Fiat, Paris, France
2002 Centre d'Art Contemporain, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan, France, cat.
2002 Kyoto Art Centre, Kyoto, Japan
2003 Galerie Papillon, Paris, France
2003 Safn Collection, Reykjavik, Iceland
2003 Galleri i8, Reykjavik, Iceland
2004 Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany
2006 Galerie Papillon, Paris, France
2007 Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom, cat.*
2007 Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland, cat.*
2008 Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
2008 Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany
2008 Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway
2009 Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
2009 The Fall, Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Galerie Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, Belgium
2009 Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Galeria Elva Ebinez, Madrid, Spain
2010 More or Less, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
2010 To spin and swing you need a beat, Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris, France
2010 Galeria Elba Bénitez, Madrid, Spain
2011 Recent Works, Galleri Anhava, Helsinki, Finland
2012 House, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Hafnarborg, The Hafnarfjörður Centre of Culture and Fine Art, Iceland
2013 Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany
2013 Around and About, Galeria Elba Bénitez, Madrid, Spain
2014 A Portrait of a Sculptor as a Sculpture, with a Sculpture by the Sculptor, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
2014 Æofaníae / Time and time again, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Nýlistasafnid / The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2015 Between What and What Not, Galerie Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, Belgium
2015 Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Echoes and Reflections, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
2015 I Collected Personal Secrets, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Kunstverein, Amsterdam, curator Krist Gruijthuijsen
2016 Gallerí Gangur, Reykjavík, Iceland
2018 Hreinn Fridfinnsson, By the Ocean, Galerie Eenwerk, Amsterdam
2019 Hreinn Friðfinnsson, To Catch a Fish with a Song 1964-Today, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland, cat.*
2019 Hreinn Friðfinnsson, To Catch a Fish with a Song 1964-Today, KW / Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany, cat.*
2020 Midnight Jump, Rozenstraat/A rose is a rose is a rose, Amsterdam
2020 Dark, Light and Green, The Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum, Svalbarðsströnd, Iceland
2021 Hreinn Fridfinnsson: For the Time Being, MOAD / Museum of Art and Design, Miami, FL, USA
2021 One Thing and Another, and Then Some More, Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid, Spain
2022 By the Waterfall, Eenwerk, Amsterdam
2022 Nr.4 Umhverfing / No 4 Around, Academy of the Senses, Public Art Project in Dalasýsla, Iceland
2022 About the Day and the Ray, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, Belgium
2022 Conduct 10, I8 Galleri, Reykjavík, Iceland
2023 Artist in the air, Galerie Papillon, Paris, France
Selection group exhibitions
1965 SÚM 1, Ásmundarsalur, Reykjavik, Iceland
1973 Biënnale de Paris, Paris, France
1975 Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland
1977 Ça va?, Ça va?, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, cat.
1978 Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
1978 Personal Worlds, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, cat.
1982 Personal Worlds, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, curator Gijs van Tuyl, cat.*
1982 Sleeping Beauty-Art Now, Scandinavia Today, Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Port of History Museum, Philadelphia, cat.*
1983 Sleeping Beauty-Art Now, Scandinavia Today, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, cat.*
1983 Amsterdam Koopt Kunst, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam
1983 Ars '83, Athenaeum Taidemuseo, Helsinki, cat.
1986 Nordanad, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, cat.
1988 Listasafan Islands, Reykjavik
1989 Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik
1989 Borealis 4, Nordisk Kunstcentrum, Sveaborg, Helsinki; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, cat.
1989 Utopies 89 - l'Europe des Créateurs, Grand Palais, Paris, cat.
1989 Vele parels voor een lijn, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
1989 Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris
1990 Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, cat.
1990 New Nordic Art, The Central House of Artists, Moscow, cat.
1991 Six logos around a carpet, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
1991 Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris
1991 Europäische Werkstatt Ruhrgebiet '91, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, cat.
1991 Kunst, Europa 1991, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, cat.
1992 Il Passagio Culturale Festival Nordica, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy, cat.
1992 Artscape Nordland, Arctic Circle, cat.
1993 Edities & unica, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
1993 Creatio Amicorum, 50th birthday of the artist was celebrated with a group show
1994 Wanäs, Sweden
1995 Tekeningen & tekeningen, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
1995 Pas pour la galerie, Galerie Camille von Scholz, Brussels, flyer
1995 Maisons-Cerveaux, FRAC, Reims, cat.*
1996 Maisons Cerveaux, Noisel, cat.*
1996 Sirva, Musée de la Charité, Marseille, France
1997 De verbouwing, de verhuizing & de verandering / The renovation, the removal & the change, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
1998 Losse werken, rake klappen, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
1998 Look me in the Eyes, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, cat.
1999 00, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
1999 Natures Mortes, Galerie Papillon Fiat, Paris
1999 Tijdelijke Openbaringen van Ongevraagd Drukwerk, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, Netherlands, in co-operation with Tineke Reijnders
1999 Museum of Foreign Art, Riga
1999 Ásmundarsalur, Reykjavík
2000 Carnegie Art Award 2000, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, cat.*
2000 Carnegie Art Award 2000, Taidehalli - Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, cat.*
2000 Carnegie Art Award 2000, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway, cat.*
2000 Taking over - an art project by Andreas Gedin, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
2000 Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland
2000 64°N. - 20°V, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
2000 Árátta, Listasafn Kópavogs, Reykjavík, Iceland, cat.
2000 Norden, Kunsthalle, Wien, Austria, cat.
2000 Amateur. variable research initiative 1900 - 2000, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, cat.
2000 In the mirror of time and space, Ásmundur Salur I., Reykjavík, Iceland
2000 Interplay, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
2001 Biënnale Leuven, curator Herman Labro; De Keeshond hapt, curator Kees van Gelder, Louvain, Belgium, cat.
2001 Mélanges, Kerguéhennec, France
2001 Taking over, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
2001 Erfarenhet Upplösning, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art 2001, Gotenburg, Danmark, cat.
2001 Carnegie Art Award 2000, Kópavogur Art Museum/Gerðarsafn, Kópavogur, Iceland, cat.*
2002 Somewhere over the rainbow, FRAC Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
2002 Freude am Dialog, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
2004 Ars Fennica. 1991-2003, The State Russian Museum, Marble Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia
2004 Out Of Place, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany
2004 Where Do We Go From Here, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York City,U.S.A.
2005 Winterkou / Winterly cold, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2005 Où sommes-nousÀ - Paysages avec (ou sans) personnage(s), FRAC Limousin, Limoges, France
2005 Horizontal Memories, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, cat.
2007 Drawing A Tiger, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany
2007 O-Nattura Alas Nature, National Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
2007 Le Bruissement des Images, CPIF/Centre Photographique d'Ile de France, Pontault Combault, France
2008 Experiment Marathon Reykjavik, Reykjavík Art Museum/Kjarvalsstaðir, Reykjavik, Iceland
2008 Dreams of the Sublime and Nowhere in Contemporary Icelandic Art, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2008 Icelandic Art featuring works of Birgir Andrésson, Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Kristján Gudmundsson and Thor Vigfusson, Quint Gallery, San Diego, USA
2008 Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2008 Project for Domaine de Kerguéhennec, France
2008 Beograd '80, Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, Serbia, cat.
2009 Several Friends, Listasafn Islands/National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
2009 Quiet Revolution: A Hayward Touring Exhibition, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, England, curator Chris Fite-Wassilak
2009 Espellos / Mirrors, MARCO / Museo de Arte Contemporànea, Vigo, Spain
2009 Volcano Lovers from Iceland and Japan, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, U.S.A.
2010 The Ephemeral, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, cat.
2010 In the face of spatial grandeur, Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland
2011 In Between, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2011 Perspectives - On the Borders of Art and Philosophy, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
2011 A for artists, E for exhibitions, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, brochure
2012 Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974, MOCA / The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2012 Explorateurs, Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix des Sables d'Olonne. Les Sable d'Olonne, France, cat.
2012 São Paulo Biennual - The Imminence of Poetics, São Paulo, Brazil, cat.
2013 Mon Íle de Montmajour, Abbaye de Montmajour, Arles, France
2013 Works on Paper, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland
2013 Only To Melt, Trustingly, Without Reproach, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana, Slovania
2014 Do it Moscow, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture / GCCC, Moscow, Russia
2014 Saint Jerome, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, Belgium
2014 Hreinn Fridfinnsson & Bruce McLean, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
2014 Solides Fragiles, MUDAM / Musé d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg city, Luxembourg
2014 Pushing Reality, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2015 Gathered Fates, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany, curator Ignasi Aballí
2015 My first Summer in the Sierra Works from the Centre National des Arts Plastiques, FRAC Ile-de-France / Le Plateau, Paris, France
2015 Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid, Spain
2015 A.N.T.H.R.O.P.O.C.E.N.E., Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, Belgium
2015 Nouvel accrochage, Claudine and Marion Papillon, Paris, France
2015 Narrativas monumentales. Figuras, paisajes y rituales, MAC / Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Gas Natural Fenosa, A Coruña, Spain
2016 198920072016, Galerie Papillon, Paris, France
2016 After Gerolama Cardano's suspense, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2016 Frequent Long Walks, Hannah Barry Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2016 Once we were next-door neighbours; Hreinn Fridfinnsson og John Zurier, ASÍ Listasafn / ASÍ Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
2016 Lightpaint. The Photo and The Painting in our Times, Listasafn Islands / National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
2016 The Me in Me, Untitled Contemporary, Vienna, Austria, curator Krist Gruijthuijsen
2016 Expanding Frontiers, Fondation Hippocrène, Paris, France
2016 Blancs d'hiver, Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris, France
2017 Skulptur Projekte, Münster, Germany
2017 The Unique versus Series versus the Multiple, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2017 Salon Hang bi-annual, Kunstverein, Amsterdam
2017 The Walk, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, Belgium
2017 Many. More. Most. - From the Museum Collection of the Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, Sweden
2017 Happy People, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2017 A Novelistic Stimulation of an Everyday Space - A Treatise on Style, Kunstverein, Amsterdam
2018 Speak of Money and Love, Galerie Papillon, Paris, France
2018 Honey, I Rearranged the Collection, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2018 The Unending Gift, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, Belgium
2018 Una fornace a Marsiglia / A furnace in Mareille, Cirva, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venezia, Italy
2018 After Finitude, a selection by Elena Damiani, Galerie Nordenhake, Mexico City, Mexico
2019 Outline, Kópavogur Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2019 30 ans pile!, Galerie Papillon, Paris, France
2019 Moving Images Department #11: Image (of) Slence, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2019 Untitled, no author, Gallery Port, Reykjavik, Iceland
2020 Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition of The Corridor, Gallerí Gangur / The Corridor, Reykjavík, Iceland
2020 For Eyes That Listen, Arter, Instanbul, Turkey, curator Melih Fereli
2021 Biennial Salon Hang, Kunstverein, Amsterdam
2021 Arter, Istanbul, Turkey
2022 Are You Glad If You Can Ask Something?, Listasafn Árnesinga, Reykjavík, Iceland
2022 Arter, Istanbul, Turkey
2023 Les formes de la ruine, Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France
2023 FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France
2024 La vie devant soi, Galerie Papillon, Paris, France
2024 Absences, molts and macules, l’Atlas Galerie des Mondes, Paris, France
* = exhibition on tour