2018 – Þór Stiefel

This was the year graduated from The Iceland University of the Arts. I received my second Erasmus grand and this time I applied for internship at Egill Sæbjörnsson Studio in Berlin. There I worked for six months for Egill on various projects as well as on my own art.

Mimesis. Aquarelle on paper. 32×25 cm. 2018.

Forever. Aquarelle on paper. 25×32 cm. 2018.

Gaarg… Aquarelle on paper. 32×25 cm. 2018.

Sentence. Aquarelle on paper, 25×32 cm. 2018.

Kim Larsen in Memoriam, Aquarelle on paper, 40x30cm. 2018

Mimesis Red. Aquarelle on paper, 42x30cm. 2018

A feeling. Aquarelle on paper. 30x42cm. 2018

A feeling too. Aquarelle on paper, 30x42cm. 2018

Skewed feeling. Aquarelle on paper, 30x41cm. 2018

Exhibition at the Reykjavik Art Museum Kjarvalsstaðir

Exhibition at Kjarvalsstaðir Reykjavik 2018.

Exhibition at Kjarvalsstaðir Reykjavik 2018.

Mimesis. Installation, various media, various sizes. 2018.

Artist Thor Ludwig Stiefel, SNART Action, TORA — SNART–Action. Oil on Canvas. 122×152 cm. 2018.

Me working on SNART-Action

Shaking hands with rector Fríða Björk Ingvarsdóttir at the graduation ceremony from The Iceland University of the Arts 2018

SEYÐUR. Video installation at Skaftfell Art Center Iceland. 2018

SNART–Seyður. Video Installation. Video, Mirror, Audio, Projector, Wood. Exhibited at Skaftfell Center for Visual Arts 2018.

SNART–Seyður. Video Installation. Video, Mirror, Audio, Projector, Wood. Exhibited at Skaftfell Center for Visual Arts 2018.

Artist Thor Ludwig Stiefel Seyður video TORA — SNART–Seyður. Video Installation. Video, Mirror, Audio, Projector, Wood. Exhibited at Skaftfell Center for Visual Arts 2018.

Seyður – SNART video, duration 10min 24sec.

Funnyman. Multi–media performance at Mengi Reykjavik 2018

Funnyman. Performance collaboration between Heðin Ziska and Thor Ludwig Stiefel, performed at Mengi Reykjavik May 2018 in connection with Raflosti festival.

Funnyman – transcript

I am a looser in a lost world

what does that make me?

Hey, Mr. Funny man

play the Gong for me

I am weary and fed up with your bigotry

Hey Mr. Funny man

I have set me self free

the world is not YOUR world I want to live in

I am a looser in a lost world

what does that make me?

Close your eyes Mr. Funny man

you can’t see with them open

and your mind is already made up

of plastics

Hey Mr. Funny man

your vomit is pouring

and your power is waning

the innate programming has been replaced

Emotional memory is fading

you can’t be expected to process

what you don’t access

Hey Mr. Funny man

play along with me

yes, no, yes, no, yes, no, yes, no,

yes, no, yes, no, yes, no, yes, no,

this cross you bear is heavy

your hate speech has shaped me

and now It is my turn to shape me

Hey, Mr. Funny man

play a song for me

in silence and in absence

of your totality

Self portraits, various medium

TORA, SNART, Stiefel, art, erotica, Iceland, Reykjavik, Þór Ludwig, — Autoportrait. Oil on board, 40×50 cm. 2018.

Open mouth. Oil on board, 55×50 cm. 2018.

Atuo portrait. Oil on board, 55x80cm. 2018

Working with Egill Sæbjörnsson

Me working on a robot arm for artist Egill Sæbjörnsson Troll installation

Egill Sæbjörnsson in front of his installation with the robot-arm, 2018

Me, Egill and the Madison girls