bjarki is a visual artist from reykjavik, currently living and studying in berlin and iceland. Before studying art he did technical draftmanship at the reykjavik technical academy.
Recently his main focus is on drawing and photography, which is extended into some video experimentation and collage works. The drawing element has also been continued in books of several kinds, mixing text and linear drawings in the trave02 series, and some narrative texts together with found objects in the series called bækur.
For the last year he has been working with different artists, either in co-operation work, such as the investigation of visual culture (summer '04, reykjavik, together with berglind j. hlynsdottir), the sheep plug project for jason rhoades and paul mccarthy (kling og bang gallery, reykjavik, summer '04, centre pompidou, paris, feb '05) and participated in the "speak up" project in zagreb last october, where nordic- and balkan artists came together for working and exchanging ideas.

about the exhibition...:
Zeichnungen#2 is the second part of a drawing project i started in december 2004 in reykjavik, where i made a flow of on-wall drawings cover the whole exhibition space. The drawings start spontaniously and i throw whatever comes to mind into them. With the first drawing the theme for a
series is set, and they maintain a dialogue though often vaguely obvious.
For me the drawings are spinning around each other, taking elements from one another and their theme, looking at things, looking for things is then continued in the peephole photographs.