Official profile for Icelandic artist Kira Kira

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Selected concerts

2013 Purcell Room, South Bank Center. London.

2012 Radialsystem. Berlin.

2012 Tectonics Festival. Harpan. Reykjavik

2012 Artium Museum of Contemporary Art. Vitoria.

2011 Mudam Luxembourg.

2011 Dark Music Days Contemporary Music Festival. Reykjavik.

2010 Helsinki Festival.

2010 Cité de la Musique. Paris.

2010 Positivus Festival. Latvia.

2009 Stockholm Jazz.

2009 Valladolid, Spain.

2009 Triku Festie, Basque Country.

2009 Blue Note, Poznan.

2009 Huset i Magstræde. Copenhagen.

2009 Roskilde Festival. Denmark.

2009 Larm Festival. Oslo.

2008 eARTS. Shanghai Museum of Science.

2008 Kiasma Theater, Helsinki.

2008 Kulturhuset, Stockholm.

2008 AB-Concerts, Brussel.

2008 Vooruit, Gent, Belgium.

2008 Ikra, Moscow.

2007 Ström Electronic Music Festival. Copenhagen.

2007 NOTCH tour. Beijing Jazz, Shanghai, Goungzho.

2007 Echoplex, Los Angeles.

2007 Triple Door, Seattle.

2007 Idno theater. Reykjavik.

2006 Shibuya O-Nest, Tokyo.

2006 Jittoku, Kyoto.

2006 Nordik Impakt, Caen. France.

2006 Divan du Monde, Paris.

2005 Centre Pompidou, Paris.

2003 Ultrasound. Huddersfield, England.

2003  The Tonic, New York.

2003 Kunstcentrum Belgie, Hasselt, Belgium.

2002 ICA, London.

2002 Vie Di Fuga, Florence, Italy.

2002-2008  Iceland Airwaves Festival.

Music and sound for theater, dance, film & visual art

2011

Hlaðan, Vogar. Iceland. Underneath -A spiritual cocoon / sound installation in collaboration w. Graham Keegan.

2010

Biennale für Internationale Lichtkunst. Atrium Kino, Hamm, Germany. Sound for Reciprocal -an installation by Elin Hansdottir.

i8 Gallery. Reykjavik, Iceland. Sound for Trace -an installation by Elin Hansdottir.

2010-2011
Schaubühne Theater, Berlin. Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, directed by Egill Anton Heidar Palsson.
Sequences Festival, Reykjavik. Room 408. Nominated for Prix Europa 2010.

2008
Reykjavik Art Festival, Ambra by Ina Christel Johannsen, w. the Iceland Dance Company and Norwegian dance company Carte Blanche.

2007
Reykjavik Art Festival. L’image by Samuel Becket directed by Arthur Nauziel w. Damien Jalet, Anne Broche & Alexandra Gilbert.
Pourquoi Pas? Festival. Turn On -A dance creation w. Alexandra Gilbert & Ilmur Stefansdottir.

2006
Iceland Radio Theater. Was geschah, nachdem Nora ihren Mann verlassen hatte oder Stützen der Gesellschaften by Elfriede Jelinek.

2005
Ballet C de la B. The Unclear Age -A dance film by Erna Ómarsdóttir & Damien Jalet directed by Dumspiro.

2004
Reykjavik City Theater. Sekt er kennd by Thorvaldur Thorsteinsson directed by Stefan Jonsson.
Reykjavik City Theater. Glow -An audio/visual dance creation by Kira Kira, Birta Gudjonsdottir & Margret Sara Gudjonsdottir.

2003
National Theater of Iceland. Herjolfur has Ceized to Love by Sigtryggur Magnason directed by Stefan Jonsson.

Selected group exhibitions & festivals

2012

Museum of Modern Art. Documentary Fortnight. New York. Grandma Lo-fi.

International Film Festival Rotterdam. Grandma Lo-fi.

Horizonic -Unfolding Space Through Sound Art. Ystad’s Konstmuseum, Listasafn Arnesinga, Festival Borealis Caen.

Ambulante. Mexico. Grandma Lo-fi.

2011

Copenhagen DOX. Grandma Lo-fi.

2009
eARTS / NOTCH Festival. Shanghai Museum of Science and Technology. Kite Symphony II.

2007
On The Edge. The New Zealand Film Archive, Auckland.
Sequences –Festival for time based arts. The Helium Choir.

2007
Voudou. Galleri 0047, Oslo. Poltergeist Cuckoo.

2006-2007
Package Deals -The Cold Hearts Tour: Zeitgeist Cinema, New Orleans, Detroit Film Center, Antimatter Festival,Victoria, Kanada, Croatian Film Association Cinema, Zagreb, The Ritz at the Bourse, Philadelphia, The Varsity, Seattle, Allmanna Galleriet 925, Stockholm, Alamo Drafthouse, Austin Texas, Short Cuts Film Club, Visby, Sweden, Ashdod Film and Music Festival, Israel, Celda Contemporanea, Mexíkó City, Monkey Town,  The Tank -New York.

2006
Reykjavik Art Festival, Gallery Lobster or Fame. Tívolíbumba ég dey glaður.

2005
Grassroads. The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik. Komdu nær.
Hippolita Festival, Finland. Englalæti.
Tour de force – An Idea of North. klinK & banK. Fjandakorn.
Urban Zagreb Festival. Croatia. Forgotten Yesterdays.

2004
Kunstcentrum Vooruit -Sonic Pictures, Belgium. Duel II.
Katuaq Culture Center, Greenland. Duel III.

2003
Gallery Manesh. St. Petersburg. Please Make my Space Noisy.
Kirkjulistahátíð. Hallgrimskirkja church tower. Ég dey úr hlátri.
Uppnám -Performance Festival, Reykjavik. Ride Like the Wind.