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Artists in Conversation: Fischersund Art Collective

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Established in 2017, Fischersund is a family-run art collective and perfumery based in Reykjavik, Iceland. Founded by four siblings, Fischersund serves as a creative platform using scent, visual arts, and music. The collective creates immersive experiences that include unique perfumes, scented concerts, and visual arts to facilitate their storytelling.

To celebrate the opening of the special exhibition Faux Flora, members of the Fischersund art collective (Jónsi, Inga, Lilja, and Sigurrós) will discuss their complementary and collaborative practice and multisensory artmaking with National Nordic Museum Chief Curator Leslie Anne Anderson.

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    Jónsi

    Jónsi is a visual artist, musician, and self-taught perfumer known for making immersive and meditative sound and sculptural artwork that explore themes of nature and the human condition. Since the 1990s, world-renowned interdisciplinary artist Jónsi has produced ethereal sounds through an astute aesthetic that combines the minimal, classical, and progressive.

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    Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir

    Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir (b. 1981) graduated with a BA in fine arts from the Icelandic Academy of the Arts in 2006 and studied Computer Science at the University of Iceland from 2019-2022. She has worked in various mediums including painting, sculpture, 3d graphics, video and photography.

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  • Lilja_crop

    Lilja Birgisdóttir

    Lilja Birgisdóttir (b. 1983) studied photography at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, Netherlands and received a BA in fine art from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland in 2010. She is a member of Kling & Bang, an artist-run gallery in Reykjavík, where she takes part in selecting artists and curating exhibitions for the space.

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  • Sigurros_crop

    Sigurrós Birgisdóttir

    Sigurrós Birgisdóttir (b. 1993) is a founding member of Fischersund perfumery and art collective, where she works as a perfumer and the lead artisan. Self-taught with an endless quest for learning within the fragrance space, she hand-blends perfumes, candles, and incense and contributes to the development of new scents.

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  • Leslie Anderson

    Leslie Anne Anderson

    Leslie Anne Anderson is Chief Curator at the National Nordic Museum, a mayoral-appointed Seattle Arts Commissioner, and chair of Seattle’s Public Art Advisory Committee. 

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