Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson (b.1984 Iceland) is a storyteller, a performer, a
dancer, an object maker, an illustrator. He has a love for the absurd,
by which is meant less an obsessive passion for the ridiculous,
nonsensical or the odd, than a tender and caring attitude: he takes care
of the absurd, he helps it to develop, he gives it a place alongside
everything else where it can be your most disturbing neighbour and your
best friend. More often than not Styrmir uses the written language as a
genesis of his work. Written pieces are then adapted into live
performances that activate objects, things and gestures. The performances and their narrative, that often are delivered as
monologues, serve as an exhibition device for autonomous art objects.
Styrmir lives in Berlin.