Aspects
solo exhibition in Ásmundarsalur, Reykjavík, June 2025.

In her first solo exhibition in Iceland since relocating to Belgium, Valgerður Sigurðardóttir (b. 1992, Reykjavik — lives and works in Antwerp) returns with a completely new series of ceramic sculptures. It is a homecoming in more ways than one. Not only geographically, but thematically and intuitively as well, her work traces a path toward a deeply personal perspective — one that is at once feminine, mystical, powerful, and tender.

Beneath the apparent simplicity of her drawings and sculptures lies a quiet complexity. Beginning with familiar, domestic scenes — the small, the everyday, the intimate — and drawing on dreams and emotions, Sigurðardóttir explores the fine line between comfort and recognition on one hand, and strangeness and delirium on the other. As in her 2024 exhibition Talking to an Angel at KETELEER GALLERY, she draws from personal experiences such as birth, motherhood, loss, and longing. Yet her work moves beyond the personal, tapping into a collective memory — a shared emotional landscape where archetypes, stories, and dreams quietly echo.

-Koen Leemans

Talking To An Angel
solo exhibition in Keteleer Gallery, Antwerpen, January 2024.

I Got Some Strange News Today
solo exhibition in Keteleer Gallery, Antwerpen, December 2020.

Recurring Themes
solo exhibition in Keteleer Gallery, Antwerpen, 2019.

Bedtime Sculptures
solo exhibition in the mothership, Antwerpen, 2018.