The œuvre of the Icelandic artist Bjargey Ólafsdóttir (born 1972, lives in Reykjavik) ranges in scope from video installations, photographs, drawings and paintings to performances. Bjargey Ólafsdóttir stages actions and tells stories.

The possibilities of her protagonists seem to be just as sheerly endless in them as her own when she uncovers our prejudices, stereotypes, secret wishes and feelings with much humor and irony in them. The viewer gets directly caught up in the role of a fascinated accomplice of bizarre acts in a crazed world by naturally being able to follow and understand the things as if they were reality, even though they are in fact staged fictions.

Bjargey Ólafsdóttir's newest installation, which she conceived for the Kunstverein Langenhagen in Chile, is also effective on an emotional level: She seduces the viewer with drawings, videos, and sound into a world full of laughter. The exhibition forms the conclusion of this year's program which stood under the motto »Great Feelings.«