Loji Höskuldsson

Visual arts, Music

Loji Höskuldsson graduated from the Icelandic Art Academy in 2010.

Loji has played music with various icelandic bands, for example Sudden Weather Change, Wesen, IBM, Prins Póló, Tilfinningar vina minna and solo under his own name. He has performed at Icelandic Airwaves and Sonar festival Reykjavik as well as in many European cities over the years.

Loji has written two radio plays Hafið hefur 1000 andlit (2015) and Eftir súpuna sérðu liti hafsins (2010) which were broadcasted live at the Reykjavik Art Museum in 2010 and by the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (RÚV) in 2015.
His visual art primarily explores new and traditional ways of embroidery, a technique he inherited from his mother who is a professional seamstress and embroidery expert. In his embroidery Loji most often depict the sort of still life where everyday objects, plants and fruits are in focus. The subtle poetic situations in our domestic lives are elevated in Loji’s works.

Loji has a great interest in Icelandic modernist architecture specifically building by Sigvaldi Thordarson. Loji has an on going research where he is documenting Thordarson’s works for a future publication, traveling Iceland with a photographer and posting simultaneously on an instagram page that Loji manages.

Loji has also been involved recently in two contemporary dance performances Drop Dead Diet (2015) and A Guide To The Perfect Human (2016), where he has composed music, choreographed and danced.  

Recent works