2025
Five Years Old Me, 34 Years Later
Counter Arts
“The canvas invites you to read and decode what’s on it.”
Text record →WRITING & RESEARCH
Texts
Writing about the paintings and conversations with the artist. Each record links back to its original publication; excerpts are shown where full-text rights are not held here.
Essays & Criticism
2024
Oh my, oh my — exhibition text
Kunstnerforbundet
The exhibition text considers paintings based on ordinary events and the role of uncertainty as an image is made.
Text record →2024
Good Night Moon — exhibition text
JD Malat Gallery
The gallery text places the paintings in the period after the birth of Óskar’s daughter, amid sleeplessness, care and changed routines.
Text record →2018
Notes from the Underground
CENTRED
“An unmistakable and overarching element of all of Óskar’s work is his fiendish humour that turns up everywhere.”
Text record →Conversations & Interviews
2022
Interview with Georg Óskar
Museum of Non-Visible Art
“Fundamentally, his practice is regarded as a visual diary of his personal observations of the mundane, specifically in nature and people.”
Text record →2022
Interview with Georg Óskar
C-A-K-E
“Within the subdued shades of Georg’s artworks is a predominant subtext.”
Text record →2021
Interview with Georg Óskar
Les Nouveaux Riches Magazine
“I try to keep things honest and simple around me as the world we live in is pretty much the opposite to that.”
Text record →Selected Press
2024
“It’s No Joke Being Me,” Icelandic Art Center
Original publication ↗2024
“New Exhibition by Georg Óskar at JD Malat Gallery,” 300 Magazine
Original publication ↗2024
“Georg Óskar: Good Night Moon,” Art Plugged
Original publication ↗2022
“5 Emerging Artists to Watch,” Artnet
Original publication ↗2020
“Plenty of Nothing,” ART at Berlin
Original publication ↗2019
Review, NARC Magazine
Original publication ↗2019