COLLECTION 2 - AVANT-GARDE
The Avant-Garde. Hello, welcome to our second KALTBLUT Collection. www.kaltblut-magazine.com 400 pages of the theme Avant-Garde. www.kaltblut-magazine.com Featuring artists like: Adam Green, Tata Christiane, Slava Mogutin, SELLAH, Kristian Jalonen, Kali, Emilie Simon, Tobias Jundt, Remedios Varo, Marc Johns, Reka Koti, Kelly De Block, Berglind Agustsdottir, Andrew Huan, Emma Elina Keira Jones, Amanda Morgan Jansson, Susu Laroche, Jeroen Mylle and many more. Published by Marcel Schlutt
The Avant-Garde. Hello, welcome to our second KALTBLUT Collection. www.kaltblut-magazine.com 400 pages of the theme Avant-Garde. www.kaltblut-magazine.com Featuring artists like: Adam Green, Tata Christiane, Slava Mogutin, SELLAH, Kristian Jalonen, Kali, Emilie Simon, Tobias Jundt, Remedios Varo, Marc Johns, Reka Koti, Kelly De Block, Berglind Agustsdottir, Andrew Huan, Emma Elina Keira Jones, Amanda Morgan Jansson, Susu Laroche, Jeroen Mylle and many more. Published by Marcel Schlutt
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KALTBLUT: Back to your visual art. I love your little<br />
figures and the way you paint it. They are always<br />
a little naive and nasty. A good mix. Is one of the<br />
figures you? And What do you wanna tell the world<br />
with your paintings?<br />
BERGLIND: My drawing are about me, I started<br />
drawings them as some kind of therapy, they would<br />
burst out of me. I´m so full of emotion and I needed<br />
it to get out and I would draw in the bar, in parties,<br />
all the time. My feeling about love, passion, sex, obsessions<br />
and so on, I would also tell funny stories<br />
about myself and the truth. For me truth is very important,<br />
if I would do silly mistakes or drama I would<br />
talk about it. We all are human and I think being honest<br />
is the only way to change anything in the world.<br />
So I would be brutally honest about my mistakes<br />
and my fantasy and so on. Like no shame.<br />
People started loving them so much and I started<br />
showing them more and selling them, to my surprise<br />
in the beginning. They of course developed and now<br />
I draw a lot what I see but also my dreams and stories<br />
that have not happend yet. What i want to happen.<br />
I am the main character, the girl with the spiky<br />
hair and big teeth.<br />
KALTBLUT: You are from Iceland. One of the most<br />
beautiful countries of the world. How did you grow<br />
up in a land full with myth and legends?<br />
BERGLIND: I grew up in a small village and I was<br />
the weird kid, I was really in love with art, music,<br />
movies and fashion and nobody understood me.<br />
I would dress funny and act different from the other<br />
kids. And I was bullied a lot, had stones thrown in<br />
my face and was tortured. It had a lot of influence<br />
on my character both good and bad, I found early a<br />
way to hide into fantasy and fairy tales and would<br />
get lost in a world of imagination and nature, I would<br />
walk into the cold sea or lie in the grass and talk<br />
to weird creatures , sometimes reality and fantasy<br />
would merge into one and still it does. I really really<br />
believe in fairy tales and my life is one.<br />
KALTBLUT: Your folks also have the most beautiful<br />
names. Not easy to spell them. But I love it. Do<br />
you have an explanation why artist from Iceland are<br />
so creative ? I mean it looks like the hole country is<br />
into art.<br />
BERGLIND: I think it´s the weather and the energy<br />
of the nature and the sea all around us, I know<br />
cliches, but I think it is true. The weather is insane,<br />
it can be sun in one street and storm in the next,<br />
I´m not lying and all of this messes with your mood<br />
so you need to get this out somehow. In the summer<br />
it´s bright 24 hours, never dark, so we party a<br />
lot and in the winter it´s super dark and heavy and<br />
everyone writes poems and so on.<br />
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KALTBLUT: You are based now in Berlin. Is Berlin a<br />
good place for Independent Artists ?<br />
BERGLIND: Berlin is a good place because its cheap,<br />
but at the moment I´m bit tired of Berlin, so i´m<br />
checking out the other german cities, like I totally<br />
fell in love with Leipzig. It is like I imagine Berlin 15<br />
years ago, empty, slow and weird and full of possibilities.<br />
Berlin is overcrowded with artists but I love it.<br />
KALTBLUT: You also do parties. “The party I fell in<br />
love” will you continue it in 2012? What are your<br />
plans for the summer 2012?<br />
BERGLIND: At the moment my plans are to make<br />
a new album, new music and lots of new videos. I<br />
miss making videos and I did a lot of drawings in<br />
2011 and now I wanna do video, video, video. And a<br />
new album. Record with my USA friends, my Iceland<br />
friends and some Berlin based artist. Maybe find a<br />
nice record label.<br />
I wanna tour more and I´m working on going to USA<br />
and I also wanna tour the UK but I think this will happen<br />
in 2013. This summer I wanna spend with my<br />
son at the countryside and in the fall I have plans on<br />
making a live radio show from HambUrg with many<br />
artist and guests. I love radio and I love bringing<br />
creative people together, I wanna be like an electricity<br />
extension power strip cord. In Iceland we call it<br />
millistykki.<br />
KALTBLUT: Thank you very much for your time.<br />
And see you soon in Berlin!<br />
BERGLIND: Yes thank you ..<br />
MOOGOO<br />
watch the new music video here:<br />
https://vimeo.com/42930109<br />
LINKS<br />
www. flavors.me/berglind<br />
www. soundcloud.com/berglind-agustsdottir<br />
www. vimeo.com/user4912304<br />
www. http://berglindagustsdottir.blogspot.de
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