About

BIOGRAPHY

Sól Ey (b. 1996) is a composer, performer and new media artist from Iceland. She makes performances, interactive installations, and designs instruments that combine sound, space, movement, light and the body. Often working with sensors and new technologies, her work emphasises immersion, participation, and social interaction. Currently, her artistic research focuses on the possibilities of the human body when extended with electronics or objects.

Sól Ey’s works have been performed at festivals such as Dark Music Days (IS), Gaudeamus (NL), MINU Festival (DK), NEXT festival (SK), Nordic Music Days, Reykjavik Art Festival (IS), Rewire (NL), Today’s Art (NL), Ung Nordisk Musik (DK, IS, NO, SE), Struer Tracks (DK), and commissioned by Instrument Inventors Initative (NL), Ensemble Modelo62 (NL), and Erkitíð (IS), among others. She was an artist-in-residence at the Spatial Sound Institute (Budapest 2018), Instrument Inventor’s Initiative (The Hague 2021), Sound Art Lab (Struer 2022), Danish Dance Theatre (Copenhagen 2023), Inter Arts Center (Malmö 2024) and a research fellow at the Academy for Theatre and Digitality (Dortmund 2022). Moreover, she has worked with art groups such as Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT), Maze Ensemble, and Ableton, and was an intern for German composer-director Heiner Goebbels. Sól Ey studied composition at the Iceland University of the Arts, Royal Conservatoire of The Hague and at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague. In 2024-2026, she is the associated maker with Ensemble Modelo62.

Parallel to her artistic work, Sól Ey is active as a curator and organiser, notably as the founder of RASK, a collective of Icelandic artists working with art and technology, curator of the hybrid art space platform BUNKER in Copenhagen, and was the festival leader of the Ung Nordisk Musik festival in Reykjavik 2022.