Elín Margot is a food designer/artist currently located in Reykjavík, Iceland.
She graduated from a BA in product design at the Burgundy Superior School of Applied Art (ÉSAAB); a MA in social design at the Insitu Lab and a MA in critical/speculative design at the Icelandic University of the Arts.
Lately she has been focusing on the representation of gender in our food habits, questioning our interspecies relationships in our food system and creating a gentle activism through food practices such as fermentation.
She graduated from a BA in product design at the Burgundy Superior School of Applied Art (ÉSAAB); a MA in social design at the Insitu Lab and a MA in critical/speculative design at the Icelandic University of the Arts.
Lately she has been focusing on the representation of gender in our food habits, questioning our interspecies relationships in our food system and creating a gentle activism through food practices such as fermentation.
Food is a carrier of culture, it is the holistic result of innumerable human interactions, technologies and beliefs and has the incredible power of shaping our society. Elín Margot creates unique foods and eating experiences that question our present society and explore alternative futures. Food here is both an artistic medium and a communication tool she uses to create convivial multi-sensory edible events. By displaying real elements of a food fiction, she calls on the audience's judgement and hopes to create debate in the experimenter’s mind.
“Eating and its associated activities are
embodied, social practices that are meaningful
and meaning‐making.”
embodied, social practices that are meaningful
and meaning‐making.”
Education
2017 - 2019
Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavík, IS.
︎MA Design, exploration and translation.
2015 - 2017
Insitu Lab, Strasbourg, FR.
︎MA Service design.
2013 - 2015
Superior School of Applied Arts, Nevers, FR.
︎HND (BTS) Product design.
2010 - 2013 René Descartes High School, Cournon d’Auvergne, FR.
︎A level (Baccalauréat) in Applied Arts.
2017 - 2019
Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavík, IS.
︎MA Design, exploration and translation.
2015 - 2017
Insitu Lab, Strasbourg, FR.
︎MA Service design.
2013 - 2015
Superior School of Applied Arts, Nevers, FR.
︎HND (BTS) Product design.
2010 - 2013 René Descartes High School, Cournon d’Auvergne, FR.
︎A level (Baccalauréat) in Applied Arts.
Selected exhibitions/performances
2021 This tale carried its beginning in a bag.
performance & videowork for Walking Landscape, Metropolis, Aarhus, DK.
Lots of trouble, lots of kin to be going on with.
group exhibition, Midpunkt gallery, Kópavogur, IS.
MÁL/TÍÐ
Food Culture Institute, Reykjavík, IS.
the end of me, the beginning of you,
group exhibition, Kling&Bang gallery, Reykjavík, IS.
2020
Carnal Appetite Soloshow in Flæði gallery, Reykjavík, IS.
Money Shot
Plan B art festival, Borgarnes, IS.
2019
PastData
Useful Fictions,
symposium, École polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, FR.
Would you like some more human? OMEN, MA Design graduating show, Reykjavík, IS.
What is food without oil?Counterpoint, exhibition, bankrupt Viðir, Reykjavík, IS.
P.O.M
Counterpoint, exhibition, bankrupt Viðir, Reykjavík, IS.
2018Radio Confessional
Babel Radio, performance, Nylistasafnið, Reykjavík, IS.
Du corps_ à l’ouvrage
Reciprocity, triennale of design and social innovation, Liège, BE.
Care4u
Forms of Life, exhibition, The Nordic House, Reykjavík, IS.
2017 Du corps_ à l’ouvrage
Insitu Lab graduation show, Le Shadock, Strasbourg, FR.
2021 This tale carried its beginning in a bag.
performance & videowork for Walking Landscape, Metropolis, Aarhus, DK.
Lots of trouble, lots of kin to be going on with.
group exhibition, Midpunkt gallery, Kópavogur, IS.
MÁL/TÍÐ
Food Culture Institute, Reykjavík, IS.
the end of me, the beginning of you,
group exhibition, Kling&Bang gallery, Reykjavík, IS.
2020
Carnal Appetite Soloshow in Flæði gallery, Reykjavík, IS.
Money Shot
Plan B art festival, Borgarnes, IS.
2019
PastData
Useful Fictions,
symposium, École polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, FR.
Would you like some more human? OMEN, MA Design graduating show, Reykjavík, IS.
What is food without oil?Counterpoint, exhibition, bankrupt Viðir, Reykjavík, IS.
P.O.M
Counterpoint, exhibition, bankrupt Viðir, Reykjavík, IS.
2018Radio Confessional
Babel Radio, performance, Nylistasafnið, Reykjavík, IS.
Du corps_ à l’ouvrage
Reciprocity, triennale of design and social innovation, Liège, BE.
Care4u
Forms of Life, exhibition, The Nordic House, Reykjavík, IS.
2017 Du corps_ à l’ouvrage
Insitu Lab graduation show, Le Shadock, Strasbourg, FR.
Project manager
2021
Founder and manager of TRASH festival, sustainable design festival on re-use practices.
Founder and project manager of MÁL/TÍÐ Food Culture Institute.
2019
Founder and design manager of the debating platform Deb[eat]e, Reykjavík, IS.
2018
Design manager for the start-up Dropar úr Lofti, Reykjavik, IS.
2017
Co-founder and co-project manager for the workshops “Fabriques ton aide technique!” (build your own technical aid) at AV Lab, Strasbourg, FR.
2021
Founder and manager of TRASH festival, sustainable design festival on re-use practices.
Founder and project manager of MÁL/TÍÐ Food Culture Institute.
2019
Founder and design manager of the debating platform Deb[eat]e, Reykjavík, IS.
2018
Design manager for the start-up Dropar úr Lofti, Reykjavik, IS.
2017
Co-founder and co-project manager for the workshops “Fabriques ton aide technique!” (build your own technical aid) at AV Lab, Strasbourg, FR.