The associate artist of the 79th edition of the Holland Festival is the Icelandic composer, musician and singer Hildur Guðnadóttir (Reykjavík, 1982). She is one of the leading and most versatile composers of film scores, experimental pop and contemporary music of our time. Her music achieved mainstream recognition with films such as Joker (2019), for which she won an Oscar, TÁR (2022), or the HBO drama series Chernobyl (2019).
For her work — often intense, poetic, dark and unpolished — Guðnadóttir draws on diverse sources, from contemporary composers such as György Ligeti and Kaija Saariaho to minimal music, ambient and noise. She is a multifaceted artist who has collaborated with musicians and composers such as Ryuichi Sakamoto (associate artist Holland Festival in 2021), Jóhann Jóhannsson, The Knife and Animal Collective.