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Icelandic Art Advent Calendar 2021

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

25.09.2021 –

16.01.2022

Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir & Mark Wilson: Visitations

Akureyri Art Museum

20.11.2021 –

30.01.2022

Ráðhildur Ingadóttir and Igor Antić: SecondSkin

Reykjanes Art Museum

19.10.2019 –

31.12.2021

Sigurjón Ólafsson: A Story Unfolds

National Gallery of Iceland - Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum

GOOD THURSDAY

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01.12.2021

Icelandic Art Advent Calendar 2021

30.11.2021

ART IN ICELAND

23.11.2021

Spotlight on artist-led spaces: Midpunkt

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Figures in landscape by #RagnarKjartansson is a we

Figures in landscape by #RagnarKjartansson is a week-long video work commissioned by the Faculty of Health in the University of Copenhagen. For seven days, actors dressed as scientists explore seven scenes from midnight to midnight creating a living mural of interactions between nature and science.

This scene was filmed on a Saturday like today and looks very much like the tree-less snowy landscapes we can find in Iceland in winter, so maybe it serves as an inspiration to go out and do your own exploring.

For those in Moscow, today there are two exhibition openings by Ragnar Kjartansson at @VACfoundation . In 'Santa Barbara - A living sculpture' the artist recreates 100 episodes of Santa Barbara, the first American soap opera to be shown in Russia, in a set open to the public, completing one episode per day. This will create a massive living mural such as in 'Figures in Landscape', of nostalgic scenes for those growing up in Russia in the 90s.

Accompanying Santa Barbara is the show 'To Moscow! To Moscow! To Moscow!' which shows other works by Ragnar Kjartansson alongside works by artists who have collaborated or inspired him in the past.

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RAGNAR KJARTANSSON, Figures in Landscape (Saturday), a time piece, 2018. Video, 168 hours. Courtesy of the artist and @i8gallery .

‘To Moscow! To Moscow! To Moscow!: 4.Dec - 13.March at VAC Foundation. Artworks by @hildigunnru @pall_haukur @theastergates @unabjoerg @thejasonmoran @ragnar.helgi @dickpageface @elizabethpeyton_1 @curverthoroddsen @schneemannfoundation and more

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Like in the novella A Christmas Carol, spirits som

Like in the novella A Christmas Carol, spirits sometimes find their way into the works of Gjörningaklúbburinn / @TheIcelandicLoveCorporation . Twice already they have enlisted a psychic to call upon a spirit during the preparation of a work. They call this method medium-medium.

Today's artwork, Water and Blood, seeks inspiration in the life and art of painter Ásgrímur Jónsson, a pioneer of Icelandic visual art. Via a psychic they contacted the artist, who shared with them his views on the energy that inhabits art and artists‘ shared need to create, resulting in a work where past meets present, as creativity, intuition and nature play an important role in an enigmatic world.

Water and Blood was commissioned by @ListasafnIslands and exhibited at the museum in 2019 - 2020. They are currently working on a big scale multi disciplinary art work in collaboration with music composers and the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, a work that will premiere at @HarpaReykjavik in 2023.

/THE ICELANDIC LOVE CORPORATION: Jóní Jónsdóttir & Eirún Sigurðardóttir, Water and Blood, 2019. Video still.

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Some of you might have your Christmas tree up alre

Some of you might have your Christmas tree up already, some will set it up later or have none at all, but look closely at the branches of an evergreen fir and you will recognize the source of the work 'Into the Wild' by @CarlBoutard - three upside down branches of a Christmas tree enlarged forty times and cast in bronze.

This work is at the department of Architecture at @LundUniversity , but you can see other works by Carl Boutard at his solo exhibition in @ReykjavikArtMuseum Ásmundarsafn on show until the 6th of February.
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CARL BOUTARD, Into The Wild, 2013. Bronze.

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To brighten up these dark winter days we will be s

To brighten up these dark winter days we will be sharing with you a daily work of Icelandic Art as part of our Advent Calendar. Swipe to open today's window and see what awaits...

Kicking off the month we have a work from @ElinHansdottir 's series Trichromatic where she projected primary coloured lights - which when combined form white light - into the snowy landscape.

Come back tomorrow for another work of Icelandic Art!
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ELÍN HANSDÓTTIR, Trichromatic, 2016. Archival inkjet prints. Courtesy of the artist and @i8gallery

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