With warmer temperatures gracing
our weather forecasts, July is the perfect month to hit the road and discover some
of the year-round or summer-only art spaces that the Icelandic countryside has to
offer.
Start in the city at the National Gallery of Iceland to get inspired
by Ragnar Kjartansson’s Sumarnótt (Death is Elsewhere)
– a seven-channel video installation filmed one Icelandic
summer night, when darkness never falls. Then, head over to the westfjords and fully
take advantage of the bright summer nights to enjoy the outdoor exhibition STAÐIR/PLACES, featuring site specific works by Anna
Júlía Friðbjörnsdóttir, Auður Lóa Guðnadóttir, Starkaður Sigurðarson, and Eygló
Harðardóttir, as well as Til Staðar:
one of three installations/exhibitions by Katrín Sigurðardóttir in three separate
regions of Iceland: Svavarssafn at Höfn, Nýp Project Space and Sauðanesbær in Norður-Þingeyjarsýsla.
Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir – Shoplifter
In the north of the country Intruder,
a large scale outdoor artwork by Shoplifter, is opening in Hrútey. The works will be distributed around the
island so when you walk around you will encounter unexpected and unnatural visitors
in Hrútey’s very natural environment. Safnasafnið,
the Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum, has opened it’s doors once again for
the season with twelve new exhibitions, and two group shows will be running this
summer at The Factory in
Hjalteyri.
Earthquake, 1969 – Sigurður Guðmundsson
For those headed east, Borgarfjörður
Eystri’s brand new exhibition space Gletta
is a must. Skaftfell Centre for Visual Art’s summer
exhibition is a solo show by Seyðisfjörður based artist and Dieter Roth Academy
founding member Pétur Kristjánsson. In Djúpivogur Freedom – a new public
artwork by Sigurður Guðmundsson – will be unveiled on the 10th of July, together
with the accompanying show The Universe
is a Poem featuring a selection of his works from the years 1969–2021.
For a full listing of exhibitions
visit our events calendar.
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