Art for Christmas
With Christmas, just two hops and jumps away, now is the last chance to go shopping art for Christmas. Below, a list of Christmas markets, bazaars and salons in and …
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Interview: Fritz Hendrik IV
We sat down with Fritz Hendrik IV to discuss his current exhibition at Harbinger Project Space, feelings of doom and optimism and the liminal space of color. In paintings, sculptures …
BERG Contemporary at LOOP Barcelona 2020
First launched in 2003, LOOP Barcelona is a fair dedicated to artists’ film, video and performances. Since its start it offers a careful selection of video-related content from innovative perspectives. It develops projects …
Ragnar Kjartansson’s installation Death is Elsewhere opens at the AGO on Nov. 7
The Art Gallery of Ontario announces the Toronto premiere of Death is Elsewhere (2019), an immersive video installation by acclaimed performance and video artist Ragnar Kjartansson (Icelandic, b. 1976). Panoramic in scope, …
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The Icelandic Pavilion to be located in the Arsenale, one of the biennale’s main exhibition venue
With support from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture and Promote Iceland the Icelandic Art Center has signed an agreement with the Venice Biennale’s office regarding an exhibition space in …
Libia Castro (ES) and Ólafur Ólafsson (IS)
Let’s ‘begin questioning the model of creation and diffusion specific to intellectual labor and to get beyond the concept of creativity as an expression of ‘individuality’ or as the patrimony …
Welcome to episode 2 of the Icelandic Art Center’s podcast ‘Out There’
In this episode Claire Paugam a multidisciplinary French artist based in Reykjavík, shares her practice, themes and experiences from within the studio. An active board member of the Living Art …
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Open call: Residency in Clermont-Ferrand in France for April 2021
Deadline: 30. October 2020 The deadline to apply for a residency in Clermont Ferrand in France has been extended by one week. The residency is the result of a collaboration …
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Episode 1: Markús Þór Andrésson
What does the Icelandic art scene look like today? What can we learn from within the artists’ studio? By getting out into the scene, the studio, the storage, the artist-led …
Interview: Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson
Your lockdown diary—a series of drawings from each day during the pandemic—struck me as tragicomic and universally relatable. Could you talk us through the series? It was the middle of …
A! Performance Festival 2020
A! is a four-day international performance festival held every year, now for the sixth time. The festival is a collaboration between Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri Culture Society, Akureyri Theater, LÓKAL …
Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson: In Search for Magic – A Proposal for a New Constitution for the Republic of Iceland
For the project the artists along with Cycle Music and Art Festival and Reykjavík Arts Festival have invited a group of composers and musicians to join them in an open …
