The exhibition Séstey / Hverfey presents new work by artist Þorgerður Ólafsdóttir, along with other artifacts she has placed in context with the permanent exhibition at Surtseyjarstofa in Vestmannaeyjar. Þorgerður´s exhibition addresses the notion of how a new place becomes actual in a cultural sense. Works in the exhibition are mappings of a place based …
University of Iceland Art Collection was founded in 1980. Like many university art collections abroad, University of Iceland bases its collection partly on donations. The founding collection, donated by the couple Ingibjörg Guðmundsdóttir (1911-1994) and Sverrir Sigurðsson (1909-2002) weighs the most. They donated close to 1200 artworks to the collection which are among the most …
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i8 Grandi is pleased to announce Cast of Mind, a year-long exhibition by B. Ingrid Olson. The artist’s show opens 20 January, 2023 and will be on view until 20 December 2023. Spanning far longer than traditional museum or gallery shows, i8 Grandi represents a new model for exhibitions. The programming focuses on concepts of space and time, and the …
Collage has formed the basis of Erró’s artworks for over sixty years, beginning early on with his Meca-Make-Up series in 1959-60, and resulting in more than 30,000 collages today. Through collecting, cutting, pasting and then painting Erró has freely mixed and quoted found material, transforming it into dynamic, striking and jarring visual collisions. In doing so he …
At the beginning of 2022, the art collection of Ingibjörg Guðmundsdóttir and entrepreneur Þorvaldur Guðmundsson was placed in the permanent keeping of the National Gallery of Iceland. The collection, which includes paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, reliefs etc., is one of Iceland’s largest private collections. It comprises about 1400 works by many of Iceland’s leading artists, …
For the first time Gerðarsafn, Kópavogur Art Museum, opens a permanent exhibition dedicated to Gerður Helgadóttir (1928-1975). The exhibition places an emphasis on her sculptural works and sheds light on the artist‘s vigorous creativity and her experimental avant-garde approach to creating complex works of incredible range. The basis of the exhibition is an ongoing research …
Hver man eftir forsetaframboðinu 2004? Vinstri Hægri Snú framboðinu? Kattaframboðinu? Besta píanóleikara Evrópu? Fjallkonunni? Listasafn Reykjanesbæjar ætlar að ramma inn og færa persónu- og myndsköpun Snorra í ákveðinn farveg sem mun auka skilning almennings á gagnrýninni samfélagslegri gjörningalist á Íslandi. Sýningarstjóri Helga Þórsdóttir. Aðstoðarsýningarstjórar Iðunn Jónsdóttir og Helga Arnbjörg Pálsdóttir. Sýningin Boðflenna mun standa til …
The exhibition Into the Valley in Late Autumn is made up of large watercolours painted in the past two years; artist Sigtryggur Bjarni Baldvinsson focusses on the natural environment in Héðisfjörður, north Iceland, in late autumn. Over the past 17 years, Sigtryggur’s art has increasingly been inspired by Héðinsfjörður, an uninhabited fjord between Ólafsfjörður and …
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Flóra is a cultural center focusing on the cultural heritage of Sigurhæðir house. Following Guðrún Runólfsdóttir and Matthías Jochumsson, who built the house in in 1903 and honored the value of a simple life, closer to nature and the arts. Artists and creative minds play a key role in rethinking society into this direction. Flóra …
Kaleidoscope: Icelandic 21st Century Art presents a selection of the works that the museum has acquired in the last two decades. The museum´s art collection spans as much as possible the breadth and the new emphases that can be found in the Icelandic art scene, both by reconized artists as well as the work of …
The work Zigaretten nach Berlin (Cigarettes to Berlin) is based on a product photograph of Jin Ling cigarettes. This contraband brand emerged as the most popular one in Europe in the late 90s and 2000s. The work challenges the conventional definition of art, pushing the boundaries of legality and exploring the blurred lines between originals …
In 1983, two Norwegian artists Gøran Ohldieck and Kjetil Berge came to Iceland. The purpose of the trip was to set up a large exhibition titled MASKS at the Nordic House in Reykjavík – over 200 photograps and slides bubbling with queer rhetoric and aesthetics. In fact, not many people saw the exhibition as it only lasted for two days. The artists …
Hallgrímur Árnason (b. 1988) lives and works in Vienna. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna f. ex. under the mentorship of Daniel Richter. Hallgrímur has participated in exhibitions abroad such as a group exhibition at the Icelandic Embassy in Vienna. Last February he opened his first solo exhibition in Vienna, Fehlerhaft …
The exhibition brings together new works by artists Anna Reutinger, Brákar Jónsdóttur, Hugo Llanes and Sigurðar Ámundason. Goodgonebadwrong emerges from a close collaboration between the artists, and takes shape as a kind of a gathering place — the beginning or end of a slightly chaotic conversation where different voices intertwine and ideas take shape in …
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Helena Margrét works with the classical qualities of painting to mimic the visible reality as a form of representation. Her ideas manifest themselves in a kind of magical-realism, painting objects and creatures with great precision that she finds either in the environment or in cyberspace. Furthermore, the subjects of her paintings are more often than …
The artists that gather here create through natural processes, materials and context. Each has their personal approach, although the common set is material from the micro-environment. The works of Sólveig Aðalsteinsdóttir reflect contemplations on time and environment, nature, growth and vegetation, where the borders between inner and outer reality aren‘t necessarily clear. Elsa Dóróthea Gísladóttir …
“The Beings have been with me since I visited Museo della Statue Stele Lunigianesi in Pontremoli, Italy 1990. The primitive sculptures had a big effect on me and have been with me ever since. In my work I am looking at the expansion of the painting as well as changing it from flatness into three-dimensional work. …
Katrín Jósepsdóttir (1914-1994) held various jobs during her lifetime but early on she started sewing and due to that she was most often called Kata the Seamstress. Her paintings are naive – which refers to a form of art usually defined as visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education …
Dröfn Friðfinnsdóttir (1946 -2000) studied at The Icelandic College of Art and Crafts 1962-1963 and at the Dupont School in Copenhagen 1964. She began her studies at Akureyri School of Visual Arts in the fall of 1982 and graduated from there 1986. She continued her studies in Finland 1987-1989. Friðfinnsdóttir received several recognitions for her …
How does one commemorate appalling acts without turning it into a spectacle? For my master’s solo exhibition, in early 2022, I spray-painted the words „Farðu til fjandans helvítis útlendinga skíturinn þinn“ (Go to hell you fucking foreign shit) on the gallery windows in Breiðholt, and all hell broke loose. This solo exhibition is inspired by the …
The artist Linda Steinþórsdóttir seeks inspiration in Minimalism on the one hand and in Expressionism on the other, where she finds room to reflect her own personality and experiences through a very intimate examination of nature, that she communicates to the viewer. The shapes and forms in Linda’s works strive to express the complex interactions …
Jakob Veigar (born 1975 in Hveragerði, Iceland) currently lives and works in Vienna. His u-turn into the art world happened quite late in life, after a whole life and career as a civil engineer. Jakob graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from the Icelandic University of the Arts in 2016, and continued to become „Herr Magister“ …
Verkið er innsetning og samanstendur af teikningum og litaformum sem unnin eru beint á veggi rýmisins. Sigga Björg teiknar hömlulaust og leyfir öllu að flæða í óritskoðuðu vinnuferli, þar sem mannleg hegðun, frumstæðar kenndir og tilfinningar birtast í sínu hráasta formi. Listakonan kannar þannig oft á tíðum óljós mörkin milli mennskunnar og hins dýrslega. …
When considering Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir’s oeuvre within the field of drawing and graphic art in Iceland’s art history, her iconic status is evident. The exhibition Cosmos/Chaos marks the year of her 90th birthday, and Ragnheiður’s messages from the 1970s regarding women’s empowerment, environmental awareness and social responsibility are still remarkably apt in the present day. Her …
The photographer Christopher Taylor exhibits three series of photographs. On the face of it, the three series chosen for this exhibition are quite different from each other, yet the common thread linking them together is the notion of home.
This exhibition presents a selection of works that have been purchased by the National Gallery of Iceland in the past four years, on the recommendation of the gallery’s acquisitions board. By holding an exhibition of recent acquisitions, the intention is to provide insight into this important aspect of the gallery’s work and the priorities that …
Free Verse is an exhibition of visual poetry and poetic text-based artworks. The show ties together the core of poetry through various mediums and stretches its boundaries way beyond the usual the format. From performances and sculptures to videos and ash, the birth and the afterlife of books, reading and writing is transformed into a …
The exhibition A Meeting with Eldfell emerged from an ongoing conversation between two artists, a curator and an anthropologist about their shared love of Eldfell, resulting in a collaborative project marking the 50th anniversary of the volcano’s birth in 1973. Throughout its short geologic life, Eldfell and the story of its eruption has inspired people around the …
Tvö ský, eins ský, eða næstum, nema annað er eins og hönd og hitt hundur. Eins og frosið eldstæði í gamallri kapellu. Eins og brunnið fiðrildi sem molnar. Eins og snagi, skál eða kanna. Ég lyfti gangstéttarhellu. Undir henni er krökt af lífi. Eins og lítil iðandi borg og ég er risinn. Óskilgreindur hlutur og …
