March has arrived and we have prepared for you an overview of exhibition openings this month.
Join us here for weekly updates on our website for the exhibitions opening in Iceland this month. Exhibitions, which will still be on display in April. You can also follow us on our Instagram account or Facebook page as we list all the exhibitions in a series of stories throughout the month. You can also just revisit this page where we will be updating it regularly.
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HEKLA DÖGG JÓNSDÓTTIR – SCHEMES
BERG Contemporary from the 11th of March until the 22nd of April
BERG Contemporary aims to provide a diversified forum for contemporary art by representing emerging and established artists, and by seeking the resonant tone of the present through a programme of innovative exhibitions. BERG Contemporary is located in an old glass factory in Reykjavík, Iceland.
Now Hekla has a solo show at the gallery.
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rúrí – glassrain
National Gallery of Iceland from the 4th of March until the 17th of September, 2023.
Glassrain is an installation from 1984, one of the first of Rúrí‘s many works that address the theme of time and menace. Glassrain comprises 500 razor-sharp fragments of glass, each ending in a point; the glass sheets, of variable length, hang in clusters from ceiling to floor. Each piece is suspended on a clear thread, and when a visitor walks past the piece, air currents lead the glass pieces to turn on their threads.
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the icelandic love corporation – Through the portal
Gallery Port from the 4th of March until the 18th of March, 2023.
The exhibition Through the Portal revolves around a séance comitted by the ILC in 2019 with the deceased Icelandic artist Ásgrímur. The séance was comitted in preparation for their exhibition at The National Gallery of Iceland, Water and Blood the same year.
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Dagrún aðalsteinsdóttir – orientation
Y gallery from the 4th of March
Y gallery organizes exhibitions in its gallery space located in an old gas station underneath an apartment building in downtown Kópavogur, Iceland. The house was designed by architect Benjamín Magnússon in the seventies and imagined as a ‚cité‘ to encompass all of societies needs with over two hundred apartments combined with retail housing, a rooftop park (the radial park is situated on top of the garage, a nod to Le Corbusier’s La Cité Radieuse), underground parking completed with a gas station in the basement.
Y emphasizes three dimentional work, installations and sculptures since the architecture is best suited to exhibitions of that nature with windows along three sides of the exhibition space. Along with its gallery operations Y also organizes exhibition projects in public space. Now Dagrún Aðalsteinsdóttir’s work is on display.
