FIELDS is a new body of two and three-dimensional work developed for Gallerí Úthverfa. It follows recent residencies undertaken with ArtsIceland (2022) and Skaftfell Centre for Visual Art (2020). Rooted in interaction with materials, place and process, Kirsty Palmer’s practice addresses ideas surrounding landscape, archaeology and materiality, often resulting in bodies of work which are …
There is embroidery on a painting. It is woven through the base forming a grid. Before the base warps and bends, the grid has counted the steps of markings, which traveled through time, and stopped here in anticipation. - What I had imagined, was a series of still life paintings with the petrified motifs of …
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‘You know, all of a sudden, life doesn’t feel quite hehe haha anymore, it feels rather, rather serious. I’ve got to do things with my life but it’s so scary, I am just a bean - small and scurried, afraid and worried.’ Seeking Solace delves into the stark contrast between the outward face of professional …
“Now, the characteristic of mythical thought is to express itself with the help of a repertoire whose composition is heterogeneous and which, although extensive, is still limited; nevertheless, it must use it, whatever the task it assigns itself because it has nothing else at hand.” Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Savage Mind (1962) “The Wandering of a Bricoleur” …
Á sýningunni Glufu gefst færi til að skyggnast inn í einhvers konar sviðsetningu af óræðum stað. Í rýminu eru vísbendingar um staðinn og hlutirnir þar minna á hversdagslega hluti sem við sjáum í okkar daglega umhverfi; glufa inn í annan heim sem er kunnuglegur en nýr á sama tíma. Agnes Freyja Björnsdóttir er með BA-gráðu …
The project is called "Slippery seaweed on wet stone" and will be open until Sunday, May 28. The artist will be present during the opening. "Slippery seaweed on wet stone" is a project based on eider farming. In the summer of 2021, Øyvind was on an eider island outside of Vega in Norway, after this …
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Atli Pálsson graduated from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in the spring of 2020. Atli's works often scrutinize everyday activities and social values in a humorous way. Subjects such as gratuitous rewards, personal triumphs, hyper-hospitality and generosity have been at the forefront of his work, as well as characterisation. Excess often characterizes the presentation …
In the exhibition Ghosts and other past things, you can see visual poems about memories, emotions and other things that haunt us. In the olden days, it was common to see ghosts in the absolute darkness that people lived in. How do we see ghosts in our enlightened society? Do ordinary, everyday ghosts exist? Does everything we …
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Crust on a short trip. A rake standing in a cone was found in a parking lot. The rake became a tassel on a hat which became a cone-hat, which became a bowler hat, which then ended up being a tail-cap. It wasn't until much later that I heard about the tail-cap’s whereabouts when it …
The exhibition “…something that was, & isn’t” contains two four colour intaglio photopolymer prints adjacent to a sculpture. The works derive from impressions and memories of several buildings housing the Technical Museum of East Iceland, decimated by the landslides in Seyðisfjörður in December 2020. While the destroyed buildings of the museum contained many objects documenting …
MǪRSUGUR 2022 Andreas Brunner 17.02 - 28.02 2022 I HAD CAKE FOR BREAKFAST 2019 HD Video On Thursday the 17th of Andreas Brunner opens the exhibition I HAD CAKE FOR BREAKFAST in the window of Outvert Art Space, Andreas is the fourth and last artist of MǪRSUGUR 2022. Mǫrsugur is the third month of winter …
On Thursday the 20th of January Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir opens the exhibition HLAUPA – ÉG ER BEAST Í GYMMINU in the window of Outvert Art Space, Sigrún is the second artist of MǪRSUGUR 2022. Mǫrsugur is the third month of winter according to an old Icelandic calendar. Mǫrsugur is the darkest time of the year …
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MǪRSUGUR 2022 Mǫrsugur is the third month of winter according to an old Icelandic calendar. Mǫrsugur is the darkest time of the year when all living breath lies in hibernation. To brighten up those dark weeks four artists will project their works on the window of Gallerí úthverfa / Outvert Art Space in the center …
5 minutes. Always only 5 minutes until. Abundance in the restraints of a cycle, overflow of everything only 5 minutes away. Just arrived, almost there. Always only 5 minutes until. I move away in abundance. Instead of being an efficient vessel for construction, who receives and delivers right away, I undergo the current. A rushing …
An exhibition of new works by Kees Visser.
