📣 Skaftfell tilkynnir nýja samstarfsaðila í rekstri Skaftfells Bistró og boðar enduropnun veitingastaðarins í byrjun maí. Nýir framkvæmdastjórar, Eva Jazmin, Sesselja Hlín, Garðar Bachmann, Hjörvar og Sóley Guðrún, búa yfir margra ára reynslu af matreiðslu og móttöku gesta. Undir stjórn yfirmatreiðslumannsins Garðars Bachmann mun Skaftfell Bistró bjóða framsýnan matseðil með hefðbundnum íslenskum mat með frumlegum snúningi. Í samræmi við reglur Skaftfells um sjálfbærni og virðingu fyrir náttúrunni verður lögð áhersla á fersk, staðbundin matvæli, þar á meðal fisk, kjöt, grænmetisrétti, austfirskan bjór og lífræn vín. Veitingastaðurinn mun vegsama hafið og landið með því að styðja og kynna staðbundnar vörur og framleiðendur þeirra. 🌱 Skaftfell announces a new partnership for the management of Skaftfell Bistró, looking ahead to a grand reopening of the restaurant in early May. The new restaurant managers - Eva Jazmin, Sesselja Hlín, Garðar Bachmann, Hjörvar og Sóley Guðrún - offer many years of professional experience in culinary art and hospitality management. Under the direction of executive chef Garðar Bachmann, the Skaftfell Bistró will feature a visionary menu combining traditional Icelandic fare with an innovative twist. In keeping with Skaftfell´s principles of sustainability and respect for the natural environment, the restaurant menu will focus on locally-sourced fresh ingredients, including fish, meat, vegetarian dishes, local brews and organic wines. The restaurant will celebrate the sea and land around us, supporting and promoting our local producers and procurers.🌱

The exhibition SOÐ/STOCK by the wonderful students of LHÍ, will be open until 31st of March. These students come from many different departments and they have been in the @prentverkseydisfjordur all week for a workshop residency resulting in a versatile exhibition.

Opnun 10. Mars kl. 20:00 Vettvangsvinna nemenda úr Listaháskóla Íslands. Nemendur hafa unnið í sýningunni þessa vikuna á Prentverkstæði Seyðisfjarðar. SOÐ | STOCK An exhibition representing the culmination of a weeklong residency at Skaftfell of 15 outstanding students from the Iceland University of the Arts | Listaháskóli Íslands. The intensive program in the field was led by Leifur Ýmir Eyjólfsson, Linus Lohman, Litten Nystrøm, and Sigurður Atli Sigurðsson, and much of the work was done in the studio of Prentverk Seyðisfjörður.

Come with us to the Print Workshop at Seyðisfjörður,Iceland. All students from LHÍ.

WE ARE HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE // This week we have students from different departments in LHÍ taking over the print workshop in Seyðisfjörður. And on Friday they will have a show in Skaftfell at 8 pm! @vigdis.howser will take over our instagram over the week. Make sure to follow us and watch the process.

NEWS | FRÉTTIR Link in bio https://austurfrett.is/frettir/tonverk-i-fimm-koeflum-i-skaftfelli

Lucia Gašparovičová sýnir ljósmyndaverk “26 minutes” í Skaftfelli föstudaginn 10. febrúar frá 17:00-18:00. Sýningin er partur af List í Ljósi. Um “26 minutes”: Það tekur ljós 26 mínútur að berast ljósmyndapappír inni í camera obscura (myrkraboxi). Þetta ferli átti sér stað tvisvar á dag í tvo mánuði, myrkraboxið staðsett á bekk við höfnina á Skagaströnd þar sem sólargangurinn sást vel. 26 minutes er upptaka á tíma og rúmi sem fangar fjölbreytt birtuskilyrði á Íslandi yfir vetrarmánuðina. Manneskjan stóð í heild sinni 1300 mínútur á sama stað við bekkinn á meðan hún reyndi að fanga þann fjórvíða heim sem skiptir hversdaginn máli, jafna og ójafna hluti. Lucia Gašparovičová er slóvönsk myndlistarkona og gestalistamaður Skaftfells í janúar og febrúar. Dvöl Luciu er styrkt af Culture Moves Europe, sem veitt er af Goethe Institut og Slovak Art Council. ———— On Friday, February 10, from 17:00-18:00 Lucia Gašparovičová presents “26 minutes” at Skaftfell. The installation is part of List í Ljósi art festival. About "26 minutes": 26 minutes is the length of exposure – exposure of photosensitive paper inside a camera obscura to the light. This happened twice a day for two months, the camera obscura placed on a bench situated towards the harbor and the apparent movement of the sun in the Icelandic town Skagaströnd. “26 minutes” is a space-time recording and the visual materialization of the wide range of lighting conditions in Iceland during its short light days in January and February. 1300 minutes is the total time a person spent at the same spot, standing near a bench and waiting to record the four-dimensional world that every day cares about the same equal and unequal things. Lucia Gašparovičová is a Slovakian visual artist based in Bratislava, and currently artist in residence at Skaftfell Art Center. Lucia’s residency at Skaftfell is supported by a grant from Culture Moves Europe, implemented by the Goethe Institut, and the Slovak Art Council. #skaftfellresidencyprogram #skaftfell #listiljosi @list_i_ljosi @luciagasparovicova

ON VIEW | YFIRSTANDANDI SÝNING: The exhibition Composition in Five Movements —opening February 10 —features videos by five artists, including Steina (Icelandic, born 1940) pictured here in a clip from her video Warp (2000). Steina is renowned for her pioneering work in video art and video-effects technology, a long-time collaborator with her husband, Woody Vasulka (Czech, 1937-2019). In Warp, Steina recorded herself dancing through an empty room, her body distorted as she moved. The video was created using a software program developed by Steina working in close collaboration with Tom Demeyer at STEIM, in Amsterdam in 1997. The software program enables the manipulation of uncompressed video in real time. In the case of Warp, the video tracks human movements through the optical-mechanical manipulations of the machine. As such, the work is part of Steina’s investigations into the development of a new visual language, one that playfully engages the tensions between natural realism and the technological artifice. Photo: Courtesy BERG Contemporary and Steina #Steina #SkaftfellComposition #listiljosi

EXHIBITION OPENING February 10, 17:00 - 18:00 Composition in Five Movements: Videos by Barbara Naegelin, Dodda Maggý, Gústav Geir Bollason, Sigurður Guðjónsson, and Steina Vasulka. The opening coincides with the annual List í Ljósi |Art in Light Festival in Seyðisfjörður. Exhibition sponsors: The Cantonal Culture Department Basel-Stadt, Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Múlaþing, Menningar- og viðskiptaráðuneytið, and Uppbyggingarsjóður Austurlands.

ARTIST TALK / LISTAMANNASPJALL: Skaftfell invites you to an artist talk with current residency artists Lucia Gašparovičová, Tóta Kolbeinsdóttir and Salka Rósinkranz Wednesday, February 1 17:00-18:00 Skaftfell, 3rd floor For more information see link in bio —————- Skaftfell býður til listamannaspjalls við gestalistamönnum Luciu Gašparovičová, Tótu Kolbeinsdóttur og Sölku Rósinkranz: Miðvikudagur, 1. febrúar Kl. 17:00-18:00 Skaftfell, 3. hæð Nánari upplýsingar: sjá link in bio #skaftfellresidencyprogram #skaftfellartcenter

PODCAST LAUNCH: The Nordic Alliance of Artists’ Residencies on Climate Action (NAARCA) announces the launch of its new podcast TESTING GROUNDS The introductory episode of TESTING GROUNDS will be released today, on January 27, 2023, with new episodes available on the last Friday of each month. To subscribe and listen, visit naarca.art/testing-grounds-podcast/ or search for “Testing Grounds” in your favourite podcast app. As the climate crisis accelerates, how can artists’ residencies be testing grounds for new – and better – ways of living and working? A new, 8-part podcast series brings together artists, researchers and activists from across the Nordic region and Scotland to explore this question. Presented by the Nordic Alliance of Artists’ Residencies on Climate Action (NAARCA), each episode in the series looks at the crisis through the lens of one artists’ residency. In the first episode, we travel deep into the Arctic Circle, to Longyearbyen – home of Artica Svalbard – to hear a conversation between an architect and an anthropologist about how climate change is affecting people’s relationship with their built environment. TESTING GROUNDS is produced and edited by Katie Revell and includes original music by Loris S. Sarid and artwork by Jagoda Sadowska. TO LISTEN TO TESTING GROUNDS VISIT www.naarca.art Buzzsprout Player Spotify Apple Podcasts ABOUT NAARCA NAARCA is a collaboration between seven artists’ residencies: Cove Park (Scotland), Saari Residence (Finland), Artica Svalbard (Norway), Art Hub Copenhagen (Denmark), Baltic Art Center (Sweden), Skaftfell Art Center (Iceland) and Narsaq International Research Station (Greenland). We are working together to develop, test and communicate new ways of living that are ecologically, socially, mentally and financially sustainable. We believe that artists’ residencies are exceptional institutions within the arts sector: safe environments for experimentation, where private, professional and public life intertwine. Learn more at www.naarca.art #naarca #skaftfellartcenter #skaftfell @balticartcenter @art_hub_copenhagen @articasvalbard @saariresidence @cove_park

ARTIST TALK | LISTAMANNASPJALL: Jessica Auer Skaftfell Art Center invites you to an artist talk with Jessica Auer, Canadian artist, photographer, and filmmaker, and co-founder of Ströndin Studio, a photographic research and education center in Seyðisfjörður. Thursday, January 26 17:00 - 18:00. Skaftfell - 3rd floor Austurvegur 42, Seyðisfjörður www.skaftfell.is A selection of photographs from Jessica’s series Looking North will be on view in the Skaftfell Bistró from January 23 – April 2, 2023. The installation and talk coincide with Jessica’s exhibition Landvörður, curated by Sigrún Alba Sigurðardóttir, opening on January 28th at Sláturhúsið, in Egilsstaðir. www.slaturhusid.is Listamannaspjall: Jessica Auer Skaftfell – myndlistarmiðstöð býður til listamannaspjalls við Jessicu Auer, kanadíska listakonu, ljósmyndara og kvikmyndagerðarkonu sem er ein af stofnendum Ströndin Studio, ljósmynda- og fræðslumiðstöðvar á Seyðisfirði. Fimmtudaginn, 26. janúar 17:00 - 18:00. Skaftfell – þriðja hæð Austurvegur 42, Seyðisfjörður www.Skaftfell.is Úrval mynda úr myndaröðinni Horft til norðurs eftir Jessicu verður til sýnis á Skaftfell Bistró frá 23. janúar til 2. apríl 2023. Innsetningin og spjallið falla saman við sýningu Jessicu, Landvörður, sem Sigrún Alba Sigurðardóttir stýrir og opnar í Sláturhúsinu á Egilsstöðum 28. janúar. www.Slaturhusid.is #skaftfell #skaftfellbistro #jessicaauer #seyðisfjörður #austurland