What is oral tradition? How does oral tradition manifest in modern times, opposed to the past were individuals relied solely on memory to share stories and knowledge? Skaftfell´s art education project for winter 2016-2017 is a travelling art workshop were…
Skaftfell Bistró will be closed from Sept 26 until mid Oct, due to maintenance. The Skaftfell gallery will be open Tue-Fri from 13-16, and by appointment, during the maintenance period.
Exhibition about copying, duplicating and plagiarism in collaboration with LungA school. Curator Gavin Morrison. Copying is commonplace and fundamental to art. Yet not all copying is equal. A range of moral responses can be expected that encompass the respect for the…
Unnur’s works talk in different ways about fading human connectedness caused by different forms of accepted narcissism. Making an impression has become a norm of the human condition, it provides a new form of belonging. We are not connecting to…
Solo exhibition by Icelandic artists Sigurður Atli Sigurðsson. Curator Gavin Morrison. Sigurður Atli Sigurðsson (b. 1988) is unusually attentive to those incidental moments and structures of modern life within which we leave an oblique trace of our presence. The back…
Autumn has arrived in Seyðisfjörður with inevitable changes in opening hours. Skaftfell Bistró is open daily from 15.00-21.30. The house of Geiri will be closed over winter and reopens on June 1, 2017. The gallery and store opening hours is daily from 12.00-18.00, until September 24 when…
The Russian film Journey to the Mother by director Mikhail Kosyrev-Nesterov will be screened at Herðubreið Community Center. The film features Maxim that travels to France to visit his mother, who has been living in Provence for a long time. Three tragic days rock the…
The annual Authors train will stop at Seyðisfjörður and the reading will be begin at 20.30 sharp in the gallery by Pétur Gunnarsson, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Magnús Sigurðsson and Inga Mekkín Guðmundsdóttir. Two authors from East Iceland will…
The exhibition never mine by Miriam Jonas transforms the Bookshop project space into a story not to be read, but to be stepped into: A visit to her Alter Ego´s imaginary mine, shelter and laboratory. This story is driven by the impact…
The call for applications for the Thematic residency “Printed Matter” is also closed. The call for applications for the Goethe-Institut residency grant remains open until 20th September. German artists and artists with permanent residence in Germany who can demonstrate…