Gallery closed for two days
Unfortunately the gallery will be closed on Thursday Nov 3 and Friday Nov 4. Our apologies for the inconvenience.
Skaftfell Residency
RIFF selection in Seyðisfjörður
Skaftfell, in collaboration with the Cultural Center of Fljótdalshérað, will host an off-venue for Reykjavík International Film Festival in Seyðisfjörður Thursday Nov 3 in Herðubreið Community Center two movies will be screened, the Icelandic short film The Hot Tub and the…
Mini-workshop for children
Friday Oct 21 artists-in-residency Morgan Kinne will host a mini-workshop for children age 6-10. Everyone is welcome while there is still space. Hanna Christel, Skaftfells education manager, will assist. The workshop will take place at Skaftfell, 3rd floor and is…
Open studios
Current artists-in-residence will host open studios and present works in progress as a part of the Visual Art Day. Morgan Kinne, and the artist duo Curtis Tamm and Hermione Spriggs will show their works-in-progress in the Bookshop-projectspace from 17.00 to 20.00, and at the same…
Release party for Valdamiklir menn
The release of the publication of Valdamiklir menn (e. Powerful men) by Jón Pálsson will be celebrated in Skaftfell Bistro Saturday Nov 5 at 16.00. The author will read from the book with Sólveig Sigurðardóttir and Árni Elísson. The reading will be…
Oral tradition and mapping of memories
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…
The Bistro closed from Sept 26.
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.
Unoriginal
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…
One is On
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…
An image of you
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…