Vasco Costa and Wolfgang Obermair have been working together on projects since 2011, exploring the imprints and impacts on particular spaces in culture, economy and politics. By combining artistic and ethnographic methods they aim to create a sphere of intersubjectivity and cross-cultural synthesis…
Rolling snowball is an international visual art exhibition which presents works by contemporary artists. Rolling Snowball/7, Djúpivogur brings together artists working across the full spectrum of disciplines, including drawing, photography, painting, sculpture and video. The exhibition continues as a joint…
Current Artists-in-Residence Kati Gausmann, Ráðhildur Ingadóttir and Richard Skelton conclude their stay with a presentation of works in progress in the Bookshop-projecspace Sunday June 26 from 12.00-18.00. The artists first stayed at Seyðisfjörður in September 2014 for one month and simultaneously launched their…
Period: Feb 2-15, 2017. Deadline: September 1, 2016. Printing matter is a two-week thematic residency with an intensive program for 8-10 artists, focusing on printmaking and artist book making. The Thematic Residency aims to create a platform for exchange, discussion,…
Art without borders with Skaftfell and LungA festival introduce the exhibition Triple Headed which will be held in Herðubreið, the community center of Seyðisfjörður. Opening is on the 11th of July at 5:00 pm. The band Times New Roman will…
Deadline Sept 1, 2016. The residency program at Skaftfell Center for Visual Art aims to create and nurture an environment for inspiration, focus, and experiment; to encourage artists to experience life and work in a unique micro community where creativity…
The event is composed of potential misunderstandings in the common memory. Various myths will be unveiled that possibly have their origins in the roots of the north. Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir was born in 1987. She graduated with BA in visual…
We are Hyperboreans–we know well enough how remote our place is. “Neither by land nor by water will you find the road to the Hyperboreans”: even Pindar,in his day, knew that much about us. Beyond the North, beyond the ice,…
Performances in Tvísöngur sound sculpture. Spring’s Call of Nature by Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson. A storyteller, a performer, a singer, an object maker, an illustrator. Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson has a love for the absurd, by which is meant less an obsessive…
Throughout August and December 2016 London Fieldworks will be in residence at Skaftfell. Over the two-month residency the artists will create “Short films about light and dark” identifying and expressing local ways of knowing within the context of changing light.…