Easter opening hours
Skaftfell Bistró and gallery will be open: Thursday 15:00-21:00 Good Friday 17:00-20:00 Saturday 12:00-21:00 Easter Sunday 17:00-20:00 Monday 15:00-21:00 The Skaftfell office will be closed from Thursday to Tuesday.
Skaftfell Residency
Photographs from the opening of Frontiers of Solitude in Prague
The final chapter of the Czech, Icelandic and Norwegian collaboration project Frontiers of Solitude took place Feb 4.- 6. in Prague,Czech Rebublic when an exhibition opened with 19 artists and seminar that offered comparison of opinions, experiences, and points of…
Online broadcast from Romania
Icelandic artists Ásdís Sif Gunnarssdóttir is currently participating in the Romanian Icelandic collaboration project entitled Artists as Agents of Institutional Exchange. As a part of the project she will stream live via a online platform. Gunnarssdóttir studied video and performance…
Frontiers of Solitude – exhibition opening and seminar in Prag
Exhibition: February 5 – March 4, 2016 at Skolska 28 Gallery, Fotograf Gallery and Ex Post Opening on February 4, 2016 from 6 pm at Skolska 28 Gallery and Fotograf Gallery Symposium: February 56, 2016 at the French Institute in…
Light paintings
Nemendur Seyðisfjarðarskóla í 8.-10. bekk tóku þátt í listsmiðju fyrr í vetur sem var stýrð af Nikolas Grabar. Í smiðjunni lærðu þau undirstöðuatriði stafrænnar ljósmyndunar og gerðu í lokin hvert fyrir sig sitt “ljósamálverk” þar sem myndir eru teknar á…
Open call for the Goethe-Institut Dänemark residency grant in 2016
In collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Dänemark, Skaftfell will be able to offer a grant to one artist, for a two-month residency between September – December 2016. Application deadline: March 15, 2016. Objectives The aim of the Residency Program at…
No Solo
Students from the fine art department at the Iceland Academy of the Arts participate in the annual “Workshop Seyðisfjörður”. This is the sixteenth workshop and is lead by Björn Roth and Kristján Steingrímur. The duration of the workshop is two…
Public presentation of the project Artists as agents of institutional exchange
Friday, January 28, tranzit.ro/ Iași will host a public presentation of the project Artists as agents of institutional exchange, organized by tranzit.ro/ Iași in partnership with Skaftfell. In the frame of the presentation, Tinna Gudmundsdottir, the director of Skaftfell and…
Lifeforce, A Soliloquy and 6 Poems
Like a steady moving creek, life passes patiently with or without us. Lifeforce juxtaposes an out of focus image of a large boulder violently battered by cresting waves with fragmented pieces of snowy ice sheets being carried out to sea.…
Interzone
Interzones or territories, disparate and similar, connected to each other by conducting images and by the energy transmitted through the filmed landscapes. The zones are combining, overlapping, opposing, creating dynamics. They are parasitized and interdependent. Connections occur. Various layers follow…