Photography course
Learn once and for all how to work your DSLR camera. In the course the students will learn all the basic technical settings on a DSLR camera as well as the basics in photo composition. The instructor of the course…
Skaftfell Residency
Open call for curators and writers
Application deadline May 15, 2016. Applications are open to curators interested in pursuing research, curatorial and critical writing opportunities in the northern regions of Norway, Finland, Sweden, Northwest-Russia, Scotland, Iceland and Lithuania during autumn 2016 – winter 2016 The residency…
Frontiers of Solitude – project presentation
Frontiers of Solitude is a collaborative project between Skolska Gallery in Prague (CZ), Atelier Nord in Oslo (NO), and Skaftfell Center for Visual Art in Seyðisfjörður (IS), which is now coming to an end. From April 2015 to April 2016…
Artist Talk #26
Join us when current artists-in-residence Faith La Rocque, Leander Djønne and Valérie Bourquin, will present their work and practice Thursday March 31 at 20.00 in Herðubreið Community Center. Norwegian artists Leander Djønne, staying courtesy of the Nordic Culture Point, will…
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.
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…