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.…
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…
Welcome to the presentation of experiments by Nora Mertes at the Bookshop-projectspace Thursday January 21, from 20.00 -22.00. Nora Mertes researches the relationship between the human body and material in her surroundings. While reflecting upon it she uses her hands and…
Tuesday January 19 at 16:30 Skaftfell, Austurvegur 43, 3rd floor. Meet and hear the current Artists-in-Residence at Skaftfell in January, Nora Mertes (DE) & Rashanna Rashied-Walker (USA), on Tuesday when they will present their practice and selected works. Local artists…
Lola Bezemers work concentrateson the experience of colour and light in architectural spaces. When going to Iceland, she brought a pile of coloured fabrics to work with in the snow white landscape.Like using a white wall to project on, one…
Dear art lovers, near and far. The gallery opening hours will be extended until the holidays. Thu Dec 17 open 15-20 Fri Dec 18 open 15-20 Sat Dec 19 open 15-20 Closed Sun Dec 20 Mon Dec 21 open 15-20…
The annual Authors train will stop at Seydisfjordur Saturday November 28. The reading will be begin at 20.30 sharp in the exhibition space. Five authors will read from their newly published books, in Icelandic: Idunn Steinsdottir,Jon Gnarr, Kristin Helga Gunnarsdottir,…
Linda Persson is a Swedish artist / filmmaker and a returning Artist-in-Residence at Skaftfell. Throughout my practice language has played a central role. What interests me in language is its ability to fail meaning. I use dead, peripheral and code…
The Kitchen Sink Revolution is a documentary film chronicling the effect of the womens party that ran for office in 1982 on women in politics in Iceland. After the colourful grassroots radicalism and awakening of the seventies the so-called New…
For thousands of years the ocean was defining the limits of the known world. For centuries it has inspired people to overcome the impossible. Today the ocean is connecting nations and ideas and traditions. The Atlantic Biennale: Untold Saga kick-of…