Ingólfur Arnarsson (b. 1956) and Þuríður Rós Sigurþórsdóttir (b.1975) are somewhat different artists, yet in this exhibition their work can be seen to relate to painting without it being painting. In this exhibition a number of concrete works by Arnarsson…
August 19.-22. 2015 at the Bookshop – projectspace Islandia en Islandia aims to activate an interaction with local artists, activating a Meta-Residency dialogue: Local artists will be invited into a temporary studio space at the Bookshop – projectspace and or…
the Bookshop-Projectspace Opening Wednesday August 26 at 17.00 We, a group of 15 artists, fashion designers, writers and musicians were lucky to call Nielsenshs in Seyðisfjörður our temporal home over this summer of rain. Communal living and utopian ideas as…
Saturday night May 30th. at 21:00 Francesco Bertel will present the video performance Sagas connected to his current project and exhibition at the Bookshop – projectspace; GUHA. The Video performance is of approx. 20 minutes duration and will take…
David Edward Allen (UK) lives in Berlin. His work revolves around a broadened notion of Landscape and our position as part of it. Using, for example, natural phenomena such as gravity, the organic growth of trees, or the movement of…
On the West wall in Skaftfell Bistro a young residence of Seyðisfjörður, Aron Fannar Skarphéðinsson, will have his photographs exhibited. In his pictures Aron Fannar is able to bring new aspects of things we normally don’t notice in our daily…
Students from 2nd to 7th grade in Seyðisfjörður primary school worked in context with the festivals theme on the east side of Iceland which was Reindeer. They enjoyed a visit from Ólafur Örn Pétursson, an entrepreneur and a farmer at…
Saturday and Sunday May 9-10, from 12.00-14.00 Minimalist Composition (I+II) is a mini field + studio workshop hosted by Canadian artist Reza Rezai. The focus of the workshop will be to develop a body of photographic work that incorporates the…
This Thursday May 7th. it will be possible to get introduced to current and newly arrived artists in residence; Francesco Bertele, Reza Rezai, David Edward Allen and Halina Kliem whom will talk about selected works and current projects. Furthermore the artist talk invites you to…
Climbing Invisible Structures is a curated visual arts residency exchange and exhibition programme organised by the Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts (NAC) (Lithuania), in collaboration with the Office for Contemporary Art Norway, the Nordic Artists Centre Dale…