SUM
Premier screening of the new film work SUM by Cai Ulrich von Platen. Sunday March 1, at 16:00 in Herðubreið cinema. About the film: We enter a small intimate office-space in Copenhagen. From the safe surroundings of two elderly accountants…
Skaftfell Residency
Listamannaspjall #21
Fimmtudaginn 12. febrúar kl. 17:00 í Skaftfell Bistró. Danski listamaðurinn Cai Ulrich von Platen, gríski listamaðurinn Effrosyni Kontogeorgou – búsettur í Berlín, og breski rithöfundurinn Helen Jukes kynna verk sín og viðfangsefni á listamannaspjalli. The work of visual artist Cai…
Artist talk #20
Meet and hear the current artists in residence at Skaftfell Jessica Auer (CA) and the artist duo GIDEONSSON/LONDRÉ (SE) present their work on Tuesday January the 20th. at 17:00. The artist talk will take place at the Skaftfell Bistro. Welcome!…
Still Ruins, Moving Stones
The video work Still Ruins, Moving Stones by Canadian artist Jessica Auer is screened at the Bookshop – projectspace window evenings from Thursday Jan 22 to Jan 29, 2015. Four hundred years after settling a new world, the Norse colonizers…
Twenty-Four Seven
The balance between exhaustion and regeneration as a rhythmic exchange between light and darkness. In the brightness, we’re in a state of exposure with a constant demand to produce. The sheltering darkness becomes a necessary counterpart that allows recuperation and…
New years greeting – Geiri’s house
Geiri’s house, the former home of native artists Ásgeir Jón Emilsson at Oddagata 4c, graces Skaftfell’s greeting card. Geiri was creatively compulsive and decorated his house with great care. His story is unique and today the house stands as a…
Sightseeing Tour – Minna Pöllänen
Thursday Dec 18, at 18.00, Minna Pöllänen will perform “Sightseeing Tour”, as a part of the ongoing exhibition (MAL)FUNCTION in the Bookshop. Due to the weather the performance will take place inside the space. Through the town’s architecture and landmarks,…
(MAL)FUNCTION
Welcome to the opening Tuesday 16.12.2014 at 5-7pm. Concert by Jukka Hautamäki starts at 6pm. Sightseeing Tour – outdoor performance by Minna Pöllänen Thursday the 18th at 6pm. Duration 30 minutes, in English. Open daily December 17 – 19, 2014,…
Two Rivers
“Two Rivers” explores two different marginalized socio-political and cultural spaces of globalization. Rather than polarizing the two site-specific installations shown question the conditions, which function as basis for processes of exclusion and concepts of Otherness by reflecting on coexistence in…
The fifteenth Art Academy student group has arrived in Seyðisfjörður
Students from the fine art department at the Iceland Academy of the Arts have arrived for the second time this year to participate in “Workshop Seyðisfjörður”. This is the fifteenth workshop held in Skaftfell and is guided by Björn Roth…