“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…
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…
Friday November 7 at 14:00 at the Skaftfell Residency Hub! Current artists in residence Petter Lehto (SE), Jukka Hautamäki and Minna Pöllänen (FI) will talk about their work, including (discarded) consumer goods, electronics, sounds, links…
Art class students, grade 6-9 in the Seyðisfjörður primary school, exhibit horror art works. The exhibition is a part of the Afturgangan walk and Days of Darkness.
Swedish artist Erik Bünger performs “The Girl Who Never Was” in the Skaftfell gallery. In 2008 an American researcher rediscovers the lost traces of the first recorded voice ever: the 148-old voice of a little girl singing the French lullaby…
Winter hats made with traditional methods Opening Saturday November 22, at 16:00. The exhibition is open daily from 14.00-18.00, until November 29. New Yok has moved its production to the Bookshop-projectspace in down town Seyðisfjörður. During this period, hats will…
Skaftfell, in collaboration with the Cultural Center of Fljótdalshérað, will host an off-venue for Reykjavík International Film Festival in Seyðisfjörður October 9 and 10. The screenings will take place´ in the Bistro. Entrance is 500 ISK. Thursday, Oct 9. 20.00 Home…
The deadline for the Skaftfell residency program in 2015 expired on September 1 and nearly 180 applications were received. A selection panel goes over the applications and results will be announced to the artists in the coming weeks. In recent…
This coming Saturday Ráðhildur Ingadóttir, curator of RÓ RÓ, will have a guided tour of the exhibition. The event is a part of Haustroði and will be in Icelandic. The exhibition RÓ RÓ will be ongoing until October 14.
The first artists participating in the Frontiers in Retreat project at Skaftfell, Kati Gausmann and Richard Skelton, arrived in Iceland in the end of August. Simultaneously the volcanic activity in South Iceland reached its peak and magma started flowing from Holuhraun. Hence it…