During September Skaftfell has organized guided tours for families on Saturdays at 15.00. The tour offers insight into the work of Nína Tryggvadóttir (1913-1968) and Gunnlaugur Scheving (1904-1972) on display in the exhibition All Kinds of Landscapes. The tour will…
The applications for the Skaftfell Residency Program 2019 and for the thematic residencies Printing Matter and Wanderlust have now been forwarded to the selection panel for review. The results will be available by the end of October. Skaftfell would like to thank all applicants…
On Saturday, September 22, the yield from Printing Matter, a thematic residency organized by Skaftfell in collaboration with the Technical Museum of East Iceland, will be on public display. This is the third edition of the Printing Matter residency. Seven…
Skaftfell is one of the initiators of BRAS, a new cultural festival dedicated to children and young adults. The festival will take place for the first time all around East Iceland in September with exhibitions, workshops, concerts, theater performances and…
Join us in Herðubreið for the launching of BRAS, a new cultural festival dedicated to children and young adults. Live music from young locals and light refreshments. The Icelandic musician DAÐI FREYR will perform live simultaneously in thee places: Seyðisfjörður,…
Landscape and nature has always been an inspiration for artists. Icelandic artists Nína Tryggvadóttir (1913-1968) and Gunnlaugur Scheving (1904-1972) are no exception from that tradition. Even though their key works in the exhibition “All Kinds of Landscapes”, Síldarbátur (e. Herringboat)…
Skaftfell, Center for Visual Art in East Iceland, is seeking to appoint a focused, independent and driven director. Skaftfell has the essential role of presenting, discoursing and encouraging the development of contemporary art in East Iceland. Its activities are based…
Living in the northern hemisphere we have to tolerate the fact that the sun is not a reliable source to tell time, yet it softly eases us into the different seasons with extreme light and darkness. If we were to build our own…
An artist residency “is an outcome of time, place and people and it offers an opportunity for enduring relationships and a profound communion with both art and one’s own thoughts.“ 1 20 years of Skaftfell’s artist-in-residency program have resulted in…
20 years of Skaftfell’s artist-in-residency program have resulted in 250 artists coming to Seyðisfjörður and to East Iceland. Some have left a physical trace behind, or a trace in someone’s memory. Some have returned many times, and some have stayed…