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…
Five artists are currently participating in the Skaftfell Residency Program. Elena Mazzi, Hannimari Jokinen, Joe Sam-Essandoh, Jemila MacEwan and Pierre Tremblay will this Friday, May 18, introduce their work and practice in Skaftfell’s workstation in Öldugata from 16.00-18.00. Everybody is welcome!…
As of Tuesday, May 8, Skaftfell closes for maintenance. The Bistro will reopen May 25. At the same time there will be a short pause in the exhibition program. The next opening is scheduled Saturday May 26 when to Birds…
Holy Thursday 12:00 Good Friday 12:00 Saturday 12:00 Easter Sunday 12:00 Easter Monday 15:00 * Kitchen closes at 21.00
A curatorial team has been selected to curate Skaftfell’s summer and anniversary exhibition this year; C A B L E. The exhibition will open on June 16 marking the 20th anniversary of Skaftell – Center for Visual Art. An open call was…
FOSS presents four recently published editions at the event “On Site” at Skaftfell gallery. The editions represent a range of artistic expressions and formats however all developed under the influence of “the hand” of circumstances; local natural phenomena, ephemeral occurrences,…
Eliso Tsintsabadze (GE) and Pavel Filkov (RU) have been artists-in-residency at Skaftfell in March and April. Their work explores human relations to landscape through photography, and studies the medium of photography itself and its desire to document. In their current collaborative project…