Wednesday July 1, 20:00 – 21:00, Herðubreið cinema. Skaftfell presents a special pre-screening of Jessica Auer’s film Shore Power for the local community. This project was initiated during her residency with Skaftfell in July 2016, and was filmed over the…
West Wall gallery, Skaftfell Bistro, June 17 – July 1, 2020. For many years visitors to the Skaftfell bistro have been invited to make drawings and writings on stacks of A4 paper, and leave them in the bistro. Once a…
June 17 – September 6th, 2020 Skaftfell Center for Visual Art’s summer exhibition will be with the Reykjavik based artist Ingibjörg Sigurjónsdóttir (b. 1985). For this project she has chosen to show–alongside her own drawings, digital prints and small scale…
THIS CALL IS NOW CLOSED. Skaftfell is inviting applications from individual artists and artistic collaborators to participate in the self-directed residency program in 2021. Application deadline: September 1, 2020 About the program Skaftfell Center for Visual Art is located in Seyðisfjörður,…
THIS CALL IS NOW CLOSED. Skaftfell is pleased to announce that we are able to offer three 2-month residency grants in 2021, courtesy of the Nordic Baltic Mobility Programme. These grants are available for artists from Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands,…
Current artist in residence Bjargey Ólafsdóttir (IS) presents her exhibition Tíra / Scintilla in the Skaftfell gallery from May 11 to May 30. Access is through the bistro, on weekdays 12:00 -13:00 and 18:00 – 20:00, on Sat/Sun 18:00 –…
Skaftfell is inviting applications from Iceland-based artists to join its “Wanderlust” thematic residency from 6th to 26th August 2020 in Seyðisfjörður, East Iceland. This program is being held for the second time, following a very successful pilot program in June…
Skaftfell’s current artist in residence Kirsty Palmer (UK) is showing a selection of her newest work in the West Wall gallery in Skaftfell’s bistro, beginning on 5th May 2020. (Matter) is a group of new works developed during Kirsty’s residency…
Current artist in residence Gudrun Westerlund (SE) introduces her latest work through a pop-up exhibition and video artist talk, set in Skaftfell’s gallery, which is closed at the moment due to COVID-19. The video has been posted on Skaftfell’s Instagram and…
Throughout the history of Skaftfell visitors to the bistro have been invited to record their thoughts and ideas through drawings, paintings and writings on stacks of A4 paper. Once a year all these “bistro drawings” are collected and bound into…