Given the current situation with Coronavirus (COVID-19) Skaftfell has decided to suspend its exhibition program for the time being. We hope that everyone is remaining safe and we look forward to welcoming you back to Skaftfell soon.
SITE_ is a three-day exhibition in Skaftfell’s gallery by Julian Harold (FR), Hyun Ah Kwon (KR), Kristen Mallia (US), and Kirsty Palmer (UK), who are artists in residence at Skaftfell during February and March 2020. SITE_ responds to encounters of…
This exhibition is postponed. A new date will be announced shortly Pétur Kristjánsson is more than an artist. Having lived in Seyðisfjörður since the 1980s, he was until recently the director of Tækniminjasafn Austurlands and was instrumental in the founding…
Skaftfell’s artist in residence Kristen Mallia (US) has been teaching a short workshop for school children in Seyðisfjörður, working with light and darkness and the unexpected outcome while using a scanner in an unorthodox and playful manner. With the outcomes…
List í Ljósi festival, Seyðisfjörður, 13.-15. February 2020, daily 18:00 – 22:00. Skaftfell’s current artist in residence Hyun Ah Kwon (KR) is participating in the annual List í Ljósi light festival in Seyðisfjörður, with a video installation in the campsite reception…
The exhibition is a result from a printmaking workshop held by the Iceland University of The Arts in Seyðisfjörður, East Fjords of Iceland, in collaboration with Skaftfell Center for Visual Art, FOSS editions and the Technical Museum of East Iceland…
New exhibition in the West Wall gallery in Skaftfell’s Bistro. Open daily from 15:00. “The drawings bear a reference to the attempts of humans to understand and explain their experiences, and to the resulting knowledge systems. Frozen moments of “Eureka”, divine experience, epistemic explosion, the effects of…
09.11.2019 — 05.01.2020 Opening: Saturday, 09.11.2019, 16h-18h Gallery talk with the artist: Sunday, 10.11.2019, 14h-15h The exhibition, Amanda Riffo: ELASTIC STRESS is part of Skaftfell’s exhibition strategy to work with younger artists based in Iceland who are at a critical…
October 31, 2019, 16:30 – 18:00, at Skaftfell, Austurvegur 42, 3rd floor. In celebration of the Days of Darkness in East Iceland, Skaftfell’s current artists in residence Ioana Popovici (RO), Michala Paludan (DK) and Rasmus Røhling (DK) will give three…
West Wall gallery, Skaftfell Bistro, Oct 26 – Nov 14, 2019. Opening times: daily from 15:00 to 22:00, or until the Bistro closes. Ioana Popovici is a choreographer, performer, and object-theatre maker from Romania, where she studied at the Academy…