Artists-in-Residence

Moa Gustafson Söndergarrd

We are thrilled to welcome Moa Gustafson Söndergarrd, artist in residence for the month of May.  Her work is situated around materials and places we surround ourselves with. She is…

Veronika Geiger and Hallgerður Hallgrímsdóttir

Skaftfell warmly welcomes Veronika Geiger and Hallgerður Hallgrímsdóttir artists in residence for the month of April. The Danish/Swiss and Icelandic visual artists Veronika Geiger and Hallgerður Hallgrímsdóttir both studied their…

Cristina Mariani

We are thrilled to welcome Cristina Mariani, Skaftfell’s artist in residence in April and May. Mariani’s current research is focused on the perception of soil and rocks as immutable and…

Welcome Michael Soltau

Skaftfell warmly welcomes artist in residence Michael Soltau. Media professor Michael Soltau, born 1953, Oldenburg (Germany) lives and works in Leipzig and Varel. His long-standing artistic work explores analogies between…

Welcome Katia Klose

Skaftfell is thrilled to welcome Katia Klose, artist in residence for the month of March. Klose, born 1972 in Berlin (Germany), works as a photographer, photo editor and lecturer in…

Dieter Roth Verlag: Music, Friends and Family

We are excited to share a radio program produced by Frederik Heidemann during his residency at Skaftfell: Dieter Roth Verlag: Music, Friends and Family This radio program digs into the…

Welcome Solveig Thoroddsen

A warm welcome to Solveig Thoroddsen, Skaftfell artist in residence in February. Solveig is an Icelandic artist, based in Iceland. She graduated from the master study from The Iceland University…

Welcome Frederik Heidemann

Skaftfell warmly welcomes Frederik Heidemann artist in residence for the month of February. Frederik Heidemann is an artist working with music, performance, and radio. He is a collagist, producing diverse…

Welcome Edda Kristín Sigurjónsdóttir

Skaftfell warmly welcomes Edda Kristín Sigurjónsdóttir artist in residence in January. Edda Kristín Sigurjónsdóttir (1978) lives and works in Reykjavik. Her work and life, as those are intertwined, is centered…

Welcome Tara and Silla

Skaftfell is thrilled to welcome the artist duo Tara and Silla to the residency program. Tara Njála Ingvarsdóttir (b.1996) and Silfrun Una Guðlaugsdóttir (b.1996) are the performance artist-duo Tara and…

Welcome Heejoon June Yoon

Skaftfell warmly welcomes Heejoon June Yoon artist in residence for the month of January. Heejoon June Yoon is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work aims to uncover the ecology…

Welcome new artist in residence Jonas Bentzer

Skaftfell warmly welcomes Jonas Bentzer as residency artist in November. In his practice Jonas works conceptually with sculpture and sculpture as an act. The works may contain the conditions for,…

Welcome Nermine El Ansari

We warmly welcome artist Nerime El Ansari to Skaftfell’s residency. During her six-week residency from October 15 to November 30, El Ansari will work on her project ‘Dreams in Exile’…

Gardening of soul: residency

Skaftfell warmly welcomes Michaela Labudová and Kristyna Cisarova from the project GARDENING OF SOUL: IN FIVE CHAPTERS. During Michaela Labudová residence at Skaftfell she will create work for the exhibition…

Welcome Florin Bobu

Skaftfell warmly welcomes Florin Bobu artist-in-residence for the month of October. Bobu is a Romanian artist and curator who lives and works in Iași. He is a part of 1+1,…

Artist talk: Jan Krtička and Nicola Turner

We warmly invite you to a presentation of work and sharing of thoughts by our two current residency artists.  Thursday, November 10, 19:00 – 20:30. Skaftfell, top floor. Sound and…

FLOCK workshop with Rachel Simmons

Saturday, August 20, 2022, 10:00-11:30 and 13:00-16:00 Join the FLOCK workshop with Rachel Simmons in Seyðisfjörður! The workshop includes taking a birdwatching walk around town and then making colourful bird prints…

Exhibition and artist talk with Rachel Simmons

Sunday, August 7 at 16:30, Herðubreið Skaftfell warmly welcomes Rachel Simmons, our artist in residence for the month of August! This Sunday afternoon Rachel will show her work FLOCK in the…

Artist Talk – Anna Vaivare

Wednesday, April 21, 2021, 17:00 – 18:00, Herðubreið. “Buildings, comics and children’s books – an unintentional way to become an artist.” In our first artist talk of the year, current…

Pre-screening of Shore Power

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…

Tíra / Scintilla – Bjargey Ólafsdóttir

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…

A place to be – Gudrun Westerlund

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…

SITE_

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…

Hyun Ah Kwon – Perspective. List í Ljósi 2020

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…

Ioana Popovici – Discard, decay, rust

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…

Jin Jing & Liu Yuanyuan

When The Boat Is Sailing Into Island I Know No More Than What I Know Now On September 26, from 17:00-20:00, Jin Jing (CN) and Liu Yuanyuan (CN) are holding…

Hazard Zone – Through the Layers

September 10, 20:00-21:00, Herðubreið cinema Zdenka Brungot Svíteková and her team, currently participating in Skaftfell’s residency program, will show a performative work in progress in Herðubreið’s cinema space on September…

Zdenka Brungot Svíteková – Through the Layers

Dance workshop and individual bodywork sessions “As in all of nature, our patterns are layered into landscapes,changing each moment, while maintaining a sense of continuity and longevity.” Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen…

Alessa Brossmer / Morten Modin

Alessa Brossmer (DE) and Morten Modin (DK) are holding a pop-up exhibition in Herðubreið’s cinema on Friday May 24, 16:00-18:30. They will present the outcomes of their 2-month residencies at…

Alessa Brossmer – Glow In The Dark

Skaftfell’s current artist in residence Alessa Brossmer (DE) opens her in-house installation GlowInTheDark on April 16, 21:00 – 23:00 in Nielsenhús, Hafnargata 14. There will be hot drinks and conversations…

Printing Matter – Exhibition #4

Saturday March 23, 16:00 – 18:00, Technical Museum of East Iceland, Seyðisfjörður.  Amy Uyeda (CA), Apolline Fjara (FR), Eva Bjarnadóttir (IS), Labhaoise Ni Shuilleabhain (IE), Mary Buckland (CA), Olga Adele…

Sidsel Carré: Åndedrættet – The Breath

Thursday March 21, 19:00 – 22:00, Herðubreið café/gallery Sidsel Carré (DK) will show new paintings and works in progress, which have been developing during her residency at Skaftfell in February…

Artist talk by Marta Hryniuk & WET screening

Thursday, March 21, 20:00 – 22:00, Herðubreið cinema The program is organised by Marta Hryniuk, current artist in residence at Skaftfell, in collaboration with WET– a Rotterdam-based cooperative for video…

Artists-in-residence for 2019 confirmed

A big thank you to our first five residency artists of the year, who have shared their thoughts, works and inspirations with us in January and February:  Jūra Bardauskaité (LT) and Kęstutis…

Korkimon – Semi-erect and non-threatening

Monday February 25, 19:00 – 21:00, in Herðubreið. Open until Wednesday February 27, daily 10:00 – 18:00. Korkimon – Melkorka Katrín Ingibjargardóttir (IS) – presents new work in the Herðubreið gallery,…

Creative Reading with Odysseus Atlas

February 25, 2019, 19:30 – 21:00, Herðubreið café. Join us for an introduction into creative reading with the artist duo Jūra Bardauskaitė (LT) and Kęstutis Montvidas (LT), who are collaborating…

Lisa M. Stybor – Flow of time

Lisa M. Stybor (DE), with Lísa Leónharðsdóttir (IS) / Anna Raabe (DE) / Max Richter (DE)   Open Studio on February 22, 2019, 17:00 – 20:00, Skaftfell 3rd floor, Austurvegur…

Ultima Thule

Odysseus Atlas – Kęstutis Montvidas (LT) and Jūra Bardauskaité (LT) Fjarðará Lake, February 15 and 16, 2019, from 18:00 to 22:00.  Odysseus Atlas is a creative initiative by artists Kęstutis…

30 Days – Work in Progress

On Wednesday Nov 28, Dana Neilson (CA) and Tuomo Savolainen (FI) will be showing what direction their work has taken while being on residency at Skaftfell. Join us in Herðubreið café…

Fosshús – Open studio

Composer and artist Nathan Hall will transform the house Brekka (Austurvegur 44b) into an installation called FOSSHÚS. The three floors will have sound and visual works that can be discovered.…

Nature’s Values

Iceland’s economy is becoming more and more dependent on tourism, a growing industry that offers the country’s natural wonders as attractions to be consumed. In this context it seems hard…

Works on Paper

This place has the smoogy look as the opening scene of Fargo. Kumiko thought the money was real and went for a hunt. James Bond drove with his car over…

Artists Talk #30

This Tuesday, Oct 16 at 16.30, Skaftfell will host its thirtieth Artist Talk. In this session six international artist will present their work and practice for 15 minutes each. The event…

Artists Talk #29

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…

Open studio – Eliso Tsintsabadze and Pavel Filkov

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…

Printing Matter – Intensity

For the past three weeks a group of international artists have participated in a thematic residency, entitled Printing Matter, at Skaftfell. During this period the artists have explored the art…

Blink

Blink presents works by four artists, who are in various ways exploring mechanisms of observation and documentation in relation to time and space. The exhibiting artists, Jessica MacMillan (US), Maiken…

Neighbours

Neighbours is an artist talk and reading event co-organized by Yen Noh and Inga Danysz, who are current artists-in-residence at Skaftfell. Having resided in Seyðisfjörður for a month, they will…

Screening of the web series ENDZEIT

This Friday August 25, the web series  ENDZEIT (The End of Time) by the siblings Anna & Jan Groos will be screened at the Skaftfell Residency, Austurvegur 42, 3rd floor at…

Misguided Fieldwork

Join us at Seyðisfjörður Information Centre, Wednesday June 28, 16.00-18.00. The exhibition is also open Thursday June 29, 08.00-16.00. Misguided Fieldwork brings together works by Kristie MacDonald (CA) and Factory…

Stereoskin

British artist Mary Hurrell concludes her residency stay with a live audio visual presentation entitle Stereoskon. The presentation will take place Friday April 28 at 18:30 in the cinema of…

When I Visit Homes

German artists Uta Pütz presents works in progress in the foyer of Herðubreið Community Center Friday April 28 at 18.00. The art works have been in development for the past…

Open studio and artists talk

It has been only a month in this total white. I started to produce some drawings and paper sculptures reflecting my state of mind being in this place where my…

Artists Talk #28

Skaftfell welcomes three artists-in-residence for March with an open artists talk Thursday March 9 in the Bistro. Mary Hurrel (UK), Uta Pütz (DE) and Tzu Ting Wang (TW) each have 20…

Artists’ books from Printing Matter

For the past two weeks Skaftfells first thematic residency, Printing Matter, for practising artists has taken place. The work process focused on printmaking and artists books with the intention to…

Artists’ Talk #27

Current artists-in-residence, Helen Nisbet and Jennifer Schmidt, will present their work and practice Wednesday January 18 at 17.00 in the Skaftfell gallery. Helen is a curator and her stay is…

Open studios

Current artists-in-residence will host open studios and present works in progress as a part of the Visual Art Day. Morgan Kinne, and the artist duo Curtis Tamm and Hermione Spriggs will show their works-in-progress in…

One is On

Unnur’s works talk in different ways about fading human connectedness caused by different forms of accepted narcissism. Making an impression has become a norm of the human condition, it provides…

never mine

The exhibition never mine by Miriam Jonas transforms the Bookshop project space into a story not to be read, but to be stepped into: A visit to her Alter Ego´s imaginary mine,…

Small worlds

Artist talk and community discussion on the impact of tourism in Seydisfjördur. As Iceland continues to experience the fastest growing rate of foreign tourism in the world, it is becoming crucial to…

in progress

Current Artists-in-Residence Kati Gausmann, Ráðhildur Ingadóttir and Richard Skelton conclude their stay with a presentation of works in progress in the Bookshop-projecspace Sunday June 26 from 12.00-18.00. The artists first stayed…

Shadow Work – Short Films About Light and Dark

Throughout August and December 2016 London Fieldworks will be in residence at Skaftfell. Over the two-month residency the artists will create “Short films about light and dark” identifying and expressing…

Artist Talk #26

Join us when current artists-in-residence Faith La Rocque, Leander Djønne and Valérie Bourquin, will present their work and practice Thursday March 31 at 20.00 in Herðubreið Community Center. Norwegian artists…

Online broadcast from Romania

Icelandic artists Ásdís Sif Gunnarssdóttir is currently participating in the Romanian Icelandic collaboration project entitled Artists as Agents of Institutional Exchange. As a part of the project she will stream…

Lifeforce, A Soliloquy and 6 Poems

Like a steady moving creek, life passes patiently with or without us. Lifeforce juxtaposes an out of focus image of a large boulder violently battered by cresting waves with fragmented…

Interzone

Interzones or territories, disparate and similar, connected to each other by conducting images and by the energy transmitted through the filmed landscapes. The zones are combining, overlapping, opposing, creating dynamics.…

Suspending plains

Welcome to the presentation of experiments by Nora Mertes at the Bookshop-projectspace Thursday January 21, from 20.00 -22.00. Nora Mertes researches the relationship between the human body and material in her…

Artist talk #25

Tuesday January 19 at 16:30 Skaftfell, Austurvegur 43, 3rd floor. Meet and hear the current Artists-in-Residence at Skaftfell in January, Nora Mertes (DE) & Rashanna Rashied-Walker (USA), on Tuesday when…

Colourfields: Radiating and Reflecting

Lola Bezemers work concentrateson the experience of colour and light in architectural spaces. When going to Iceland, she brought a pile of coloured fabrics to work with in the snow…

Zeus Tears and a seance performance

Linda Persson is a Swedish artist / filmmaker and a returning Artist-in-Residence at Skaftfell. Throughout my practice language has played a central role. What interests me in language is its…

Atlantic Biennale: Untold Saga

For thousands of years the ocean was defining the limits of the known world. For centuries it has inspired people to overcome the impossible. Today the ocean is connecting nations…

Herna

Herna is the Icelandic word for here now and is used in everyday speech to bring you back into the moment when loosing yourself a little bit. Artists Victoria Brannstrom…

Artist talk #24

Artists-in-Residence Cristina David (RO), Robertas Narkus (LT) & Victoria Brannstrom (DE) will talk about selected works and current projects at Skaftfell, 3rd floor. Both David and Narkus are participating in international…

Silent Walk – Herbarium

Join the Silent Walk Saturday 3rd October at 11:00 and 15:00 starting at the Bookshop-projectspace On a communal silent walk we collect Seydisfjordurs last autumn plants to create an experimental…

Local/ Focal/ Fluctuant



Friday, Sept 25 from 19:30 – 22.00 Bookshop-projectspace Seydisfjordur is an international gate. Campus Novel investigate the port town in East Iceland against a global paradigm of nodal locations. Fluxes…

Seydisfjordur Suite

One night only ! Opening Tuesday September 16th from 6pm – 8pm at the Bookshop-projectspace Seyðisfjörður Suite is a series of nine drawings. These drawings, executed in lead, silver and…

Parallel Line Up in Breiðdalssetur

In her current project ‘Parallel Line Up’ Berlin-based artist Jenny Brockmann investigates environment, its dynamics and how poeple interact with it. She researches volcanic and geological processes that contain either…

Stigi

On August 13th. at 17:00 Swedish sisters Gerd Aurell, visual artist, and Karin Aurell, musician, will present new collaborative work; the audiovisual performance Stigi, at the Bookshop – projectspace. All…

Artist talk #23

Tuesday August 4th. Skaftfell invites for an artist talk and conversation at the Skaftfell Hub ( top floor of Skaftfell) where the artists Gerd Aurell, Jenny Brockmann, Richard Merrill Hoglund,…

Island Iceland offshore projekt

the Bookshop-Projectspace Opening Wednesday August 26 at 17.00 We, a group of 15 artists, fashion designers, writers and musicians were lucky to call Nielsenshs in Seyðisfjörður our temporal home over…

Artists-in-residence at Skaftfell in May

David Edward Allen (UK) lives in Berlin. His work revolves around a broadened notion of Landscape and our position as part of it. Using, for example, natural phenomena such as…

Artist talk #22

This Thursday May 7th. it will be possible to get introduced to current and newly arrived artists in residence; Francesco Bertele, Reza Rezai, David Edward Allen and Halina Kliem whom will talk about selected works…

PRESENTATION

Friday – Sunday, 27- 29th. of March, at the Bookshop – Projectspace. The exhibition PRESENTATION shows the result of the artists two months residency in Seyðisfjörður. Welcome at the opening Friday the…

Call for artists for a shared residency

Due to cancellation the Skaftfell Residency Program now has an opening this coming April and May for artists to apply and come with short notice ! The residency available is…

No time to look through the mountains?

The Bookshop – Projectspace March 7-8, at 18:30 – 20:30 No time to look through the mountains? is a site-specific project by Effrosyni Kontogeorgou (GR) developed especially for the Bookshop…

Twenty-Four Seven

The balance between exhaustion and regeneration as a rhythmic exchange between light and darkness. In the brightness, we’re in a state of exposure with a constant demand to produce. The…

(MAL)FUNCTION

Welcome to the opening Tuesday 16.12.2014 at 5-7pm. Concert by Jukka Hautamäki starts at 6pm. Sightseeing Tour – outdoor performance by Minna Pöllänen Thursday the 18th at 6pm. Duration 30…

Hats from New Yok

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…

The Frontiers in Retreat artists arrive

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…

“..Weeds, those Trojans..”

Natures aesthetic preservation and human intervention / aspects of utopia and dystopia. This Thursday evening, August 28, the Greek artists Maria Glyka and Vassilis Vlastaras will present a taste of…

Secret Garden Verönd

OPENING EVENT AND RELEASE OF PUBLICATION AT HÓLL, AUGUST 28 AT 16.00 The project SECRET GARDEN VERÖND was initiated in 2012 by visual artist Suzanna Asp in collaboration with Skaftfell,…

TO GO VIKING

Hilde Skevik & Guro Gomo: TO GO VIKING The Dreamhouse – Norðurgata residency. 26. – 29. October 2012 Four evenings, from 18.00-20.00, the artistic duo will “go viking”and mediate a…

6983253 …call and be surprised

10/5-20/5 2012 Work by Rebecca Stephany (born 1980) lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She is Artist in residence at Skaftfell during April and May 2012. www.rebeccastephany.com

Artist talk #7- February 20, at 14:00

Artists Erwin van der Werve and Thora Solveig Bergsteinsdottir will present their work at Skaftfell this coming Monday, February 20, at 14:00. Erwin and Thora are currently artists in residence…

FÆRI

  West Wall Gallery 12.07. – 30.07. 2010

Glass House

10.05.10 – 30.05.10 The Bookshop-projectspace A series of photographic combinations, exploring structural and symbolic relationships between four different locations in America. Philip Johnson’s iconic Glass House is shown in relationship…

Triology

10.05.10 – 30.05.10 West wall Three films and compositions about Icelandic impressions and clichés. You see everyday things that imitate natural and geological actions in miniature scale. The change of…

Down Here

22.04.10 – 09.05.10 West Wall gallery

Nothing New Under the Sun

21.02.10 – 14.03.10 West Wall gallery Five artists from Scotland have spent a month making a research blog, collecting what they have watched, read and listened to. These sources examine…