2016

The Assembly of the Hyperboreans

We are Hyperboreans–we know well enough how remote our place is. “Neither by land nor by water will you find the road to the Hyperboreans”: even Pindar,in his day, knew…

Spring’s Call of Nature & Echo of Oral Poetics

Performances in Tv?s?ngur sound sculpture. Spring’s Call of Nature by Styrmir ?rn Gu?mundsson. A storyteller, a performer, a singer, an object maker, an illustrator. Styrmir ?rn Gu?mundsson has a love…

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…

Folk Tale

Skaftfell proudly presents a unique staging of the voice sculpture Folk Tale, ?vint?ri, by Magn?s P?lsson as a part of the ongoing summer exhibition, The Assembly of the Hyperboreans.?The event…

Gursus in Tv?s?ngur

Gursus?Iceland Tour – aka. the Tour of the Unexpected.?The duo?Gursus?is a result of a sudden meeting between a folk fiddler and a jazz saxophonist, all caused by a delayed train.…

Frontiers of Solitude – project presentation

Frontiers of Solitude is a collaborative project between Skolska Gallery in Prague (CZ), Atelier Nord in Oslo (NO), and Skaftfell Center for Visual Art in Sey?isfj?r?ur (IS), which is now…

Artist Talk #26

Join us when current artists-in-residence Faith La Rocque, Leander Dj?nne and Val?rie Bourquin, will present their work and practice Thursday March 31 at 20.00 in Her?ubrei? Community Center. Norwegian artists…