Past exhibitions

Composition in Five Movements

February 10 – March 10, 2023, Skaftfell Gallery Opening: February 10, 17:00 – 18:00 Video works by Barbara Naegelin, Dodda Maggý, Gústav Geir Bollason, Sigurður Guðjónsson, and Steina An exhibition…

Nína Magnúsdóttir: Lines of Flight | Hársbreidd

November 26, 2022 – January 29, 2023 Skaftfell Gallery, Austurvegur 42, Seyðisfjörður Opening: November 26, 2022, 16:00 – 18:00 Opening hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 17:00 – 22:00, closed on Mondays More…

Bernd Koberling, Autumn – Loðmundarfjörður

September 23 – December 31, 2022, Skaftfell Bistro BERND KOBERLING Haust | Autumn – Loðmundarfjördur The Painterly Self Now on view in the bistro is an installation of watercolors by…

Rikke Luther – On Moving Ground

September 17 – November 20, 2022, Skaftfell gallery Opening on September 17, 16:00-18:00 in Skaftfell and 18:00-19:30 in Herðubío (film screening) Gallery talk with the artist on September 18, 14:00 All events…

Andreas Senoner – Paper Series

Friday April 29, 17:00-20:00, Herðubreið Please join us for a pop-up exhibition of new works on paper by Andreas Senoner. Light refreshments will be available and the artist will give…

Garðar Bachmann Þórðarson on the West Wall

April 1 – June 12, 2022, West Wall, Skaftfell Bistro Opening times are the same as for the bistro: Mon-Fri 12-22, Sat-Sun 17-22. Garðar Bachmann Þórðarson was born and raised…

Johan F Karlsson – Pathway Through A Sunstone

February 11 – March 12, 2022, Skaftfell Gallery Opening on February 11 from 18:00-20:00, in partnership with List í Ljósi art festival. The exhibition will be open until 22:00 on the…

Dæja Hansdóttir on the West Wall

January 28 – March 30, West Wall, Skaftfell Bistro Opening times: Mon/Thu/Fri 12:00-14:00 and 17:00-22:00; Tue/Wed 12:00-22:00; Sat/Sun 17:00-22:00 Dæja Hansdóttir (b.1991 Reykjavík) was raised in the United States by…

Magdalena Noga – Even though it might hurt

July 27 – October 3, 2021, West Wall gallery, Skaftfell Bistro Open daily 12:00-22:00 Magdalena Noga’s exhibition “Even though it might hurt” opens on July 27 in the West Wall…

Pétur Kristjánsson – Tinkering ideas

Opening June 17, 16:00-18:00, in the Skaftfell gallery On view until September 5, 2021. Open Tue-Sun from 13:00-17:00. Closed on Mondays. Guided tour and artist talk on June 19, 15:00-16:00…

Anna Margrét Ólafsdóttir – Mirror mirror

May 11 – July 25, 2021, West Wall gallery, Skaftfell Bistro Open Wed-Fri from 12:00-22:00 and Sat-Sun from 16:00-22:00. In the year 2019 Anna Margrét dressed as Snow White for…

Þór Vigfússon

Opening February 12, 18:00-20:00, Skaftfell gallery. Artist talk February 13, 14:00 (in Icelandic) Guided tour in English Mars 18, 17:00 The exhibition is on view until April 25, 2021. Open Mon-Fri…

Unrelated – Rafael Vázquez

West Wall gallery, Skaftfell Bistro. Dec 5, 2020 – Feb 5, 2021 UNRELATED is a small selection of photographs drawn from a bigger and constantly growing collection of non-related pictures,…

Piotr Kołakowski – Last Drawings

West Wall gallery, Skaftfell Bistro, September 26 – November 29, 2020. My heart’s in the Highlands My heart is not here The eight lithographs in this exhibition were created in…

PREFAB / FORSMÍÐ

Skaftfell gallery, September 26 – December 20, 2020. Opening times: Mon – Fri, 12:00 – 18:00. Sat – Sun 15:00 – 18:00. Curator: Guja Dögg Hauksdóttir, Advisor: Gavin Morrison Opening reception:…

Hello and Goodbye – Tinna Guðmundsdóttir

July 3 – August 16, West Wall Gallery, Skaftfell Bistro. Opening times: Wed-Sun 12:00-17:00. The photo series Hello and Goodbye is a documentation of the short period of family life.…

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…

Pressure

 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…

Ingirafn Steinarsson – Hólmi / Elevation

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…

Amanda Riffo: ELASTIC STRESS

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…

Collectors

Opening reception April 6, 16-18h. April 7 – June 1, 2019 An exhibition of the wonderful, strange, and varied collections drawn from the residents of Seyðisfjörður and surrounding areas. Skaftfell…

Cheryl Donegan & Dieter Roth

Opening: June 17, 2019, Skaftfell galleryOpen from 17 June – 1 September, 2019 The exhibition Cheryl Donegan & Dieter Roth considers Dieter Roth as an artist and publisher of books alongside…

Dieter Roth, Húsin á Seyðisfirði, vetur 1988 – sumar 1995

Opening 17 June, 17:00-19:00. Angró, Hafnargata, Seyðisförður18.06 – 01.09. 2019Exhibition open Friday – Sunday 12:00-18:00 Skaftfell with Tækniminjasafns Austurlands and the Dieter Roth Estate will collaborate to re-stage the installation…

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…

Åse Eg Jørgensen – Kompendium 

West Wall Gallery, Skaftfell Bistro, March 27 to June 12, 2019.  Åse Eg Jørgensen (b. 1958) is a danish artist and graphic designer based in Copenhagen. She has been co-editor of…

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…

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…

Breaking the frame

As a part of Sequences VII Skaftfell will screen a new documentary about the festivals honary artist Carolee Schneemann (1939). Breaking the Frame is a feature length profile of the…

Guha

Opening Thurday May 28th. at 18:30 at the Bookshop – projectspace. The exhibition will alsobe open Friday May 29th. 16:30-20:00 and conclude with a video performance presented at HEIMA collective…

Real Life

Gallery April 11 June 21, 2015 Curated by Gavin Morrison …as though literature, theater, deceit, infidelity, hypocrisy, infelicity, parasitism, and the simulation of real life were not part of real…

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…

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…

Sightseeing Tour – Minna Pöllänen

Thursday Dec 18, at 18.00, Minna Pöllänen will perform “Sightseeing Tour”, as a part of the ongoing exhibition (MAL)FUNCTION in the Bookshop. Due to the weather the performance will take…

(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…

Two Rivers

“Two Rivers” explores two different marginalized socio-political and cultural spaces of globalization. Rather than polarizing the two site-specific installations shown question the conditions, which function as basis for processes of…

The Girl Who Never Was

Swedish artist Erik Bünger performs “The Girl Who Never Was” in the Skaftfell gallery. In 2008 an American researcher rediscovers the lost traces of the first recorded voice ever: the…

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…

“..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,…

Concert with Prins Póló – sóló

The concert will be held at “Heima”, Austurvegur 15, and starts at 15.00. The musician Prins Póló will this coming Saturday perform a solo concert in Seyðisfjörður. This is the last event in…

Roots of the past

the West Wall Thursday May 15, at 14.00 Students from grade 3.-6. Seydisfjordur primary school illustrate Icelandic folk tale. Supervised by Þorkell Helgason. The event is a part of the…

Forgotten folk tale

Bistró Skaftfell Thursday May 15, at 14.00  Shadow theatre by pupils from the kindergarten Sólvellir that came to life from stories told by elderly patients in the Seydisfjordur hospital. Supervised…

Twin City: February 7-15, 2014

Skaftfell recommends Twin City a public art show that opens this Friday. The show combines temporarily two locations, Seydisfjördur and Melbu in Norway that are separated by 1500 km sea.…

Disney, Lazy town and Toy story

Bookshop-projectspace Daníel Björnsson, guided by Elvar Már Kjartansson, exhibits versatile drawings made this winter. The event is a part of the yearly art-festival, List án landamæra.

Screen

December 14, 2013 – January 5, 2014 Every day from 16.00 to midnight  Screen is a time and site-specific installation using different kinds of light, crystals, objects and slowly rotating…

Night Fall

Saturday October 12th from 14:00 to dusk Night Fall A live radio art performance by Anna Friz (CA) with special guest Konrad Korabiewski  (PL/DK/IS). Anna Friz has been transmitting the radio art beacon Radiotelegraph from 7.-11. October at…

Släden

Saturday October 12, 2013. With this tool, I try to explore the landscape nature in a more filmic and painterly narrative way. From 14:00-17:00, visual artist Björn Olsson (SE) will…

Radiotelegraph – 107.1 FM

Radiotelegraph is a beacon simulcast by a private low-watt transmitter in Seyðisfjörður (around 107.1 FM) and by the experimental radio platform Radius in Chicago (88.9 FM) at sundown Seyðisfjörður time,…

Poetry reading

Icelandic poet Sveinn Snorri Sveinsson will read from his newly published book ” The leafs on the raintree”. The reading will take place in the Bistro in Icelandic after Tapas…

RIFF selection 2013

Skaftfell, in collaboration with the Cultural Center of Fljódalshérað, will host an off-venue for Reykjavík International Film Festival in Seyðisfjörður November 11 and 12. Four documentaries will be screened in…

They come out at Night

Students from the visual art class in Seyðisfjörður elementary school, grade 7 – 10, will present projects with a focus on light and darkness.

Entrance

“Entrance” by previous artist-in-residence Anna Anders will be screened on during the weekend November 15-17. The video was recorded in Seyðisfjörður June 2012 and many locals participated in the making.…

Found

13.09.13-17.09.13 Bookshop-projectspace The work Found by Paula Prats is a series of snapshots from the 60’s found in a Canadian flea market with images taken by her today, each pair…

Fancy-Cake in the Sun

September 7, 2013 – February 16, 2014 Main exhibition space Skaftfell – Center for Visual Art in Seyðisfjörður, East Iceland proudly celebrates the 15th anniversary of the institution with an exhibition…

Workshop for Everything – October 14-28

Detailed information Dates: October 14-28, 2013. The workshop is two-weeks long, starting and ending on a Monday. Location: Seyðisfjörður, East Iceland. Participants: Practising artists at all levels Registration deadline: On-line…

Seyðisfjörður carpeting

Thursday August 29, from 21.00 Visual studies of the weather, light, wind and other environmental data collected by Michal Kindernay (CZ) during his current stay as an artist in residence…

PALE BLUE DOT


Friday July 26, at 17.00, the Bookshop-projectspace Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir and Curver Thoroddsen have stayed as Artists-in-Residence at Skaftfell for July. The exhibition is a collaboration between the artists and will…

The painthing in painting at the magic moment

The Bookshop – projectspace Opening Friday June 21, at 17.00 Saturday June 22, open from 11.oo – 15.00 Karin Reichmuth previous Artist-in-Residence at Skaftfell and will be presenting new paintings and…

Bananas

Danish artists group A Kassen have been invited to stay as Artists-in-Residence from June to July at Skaftfell. The residency program’s objectives is to facilitate circumstances for artists to experience,…

Record your Memory at the Bookshop

Tuesday – Wednesday, May 28-29 The Bookshop is open from 10.00-17.00 Current Artists-in-Residence Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir (IS), Manfred Hubmann (AT), and Yann Leguay (F) will host a mutual two-day exhibition…

Summer Show

All welcome to experience the summer show of Skaftfell Art Class Tuesday June 4,  from 19.00-20.00

KNIT: Performance project

Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir (IS) Brent Birnbaum (US) Gavin Morrison (GB/F) – collaborating with Karen Breneman (US) Karlotta Blöndal (IS) Yvette Brackman (US/DK) Curated by Ráðhildur Ingadóttir Performance sessions: May 16 – 24 Open…

ABOUT

Sequences VI – Off Venue Saturday April 13,  17.00-19.00 The Bookshop – projectspace In keeping with Sequences’s theme, Joey Syta presents “About”, a work that focuses on how time and…

SLEEPING BEAUTY

Sequences VI – Off Venue Sunday April  13,  15.00-22.00 17.00-22.00 Exhibition space In the performance Sleeping beauty by Inga Jautakyte, the audience is invited to re-look into the action of…

HÓLLISTIC THERAPY

Sequences VI – Off Venue Saturday April 13,  16.00-19.00 Hóll – the Birgir Andrésson Residency For Sequences Liam Scully (UK) will be presenting his film entitled Quake. The film is…

The Narrative Collection completed

The Narrative Collection project will have its official conclusion on December 1st. The project has been going on for the past two years and roughly 200 narratives from the people…

ONTOLOGICAL MEDIATION

Saturday November 24 15.00 Bookshop-Projectspace Linda Persson SE has been an artists in residence at Skaftfell in October and November. She will conclude her stay with a performance at the…

Book presentation: Nuclear Futurism

Saturday November 24 16.00 Skaftfell Bistró British philosopher Liam Sproud will talk about his newly published book Nuclear Futurism. The talk will touch upon literature and philosophy. Starting from the end…

Found Colors

West Wall Gallery  15.-29. Nov 2012 Skaftfell art class 7.-8. class Seyðisfjörður school: Chinsujee, Emil, Héðinn, Magnus, Jón, Stefán, Sveinn The art class show recent works – color pigments on…

Extract of the Complete Works

August 23 – September 20, 2012 Roger Döring, from Berlin, will open two exhibitions in Seyðisfjörður in August. He will present a selection of his drawings at the West Wall…

TRYING TO TEACH ICELANDIC WHILE LIVING IN GERMANY

10.08-31.08, 2012 Herðubreið – community center / Reaction Intermediate [ Opening hours : Monday-Thursday 16:00-18:00 and when Herðubreið is open for various events. ] Friday, August 10, at 15.30. at Skaftfell…

REBIRTH OF THE BLACK UNICORN

Agust 10-17, 2012 The Bookshop – Projectspace / Reaction Intermediate On the 26 of February 2012 the Black Unicorn went down into the sea at Bjólfsbakki. On Friday August 10, the…

ALKEMISTI: SKÍTAGULL

Between July 23 and August 8 The Bookshop – Projectspace will suddenly and gradually transform into conceptual venues for a row of happenings and projects by the artist group Roshambo; …

ART BOOK ORCHESTRA

Concert on Friday July 6 at 18:00 at the Bookshop-projectspace The concert ART BOOK ORCHESTRA consists of re-compositions of ten original sound art pieces incorporated in ten different art books,…

FAVORITE SPOTS

17.06.-27.06. The project Favourite Spots is based on the process that a resident of Seyðisfjörður takes the artist and his camera to their favourite spot, in and around town. Together they…

COVERED

17.06.-27.06. Anna Anders has been using video as a means of artistic expression since 1986. She first began making short films; in 1991, she started creating works for spaces. These…

The Narrative Collection 2011-2012

On Saturday, May 12 at 16:00, the Collection Center reopens in Skaftfell´s main gallery. New narratives will be presented, alongside the whole collection, thereof 25 with English subtitles. Relay –…

SYLT / SÍLD opening Saturday 17:00

Saturday the 28th. of April 2012 the sculpture SYLT / SÍLD – Island On The Island, by the artist group GV will be celebratory opened. The project was developed during…

Untitled (speechless)

looped video, 10 min. 20.03.12 – 24.03.12. Shown daily from 20:00-22:00 at The Bookshop – projectspace window Untitled (speechless) by Fernando José Pereira (Porto, 1961), current artist in Residence at Skaftfell…

SHELTER 1

Saturday, April 7th at 15.00, Þórunn Eymundardóttir will open a solo exhibition in the West Wall Gallery. The exhibition consists of photo-collages, from 2011-2012. CV: ­Þórunn Eymundardóttir (b. 1979) Austurvegur…

PERMAFROST

The video artwork PERMAFROST  ( looped video, 10 mins ) by Fernando José Pereira at The Bookshop -projectspace, shown evenings from 20-22 o´clock 14.03 – 20.03, 2012. A short film set in the…

Hanging Books

Skaftfell Art Class show Book Art Work at The West Wall Gallery Austurvegur 42, Seyðdisfjörður Fri. 13th – Sun. 22th of January 2012

Paperwork

Matt Jacobs, currently Artist in residence at Skaftfell, staying and working at Hóll, will be exhibiting new work at The Bookshop Projectspace Friday the 13th. to Sunday the 15th. of…

In Other Dimensions

During the Day of Darkness the Skaftfell art classes will be exhibiting two light installations referring to the subject of light and darkness. The 8th grade students have been working…

Making a comic book

Upcoming November 5th @ 16:00 The poet Sveinn Snorri Sveinsson (b. 1963 in Egilsstaðir) exhibits the process he went through in creating the comic book Skuggi Rökkva (2006) or Rökkvi’s…

Sjóriða_happening

1.10.11 – 16.10.11 Karin Reichmuth, 1979, Switzerland, artist in residence at Skaftfell in September through October 2011  

I want to feel how close you are

29.09.11 – 16.10.11 The visual artists Barbara Amalie Skovmand Thomsen & Ulla Eriksen have been assisting each other for years. This is their very first time that they work together…

Lecture Performance – the Books I didn’t read

The Bookshop – Projectspace Friday 26th @17.00 The artist Noële Ody will perform at the Bookshop – Projectspace Friday 26th @17.00. The performance is based on her relationship with the…

Documentation of the summer program

Vertíð Visual art/music/performing art’s Auxpan Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir Carl Boutard Claudia Hausfeld Barbara Amelia S. Tomsen Ragnar Kjartansson Ráðhildur Ingadóttir Enter the Mayhemisphere (nafnalisti ekki kominn) Félagsskapur Fjallkonunnar Helgi Örn…

Gardenparty

Austurvegur 48, Seyðisfjörður, the garden @15:00 – 17:00 Performances, music, snacks and sauna. Everyone is welcome, either to enjoy or to participate.

Lunga

Teikning – strúktúr – ferli / Drawing – Structure – Process Workshop at Lunga 2011 during the week 10. – 16. July

Open Mic

Open Mic at Skaftfell Tuesday 12th Starts @21.00 and ends with exhaustion at midnight! Open to all performers, profesional and amature.

Polish movies

6 – 8 July Seyðisfjörður Skaftfell, Austurvegi 42 screenings start @21.00 no entrance fee 9 – 10 July Egilsstaðir the slaughterhouse screenings start @21.00 no entrance fee 1. Pociag/ Night…

Outer Station / Sauna

21 June Austurvegur 48, garden @23:00 Midsummer sauna – bring bathing suit http://www.boutard.se/projects.asp?p=64&cat=9&go=

Seydisfjordur’s Arboretum

6. – 1.7. The Arboretum will be open every day – see opening times in the bookshop´s window 2.7.Event @ 16.00

Vertíð

Visual art/music/performing art’s 17 June Seyðisfjörður The Narrative Museum Skaftfell – main gallery @16:00 Video Archive, on-going project Ráðhildur Ingadóttir Baðstofa / rythmar Angró, Hafnargötu 37 @17:00 exhibition and events…

Streitishvarf, Austurland

the West Wall Gallery, April 18, 2011 “In our practice we construct situations that draw out the tacit and shifting dynamics between ourselves as collaborators, and others. Often absurd or…

They are the Ones who Make us

the West Wall Gallery / the Skaftfell Library, April 18, 2011 They are the Ones who Make us is a sound piece based on three short stories written by the…

Audiovisual concert at the Herðubreið Cinema

Sunday 20th of February at 16.00 hours The artists Konrad Korabiewski and Litten will present the audiovisual project ‘PÃ¥virket Som Kun Et Menneske Kan Være” (Affected as only a human…

The Narrative Collection

Skaftfell has taken on the extensive project of collecting narratives from all the inhabitants of Seyðisfjörður. Swiss Artist Cristoph Büchel, Skaftfell´s Art Director 2011-2012, initiated the project but it will…

Several Examples of Homesteading

November 27 – December 31 the West Wall The work of Ethan Hayes-Chute provides a feeling of quiet, solitude and isolation in familiar yet fantastical environments. His small paintings and…

PAPPIES

The West Wall gallery   08.10. – 07.11.10  

THROUGH

The West Wall gallery 13.08. – 05.09.2010

Harmonie

15.07.10 – 28.07.10 the Bookshop-projectspace

FÆRI

  West Wall Gallery 12.07. – 30.07. 2010

Photographs – Geiri

The West Wall gallery 17.06.10 – 30.06.10 Photographs by the folk artist Ásgeir Emilsson

Toti Ripper

The Bookshop – Projectspace 17.06.10 The notorious Tóti Ripper, a local in Seyðisfjörður has only been painting for little over a year,  his paintings are remarkable for their extraordinarily rich…

Geiri – the life and works of Ásgeir Jón Emilsson

Það er okkur sannur heiður að kynna sýningu á verkum alþýðulistamannsins Ásgeirs Emilssonar. Alþýðulistamaðurinn Ásgeir Jón Emilsson var fæddur 1931 að Hátúni við Seyðisfjörð. Geiri, eins og hann var ávallt kallaður,…

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

RÚNAR LOFTUR SVEINSSON

The Bookshop – Projectspace 21.03.10 – 18.04.10 The artist, born in 1949 has worked as a fisherman most of his adult life. From early childhood he was drawing and painting…

SHOUT-OUT

The West Wall gallery 21.03.10 – 18.04.10   Asle Lauvland Pettersen is a 31 years old Berlin based artist who works with several art genres; film, live performance, visual art…

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…

UNGUR NEMUR GAMALL TEMUR

The Bookshop- Projectspace 12.12.09 – 10.01.10 Students Exhibition- Seyðisfjörður grammarschool photo exhibition

No more

The Bookshop – Projectspace 18.04- 18.05.2009

Transport

Main Gallery 01.11. – 23.11.2008 Students of the Royal Academy of the Arts Copenhagen.  

SHIVERING MAN

The West Wall Gallery 30.08.2008   The exhibition is a part of the series SJÓN HEYRN /AUDIOVISION, curated by Ingólfur Arnarsson & Elísabet Indra Ragnarsdóttir.

PASSING BY – SEYDISFJORDUR

The West Wall Gallery 30.08. – 14.09.2008     The exhibition is a part of the series SJÓN HEYRN /AUDIOVISION, curated by Ingólfur Arnarsson & Elísabet Indra Ragnarsdóttir.  

Beyond the mind

Main Gallery 09.08. – 07.09.2008   To draw with the soul-Between waking and sleeping. The starting point of the exhibition Beyond the mind are thoughts on creativity, dreams and colours.…

HÖFUÐSKÁLD AUSTFIRÐINGA

The West Wall Gallery 09.08. – 26.08.2008     The exhibition is a part of the series SJÓNHEYRN /AUDIOVISION, curated by Ingólfur Arnarsson & Elí­sabet Indra Ragnarsdóttir.

FLOOR KILLER

The West Wall Gallery 19.07. – 06.08.2008   They graduated together from the Icelandic Academy of Art in 2005 but have never exhibited together before. They do not have much…

BOOK, PAPER, PRINT – ARTIST BOOKS

Main Gallery 01.12. – 31.12.2007 Exhibition about the book as a medium for artists in Iceland.     Unnar Örn Auðarson Jónasson Huginn Arason Guðrún Benónýsdóttir Baldur Björnsson Haraldur Jónsson…

RITHÖFUNDAVAKA

01.12.2007     Jón Kalman Stefánsson Þráinn Bertelsson Vigdís Grímsdóttir Pétur Blöndal Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir

SALON

The West Wall Gallery 17.11. – 31.12.2007       Þórunn Eymundardóttir Ólöf Helga Helgadóttir Pétur Kristjánsson Örn Helgason Steinunn Eldjárns Hanna Þórey Níelsdóttir Lilja Jóhannsdóttir Jökull Snær Þórðarson Rúnar…

MERCONIUM BROT

The West Wall Gallery 01.09. – 15.09.2007   MECONIUM BROT was the last exhibition in the summer series on the West Wall 2007. Helgi Örn was showing recent drawings and…

HLJÓÐLEIKUR // SOUNDGAME

The West Wall Gallery 21.07.- 02.08.2007 ‘Soundgame’ is an installation which plays on the dual characteristics of its components. The sculptural objects encourage interaction. The interaction results in a process…

POLLAR

Main Gallery 07.07.- 04.08.2007 I prefer to work in an undefined area.  That is where the possibilities are, the doubt, the risk and the excitement.  Curiosity leads you on, and…

ÓLI GUNNAR SEYÐISFJIRÐI

The West Wall Gallery 19.05. – 14.06.2007   EVIL MADNESS did a performance in the Bistro on the night of the opening.  

STREETS OF BAKERSFIELD

The West Wall Gallery 16.06.- 04.07.2007 The battle for Gettysbourg, Streets of Bakersfield Elvar Már Kjartansson is the man behind the internationally recognised noise artist Auxpna. Auxpan has travelled all…

ANGUR: BLÍÐA

Main Gallery 19 may 2007 – 23 jun 2007   The three artist have worked together for some time, last year they did a show in Gallery BOX in Akureyri…

BRÚ Í POKA // BRIDGE IN A BAG

The West Wall Gallery 15.02. – 18.03.2007   Bjarki Bragason in working on the universal but very relevant idea of the value people put on dead objects and the meaning…

ÉG MISSTI NÆSTUM VITIА // LOST MY HEAD

The West Wall Gallery 07.10. – 31.12.2006   Bjargey shows the story-board from the making of the movie “lost my head”. The movie has been shown in many places, the…

I BELIEVE

The West Wall Gallery 25.06. – 15.07.2005   I BELIEVE / ég trúi (Titel by Jóhönnu Gísladóttur)

CONCERT

The West Wall Gallery 23.06.2005 A group of artists/musicians working togeather at Eiðar for a week performed on the evening before “jónsmessa” in the Skaftfell Bistro.

UMBROT // ERUPTION – COLD FACTS ABOUT HOT ICE CAP

Main Gallery 15.05. – 26.06.2005 Vatnajökull is the largest glacier in Europe. Volcanic activity under glaciers, which is greater in Iceland than anywhere else, is most extensive beneath the Vatnajökull…

EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS 2004

Rjómskip 27.03. – 18.04.2004 The annual colaboration between the Icelandic Academy of the Arts and the Dieter Roth Academy. Carl Boutard Maja Nilsen Markus Öhrn Indíana Auðunsdóttir Þóra Sólveig Bergsteinsdóttir…

EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS 2003

Akustinen Estetiikka 22.03. – 30.04.2003 The annual exhibition of the Icelandic Academy of the Arts and the Dieter Roth Academy. Participating students are: Sólveig Einarsdóttir Milja Vita Timo Vaittinen Guðný…

Akustinen Estetiikka

The annual exhibition of the Icelandic Academy of the Arts and the Dieter Roth Academy. Curator: Björn Roth.

EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS 2002

Skaftfell, On the Rót – 80 animals 22.03. – 22.04.2002 The annual exhibition of the Icelandic Academy of the Arts and the Dieter Roth Academy. Participating students are: Bjarni Massi…